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The biggest video online YouTube makes pretty well decision at online video market opponent fight rivals, aimed to renting movies to users by streaming the movies over the Internet at market. Company first advancement exceptional the world’s most popular video site would charge of users to watch the videos.

YouTube, which is owned by Google are the world’s number one video Website, currently offers video for free and an advertising-supported basis. Currently in discussions with Lions Gate Entertainment, Sony Pictures, a unit of Sony, and Time Warner Inc’s Warner Brothers about online movie rentals.

The discuss to putting their videos content on YouTube for a rental fee, similar to Web rental programs from Apple iTunes movie, Netflix and Amazon VOD with newer movies. YouTube would likely charge a similar fee around $3.99 a rental.

YouTube interest to getting some titles online day and date with the DVD releases and get options could still be free with advertising, but as for paid content, Google’s enticing studios over to their way of thinking with a proposed minimum fee of “just under $3 per title viewed.” The negotiations also ramps up efforts to build a substantial library of current and archive professional movies and videos that it can monetize.

YouTube has announced a business with Time Warner properties including CNN and TNT, then company has approach under growing criticism from Wall Street analysts and investors concerned the expense of serving millions of videos to users around the world everyday is costing the company more money than it earns from advertising, that thing, influence Google as YouTube owner.

Detecting traffic condition in a certain place, especially in the city has been essential requirement for rider so that can go to achieve intend without problem. Google knows and accurately research then invited US motorists to share their progress, aim to help drivers can detect the situations and shot in a certain place or the roads condition that they will get more via the Internet giant’s online mapping service linked to smartphone.

Google Maps is organism enhanced this week to combine feedback from individual drivers with other traffic information to allow people know which roads are likely to get them to their intended destinations the quickest. Google Maps software in general can be using on mobile devices will use satellite positioning features in smart phones to gather anonymous information regarding how fast people are moving along different roads

Google Maps product manager Dave Barth said in a message on the California technology titan’s website, said “It takes almost zero effort on your part,”  the information regarding vehicles remains anonymous and no records are kept regarding start and end points of journeys Barth said.

“Just turn on Google Maps for mobile before starting your car, and the more people that participate, the better the resulting traffic reports get for everybody.” He added.

“Crowd-Sourcing traffic gives us a way to harness bits of location data from our users and give it back to them in a form they can use to make decisions that affect their free time, their pocketbooks and the environment,” he said, Google Maps users unnecessary felting afraid with concerns about strangers keeping track of where they drive can opt out of the program, according to the Internet firm.

The systems almost resemble like riders calls to radios stations, when trapped traffics jam by mobile phones then Conversation between riders at road with broadcaster can direct to listener because it direct broadcast. Difference with Google Map is have more service via smartphone device which get the map picture can help foreign people not yet have a line in a new locations.

Google added social network Website with features to its customizable homepages through adding software “gadgets” that enable people to play and stay tune to online with some friends. Company said it on Wednesday.

Mutual share and playing at social gadgets Website make fun, gadget lover likes that. Google as Internet giant see necessary that a good service, then company announced its US debuts on iGoogle of 19 community-oriented mini-programs including chess and trivia game play and firing off updates about one’s life.

Google vice president of search products and user experience Marissa Mayer and iGoogle product manager Rose Yao said, “Social gadgets let you share, collaborate and play games with your friends on top of all the things you can already do on your homepage,” they also said “Your friends are able to see what you share or do in your social gadgets either by having the same gadgets on their homepages, or through a new feed called Updates.”

Gadget lovers can using iGoogle to create a group “Find Friends” and designate who they want to share gaqdget digital data, according to Mayer and Yao, Google social gadgets were launched recently in Australia and are being rolled out in the United States. Google hope the social gadgets can make iGoogle an even more fun and you can make iGoogle as your personal homepage.

California-based Internet goliath said there are more than 60,000 mini-applications in a gadget directory that can be used to customize iGoogle homepages with hip, playful, or functional programs. Maybe share on iGoogle social-networking services will better yet from in you throw away your time in Google competes, or make new sensation for people’s online time with social network Website services Facebook and MySpace and Twitter.

Some company like Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments try for the latest Chrome OS update from Google, but Dell didn’t commit to offering the Linux-based OS in future products, it would consider testing Google’s upcoming Chrome operating system, Dell said on Friday.

“Dell constantly assesses new technologies as part of managing our product development process and for consideration in future products,” Dell Corp spokesman David Frink said in an e-mail.

Google is working to support the Chrome OS is a thin version of a Linux-based operating system that is designed for people who mostly rely on the Web for computing. It is designed for devices like netbooks, which are low-cost laptop computers designed to run basic computer applications like the internet Web browser.

Some sources said, Dell is also rumored to be testing Google’s Android operating system, which is mostly designed for new gadgets like smartphones and mobile Internet devices.

There has been a lot of bewilderment regarding Google’s hardware partners on the Chrome OS. Google’s list of partners included chip makers like Freescale Semiconductor, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments, but Intel was missing, even though it actually has been working with Google and had prior information about the Chrome OS.

Dell currently offers Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system with its desktops and laptop computers. Canonical’s Web-centric Ubuntu version is Ubuntu Netbook Remix, which is designed for quick access to Web applications and join on network.

Apple has been considered the real winner of the battle between Google and Microsoft by Yankee Group’s research firm, and this statement,  has raised an interesting point on the gaps in what Google has offered consumers.

Everyone admits that Google is as famous as any company in the worlds and it attain a reputation for technological innovation. Yet, the company’s products have been inconsistent so far, easy to use and interconnected in the manner Apple’s are.

But Yankee Group said Google’s ambitions have been hampered by the company’s inability to build a brand ecosystem. As Google announced about the Chrome OS, the company has missed the opportunity to intertwine a consistency for consumers.

The research firm imagines that if Apple were to introduce a netbook or some other portable computing device, it would connect neatly into its line of products that range from the iPhone and iPod to the Mac and Apple TV.

The only thing that Yankee Group does not talk about is that Apple will undoubtedly command a price premium for any portable computer entry, and that a segment of users would willingly pay it. Becoming a luxury goods provider like Apple is not easy. We need to maintain the style and the substance that make our products worth more than the undistinguished competition, but it is great job to get it.

However, Google is a company that is based on exploiting the relentless reduction of the cost of computing hardware, the economies of open source software, and the efficiency of huge data centers.

It drives down the cost of everything it gets involved with by offering services, from e-mail storage to Web analytics and soon, operating systems, for free. All it asks is the chance to show some ads and collect some data. For corporations, which want higher levels of service and don’t care for ads, Google charges fees, but much lower than its rivals.

So far, this has been a rewarding strategy, while betting on technology getting cheaper is on the right side of history.

So now the question today will be, is Google wasting some of what could be the best brand but created this century by positioning its operating system as cheaper than Windows? Then, what will happen if the company made the Google name worth paying extra for?

The Mountain View, Calif.-based company, Google disclosed its plans for the operating system (OS) shortly after some online technology news wrote on their Web sites.

Google announced on Tuesday night on official Googleblog.blogspot.com, company is working on a new operating system since nine-month-old Web browser, Chrome. Google intends to rely on help from the community of open-source programmers to develop the Chrome operating system, which is expected to start running laptop computers in the second half of 2010.

Google is designing the operating system primarily for “netbooks,” a lower-cost, less powerful type of laptop computers that is flattering more and more popular among budget-conscious consumers first and foremost interested in surfing the Web.

The company says it’s currently working with a number of OEM manufacturers, and Google estimates about 30 million people are now using its Chrome browser, Chrome operating system will run in a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel - laptop computer coding that has been the foundation for the open-source software movement for nearly two decades.

So far as now we see Google has already introduced an operating system for mobile devices, called Android, that vies against various other systems, including ones made by Microsoft and Apple Inc, the Android system worked well enough to entice some laptop computer makers to begin developing netbooks that will eventually run on it and we believe that will help user netbooks in the future.

Dell Inc reportedly has been developing small gadget like a pocket-sized gadget for tapping into the Internet, that will run on Google Inc’s Android software.

The early prototypes are described as slightly larger than Apple Inc’s iPod Touch, which is similar to the iPhone but without cellphone capabilities.

It was repoted also that ell may begin to sell the gadget by the end of this year, although the plan may be postponed or entirely revoked.

The development effort is one of the first experiments by a big-name PC maker in a nascent category of products known as mobile Internet devices, or MIDs, that are designed to fill a perceived gap between mobile phones and laptop computers.

Possibly Dell will use chips based on designed licensed from ARM Holdings PLC, but Dell spokesman said the company does not currently make any devices that use ARM-based chips.

Separately, people informed of the effort said Dell started developing the device last year, after the company aborted an attempt to compete with Apple in the music-player business. Some of the engineers working on the music player were then assigned to help develop the small mobile device.

Earlier this year, Dell appointed an executive, Ain McKendrick, to be in charge of mobile Internet devices at the company. The Dell spokesman said that as the general manager of mobile Internet devices at Dell, Mr. McKendrick’s role involves looking at future products in play for future consideration.

But another source said Dell has considered selling the product through cellular carriers — much as Dell, Hewlett-Packard Co. and other computer makers have begun marketing low-end portables called netbooks through cellular providers.

Dell has also been developing several Android-based smart phones that it plans to start selling later this year, the source said further.

The US administration has filed a formal protest with the Chinese government over its plan to force all computers sold in China to be equipped come with software that blocks access to certain Web sites.

A letter has been sent by US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Trade Representative Ron Kirk to officials in two Chinese ministries, which read that they should cancel the  rule on the software that is set to become enter effect on July 1.

In some way, the US officials’ complaint bordered this as a trade issue, with objection to the burden put on computer makers to install the software with little notice. But iat the same time it also raised broader questions if the software would lead to more censorship of the Internet in China and restrict freedom of expression.

Locke said in a press release that China is putting companies in an untenable position by requiring them, with virtually no public notice, to pre-install software that appears to have broad-based censorship implications and network security issues. But the government did not release the text of the letter.

The letter, which has been prepared by two cabinet-rank officials, reflects an escalation of the concern over the software plan. Last week United States officials met with their Chinese counterparts in Beijing to raise objections to the new policy.

The US Computer and Communications Industry Association is one of several trade groups that have objected to the Chinese plan, and the association’s president Ed Black president said recently that the letter represented an important change in American policy.

He said the issue of Internet freedom and openness was something that should have been at the top of the US international agenda  This administration is far more in tune with and ready to support Internet openness, he added.

China has had an complicated system that obstructs access to sites discussing flimsy topics such as the Dalai Lama and Falun Gong, the banned spiritual movement.

In their statement, the American officials rejected the argument that the software was simply a way to block pornography. “Protecting children from inappropriate content is a legitimate objective, but this is an inappropriate means and is likely to have a broader scope,. Kirk said in the statement. “Mandating technically flawed Green Dam software and denying manufacturers and consumers freedom to select filtering software is an unnecessary and unjustified means to achieve that objective,” he put it.

Security experts have expressed concerns that once installed, the software might also be used to block other sorts of content or even to monitor the online activities of citizens.

The letter suggested that China’s move might violate World Trade Organization (WTO) rules because American companies were given only six weeks’ notice to comply. While formal complaints to the trade organization are difficult and cumbersome, pointing to the regulations is another signal that the United States will continue to pursue the issue.

With only one week before the new rules are to go into effect, it is unclear if American computer companies will comply.

Hewlett-Packard said the company was still studying the rules and seeking clarification, while Dell did not return calls seeking comment.

Separately, access to Google’s main search engine at Google.com and other services like Gmail was temporarily blocked in China on Wednesday, but the block was lifted a few hours later.

Access to foreign Web sites in China can be inconsistent, and saying if the government is responsible can be difficult. It is not clear if the blocking of Google’s sites has to do with a dispute that erupted last week between Google and Chinese authorities.

The Chinese government disabled some search functions of Google’s Chinese-language search engine, Google.cn, for reason that the site offered too many links to pornographic material. Google’s license to operate in China requires that it not show pornographic sites.

Online encyclopedia Wikipedia is more widely used by the people as a news source today, so this month Google News started to include Wikipedia within the stable of publications that it seeks to create the site.

A result of visit to the Google News home page on Wednesday evening found that four of the 30 or so articles summarized there had prominent links to Wikipedia articles, including ones that cover the global swine flu outbreak and the Iranian election protests.

Wikipedia has been included in articles among the thousands of publications used by Google News as an experiment that was seen by a small percentage of users. Before making the addition permanent,  Google wanted to be sure that even people seeking news desired to read the articles created by volunteers working in collaboration over the Internet.

Google’s promotion of Wikipedia content is hardly new, because its search engine routinely lists Wikipedia articles as the first result for a search. But their use on the news site - mainly as newspaper publishers have been complaining that Google was building a competing news site using headlines and snippets of newspaper articles - adds a new wrinkle to the question of how publications can control and charge for their content.

In response to critics’ concerns over the accuracy of what appears on Wikipedia, the articles there, particularly about breaking news, can be meticulously sourced. The article “Iranian Presidential Election, 2009,” for example, had more than 200 footnotes by the weekend. So, in essence, many Wikipedia articles are another way that the work of news publications is quickly condensed and reused without compensation.

The US Congress on Thursday summoned executives of Facebook, Google, and Yahoo to attend a hearing in a bid to find how they are tracking consumers for advertising purposes.

The hearing was held jointly between two House subcommittees, one on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection, and the other on Communications, Technology and the Internet.

More importantly, the hearing signals an increasing interest on Washington’s part into what online companies are doing with all the data they have on their customers.

There are the privacy advocates who view this online monitoring as intrusive because their travels through the digital media are being monitored and digital dossiers on them are being created and even bought and sold.

But there is also the industry which argues that any privacy regulation would be a knock-out for commerce. Interactive Advertising Bureau Online said advertising revenue fell 5% in the first quarter of 2009, which is the sharpest fall so far. One of the stated goals of the bureau, a trade group whose members include AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and most major online media sites, is to “fend off adverse legislation and regulation.”

The industry groups are arguing for self-regulation. In February, the Federal Trade Commission released a report that generally supported that approach, but warned that industry needed to create better, stricter self-regulatory standards soon to avoid regulation.

In their presentations, Google, Yahoo and Facebook all argued that they were careful with user information and gave users a choice about what data was used, while privacy advocates along with the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Privacy Information Center and US Public Interest Research Group, take issue.