Google is considering firing a shot on software giant Microsoft as the search giant is going to unveil its own operating system quite soon. According to some analyst this move from Google will escalate their battle further onto internet turf.
Google says that their Chrome OS will be ready to be the part of a large number of PCs by the end of next year and users will definitely feel a difference in this new operating system. The Chrome OS is being claimed a light weight operating system that has been specifically tailored for cloud computing that is a trend of offering applications as online services.
According to Google, Chrome OS will be an ideal choice for light-weight and low-cost netbooks that are emerging as a growing segment of computer markets in many parts of the world.
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The expected executive director of the Book Right Registry has said in an interview that the internet giant’s involvement in the publishing industry would help to transform it utterly and it would be the decisive for it as well.
Micheal Healy to be given the responsibility for finding copyright holders and authors and share the income that the internet giant wants to arise through this plan.
Recently in an interview with the Copyright Clearance Centre, he has said that with this new plan, every public library will turn into a high class research library with these new plans and people will definitely see its revolutionary character.
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Google seems to leave no stone unturned to provide its users an online Library of Alexandria. Though the company is best equipped and quite determine to digitalize each and every book of the world, there are some big hurdles which frequently hampering its way. What the company is going to do next much depends on Justice Department decisions, publishers and authors of the books.
The search giant can’t be accused of any lack in its ambition in this connection, as for the past many years the search project of the company is on their top priority, but it is also a project full of hurdles and bumps and most of these problems do not relate only to index, scan or display millions of books online, the main problems relate to legal concerns and intellectual property of these books.
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There are various reports regarding the number of videos daily streamed on YouTube. Differebt services like Nielsen, Comscore and some other services have also been reporting in this connection.
According to Comscore, YouTube gets nearly 7billion videos every month in the United States while during the last year it was nearly 5b videos per month. That comes to nearly 225m streams every day that are enough to prove them quite above the different competitors like Hulu, MySpace, Microsoft and Yahoo. On the other hand, Nielsen reports that nearly 5.5b videos are streamed every month in the United States.
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