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Speech-to-speech translation from Google

Google has two extraordinary tools: a voice recognition and an automatic system for translating text. Right now the company is working on combining those two technologies to create software which will understand a caller’s voice and translate it into a synthetic equivalent in a foreign language. Just like a human interpreter. “We think speech-to-speech translation

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Update Your Browser!

Google will not support anymore Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 Web browser. Support for Internet Explorer 6 in Google Docs and Google Sites will end March 1, 2010. That means IE6 users who try to use Google Docs or Google Sites may find that “key functionality” don’t work correctly. To ensure the best experience and highest

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Google’s Sales Rose

Google’s net income in the fourth quarter of 2009 jumped more than fivefold from a year 2008. Google’s sales grew 17 percent and it is the fastest pace in a year. “Given that the global economy is still in the early days of recovery, this was an extraordinary end to the year,” said Eric E.

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New York Times will Charge for Online Access

The New York Times is going to charge readers for an access to some of its Website’s resources. Of course there is a risk that people will go elsewhere to read news. This will affect a traffic and a revenue from online adverts. The company Forrester Research in its recent study mentioned that most people

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European governments are afraid of Internet Explorer

After the cyber attack on Google from China and information that the hit was possible because of an inaccuracy in a code of a browser Internet Explorer, The German Federal Office for Information (BSI) Security warned users against using Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8 until Microsoft fixed the security hole. Today the French

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Bing has 10.7 percent of the market

According to a report prepared by comScore, Bing (the new web search engine from Microsoft) has reached last month (December 2009) 10.7 percent of the U.S. search engine market. It is up 0.4 percentage points from November 2009. Google is attracting 65.7 percent of searches, it is up 0.1 percentage points from November 2009. Yahoo’s

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More secure Gmail

Few Gmail accounts had been accessed via 3rd parties as a result of a cyber attack from China. Just after the attack Google decided to set up default https access for all Gmail users. For more information go to Gmail Blog.

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More space for your Google DOCs

Within the next few weeks we will be able to upload up to 250 MB in size of any kind of file to Google Docs. There will be available 1 GB in storage, however enterprise customers will be able to add additional storage space at a cost of $3.50 per 1 GB per year. To

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google is the word of the decade

American Dialect Society (americandialect.org) has announced in its 20th annual words of the year vote that tweet is the word of the year and google is the word of the decade. According to definitions: tweet – noun, a short message sent via the Twitter.com service, and verb, the act of sending such a message Google

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Google Voice on iPhone

Some time ago Apple didn’t approve Google Voice application for the app store. However, it doesn’t stop Google to deliver the application to iPhone users. Google’s vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra said that Google Voice will come to the iPhone “one way or the other.” So, if the software will not exist as an

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