Google To Test 1 GB per Second Internet Connection In 2011

Internet search giant, Google, last week announced a plan to test an ultra high-speed broadband network at Stanford University in 2011.

Incidentally, Stanford is also where Google’s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, attended. The company will provide high speed access to over 800 staff-owned and faculty members based on Stanford’s Palo Alto, California, campus.

This connection will provide high speed internet access at about 100 times the current average connection speeds, up to 1 GB (gigabit) per second. Using Fiber-optic technology, the company plans to break ground on the project in early 2011.

Also earlier this year, Google announced plans to offer a similar service on a trial basis in one or more locations in the United States, which would allow them to test the network with at least 50,000 people or even more. It is not yet known where these location(s) will be, as Google will only announce the winning community(s) towards the end of this year.

Among Google’s many offerings are also a much faster internet browser called, Google Chrome. Among some of the positive attributes is that the actual display area of the browser is noticeable bigger than for instance Internet Explorer and Firefox

Google’s products seem to keep evolving, with the company branching out into various other areas of business and product offerings to its vast user network.

How To Tell If The Image Is Fake Or Original?

Many a times we come across images where we are stuck into thinking if it is original or photoshopped (fake). Image Error Level Analyzer or simply ELA, is a free web service which helps you in determining if the photo is real or not.

How does it work?

Error Level Analysis allows you see to see the difference in quality level, represented by brightness. Things which are very bright have been edited most recently, whilst duller parts have been resaved multiple times. This allows you to see not just which parts of the image have been changed, but in what order the changes occurred.

You just have to provide an image URL and hit Process. It will then analyze the image and show results instantly after the processing is complete. You can easily compare and tell if the image is original or modified using Photoshop or any other image editor.

So here you go  Visit Error Level Analysis Website

Google URL-shortener goes public

Google's URL shortener Goo.gl has launched its open service and companion website to the public.

Goo.gl was originally a proprietary way for Google to abbreviate its Web addresses within services such as Google News (for saving article links) or Google Maps (for sending a location).

The new Goo.gl website will abbreviate your links and store them for you to view later or share with others.

Google says it is also using special provisions to prevent blind links from leading to malware or dangerous websites.

But Google is entering a super-crowded arena. TinyURL has been abbreviating Web addresses for nearly a decade, and the advent of Twitter has encouraged more sophisticated abbreviators, like bit.ly, which allow people to organize and search through their saved links.

Bluetooth 3.0 + HR now up to 7 times faster

For the past 11 years, Bluetooth technology has played a very significant role in the way we transfer data between our electronic devices, and now Bluetooth technology will be getting an even faster version.

The new Bluetooth 3.0 + HS is said to have transfer speeds of approximately 24Mbps. That is up from the current 3Mbps for the 2.0 + EDR version, which means the new version will be approximately 7 times faster than the current version. 

This is likely to open up a whole new range of applications for the nifty little device. As might be assumed, computer and mobile manufacturers are already showing interest, but that's not all: The device is also attracting attention from television manufacturers.

Bluetooth 3.0 + HS will not only boast an increased transfer rate, but it will also run on a more energy efficient system, thus saving mobile devices power that have the device installed. One could call this an evolution of sorts. Imagine your mobile device, whether it be a laptop or a mobile phone transferring data files like photos and music up to 7 times faster, yet using less power. That's efficiency.

It is estimated that Bluetooth 3.0 + HR should be available within about a year, so we should see the device making its way onto the market during, or just after, the 1st quarter of 2010.

It seems that Bluetooth technology is one of those technologies that are likely here to stay, given its worldwide use.

Bluetooth is widely used in electronic and mobile devices such as mobile phones and laptops, and gives the user the ability to wirelessly transfer large files such as music or media between two compatable devices without the need to connect the devices with a cable or connecting wire. 

Microsoft's Brand-New "Bing"

Microsoft's new weapon aimed at Google and Yahoo! search was just announced: it's called Bing.

Microsoft says Bing includes a "decision engine." So when a user goes to Bing to shop for a product, Microsoft deploys something called a "Sentiment Extraction" feature to scour the Internet for opinions and reviews. To make a travel decision, for example, "Bing Travel" will compare prices and amenities of hotels and provide a color-coded key of the best values.

"Bing was developed as a tool to help people more easily navigate through the information overload that has come to characterize many of today's search experiences," Microsoft said in a statement. Bing also has a revamped interface. For example, it groups search results by topic category and has a "hover" feature--if you put your mouse over a link, you can preview a page before visiting it.

Overall, it's the latest attempt from a major search engine to give users more than just Web links, and rather get them directly to the piece of information they want (about a health condition, for example) or facilitate the action they want to complete (such as making a travel reservation or a purchase).

In his statement, Ballmer said: "When we set out to build Bing, we grounded ourselves in a deep understanding of how people really want to use the Web. Bing is an important first step forward in our long-term effort to deliver innovations in search that enable people to find information quickly and use the information they've found to accomplish tasks and make smart decisions."

But, of course, we'll have to wait and see how Bing actually works.

Google Wave

Google Wave is a new communication service announced by Google at Google I/O. "A wave is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more."

The service seems to combine Gmail and Google Docs into an interesting free-form workspace that could be used to write documents collaboratively, plan events, play games or discuss a recent news.

Google Wave has been designed by the founders of Where 2 Tech, a start-up acquired by Google to create a cutting-edge mapping service, which later became Google Maps.

"Back in early 2004, Google took an interest in a tiny mapping startup called Where 2 Tech, founded by my brother Jens and me. We were excited to join Google and help create what would become Google Maps. But we also started thinking about what might come next for us after maps. As always, Jens came up with the answer: communication. He pointed out that two of the most spectacular successes in digital communication, email and instant messaging, were originally designed in the '60s to imitate analog formats — email mimicked snail mail, and IM mimicked phone calls. Since then, so many different forms of communication had been invented — blogs, wikis, collaborative documents, etc. — and computers and networks had dramatically improved. So Jens proposed a new communications model that presumed all these advances as a starting point; I was immediately sold," explains Lars Rasmussen.

"In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it. Everyone on your wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the web. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly. It's concurrent rich-text editing, where you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave. That means Google Wave is just as well suited for quick messages as for persistent content -- it allows for both collaboration and communication. You can also use "playback" to rewind the wave to see how it evolved."

You can see some screenshots of the service and find some details about the API that could be used to extend the service and the Wave protocol that allows anyone to run a "wave" server. Google promises that Google Wave will be available later this year.

Google Squared Is Live

Google Squared is live, and it’s a lot of fun... albeit the info presented is far from always being accurate. Here’s how you use it: just enter the name of a group of things, say, I entered comic book character. Google Squared then calculates for a bit, and presents you with a table of attributes. In the case of comic book characters, the automatically found columns were name, image, description, publisher, first appearance, and author.

The cells shown are all very fitting in this case, but the values are sometimes wrong. For instance, while Wolverine’s publisher is indeed “Marvel Comics” and his first appearance is indeed “The Incredible Hulk #180” as Google presented, his author is not “NineInchNail”. In the row for Spider-Man, a Superman cover is wrongly displayed, and the publisher is shown to be “Activision” (well, “Activision” is not wrong per se – they may publish Spider-Man games – but it is intuitively wrong in the context of the other values of the column, which refer to the comic book publisher).

Still, I’m really having fun. Especially because you can add your own columns on the fly. For my character table I added “Real Name”, and Google Squared got a couple right, and a couple wrong. Note you can change your query and some values may change along; when I named my square “superhero” instead of “comic book character”, some of the values ended up different. The same when I used the plural of the original query, comic book characters (does Squared prefer the plural form?).

For each created cell, you can expand the source URL of the data bit by clicking in the cell. A source may be a site like Wikipedia, or another third-party website (like ComicVine.com, in my sample). As usual, Google prefers automatic web-wide gathering & mining of data instead of having human editors create non-scalable content, so Google Squared is another step on their knowledge mining road.

Once you are happy with the table, you can log-in to save it. It will then show under the “Saved Squared” list. You can also share it by copying the URL to send it around – try this one. One thing I was really missing from this current version (or just didn’t find) was a way to export the data, though, like to some CSV structure or so, or have it be saved as a Google Spreadsheet. Another limiting factor is the number of items you can create; I was only able to go up to 50 for my sample, and had to grow the table in steps of 10. I’m curious how and if Google will continue to develop this little app, and I’m also curious if they’ll find ways to push the data towards more accuracy in the future.