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Google To Launch New Browser Called Google Chrome

Here is Google's take on browsers. Google's official blog mentioned the launch of their new browser that will be clean and fast.

Google thinks that browsers are not just for viewing web pages, browsers are for running applications. People are watching and uploading videos, chatting with each other, browsing maps of the world, playing online video games, calling all over the world using the browsers that were not initially made for doing such things.

Startups Rush to Pave Way for Web Video

Video on the Internet has gone from being the next big thing to the current big thing. But murky YouTube videos are just the start – there's a lot of room for improvement.

A raft of startups are rushing to supply the tools to make better and more profitable video available. Nearly a dozen video-related startups will be presenting at the DEMO 08 technology conference, starting Monday in Palm Desert, California.

The biannual conference, which gives startups and more established companies six minutes on stage to pitch their new products to investors and media, has been the launching pad for several successful ventures over the years, including the Java programming language, TiVo Inc. and Half.com.

Several of the 77 companies presenting this time have been tackling the problem of taking video quality to the next level. It's quite possible to send high-definition video over the Internet, but the cost of doing it at scale is daunting, because it requires about 40 times the bandwidth of a YouTube-quality video.

"If you run any infrastructure that lets people share video, it's really, really expensive," said Dan Putterman, chief executive of San Francisco-based Squidcast Inc. The company is launching a service that allows users to send video they've shot with their high-definition camcorders to friends and relatives at full resolution, for free.

To do this, users will take help from other users, in a manner similar to peer-to-peer file sharing programs like BitTorrent and KaZaa. Each file that is uploaded gets distributed in small chunks among many computers (whose owners won't notice the chunks or be able to look at them).

The intended recipient gets an email with a link. Clicking it starts the download, which pulls the chunks together from the network of user computers like a squid pulling in its tentacles. In other words, Squidcast itself doesn't need to devote computers or buy bandwidth to transfer user's files. It will finance the service by showing short video ads to the recipients while they download.

Atlanta-based Asankya Inc. is trying to solve the same problem, but for Hollywood rather than home movies. CEO Scott Ryan puts the current cost of distributing an HD movie online at about $3. Considering movies rent for $4 to $5 and the creators have to be paid, there's no real money in it for distributors.

The technology was developed by a Georgia Institute of Technology professor and uses servers placed at strategic points on the Internet in addition to information sent in by receiving computers. The catch is that Asankya is mucking around with fairly basic networking technologies, ones that are built into operating systems. For now, receiving computers need software that only runs on Windows XP.

BitGravity Inc. is aiming for the same market, with a network of servers designed to deliver high-definition video. It launched the service three months ago, and at the show, the company plans to announce that it will be expanding the service to deliver live, streaming video.

Live streaming has been a luxury only the big media companies could afford, said Perry Wu, BitGravity's CEO, leaving a lot of unsatisfied demand, for instance for regional sportscasts. "Whether its basketball or field hockey or water polo or swimming, the number of people who want to watch that in real time is tremendous."

Demonstrations on BitGravity's Web site show high-resolution – if slightly jerky – video that starts almost immediately.

Other startups such as Eyealike Inc. and Visible Measures Corp. are tackling further problems that plague content providers. Eyealike of Bellevue, Washington, will be demonstrating software that can scan videos submitted to websites to see if they contain copyright material.

Such filters are already in place, for example at YouTube, but Eyealike President Greg Heuss said the startup's product is better than the competition in that it can identify video that's had its audio stripped out or been cropped to as little as a quarter of the original frame.

Boston-based Visible Measures will be touting its service, which lets Web sites track how viewers play their videos: where they pause, what they rewind to see again. That should help the sites figure out which videos and ads actually hold viewers' attention, said Matt Cutler, the company's vice president of marketing.

Digital Music Sales Up Worldwide

Record companies' revenue from digital music sales rose 40 percent to $2.9 billion over the past year, but the growth is still failing to cover losses from collapse of international CD sales, the music industry's global trade body said Thursday.

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said the increase in legitimate music sales did not come close to offsetting the billions of dollars being lost to music piracy, with illegal downloads outnumbering the number of tracks sold by a factor of 20 to 1.

But the trade group said it welcomed efforts by French President Nicholas Sarkozy, who has proposed a clampdown on those who violate copyright laws. Sarkozy called in November for ISPs in France to automatically disconnect customers involved in piracy.

IFPI chief John Kennedy said the plan is "the most significant milestone yet in the task of curbing piracy on the Internet."

The industry body said CD sales fell 11 percent between 2005 and 2006 and were likely to drop further in 2007. Digital music revenue has so far failed to make up for the decline – and is also showing signs of slowing, the IFPI said.

From $380 million in 2004, digital revenue roughly tripled in 2005 and nearly doubled in 2006, but brought only a modest 40 percent increase in 2007, the IFPI said.

It added that digital downloads have grown in five years to account for 15 percent of the world's music sales, with more than 500 legally licensed music sites selling around 6 million tracks of music.

Japan continues to drive the digital market, the report said, particularly as a result of consumers using cell phones to download music.

HBO to Offer Content Online

HBO is rolling out a new service that will allow subscribers of the premium cable channel to watch HBO programs, movies, and sports shows on their computers.

The service will be offered first in Milwaukee and Green Bay, Wisconsin, through HBO's sister company Time Warner Cable, which is also part of the Time Warner Inc. media conglomerate.

HBO is in talks to expand the service to other areas and also to other cable providers in the US and, ultimately, overseas.

Only available to HBO subscribers who also use Time Warner Cable for high-speed Internet access, the new service will allow viewers to watch HBO programming on their computers using a special video player program.

Viewers can either download shows to their computers or begin watching them almost immediately online, similar to a video-on-demand program on cable TV.

Knowing how random the results are from the current image search engines, Swedish company Polar Rose has announced the launch of a visual search engine that should hopefully make image searching a lot more accurate.

Polar Rose uses facial recognition and 3D imaging software to provide a whole new method for web-based image searches. A beta of the software will be available for public use, by February next year.

Polar Rose is also working on a plugin for the Firefox and Internet Explorer, which pops up a small symbol when the browser opens a Web page containing a photo of a face. When a user clicks on the symbol, the Polar Rose service looks for matching photos in its database. Users also can tag existing photos in the database to help train Polar Rose's matching engine.

Microsoft Unveils Mobile Web Browser

Microsoft Corp. has recently unveiled a new Web browser called Deepfish for mobile phones. The software is designed to enhance web browsing for smartphones. Microsoft says the software will make browsing full-sized Web pages faster and easier.

The software is designed to adjust a normal desktop webpage into a smaller image for mobile screen. It also has a function for users to zoom in on the part of the page they want to read or click on.

The software runs on technology borrowed from Sea Dragon, a software company that Microsoft recently acquired. Seadragon has made a statement that Deepfish is capable of living up to the following:

* Speed of navigation is independent of the size or number of objects
* Performance depends only on the ratio of bandwidth to pixels on the screen.
* Transitions are smooth as butter.
* Scaling is near perfect and rapid for screens of any resolution.

Dr. Gary William Flake the founder and director of Microsoft Live Labs, said, "With the Deepfish technology, we capture the full layout of the page and deliver it to the mobile device, resulting in an experience similar to that on the desktop. Deepfish provides users with a full 'as-designed' view of virtually any Web site on their mobile device and looks as you would expect it to on your desktop, allowing much more of the Web to be easily viewed on a mobile device than is possible today. The interface lets users zoom in and out on the parts of a Web page that interest them in an intuitive way, making it easy to use these large-screen formatted pages on a mobile device. On current mobile browsers, it can typically take up to a minute or more for a Web page to render, however the Deepfish architecture only loads the user-specified portion of the page, providing much quicker page-load times, as detailed information is only retrieved as needed or in the background."