Google planning to invest in US $102 Million in Wind Energy

As Google has inclined to green energy from many years, now Google is thinking of to provide $102 million in a wind farm project in the United States to turn into one of the prevalent clean energy investors in the world. The Mountain View, California based web search engine announced on Wednesday morning that it will spend $102 million in to the Alta Wind Energy Center that being developed by Terra-Gen Power. Google also declared the venture in its Green blog.

   

The company by now provided $55 million in the similar project in May this year, fetching its entire investment in green projects to $780 million.

“The project attaches a confirmed and demonstrated wind resources during a clean- power transmission line, which will assist California congregate its determined and motivated renewable energy objectives. We've at the present invested $157 million in 270 megawatts of sanitary, wind energy production at AWEC,” said Rick Needham, director of green business operations at Google.

As most of you don’t know that even Citigroup has also declared a further investment of $102 million for the second phase of the Alta Wind Energy project.

As per to the information that these will be accessible, when the project is finished and it will produce 1,550 megawatts of power, which is almost double the capacity of the principal accessible plant in the US.

Google buys SageTV to improve Google TV Content

In a proposal to provide the content on Google TV a strong energy intake needed, so the search engine giant, Google has purchased the media software maker, SageTV. The SageTV offers features such as digital video recorder and media center software, but also known as for its ‘place-shifting’ technology that it supplies to its users, by means of which they can watch media remotely.

As per piece of information, as to the conjecture, it is this incredibly service - place-shifting that encouraged Google to buy SageTV. Google has been apparently functioning on developing the content on Google TV, and also this purchase was the subsequently logical step in that track.

 

Google’s TV service lets users to contact the internet, in addition to scan via television listing. The SageTV buy out approaches after more than a few content purchases that Google has completed to improve content on its Google TV service. These purchases take in: NBC, Netflix, Amazon, among others.

Facebook Coming up with Skype 5.5 Beta for Windows Versions

Skype has freshly declared the latest put up of Skype 5.5 for Windows with the most important feature being deeper Facebook incorporation. Skype says that with Skype 5.5 they would keep on conveying people mutually each time they are separated by launching a simple method to hook up with family and friends on Facebook.



At the present message their friends on Facebook unswervingly from within Skype. Skype asserts that with the latest Facebook contacts tab surrounded by Skype one can notice the Facebook contacts they desire to chat with online and then begin an IM conversation right from inside.

Skype 5.5 Beta has lots of new features and that are as follows:

Facebook Instant Messaging – This feature helps users to chat with Facebook friends unswervingly from Skype itself.

Facebook Contacts Tab – This latest tab in Skype itself is devoted to Facebook contacts.

'Like' and comment on Facebook status – User can exercise the Facebook News Feed inside Skype to ‘like a friend’s status or comment on without log in into Skype.

New Call Control Toolbar – This new version of Skype there will be redesigned graphic icons.

Call Phones Section – Advance developments to the saving of a phone number in the ‘Call Phones’ section.

Visual Improvements – This one can hold a call.

Google added 5 new India languages to Google Translate

Google on Tuesday announce the addition of five more Indian languages that is very much in use not only India or Bangladesh but also in other part of World in free Internet translation service - Google Translate. Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu are the five languages that were added to Google Translate, taking the numbers of languages to 63 that is supported by the California based firm's online service.

Translation of the latest additional of languages were in "alpha" form as it needs more polishing and more research on way, Google research scientist Ashish Venugopal alleged in a blog post.



"If any one of user observe incorrect or missing translations for any form of  languages, please correct us; we will be happy to correct the mistakes and learn the new form, your feedback will help us graduate novel languages from alpha status," Venugopal said.

"Google anticipate that the announcement of these latest alpha languages will help you enhanced the understanding the Indic web and persuade the publication of original content in Indic languages," he added. Google also made software for fonts used in the languages obtainable for download.