Anti-Piracy campaign wins another fortress

Seems like anti-Piracy campaign is hitting and hitting hard against pirate websites. Earlier Demnoid was shut down by the authorities in Ukraine after suffering a massive DDos (Distributed Denial of Service attack and  today Google has written in a blog post that they are going to lower the rankings of the websites in their search results which are known to have violated copyright laws.

Google writes in its blogpost," Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal in our rankings: the number of valid copyright removal notices we receive for any given site. Sites with high numbers of removal notices may appear lower in our results. This ranking change should help users find legitimate, quality sources of content more easily"

Google Beefs up its search engine

Search giant Google has added some new features to its Google search. The search results, as it says, will now be more accurate and better linked to the search term entered. These additions further improve the standard of the world's most widely  used search engine.

Google shuts down its services again, says its for the better

Search giant Google is again set to shut down some of its services which it says weren't as useful as anticipated. Google announced shutting down of some of its services last month also.

Among the services set to be discontinued are Google Apps for Teams introduced in 2008. It was meant to collaborate applications from Google like Google Docs, Google Calendar and other non-email apps. The accounts of Google Apps for teams will be turned into personal Google Accounts from 4th September, 2012.

RIM launches Another Playbook Tablet

In a move to maintain its competitiveness Research In Motion(RIM) has launched another playbook tablet in its home country in Canada. The new tablet has a built in support for the faster 4G LTE Networks which its predecessors lacked.

 

Microsoft Announces New Computer Peripherals for Windows 8

Microsoft announces a new lineup of hardware as the launch of windows 8 is coming near on October 26. Microsoft hardware has announced several new computer peripherals, all finely tuned for windows 8 . These are including the Bluetooth capabilities for the more mobile devices-tablets and phones- as well.

In the coming weeks, Microsoft will launch two new Bluetooth enabled keyboards and two new mice to the market. Also with the release of Windows 8 Microsoft will release updated windows 8 gestures for the Microsoft Touch Mouse. Microsoft has named these as - the Wedge Touch Mouse, the Wedge Mobile Keyboard, the Sculpt Touch Mouse and the Sculpt Touch Keyboard.

Microsoft Wedge Touch Mouse

Apple Samsung US Patent Trial on Monday.

Apple and Samsung Electronics  will battle another trial on Monday for their supremacy in  smartphone market in a federal courtroom in San Jose,California. This trial is  said to be one of the biggest ever technology trials in history. It could well reshape a the smartphone market.

The stakes are high with Samsung facing potential US sales ban of its Galaxy smartphones and tablet computers, and Apple in a test of its patent strategy. Both sides are seeking financial damages from the other.  Samsung is the world's biggest smartphone maker overtaking Nokia and Apple. Together, Samsung and Apple account for more than half of smartphone sales initially.

Apple sued Samsung last year claiming its smartphones copied the iPhone and ipad. Samsung also sued Apple and since then the two have expanded their fight to courtrooms in nearly a dozen other countries.
 

Apple's Upto Its Own iglass

 Apple Inc. is upto its own version of Google Glasses. Today the Cupertino based company has been awarded a patent of a wearable HUD that has the ability to display images, videos, apps and other content on the glasses using LCD projectors . With this Apple's also coming into the field of glasses after Google.

But Apple’s glasses would not have the projector in front of the eyes, instead it will be on the side of the eyeglasses.Apple’s patent describes a method in which the image travels through a special glass to land directly into the user’s pupils, thus creating a total immersive experience.

Google Fiber- Google's Ultra-High Speed Internet Service

Google unveils the ultra-high speed internet service Google Fiber. As claimed by Google Its is capable of delivering speeds of 1000Megabytes/Sec more than 100 times the internet speeds of an average user.