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Google Adds WebRTC to Chrome for In-browser Voice, Video Chat

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Google Adds WebRTC to Chrome for In-browser Voice, Video Chat

Google has built the WebRTC technology into a test version of Chrome to let the browser run voice and video chat applications within the browser interface.

Chrome’s Dev Channel version now has WebRTC, a technology Google acquired in 2010 and open sourced last year that uses Javascript APIs (application programming interfaces) and HTML5 to give browsers native, real-time communications capabilities.

“Building industry-leading voice and video capabilities into the browser makes it easier for web developers to incorporate real time communications in their apps. Instead of relying on custom, OS specific, proprietary plug-ins, they can now easily build and maintain their apps using a few simple JavaScript APIs and have the browser do the heavy lifting,” Niklas Enbom, a Google software engineer, wrote in a blog post on Wednesday.

WebRTC, which is also being supported by browser makers Mozilla and Opera, is being considered for standard status at the W3C and the IETF. Companies like Polycom, Vonage, Vehix.com, Semens and PCCW are developing browser-based applications using the technology, according to Enbom.

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Clean Seas Tuna begins tuna spawning season early in 2012

Monday, January 9th, 2012

Clean Seas Tuna begins tuna spawning season early in 2012

Clean Seas Tuna (ASX: CSS) has begun spawning from its Southern Bluefin Tuna (SBT) broodstock earlier than last year’s spawn start at its specialised hatchery at Arno Bay on the Spencer Gulf, South Australia.

The earlier start, which is part of a previously announced strategy to bring spawning forward, is with a regular number of small but viable spawns in the past month, allowing the instigation of the new season’s larval rearing trials at the hatchery.

Clean Seas plans to continue spawning the tuna for as long as possible to further progress the company’s understanding of tuna juvenile production.

The ultimate target strategy for the new spawn is to advance timing and provide older, more resilient fingerlings for marine grow-out by the time ocean water temperatures begin to drop in the Autumn.

The next key stages for Clean Seas will be the spawning build for production volume and then the transfer of fingerlings for controlled grow-out trials to either sea cages or holding tanks.

In March 2011, Clean Seas announced it achieved a “world first” with the successful transfer of 149 juvenile SBT into a sea cage from the Arno Bay breeding facility.

The SBT juveniles eventually succumbed to the cold winter ocean temperatures, which in turn led to the company’s strategy of bringing forward the current spawning season and targeting the ocean transfer of the SBT fingerlings during warmer water temperatures.

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Google Earth 6 Brings Integrated Street View And 3D Trees. Yes, Trees. 80 Million Of Them!

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

Google Earth 6 Brings Integrated Street View And 3D Trees. Yes, Trees. 80 Million Of Them!

There’s an easy way to tell that Google Earth is getting so advanced that it’s getting dangerously close to looking like actual Earth: touted new features are kind of humorous. While version 4 brought the sky, and version 5 brought the oceans, now version 6 is bringing trees. Yes, trees. I fully expect version 7 to highlight the addition of dirt.

Kidding aside, the latest version is obviously the best one yet. And trees are obviously a hugely important part of the Earth. To get them into Google Earth, the search giant has made 3D models of over 50 different species of trees. And they’ve included over 80 million of them in various places around the world including Athens, Berlin, Chicago, New York City, San Francisco, and Tokyo. They’re also working with some conservation organizations to model threatened forests around the world.
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Gmail Now Does Phone Calls. Free…

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

Gmail Now Does Phone Calls. Free…

Most of our communication needs seem to be on a flat rate these days and one or two more phone calls on your cell may not matter. However, there is a certain appeal to free phone calls and if you want to call a landline from your PC without having to pay for a soft phone service, you can do that now. Right from your Gmail account.

Free phone calls by Gmail

Free phone call by Gmail

Google launched this new feature earlier today as a pilot and said that landline calling in the U.S. will remain free until at least the end of the year. Skype currently offers such a service for $7.99 per month. Google offers international calling as well, but charges extra fees – for example. 12 cents per minute to Algeria, 2 cents per minute to Australia or 4 cents per minute to Russia.
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Enable Web Page Prerendering In Google Chrome For Faster Browsing

Saturday, November 13th, 2010

Enable Web Page Prerendering In Google Chrome For Faster Browsing

Google Chrome is a very fast browser and they are always looking for ways to improve the speed of browsing. Fresh in the experimental features that comes in Google Chrome is what they call “Web Page Prerendering”.

Web Page Prerendering is available in Google Chrome 9.0.576.0 from the beta channel for Linux and Windows – no Mac support yet.

What prerendering does is it predicts which site the user will visit next and preloads it in the background. This results in an improved loading time of the page when it is actually opened by the user. This is still a very early experiment by Google and details of how it guesses which website the user will visit next, which is the most important part of this feature, is quite sketchy at the moment.

By default Web Page Prerendering is disabled. To enable it type about:flags in the omnibar and enter (or click here if you are reading this in Chrome). Scroll down and at the bottom you will find Web Page Prerendering. Click on Enable.

After enabling this feature for some time, it feels that page loads a bit faster but I cannot be sure how much is the difference. Do feel free to share if it actually makes browsing faster if you have enabled this.

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