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Google, dont le projet est de scanner des millions de livres pour les rendres consultables sur internet, s'est engage a prendre a sa charge les frais de justice du proces engage par les editeurs et auteurs depuis 2005. L'accord, qui doit encore etre enterine par la justice, prevoit egalement que Google financera un "repertoire" des droits d'auteur, donnant un "moyen efficace aux detenteurs de droits d'auteur de controler l'acces en ligne a leur propriete" et qui "leur permet d'etre remuneres pour l'acces en ligne a leurs oeuvres", annonce le communique commun de Google, de la Authors Guild et de l'association des editeurs
Dans cette perspective, les premiers ennemis des professionnels du livre seraient en fait les fournisseur d’acces et moteurs de recherche. Le rapport souligne les points suivants ;
It isn’t a surprise that Google bid on spectrum in the FCC auction for the 700mhz spectrum, however I found the name it filed under interesting — Google Airwaves Inc. There has been speculation that Google and Apple entered the auction together, and maybe this is the reason for incorporating a separate company on November 26th.
Om writes that Google has inked a deal with satellite ISP, WildBlue, that puts Google’s “Office Suite” in the hands of average users — the right place for it. There are many reasons Google Apps works much better for personal use than for the enterprise — in fact, after over a year using Google Apps, the company I work for has decided to pull out their checkbook to hop onto the exchange bandwagon. There are just far too many “but can it do ” business needs that Google doesn’t offer and would never estimate when it will. Not to mention the limited, high level support that never really helps you. The right place for Google is at the consumer level — until it can take greater steps to cover the majority of needs enterprise users have, they should focus on doing exactly what they did with WildBlue.
Several people have noticed a new version of Google Talk (1.0.0.105) in the wild that is available to download from here. We’ve been waiting since January for a new version, and it’s unfortunate to see that when we finally get one, it removes several features that I thought were really great — including voicemail. In previous versions of Google Talk, if someone tried to call and you didn’t pick up, the caller would be asked to record a mesage. That recording would then appear in the recipients Gmail as a voicemail message. I guess it would be fair to ask, how many people actually used the voicemail feature? I liked it, but I’ve personally never received a real message, or left one — maybe this is the rationale behind its removal? Besides voicemail, it appears Google has also removed Orkut integration, and the “show what I’m listening to” feature. It would be nice to see a new version of the Google Talk client which includes great new features — it’s been far too long since we’ve see anything new in this application. This version does have some minor updates though — David Hetfield from the Google Blogoscoped forums noticed the following:
Google just announced their newest service tonight that gives users an easy way to share their knowledge — Google Knol. The service is still in testing and accessible by invitation only, but it looks pretty interesting. You can almost guarantee that information written inside of knol’s will find their way to the top, or at least scattered throughout, search engine result pages. Take this sample article on insomnia for instance — I can see this being a very useful piece of information for many people. I can’t wait to see if this actually takes off and becomes the standard for sharing and finding real, and useful information — it won’t be easy, but I think it’s possible. Wikipedia has enjoyed much success, and a loyal base of users, but there is no way for the authors of those articles to be compensated like what Google is proposing. Will deep pockets prevail?
The content analysis feature was added to give webmasters a heads-up about things that may hurt their site’s user experience, and things that may make it difficult for Google to crawl its content. You can find this information in Dashboard/Diagnostics/Content analysis area of Google Webmaster Tools.
It doesn’t work for email yet, but Google launched their BlackBerry sync application for Google Calendar. Now when you create events on either your device, or through the service itself, everything stays up-to-date. The new sync application works with both the traditional Google Calendar service, and the one you can find in your Google Apps account for your domain — this means it can now be used to replace Outlook + Exchange + BES for your calendaring needs. Even though the application solves a huge problem, it’s still a bit slow — by default it will only sync every two hours, which seems like decades compared with the performance you get with push technology. If you have a BlackBerry, visit http://m.google.com/sync from your device to download and install the application. [via Google Operating System]
Google has been gathering information about the power collected through their array of solar panels. Last October, Google installed hundreds of panels on the Googleplex in Mountain View. If you are wondering how much power is actually generated in a given day, Google provides a few examples. Based on the 644 kilowatt-hours of electricity produced today at the ‘plex, you can power: