Google intalks with twitter regarding a buyout - Industry rumour

Multiple sources have told that the negotiations are going on between Twitter and Google regarding its buyout. Recently, Twitter turned down offers of Facebook buying them out, for $500 million dollar. Google is offering them a big high amount as compared to Facebook and chances are high of Google owning Twitter.

French governemnt pushing ISPs to disclose downloaders details - An attempt to ban piracy

A new national surveillance program enlists ISP’s to monitor what users are doing. The creator or copyright holder would have access to this program. The ISP sends an email to that user to stop executing piracy. Afterward, they will send registered letter to that fellow but in case otherwise at the third step, they will completely cutoff his internet facility for one year or so. French lawmakers have also shown their interest in eliminating piracy and for that they voted last Thursday. Once the "Creation and Internet Law" is approved, it will go to the National Assembly for a final vote.

The UK and New Zealand have attempted to pass similar laws, but those efforts were struck down. The French government, however, has stronger ties to the media industry. According to France's entertainment industry, 450,000 illegal downloads take place each day causing loses of $10 million in royalties each year.

John Kennedy, CEO of international music industry organization IFPI said

"Over the last two years the French government has led the way in addressing this critical challenge. It has recognized that involving ISPs in addressing the massive flow of infringing content on their networks is not only essential to protect the rights of creators and producers, but can provide a sensible and proportionate solution that will work effectively in practice."

On the other hand, France socialist party has given their 180 degree opposite view on this; They said

"This is an assault on public and individual liberties."

The end consumers are also very worried about this law as they are the one who suffer at the end.

Nokia believes WiMax is dead - LTE is the new standard

Nokias' executive vice president thinks that WiMax era has ended, as the company has shown its interest in LTE, an upcoming standard.

Nokias’ spokesperson told the financial times that the company has decided to leave WiMax as a standard. Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President of New Markets at Nokia said

"I don't think WiMax future is very promising. This is a classic example of industry standards clashing, and somebody comes out as the winner and somebody has to lose,"

Vanjoki put his money on LTE as the future of wireless broadband as most infrastructure providers have shown their keen interest in this technology. However, currently it only hold 26 network operator worldwide.

Vanjoki is quite hopeful that by the start of 2015, LTE network will cover the major share worldwide.

Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 leaks

Microsoft is currently working on SP2 for Office 2007 and could be ready to release a final version as early as this month.

Today an early copy has leaked to BitTorrent according to Windows Vista Magazine.

SP2 will support Open Document Format (ODF), XML Paper Specification (XPS) and Portable Document Format (PDF).

Microsoft releases Windows Demo Toolkit for Windows 7

Microsoft has recently released the “Windows Demo Toolkit Foundation Suite”. It helps corporate partners to demo windows 7 to valued customers or clients. The toolkit includes demos for Consumers and Enterprises. Whether selling Windows OS, Windows Live, or related products and services.

The Windows Demo Toolkit is available in the form of an ISO image which includes

1. Windows 7 Beta Ultimate (build 7000)
2. Windows Live Wave 3
3. Internet Explorer 8
4. Office 2007 Ultimate
5. Forefront Client Security
6. Windows Automation Toolkit
7. Application Compatibility Toolkit
8. Click-through demos
9. Pre-configured settings

You can download it from Microsoft Connect by joining the Windows Demo Toolkit program.

For more information please look at videos

Windows 7 Official video

Amazons’ Elastic MapReduce service

Amazon will launch Amazon Elastic MapReduce, a web service that enables business, researchers, data analysts and developers to process vast amout of data cost effectively. It is, in other words, the numbers-crunching capability without the cluster setup and management. Prices are lower, too, starting out at $.015/hour.

The service is available in the US only.

IBM Lotuslive engage

April 7, IBM will commercially launch LotusLive Engage, the latest addition in social network-inspired business collaboration software.



Major features of Engage include a Web meeting space, with desktop sharing, recording, and security; instant messaging, with photo and file sharing; online file storage and sharing; and project tracking, to-do lists, and brainstorming. Price Waterhouse Coopers, Nortel Networks, and Penn State University are a few of the early users.