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WebP – this is a new image file format, which provides the ability to compress both lossless and lossy. Image format WebP, lossless compression, have a size of 26% less than PNG. Image format WebP lossy have the size to 25-34% smaller than JPEG for equal values ​​of SSIM. WebP also supports transparency (alpha channel), animation, color profiles and metadata (XMP / EXIF). WebP and WebM formats promoted as web standards by Google as part of an initiative to reduce the world’s Internet traffic and improve the quality of Internet-based technologies. WebP and WebM is based on the codec VP8, developed by On2 Technologies, later purchased by Google. (more…)

Exceptionally changes with the numbering of the new version of the Android operating system, not even the same name. Android 4.2 is still called “Jelly Bean”.

With the release of its new hardware as the Nexus series smartphone Nexus-4-or-10-Nexus Tablet Google now has the Android version 4.2 “Jelly Bean” available, allowing these devices to be delivered. Spread over the next few days will be “Jelly Bean” rolled out automatically to other Nexus devices like the Samsung Galaxy Nexus or the 7-inch tablet Nexus 7th The possibility of the update manually make should only be performed by experienced users. Instructions, it is for different devices at Android Police .
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InSync, a client Unofficial Google Drive which we have already discussed earlier , has reached the Beta 9, let us see what’s new!
The two main improvements to this new version are certainly the fix for office files, which are now selling downloaded. Odf, and fix errors glibc for Debian users. ‘s other news of Beta9:

• Fixed symlinks not live syncing (before you had to restart Insync for changes to be detected)
• Nautilus context menu will not show outside of the Insync folder (more…)

For some time in China is another Linux-based mobile operating system OS Aliyun the e-commerce group Alibaba as Android challenger headlines. Now throws Android chief Andy Rubin from the Chinese, Aliyun OS used without permission the Android runtime.

Aliyun OS is a smartphone operating system of the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba , which is estimated by the Chinese firm strategists Zeng Ming be in the near future “in China as strong as Android in the U.S. and Europe.”

Now Google has taken some time to Alibaba Aliyun OS in the room standing allegations in words. Said Andy Rubin wrote on Google+ , Aliyun OS used without permission from parts of Google Android, such as the Android runtime, the Android framework and a number of other Android tools. Furthermore, the App Store for OS Aliyun contain many Google apps for Android without permission from Google and many other Android apps without the knowledge or permission of their respective owners.
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Speaking at the annual conference of the Linux Con in San Diego, Thomas Bushnell, chief engineer developing Linux distributions in Google, the first time openly spoke about Goobuntu, Ubuntu version ubiquitous within the corporation as a desktop OS.

WebP – this is a new image file format, which provides the ability to compress both lossless and lossy. Image format WebP, lossless compression, have a size of 28% less than PNG. Image format WebP lossy have the size to 25-34% smaller than JPEG for equal values of SSIM. WebP also supports transparency (alpha channel). WebP and WebM formats promoted as web standards by Google as part of an initiative to reduce the world’s Internet traffic and improve the quality of Internet technologies. WebP and WebM is based on the codec VP8, developed by On2 Technologies, later purchased by Google.
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Google used this since yesterday in San Francisco held developer conference Google I / O is not only an arena for the presentation of Android 4.1, but presented with the Nexus 7 before his own first Android tablet.

The Nexus 7 is to make a competitive price of $ 200, which lies below the production costs, according to Google, especially Amazon’s Kindle Amazon’s Fire competition and how the device import of e-books, movies, music and more revenue. Also, the Kindle Fire runs with Android, but can access digital media from the Amazon fund. To catch up with a variety of media offer to the Amazon device, Google plans to expand its backing store , in addition to the existing range of books, music and movies will soon also magazines and TV shows have to offer. Purchasers of the Nexus 7 will receive a starter kit from some digital magazines, a film and an e-book and a $ 25 voucher for the play store.
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Google has taken into his own hands supporting a new family of processors from Intel, namely Sandy and Ivy Bridge in the free version of the BIOS – coreboot . It is believed that the use of free CoreBoot allow greater system security.

Was also added code to support Intel Turbo Boost and the code required to load the Chrome OS.
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Named the organization on projects that will work this summer, hundreds of students from around the world in the framework of Google Summer of Code (GSoC) .

The program GSoC, conducted by Google from the 2005go year, provides students an opportunity to work on one of the chosen Open Source-project during the summer. Upon successful completion the student will receive $ 5,000 from Google ($ 500 will also receive an appropriate representative of the project, supervising the work of the student).
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In passing this weekend in Brussels, FOSDEM conference, Google has officially announced a program of traditional Google Summer of Code, under which students from around the world have the opportunity to work on your favorite open source software during the summer for a scholarship.

The program is carried out in 2005 and each year attracts hundreds of participants from around the world, including Russia. During this time, it was featured many well-known open source projects: Linux, X.org, KDE, GNOME, Drupal, Blender, GIMP, Python Software Foundation and many others.
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