Google has acquired an Irish company for technology that will allow YouTube to automatically improve the quality of videos stored on the site. Green Parrot Pictures, based in Dublin, makes digital video technology that Google hopes will make clips on YouTube sharper, steadier and lower in image noise.The technology may come in handy in particular for [...]
Facebook received a patent on search results based on photo tags this week. This legal win seems well timed given that the site will soon launch improved tagging of images, along with recently rolled out high-resolution picture viewing and the ability to log onto image-sharing site Flickr without leaving Facebook. This Wendesday’s award of U.S. Patent 7,890,501 concerns “visual [...]
Google yesterday released the first beta of Chrome 10, touting the new version’s faster JavaScript engine. According to tests run by Computerworld, Chrome 10 is 64% faster than its predecessor on Google’s own V8 JavaScript benchmarks. Google shipped the stable version of Chrome 9 earlier this month . Google maintains three separate “channels” of Chrome — stable, beta and dev — [...]
