Now Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Google Talk come without the beta tag. they are now the proud full fleged members of Google Products.
google had these plan in their mind atleast for the past 2 or 3 months. The hints were there. But as of now we cannot say what advancements and changes are made for bringing up these services from beta.
Matt Glotzbach, product management director for Google Enterprise, said
the removal of the beta status means that those products have all reached unspecified internal metrics in terms of reliability and usability.
But Google does not have a company standard for determining when a beta project has become a more fully formed product. In the meantime, Google has added a couple of more enterprise-quality features to Gmail, allowing executives to give their assistants permission to manage their mail and corporations to set e-mail retention policies for their workers.
According to a new study performed by Futuresource Consulting, 8 percent of consumers from the UK, France, Germany, and the US admitted to downloading video content such as movies by unauthorized means, usually from file sharing sites and networks.
The study, entitled ‘Living With Digital: Consumer Insights into Entertainment Consumption’, “used a representative sample in each country and provided respondents with a list of legal and illegitimate download sites from which to select.”
France topped the list, with 25 percent of survey takers admitting they pirated video content. The survey took about 625 consumers from each nation.
The most waited service of thepiratebay.org fans, thevideobay is getting very much closer to fruition.
According to TPB
Because of increased popularity on the closed beta announcement we have decided to give everyone a sneak peak.
TVB is now open for the public too see. You may view the sample clips, browse and register… however uploading is restricted as well as playing clips other than the two samples.
But as per piratebay to use this service, we need the latest browsers.
TPB says
To view any audio or video clips on this site you need a browser that can handle the HTML5 <video> and/or <audio> tag, such as:
Firefox 3.5 beta 4
Opera 9.52 preview
Google Chrome 3
Safari 3.4 & Safari 4
When it eventually goes live, users will be allowed to upload videos with no limits and no censorship. You can expect full streaming movies to be available, and no, they won’t be authorized by the media companies.
Here is a sample of video uploaded to VideoBay:
http://thevideobay.org/sample-video.php
Mozilla has announced they will be releasing the final version of Firefox 3.5, the very last day of the self imposed deadline. The download will be available on their website.
New Features:
- Faster javascript engine called TraceMonkey.
- A Privacy mode, just like IE8 & Google Chrome.
- Location aware browsing.
- Enhanced Scripting Features.
- HTML 5 support.
