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Google buys Green Parrot Studios to enhance quality of YouTube video
Twitter’s fifth birthday is coming soon
Nokia’s first windows mobile phone launched in India

Google buys Green Parrot Studios to enhance quality of YouTube video

Posted: 19 Mar 2011 05:15 AM PDT

We don't need to mention the popularity of YouTube, and speaking of it, YouTube may introduce some improvements in the future according to the reports.

It seems that Google plans to improve the quality of its YouTube service after the purchase of Green Parrot Pictures. In case you don't know, Green Parrot Pictures is a company devoted to enhancement of video content, and so far, this company has worked on several blockbuster movies such as Lord of the Rings, X-Men and Spiderman. Green Parrot Pictures are famous for their techniques such as removal of flicker, noise, blotches and stabilization, but they are also working on technology that should improve video quality and playback speed while reducing the bandwidth usage at the same time.

Acquisition of Green Parrot Pictures seems like a great move by YouTube, and we can't wait to see the final results in action.

[via Engadget]

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Google buys Green Parrot Studios to enhance quality of YouTube video

Twitter’s fifth birthday is coming soon

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 03:32 PM PDT

Since most of you enjoy social networking and microblogging, we thought that you would like to know that a special microblogging service will enter its fifth year of existence. Of course, we're talking about Twitter.

That's right, Twitter started almost five years ago, and now it's the most popular microblogging service in the world. As for its humble beginnings, it took Twitter three years, two months and a day to achieve 1 billion tweets. Now, with increased popularity, one billion of tweets are sent each week, which definitely demonstrates what a huge success its been. Speaking of numbers, Twitter got about 460,000 new accounts per day only in the past month and has been averaging about 140 million tweets per day. As for people behind Twitter, Twitter has 400 employees and 50 of them were hired since January.

As you can see, Twitter has achieved amazing success for the past five years, and we can only wonder where Twitter will be in another five years.

[via Ubergizmo]

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Nokia’s first windows mobile phone launched in India

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 03:05 PM PDT

Nokia has released it’s first smartphone to feature Windows Mobile the Nokia E7 and it features a 4-inch AMOLED touchscreen and also a sliding QWERTY keyboard designed for faster typing. Even though this new phone is the first device from Nokia with Windows mobile it is not likely to be the last one, as Nokia and Microsoft signed last month an agreement, through which Nokia will make smartphones only on the Windows platform thus abandoning the Symbian OS.

Of course with this new OS, Nokia has a few new applications that we can find on the Nokia E7 phone such as IBM Lotus Notes Traveler, World traveler App, Quick office Dynamic Premium, Mail for Exchange, F-Secure anti-theft software and Adobe PDF Reader and many others. At this time, the new Nokia E7 is only available from the Indian market, but we are confident that in the next coming months Nokia will unveil a new Windows mobile device worldwide.

[via Nokia, Mintgadget]

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