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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Acquisition to improve YouTube image quality]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=acquisition-to-improve-youtube-image-quality</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>doqmexe</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=acquisition-to-improve-youtube-image-quality</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)Google has acquired a Dublin, Ireland, company called Green Parrot Pictures to help improve the quality of videos posted on YouTube.The company's technology &quot;helps make videos look better while at the same time using less bandwidth and improving playback speed,&quot; said Jeremy Doig, director of Google video technology, in a post on Google's YouTube blog yesterday. It's been used in &quot;Lord of the Rings,&quot; &quot;X-Men,&quot; and &quot;Spider-Man&quot; films and apparently Google now wants to benefit from it as well.Doig said the acquisition will help improve video marred by shortcomings of equipment or the person shooting the video:Some of YouTube's most popular or moving videos are shot using low-quality mobile phones and video cameras. Take, for example, videos of recent protests in Libya. Although emotionally captivating, they can be jerky, blurry or unsteady. What if there was a technology that could improve the quality of such videos--sharpening the image, reducing visual noise and rendering a higher-quality, steadier video--all while your video is simply being uploaded to the site You can imagine how excited we were when we discovered a small, ambitious company based in Ireland that can do exactly this.Google didn't disclose terms of the acquisition or how and when the technology would be incorporated. One thing is certain, though: such post-processing tends to be computationally taxing, and adding it has the potential to suck up a lot of processor power. Right now, 35 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube each minute.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Canadian cyberattack traced to China]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>doqmexe</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[A cyberattack against Canada that tried to access classified government information and forced two key departments to go offline has been traced back to China, according to a story today from CBC News.Sources told the CBC that the attacks were initially discovered in early January but that it's unknown whether the attackers themselves were in China or just directed their attacks through the country to hide their true source.Specifically, the attacks reached computer systems at the Canadian government's Finance Department and Treasury Board in an attempt to capture passwords for government databases. In response, the government was forced to shut down all Internet access for the two departments, according to the CBC, and only now are public employees slowly getting that access back.In a brief statement released by the Treasury Board, the Canadian government did confirm an &quot;unauthorized attempt to access its networks,&quot; but provided few other details beyond that, according to AFP.In response to a request for comment, Canada's Public Safety Department e-mailed CNET the following statement on behalf of its minister, Vic Toews:&quot;We do not comment on the details of security related incidents. That said, our government takes threats seriously and has measures in place to address them. The next phase of our economic action plan is still in development and we have no indication that Budget security has been compromised.&quot;On its end, China has denied any involvement in the attacks.&quot;What you mentioned is purely fictitious and has an ulterior motive,&quot; Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told a new briefing in Beijing, according to Reuters. &quot;China attaches great importance to computer security and consistently opposes and cracks down on hacking activities according to relative laws and regulations.&quot;Though cyberattacks are used as weapons today by many different countries and organizations, China has often been fingered as a major source of online attacks against other nations. A report released in November by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission pointed to Chinese government involvement in a number of hacking attempts and computer exploits.Specifically, the USCC found that a Chinese state-run telecommunications provider had redirected traffic for U.S. military and corporate data in April. The group also reported that a China-based spy network was accused of targeting government departments and other groups in India in an attempt to steal sensitive information.And China was traced as the source behind the cyberattacks launched against Google and other companies in 2009 as a way of targeting human rights activists.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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