Digital Media Schmidt says Google TV heading to Europe

Google TV will be launched in Europe early next year, even if its difficult start in the U.S., company Chairman Eric Schmidt told the audience in Edinburgh, Scotland, last night.

Provide the keynote MacTaggart at the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, one of the main events of the British television industry, Schmidt tried to reassure broadcasters, according to a Reuters report on the speech.

"Our intention is to support the content industry, providing an open platform for the next generation of television to evolve in the same way that Android is an open platform for next generation mobile," said Schmidt. "We hope that Google TV for release in Europe early next year, and of course the UK will be a priority."

Google TV is a software platform that interacts with a user's television, Internet, cable audio, and / or satellite connection combined experience to provide a TV-Web app conventional television. Those with Google TV for example can use their smartphone as a remote control, search the Web on their TV while watching a show and create a website on their game, much like an iPhone-like screen in smartphone, but includes icons for launching programs and channels at once.

This product has struggled since its launch in the U.S., partly because major broadcasters are wary of Google's intentions and has blocked access to their programming. The history of television is filled with features that have made a homicide after discovering a new way to distribute content and refuses to fairly compensate content creators, industry sources said Greg Sandoval CNET at the end last year. The industry fears that Google may be another example. And the fact that the company has remained silent on how it intends to use Google TV has done little to allay those concerns.

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IBM Is On The Data Very, Very, Very Large

According to an article published this week, the MIT Technology Review, IBM scientists working on a new warehouse 120 200 000 petabytes of data consists of a traditional hard drive work together. Information on the container giant is expected to save about 1000000000000 space for files and would need to more efficient simulations of complex systems, such as those used for weather and climate model.

The advantages of the new system from a file system known as the General Parallel File System (GPFS), which was developed at the IBM Almaden supercomputers allow faster access to data. It spreads the individual files across multiple discs, so that many parts of a file can be read or written at the same time.

GPF take advantage of the cluster architecture to provide faster access to data from the file, which is common in many storage devices, which provides the optimum use of available storage for superior performance. It 'also the storage engine of IBM's Watson, who could easily beat me at risk.