“Google’s Chrome OS is a Plan to Push People into Careless Computing”

Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman warns that cloud computing of Chrome OS will into careless computing. Chrome notebooks feature all applications, documents, and settings are stored in the cloud. So even if you lose your computer. So a user can log into computer from any Chrome notebook from anywhere. Richard thinks, cloud computing is worse than stupidity. He says, it implies a loss of control of data. Chrome OS operating system is based on GNU/Linux. Local data storage capability is kept the minimum.

Richard Stallman said: “The US government may try to encourage people to place their data where the US government can seize it without showing them a search warrant, rather than in their own property. However, as long as enough of us continue keeping our data under our own control, we can still do so. And we had better do so, or the option may disappear.”

Currently Microsoft’s Windows is the market leader of Operating system market hold 90.81% share of total market share. Google’s Chrome OS is considered to be a big threat to Windows.

Coming Soon Assange’s Autobiography

Founder of whistleblower website Wikileaks, Julian Assange said in an interview with Britain’s Sunday Times he had signed deals for his autobiography. He said,

“I don’t want to write this book, but I have to, I have already spent 200,000 pounds for legal costs and I need to defend myself and to keep WikiLeaks afloat.”

Assange will be given 800,000 dollars (518 235.408 British pounds) from Alfred A. Knopf, his American publisher, 325,000 pounds ( 500,000 dollars) from British Canongate publishers. Adding money from other markets total amount is expected to raise the total to 1.1 million pounds. The money would help him defend himself against allegations of sexual assault made by two women in Sweden.

The organization is facing financial problems as credit card companies Visa and MasterCard and the Internet payment firm PayPal stopped contributions to WikiLeaks. The largest US bank, The Bank of America has also closed down all transactions to WikiLeaks.

Meanwhile, Wikileaks is planning to release thousands of American diplomatic cables. WikiLeaks has discomfit politicians and organization leaders by freeing compromising documents and video footage to the general public.

The Court Upholds Assange Bail Order

British prosecutors’ appeal to refuse editor in chief for WikiLeaks Julian Assange’s the strict conditional bail he was granted on14 December has been denied by Justice Duncan Ouseley in a British court today. The court has upheld an earlier decision to allow Assange to remain free while he fights extradition to Sweden.

Assange supporters have welcomed the decision. Cheers have been blown up outside the London court as the verdict has been declared.
Justice Duncan Ouseley said:

“The history of the way it [the case] has been dealt with by the Swedish prosecutors would give Mr Assange some basis that he might be acquitted following a trial.”

Assange’s bail conditions take in

Surrendering his passport; posting a $316,000 bond
A curfew from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Wearing an electronic tag; and
Assange must report to the police station every day at 6 p.m.

Assange’s next court appearance will be Jan. 11, 2011. The 39-year-old Australian had been held in a London prison since Dec. 7 after he surrendered to Scotland Yard police responding to a Swedish arrest warrant.
Meanwhile, a source of Kremlin said to Russian International News Agency (RIA Novosti) on 15 December,

“Non-governmental and governmental organizations should think of ways to help him. Perhaps he could be awarded a Nobel prize”

Assange was elected Time’s Person of the Year by readers vote though by an editorial decision Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook selected finally.

2010 Wikileaks Yea

Wikileaks: the most controversial and exceptionally significant issue of 2010. World has not experienced such a fabulous use of Internet before. Releasing 250000 confidential US cables all sudden make the politicians realize Internet could be fatal.

No matter we want or do not, we are now living a parallel online live. And no longer is Internet a media of mere sharing of audio-video. Internet has been a media to reach the greatest number of people.

Factual person of the year

The controversy about Wikilaeks has made its founder Julian Assange the most intruding person of 2010. The Time had to face a lot of criticism making Mark Zuckerberg the person of the year. Julian Assange was the first choice of the raeders.
Bank of America, Paypal, Visa, Master card cut transaction with Wikileaks. These organizations have been rocked by pro-Wikileaks hackers’ frequent attack.

“Wikileaks” was the search term with the most significant growth worldwide in the first week of December.

Forthcoming leaks

In May 2010, WikiLeaks said they had video footage of a massacre of civilians in Afghanistan by the US military which they were preparing to discharge.

In an interview on 19 July 2010, Assange showed a document WikiLeaks had on an Albanian oil well blowout, and said they also had material from inside BP,and that they were getting huge amount of whistle-blower disclosures of a very high quality. They have not been capable to prove and release the material since they do not have sufficient volunteer journalists. In October 2010, Assange told a top Moscow newspaper that “The Kremlin had better brace itself for a coming wave of WikiLeaks disclosures about Russia.” Assange said,

“We have material on many businesses and governments, including in Russia. It’s not right to say there’s going to be a particular focus on Russia”.

Assange claimed 5GB from Bank of America is still in their possession, he told Forbes magazine, “WikiLeaks was planning another megaleak for early in 2011, which this time would be from inside the private sector and engage a big U.S. bank”.

60% of Mobile Ad Market is Controlled by Google

Google is a beneficiary from 60% of U.S. mobile ad paid out for serching as well as exhibiting ad in2010. Apple occupied 8.4% of the spend while more or less in display ads.Mobile advertising market acquired by google values $877 million in 2010. Largest conribution comes from search ad business . the company says it is driving at a $1 billion run rate in the running year.

IDC, a market researcher said aquiring 8.4% of the U.S. ad spend Apple stood the second position. This total incresed 138% from previous yaer’s figure $368 million. 6.8% of the revenue is gathered by Millennial Media this year.To weigh up total market share IDC analyst Karsten Weide included search and diplay ad revenue. Weide issued $1 billion search and run-rate of google. He claimed the gross income will be $519 in 2010 while Apple and Millennial will score $73.5 and $60 million consecutively.

Spend on search ads is 55.6% which is 10.2% advaned from spend on display ad. Google ocupies 91.4% of total search ad revenue while its rival microsoft and yahoo are gaming lots behind. But the rivalry is optimum in the display market. Here google and Apple are neck and neck consequetively gathering 19% and 18.8%. while with 15.4% Millenial wins third position. Yahoo gets 10 percent.

According to Weide assessment, mobile ad market woth approimately $2 billion in 2010 which is 120% of 2010 overall. Apple has started iAd platform on july1 which makes its share plan stunning. Visibly brands advertisers facing problems for $1 million entrance free to find top places on the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch these Apple products. In May Google got hold of AdMob team supply Adsense for Mobile and display ads.

Contest between Google and Apple in diplay ads is supposed to very exciting in 2011. More brands will be added by both companies so that they get elongated customer. Wiede thinks Google will hide apple in diplay ad sales as Android handsets are now sold more than Apple iOS-based products. Android is looking for 300000 activaton dedvices every day, 9million per mnoth, Apple just dispatched 14 million in the fourth quarter.

Weide wrote, “We do expect Google to grow its display sales faster than Apple in 2011 because as Android devices outsell iOS devices, they will generate more traffic, ad inventory and, eventually, sales than Apple through iOS devices, Taking into account search and display ads, Google will likely grow its total 2010 mobile online ad market share of 59 percent even further.”

Despite, Apple, Millennial, Yahoo and Microsoft these competitors of google will possibly not be in deficient of ad dollar opportunities.