Top 5 Optimizers technical rumors

Google Inc. will sell the online services of other business software makers in an effort to fill its own product gaps and persuade more companies to rely on applications piped over the Internet. The online store that was announced late Tuesday marks another step in Google’s crusade to convert the world to “cloud computing”, the idea of running applications in Web browsers instead of installing them on individual hard drives. The information entered in the programs also is stored in data centers run by third parties such as Google.

Google is going to stop supporting IE 6, since vulnarabilities in this version of the popular web browser caused recent attacks on a lot of companies including Google. The security hole in IE allowed the hacker to install a trojan program on the users computer after visiting certain websites. Previously German anf French government have already called for IE 6 usage ban, and even though Microsoft has reacted to this problem and the security patch has been released three weeks earlier then planned, it didn’t stop Google and now the Google Docs and Google Sites will not work under Internet Explorer 6.

Google suspects that the recent attacks on the company’s networks might have been done with the help of the company’s employees. The search giant isn’t just negotiating this matter with Chiniese government, but also is investigating the matter theiself. We remind you that Google has decided to leave one of the biggest parts of the internet market because of the “sophisticated” attack whitch led to the loss of the intelectual property of a number of companies, including Adobe, Juniper Network, Symantec, Rackspace Hosting and by some uncomfirmed data – Yahoo.

Microsoft is not going to follow Google’s lead in pulling out of China. “We’ve been quite clear that we’re going to operate in China,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in an interview on CNBC. However, his hopes for China to produce growing revenue for the company seem to hinge on a thorny issue: a reduction of piracy and intellectual-property theft. His reference to the problem of IP theft points to bigger challenges Microsoft could face if it decided to leave China. Microsoft has been battling software piracy there for years, and pulling out of the country could amount to it giving up the battle and allowing piracy of its products to flourish unchecked. The issue of censorship or human rights has not been raised in this interview, in contradiction with Google, who considers them as central issues to its new approach to the country.

We understand that this is not entirely software news, but it involves one of the biggest players on the software market and should be mentioned especially with the holiday’s time. Google, always being innovative and original, has made a present to the world by donating 20 million USD to the charity organizations. It was motivated by the fact that with the economy in such state, charity organizations have had one of the worst years. “Our present to you – is a present to them” as the company itself said.

With this said, I too will be happy to wish you all Marry Christmas and Happy New Year!

News agencies now will be able to set special software to specify and limit free access to their content though Google. This is the result of the accusations that news agencies made towards Google for making profit on their news base. A number of such agencies even wanted to cut off Google at all and were talking with Microsoft in order to use software’s giant search engine Bing. As the result Google now redirects users who have already visited 5 free articles to the payment and registration page. Wall Street Journal already requires payment to watch, and Times and Sunday Times will soon follow.

Rumors have it that the acquisition-happy search giant has acquired Gizmo5, a Skype-like VoIP startup. Google has payed $30 million in cash for Gizmo5, which offers a software app that allows you to make free phone calls to other Gizmo users, as well as inexpensive calls to landlines and cell phones. It also supports SMS and instant messaging. Although it has not been officially announced, many industry watchers say it is a done deal. And combined with what Google already has in VoIP direction, it may result in something much more powerful then Skype. So how might consumers benefit from this? We can only guess for now, but with the Google tendancy to stir up trouble in established tech markets (just ask the GPS makers about it) we might soon expirience something new and yet unseen.

An impressive feature of Google’s new Android 2.0 mobile device operating system is Google Maps Navigation, a turn-by-turn navigation application that’s not only free to use, but is fairly easy to learn as well. Its release was a nightmare for GPS manufacturing companies as it basically offers the same information they do, but for free. And since it is connected to Google Maps Navigation System it is perfectly up to date so you don’t need to update your maps yearly. The only problem for Google right now is that this service only runs on Android mobile phones of version 2.0 and higher, and its share in mobile sales is still small at the moment, so GPS manufacturers have some time to come up with ideas on how to compete with Google.