Google intends to launch a new technology in September, in order to begin a massive copyright filtering on YouTube.
According to the lawyer of Google, Philip S. Beck, YouTube is working intensely with major content companies on video recognition technology that is as sophisticated as the fingerprint technology used by the F.B.I.

This system was described by Beck as a recognition technology relying on digital fingerprints that copyright holders would provide to YouTube to help filter out illegal uploads. Once the fingerprint is in the system, YouTube’s software would be able to recognize and remove it within minutes.
This change will help Google to end the complaints from companies like Viacom.

“Perhaps the filtering mechanism will help. If so, we’ll be very grateful for that,” said Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., a lawyer for Viacom.

Viacom filled a lawsuit in March, against Google, sustaining that the Mountain View, Calif. software company intentionally committed massive copyright infringement of Viacom’s properties. The big company is sought more than $1 billion in damages, in addition to an injunction that will prohibit Google/YouTube from further copyright infringement. Following, Google replied by denying that it had done anything illegal.

Next year, AMD is planning to unveil the RS780 targeting the chipset towards consumer and commercial desktop platforms, with minor differences for each respective segment.
RS780 was designed to accommodate AMD’s upcoming Socket AM2+ processors with HyperTransport 3.0. It sports a new graphics core with AMD’s Universal Video Decoder, or UVD, technology for hardware acceleration of H.264 and VC-1 video formats.
DisplayPort, TV-out, VGA and LVDS outputs, DVI and HDMI digital video output interfaces are also supported by the new chipset that also integrates HDCP support.
AMD also works with an audio controller for simultaneous audio and video output over HDMI.
The graphics core also has two independent display controllers for dual independent displays. The local frame buffer feature will make a return on the RS780, allowing manufacturers to equip the graphics core with dedicated video memory. Users that prefer more 3D graphics power can install an external graphics card via a PCIe 2.0 x16 slot. The RS780 will also have additional PCIe 2.0 lanes for lesser slots.
New to the RS780 platform is the SB700 south bridge. The SB700 does away with all PCIe lanes and only supports PCI, because all PCIe functionality has moved to the north bridge. AMD increases USB support to 12 USB 2.0 ports plus an additional 2 USB 1.1 ports. The new south bridge supports up to six SATA 3.0 Gbps ports with RAID 0, 1 and 10 support. IDE remains a supported feature of the SB700. However, AMD designates the IDE port for double duty – a physical PATA port or for HyperFlash. HyperFlash is AMD’s name for its Intel Turbo Memory competitor.
AMD designates a Broadcom BCM5761 managed NIC controller for the commercial platforms. RS780 for commercial platform has one minor difference compared to the consumer platform. Similar to Intel’s AMT technology, the managed NIC allows for remote management. For greater security, a TPM 1.2 module is also recommended by AMD.

The ultimate objective of record labels is an environment where music fans could stream their favorite music from their personal Web pages and post a "buy" button next to each track. The idea is to create a point of purchase and a channel for promotion by giving the site's visitors the possibility to click a single button and place that same buy button on his or his/her own site as well.
Social networks like MySpace with 70 million active monthly users alone, are enormously popular because of features like instantly connecting like-minded users based on interests, location or real-life associations. These "friends" can virally pass along content quickly and easily by simply sharing a small bit of computer code -- called a widget -- between individual profiles.
An example is allowing fans to post a stream of their latest single to artists’ individual profiles.
Snocap - MyStore
The company Snocap that offers the MyStore service, enables artists to sell tracks from their MySpace pages, and the new Spread the Word feature allows fans to copy the store to their own blog sites, Web pages and virtually any other Internet presence.
Warner Music Group (WMG) and EMI Music adopted this system, enabling selling music directly from MySpace pages.
EMI head of digital Barney Wragg said that "It just completely decentralizes it," and “Obviously you can place a 'buy' button (on) iTunes and any other retailer. But this is a real easy way for us to do something specifically for that artist."
"The music-buying experience is different from what you do on MySpace," he told South by Southwest music conference attendees during a panel in March. "We're not investing a ton of energy in that. It's not a big part of our business."
INCOMPATIBILITY ISSUE
Any digital music file incompatible with the iPod will be difficult to sell, regardless of who's selling it. In the beginning, the MyStore program focused on indie and unsigned artists who have no problems with selling their music without technical protection. Earlier this month, EMI became the first major label to adopt the platform as part of its ongoing DRM-free campaign.
The only other major label participating in the MyStore program -- WMG -- has insisted on using Microsoft's WMA technology, which even CEO Snocap's Rueff said will hinder adoption. "Your sales will follow where your content can be played," he said. "If it plays on an iPod, it's got a better chance of selling. And the only way to do that is with MP3s."
Seems that Snocap said that since December, when the service went live, the number of consumers registering for MyStore accounts has increased 50 percent per month, and the number of downloads is rising by 40 percent per month.
"Social networks are the (peer-to-peer) networks of the future," Rueff said. "They're this generation's MTV. If you want to be at a point of sale at the highest point of desire and consumption, be where the fan is."

Online dating service Match.com, part of IAC/InterActiveCorp, launches a new application for mobiles that allows subscribers to keep track of their paramours while on the go.
United States, UK and Canada will be the first markets targeted by the service MatchMobile with plans to be extended to nine more countries by the end of the year.

The service provides subscribers with text messages to their phones when they have an e-mail from another Match.com subscriber and allows them to search for potential matches from their cell phones.
MatchMobile subscribers can receive and answer e-mails from suitors on their mobile phones for an extra fee of $5 per month.
Match.com Chief Executive Thomas Enraght-Moony sais that "If you are having a conversation with someone and want to continue it on the go, you can. It cuts out the waiting," and also "As people become more and more accustomed to being able to do things while they are on the go, this becomes a more natural part of what they do."

The company cited forecasts from Frost & Sullivan, which predict that revenue from mobile dating services will grow to $215 million by 2009.

Beaverton, OR -- Tektronix, Inc. launches RFXpress, an advanced new software package that performs RF/IF/IQ waveform creation and editing of digitally modulated signals for AWG5000 and AWG7000 arbitrary waveform generators. The user interface makes creation and management of general purpose digital RF waveforms more intuitive and in the same time provides specialized UWB-WiMedia plug-ins and a library of waveforms for thoroughly testing new designs.

A critical step in the development process for modern wireless devices is signal generation for stress testing digital RF product designs, a complicated process, often requiring many hours of tedious setup and requiring multiple instruments. With RFXpress software, this has been simplified by automating many of the repetitive and arcane functions typically found in competing signal generation solutions.

In vice president’s, Mike Higashi, opinion, ”RFXpress is ideal for design and test engineers who need to perform validation and characterization of prototype digital RF wireless communication designs”. “Instead of needing to create mathematical formulas, the intuitive UI provided by the general purpose RFXpress application enables efficient use by providing pre-defined, fill-in the blank templates for frequencies, modulation schemes, etc. The additional capabilities provided by the compliance and custom plug-ins assist with performing a wide range of tests reliably and efficiently for the UWB WiMedia standard.”

The RFXpress application supports a variety of modulation schemes like QPSK, QAM, GMSK, etc., and also allows engineers to build their own modulation schemes. Furthermore, RF / IF & IQ signals captured on a Tektronix Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer or using an oscilloscope can now be modified by simply adding impairments, interference and distortions using RFXpress before they are replayed by an AWG7000 or AWG5000.

“The RFXpress Application is a great addition to the AWG platform, effectively transforming a general purpose signal generator into a powerful and easy to use RF generator,” said Ray Wang, System Test Manager, Texas Instruments. “Features such as I/Q Impairments, Distortion, and Interference Addition will help validate our products against real-life parameters. Using RFXpress, we essentially get the functionality of both a general purpose and application-specific signal generator in a single package.”

The RFXpress WiMedia custom mode plug-in enables engineers to individually configure every part of the WiMedia frame / packet for thorough characterization, limit and stress test of the receiver's PHY layer. This proves that direct synthesis is a flexible and repeatable method for creating ideal or impaired waveforms that are then directly synthesized using an arbitrary waveform generator. With RFXpress and the AWG7000, customers can directly generate band hopping signals for UWB-WiMedia Bandgroup 1 and Bandgroup 2 without the need for multiple instruments.