Google Acquires Phonetic Arts Makes its 25th Acquisition of the Year

This Friday, Google announced, extending their investments in voice interaction region, they had acquired Phonetic Arts, a U.K.-based maker of speech synthesis software. Whereas, Phonetic Arts has also affirmed this deal as it posted a confirmation on their official Web site. This has now given Google a very unique varied opportunity to incorporate Phonetic Arts speech synthesis technology with their variety of products and services itself.

Once again, no further details were disclosed, especially in regard to the financial matter as well. However, his blog post, the manager of speech technology at Google, Mike Cohen, has expressed that Google has already made noteworthy attempts to integrate and utilize speech input into its products. He points to Voice Search, Voice Input, and Voice Actions on Android mobile phones and more prominently the automatic speech-to-text caption transcription on YouTube a well.

December 17th the Suspected Date for Netbook Unveiling

Google is mysteriously hosting an event, scheduled on December, 7th, where it is hugely suspected to reveal its, much rumored, netbook based on its Chrome operating system. The Google's support platform, Chrome OS, is getting increasingly popular, as it is also used in Chrome Web browser, which has measured up for almost 9.27 percent of total browser use worldwide, according to Net Applications.

Google now intends to run the same platform in its new, yet-to-be-launched netbooks and other machines with keyboards, and the headline used to advertise this new technology is to promise an immensely quick booting up in seconds as in comparison to the traditional computers based on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS and Linux. However, Chrome OS is still in a very raw beta stage and unfit for any kind of mass consumption.

LimeWire Ordered To Shut Down By 31st December

Undoubtedly, one of the world's most recognized outlets and first go-to choice for people to share music, movies and TV shows over the Internet without any complication of money, has just announced that they are preparing for a shut down till the end of this year and completely closing there only office, located in New York.