Microsoft Reduce Collection IP Address in Bing

BRUSSELS - Microsoft plans to reduce the storage period at Bing IP address from 18 months to only 6 months. This plan follows a request from the forum data privacy European countries.

According to Microsoft, this change will make Bing becomes a better choice for Internet users very concerned with privacy. The focus is what has been deemed not focused on the Google search engine, that in fact is the toughest competitors Bing. The reason, Microsoft will remove all IP addresses from the search list.

"We believe that the balance between privacy and efficiency is a desire in the mind of the consumer Internet. If both are equal then the search engines we will be more attractive," said John Vassallo from Microsoft, as quoted by Yahoo News, Wednesday (20/1/2010 ).

Currently, Microsoft itself admitted, in Europe, Bing was still occupying a position far below Google. Bing market share in Europe is only approximately 2 percent, while Google has reached 80 percent.

According to Google, save the data from the search lists are essential to maximize the search results and can be used as a weapon to protect the security service action against hacking and Internet fraud.
Google itself claims to let the search anonymously after a period of nine months. Meanwhile, Yahoo allows log data anonymous after 90 days with the aim of combating fraud, protect the system more secure and to meet the existing legal policy.

Institutions in the European data protection has been requested to search service providers to store search data for a maximum of six months.

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Android OS Developer Presents For PC

San Francisco - A group of developers who call themselves Android-x86, develop Android on the x86 platform, so OS (Operating Systems) Google's can be used to run a series netbook Asus Eee PC.

In the site, community-x86 mention Android, just a few months after creating a patch that lets Android running on the x86 platform, they are aware of these findings can be developed further. This group then decided to further develop the basic code that they find in order to support other x86 platforms and to hosting on their servers.

"This project first aims to provide a complete solution for Android on the Eee PC platform, and for the x86 platform," wrote Android-x86 on their website, as quoted by TG Daily, Thursday (21/1/2010).

So far, the developer has tested their findings in most series netbook Asus Eee PC. Among a series of Eee PC 701 series, 701SD, 900, 900A, 901, 904HD, 1000, 1000HE, 1000HD, 1005HAG, S101, T91 (VESA mode) and Eee Top 1602C. These findings could also work on the Lenovo ThinkPad x61 tablet. All of the above devices is known to run in native resolution (800x480 or 1024x600) through the i915 driver, which all run on Linux Kernel 2.6.29 with kernel mode-setting (KMS) enabled.

In addition to developing Android to use the PC even further, this development group plans to develop an external monitor, support Bluetooth support, power management better, support multi-touch touchpad, as well as 3G and GPS features.

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French Retailers Push E-Book Platform

Five of France's biggest book sellers called on publishing houses and the government for support in creating a new retail structure for electronic books to fend off Amazon, Google and Apple.

Executives from the five retailers including PPR subsidiary Fnac and Virgin Megastore said France should have a national e-book platform run by publishers and retailers with a single point of purchase.

But the idea, launched at a joint news conference on Wednesday, drew a skeptical reaction from France's largest publisher, Hachette Livre, a subsidiary of Lagardere.

They also urged the French government to extend protective measures already in place for physical books to e-books, including a single-price mechanism to muzzle competition.

"If we don't manage to do this, what's going to happen? We will find ourselves in front of a platform, or hub, already made by a private company ... whether Amazon, Google or Apple," said Guillaume Decitre, head of bookseller Decitre.

Decitre said the filtering of Internet portals in China and Amazon's removal of George Orwell's "1984" from its e-book platform were examples of why this was undesirable.

The proposal comes a day after the publication of a government report supporting a digital book exchange with Google to resolve a spat over online publication of the world's literary heritage.

A spokesperson for the French Ministry of Culture was unavailable for comment.

PUBLISHER PLEA

Although Decitre and his fellow CEOs said they and their supporters represented 70 percent of the French book market, they said they needed the backing of publishers to get content.

French publishers including Hachette have already set up their own individual platforms for distributing e-books, but Decitre said a single collective platform would be "three to five times" cheaper.

Hachette Livre sales director Francis Lang said he was not opposed to a hub, but said the interests of publishers were currently not the same as those of physical booksellers.

"Creating a governance structure where everyone is around the table but their interests are opposed is the best way for this not to go anywhere," he said.

The chief executive of Hachette's Numilog e-book platform, Daniel Zwirn, also criticized a similar collective e-book hub in Germany, known as Libreka, which the five retailers said had partly served as inspiration for their idea.

"It seems like a good idea, but actually it isn't," he told the retail executives during the conference. "The bulk of the offering goes elsewhere."

Spokespeople from Amazon and Google declined to comment.

"This will probably be uniquely French if it succeeds," said James McQuivey, an analyst with Forrester Research. "Obviously it would be the combination of cultural preservation interests that tend to be unique to France."

"(If publishers and retailers) do cooperate, it's not because it's in their interests," he added. "(It's more about) preserving the culture."

(Reporting by Lionel Laurent, editing by Will Waterman)

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