2011年9月28日 星期三

提供5~20全職工作: Google資料中心 落腳彰化


Google資料中心 落腳彰化

斥資1億美元 台灣網友可享更佳連網品質

【王郁倫、蕭文康╱台北報導】看好台灣穩健基礎建設,Google(谷歌)昨宣布將斥資逾1億美元(約30.4億元台幣)在彰化成立資料中心,市場解讀,Google此舉對肯定台灣投資環境具正面意義,對合作夥伴廣達(2382)而言,受惠最大。

對於網友關心Google在台灣成立資料中心對未來上網服務有何差異,Google台灣暨香港區公關經理許佳齡表示:「可以說將為台灣和其他亞洲地區的網路用戶提供更迅速、可靠的Google服務與體驗。」
換句話說,網友將來在使用Google的服務中,包括使用搜尋引擎、Gmail信箱、社群網站Google+、Google Map(地圖)、影音網站YouTube,均可較目前連網速度更快、品質更為穩定,享受資料儲存更安全的服務。

動工時程尚未敲定

除台灣之外,Google將同步在新加 坡及香港分別成立亞太資料中心。微驅科技總經理吳金榮說,Google成立資料中心,一定會根據當地環境條件篩選,台灣在供電穩定、電價便宜、優秀人才及 具有許多代工客戶等優勢下,成為Google成立資料中心的據點,就是對台灣投資環境的一種肯定。
不過吳金榮強調,Google資料中心未來員工數不多,對台灣產業上的幫助不如來台設立研發中心需要許多研發人才,但已具極大象徵意義。
Google來台設立資料中心傳聞已久,地點包括苗栗銅鑼、彰化彰濱工業區等,昨Google終於證實在彰化成立資料中心,至於是否位於傳言中的彰濱工業區,Google以地點需要保密為由,不願證實。

提供5~20全職工作

至於彰化最後勝出的關鍵,許佳齡表 示,Google依照嚴謹的資料中心興建計劃審核標準與程序,在全球各地物色合適的用地,其中須充分考慮地點與用戶的鄰近度、穩健的基礎設施、可靠的供電 系統、一流技術人員、合理的商業法規,及成本等各方面因素,由於台灣彰化符合所有上述條件,因此決定設立。
有關各方關切的動工時間,許佳齡低調說:「還要跟政府及台灣的合件夥伴協調,不過,動工後預定1~2年可落成啟用。」同時,預計該資料中心的投資金額將會超過1億美元,其中包含購買用地、營建和添購技術設備等費用,但最後金額將取決於用地限制和最終設計細節等因素。

雲端產值估年增20%

彰化資料中心投入運作後,未來將可提供5~20個全職的工作機會,以及少數兼職或全職的約聘人員,而該中心預料將是Google在亞太區最有效率和環保的資料中心。
由於Google與廣達具緊密合作夥伴關係,廣達董事長林百里曾表示相當看好後PC時代,雲端商機的發展,他說,在個人雲端時代來臨下,看好雲端資訊產值每年將有20%成長力道。

Google彰化資料中心小檔案

●動工時間:未定,若動工後將在1~2年落成啟用
●地點:外傳是彰化彰濱工業區,但Google不願證實
●面積:15公頃
●投資金額:逾1億美元(約30.4億元台幣)
●主要功能:為台灣及亞洲市場的網友提供更快速安全上網服務
●員工數:5~20名正職員工及少數兼職、約聘員工
●特色:Google在亞洲最有效率及環保的資料中心
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Google will finance rooftop solar installations
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Google wants homeowners to use solar panels to generate electricity. And it's investing $75 million to help up to 3000 of them install panels on their roofs. The Internet search giant said Tuesday that it will create a fund for solar installers to ...
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Google asks to protect confidential information about Android system in AT&T-T ...
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By AP, WASHINGTON — Google Inc. wants to protect confidential information about its business plans related to Android smartphone operating system in the upcoming antitrust trial against AT&T and T-Mobile. Google filed a motion in Washington federal ...
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GOOGLE BIRTHDAY: Doodle celebrates company's 13th anniversary
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By Michael Cavna If we'd known your birthday was coming up, Google, we'd have baked a cake (well, after Googling for the recipe). Fortunately — as you have every September since 2002, in some form — you rendered your own. On Tuesday, Google ...
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Inside Google Plus
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Google's Biggest Threat Is Google
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Top Google PR Blunders
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Google Drive could be integrated with Android
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Samsung, HTC, Motorola Endorse Google Wallet Rival, Isis
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2011年9月22日 星期四

國會聽證會打嘴仗

三﹐針對谷歌公司(Google Inc.)有沒有濫用互聯網壟斷地位的問題﹐該公司執行董事長施密特(Eric Schmidt)與美國參議員打起嘴仗﹐但基本上毫發未傷。這是谷歌成立13年以來與華盛頓爆發的最具戲劇性的沖突。

國會聽證會開始時﹐施密特面帶微笑﹐略顯緊張。在跟參議員發生一系列小小的爭吵、並且全身而退的時候﹐他顯得自信起來。

參議院反壟斷委員會代表共和黨的副主席、來自猶他州的議員李(Mike Lee)說﹐谷歌曾“篡改”數據﹐以便自己的產品和服務在搜索結果中比其它競爭對手更靠前。

施密特直截了當地回答:參議員﹐我可不可以就這麼說﹐我可以向你保證﹐我們沒有篡改過任何東西。

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施密特否認公司濫用其互聯網搜索市場壟斷地位。
施密特從2001年開始擔任谷歌CEO﹐一直到今年早些時候。他極力使自己的公司與微軟(Microsoft Corp.)之間劃清界線。上一家受反壟斷執法者如此密集盤問的科技巨頭就是微軟。

聽證會開始的時候﹐施密特說﹐我們硅谷的很多人都從那個時代汲取了教訓。他暗指微軟﹐但沒有點名。施密特說﹐請你們注意﹐並非所有公司都是從一塊布料上裁下來的﹐一家公司的過去不必成為另一家公司的將來。

20世紀90年代﹐微軟以激進好鬥的方式來回應華盛頓方面對其商業慣例的質疑﹐結果不得不忍受多年的法律訴訟﹐才得以避免被政府分拆。

施密特還反復說﹐谷歌公司的目標是引導用戶找到最相關的信息。他說用戶完全可以選用其他搜索引擎﹐並暗示美國和歐洲針對谷歌的反壟斷調查﹐是在那些對排名感到失望的網站推動下展開的。

但施密特確實也出現了一些失誤。他似乎一度承認谷歌在互聯網搜索市場的佔有率處於壟斷的“區域”。後來谷歌外部法律顧問克賴頓(Susan Creighton)予以糾正﹐說谷歌並不處於壟斷地位。

爭吵的起因是人們對谷歌的互聯網地位存在截然不同的看法。批評者說﹐經過過去的10年﹐谷歌的核心宗旨已經改變﹐從一家以引導用戶找到網上最佳、最相關內容為明確目標在搜索引擎﹐變成了一家希望親自為用戶提供這些服務的公司。

競爭對手說﹐谷歌控制著絕大多數的搜索活動﹐所以它能夠把用戶引向它自己的服務﹐而這是以競爭對手的犧牲為代價的﹐可能使後者失去至關重要的網絡流量。

點評網站Yelp Inc.首席執行長斯托普爾曼(Jeremy Stoppelman)對參議院反壟斷委員會說﹐谷歌已經不再做引導人們找到網上最佳信息源的業務了﹔它現在希望親自充當“目的地市場”。

谷歌的施密特說﹐公司正在為了滿足用戶需求而進化。他說﹐當用戶輸入一個地址的時候﹐他們可能是想找一張地圖﹐谷歌就利用自己的地圖服務給他們一張地圖。

2011年9月13日 星期二

Google Aims Dart To Kill JavaScript

Google Aims Dart To Kill JavaScript

The Web has outgrown JavaScript, argues Google, and needs a more modern means of creating Web apps.

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JavaScript is a critical component for modern Web applications. It's one of the most popular programming languages and is widely used for tasks like validating input in Web apps or creating animated visual effects, as well as for more complicated application logic.

Google, however, believes that JavaScript, an implementation of ECMAScript standard, is fundamentally flawed and can't be fixed at a speed that matches its development ambitions. The company plans next month to announce a new programming language called Dart that it hopes will eventually replace JavaScript.

Google declined to provide further details about Dart in advance of the official announcement, scheduled to be delivered at the GOTO conference in October. But a document describing Google's position was published last November. The post, from Mark S. Miller, a Google engineer and designer of the E and Caja programming languages, who also serves as a representative to the ECMAScript committee, was sent to an internal Google developer mailing list. It was co-authored by Miller and over a dozen other Google engineers, including Lars Bak, who is scheduled to introduce Dart next month.

The executive summary notes that JavaScript "has fundamental flaws that cannot be fixed merely by evolving the language" and describes a two-pronged strategy to address the situation.

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Google plans to continue to participate in the development of Harmony, a future version of ECMAScript that's being spearheaded by the ECMA T39 standards group.

At the same time, Google plans to release and promote Dart, formerly called Dash. "The goal of the Dash effort is ultimately to replace JavaScript as the lingua franca of Web development on the open Web platform," Miller's post states.

The first Web application written using Dart that we're likely to see from Google is a cloud IDE known by the codename "Brightly," according to Miller's summary. Presumably, Brightly is based on the code for Writely, the online document creation app that Google acquired in 2006 and later turned into Google Docs.

IDEs, or integrated development environments, are tricked-out text editors for writing code, with tools for compiling, debugging, and the like. Mozilla has offered a Web-based IDE called Bespin since 2009, but Google, for all its promotion of Web-based apps, has yet to release one.

Dart has been designed with three main goals: performance, developer usability, and support for tooling. Performance is obviously necessary: No one would want to use a programming language that produces slow, inefficient apps. Developer usability is necessary to match the usability of JavaScript, which is popular with programmers of varying abilities. If Google creates a language that's too complicated, it will remain a niche tool and have only marginal influence on Web development. Support for tooling is necessary because large projects, such as Google Apps, often require special extensions that support code refactoring or locating subroutine calls.

Miller's summary also notes that security is important, though less so than the three main goals: "Dash is also designed to be securable, where that ability does not seriously conflict with the three main goals," the document says.

Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript and Mozilla CTO, said in a blog post last month that while Google would put "a death mark" on JavaScript, the existing approach driven by standards committees is sufficient to direct the language's evolution. He argues that the inherent slowness of community-driven standards is a necessary price to avoid fragmentation and to maintain interoperability.

"[M]any Googlers, especially V8 principals, do not like JavaScript and don't believe it can evolve 'in time' (whatever that might mean--and Google of course influences JavaScript evolution directly, so they can put a finger on the scale here)," Eich wrote. "They're wrong, and I'm glad that at least some of the folks at Google working in TC39 actually believe in JavaScript--specifically its ability to evolve soon enough and well enough to enable both more predictable performance and programming in the large."

Among the JavaScript supporters cited by Eich is Google Chrome Frame developer Alex Russell, who published a blog post to address concerns that Google has it in for JavaScript. "Google is big, can do many things at once, and often isn't of one mind," wrote Russell. "What we do agree on is that we're trying to make things better the best we know how. Anyone who watches Google long enough should anticipate that we often have different ideas about what that means. For my part, then, consider me and my team to be committed JavaScript partisans for as long as we think we can make a difference."

To those disinterested in technical plumbing, it may seem unimportant whether or not JavaScript remains central to Web apps and Web development. But to Google, it's a critical issue. Google has staked its future on the Web, but the Dart summary suggests that Google's major Web applications "are struggling against the platform" and could be eclipsed by native mobile applications, in particular those controlled by Apple.

"The emergence of compelling alternative platforms like iOS has meant that the Web platform must compete on its merits, not just its reach," the document states. "Javascript as it exists today will likely not be a viable solution long-term. Something must change."

While Russell as a confessed JavaScript enthusiast sees things differently, he too recognizes some of the issues facing the Web. "[T]he language isn't the problem, the platform is," he wrote. "The only thing that's going to replace the Web as universal platform is the next version of the Web."

The question facing Google is whether it can get to the next version of the Web, with or without the open Web community, before enough people decide that building on other platforms represents a more appealing way to create online services.

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2011年9月7日 星期三

中共一年整 Google Inc. 一次

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歌(Google Inc.)發言人週三稱﹐谷歌已獲得中國政府發放的互聯網牌照﹐允許谷歌未來一年繼續在中國大陸市場經營。

上述互聯網內容供應商牌照將允許谷歌繼續在中國大陸開展其有限的業務。

目前用戶訪問谷歌中國大陸站點時會被自動跳轉至該公司的香港站點。

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