Eleven Years of Google: A Look Back
Earlier this week, the company celebrated its 11th birthday and chose to mark the occasion with an all new Google Doodle.
Google's actual founding date is subject to debate. There are those who think that Google should bring out the cake on the September 4, the day in 1998 that Google filed its incorporation papers and officially became Google, Inc. Still others think that Google should recognize September 15, 1997 as its founding date, as that is when Google registered the google.com domain. But despite the debate, Google has celebrated its anniversary on September 27 for the past few years now, making the date somewhat official.
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Elemental Technologies Announces the Elemental GPU Server
Elemental Technologies today announced the technical preview of its newest encoding innovation, enabling broadcasters to stream live video and audio to new media platforms. Elemental is partnering with iStreamPlanet, a leading provider of digital media strategy, services and software applications, to demonstrate GPU-powered HD live video streaming for the first time. Consistent with Elemental's product suite, the technical preview uses the power of graphics processing units (GPUs) to produce up to four 1080p streams in real-time, giving content distributors unprecedented transmission density with higher performance and lower costs than are currently available in conventional solutions.
"Broadcasting isn't just about televisions anymore. Consumers want to be able to watch the content they care about as it happens on whatever device they choose," said Sam Blackman, CEO and chairman of Elemental Technologies. "Elemental's solutions facilitate content distributors using a single appliance to perform all the encoding required for adaptive streaming to multiple devices, both for on-demand and live workflows."
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