Google to Fix Google Talk Video Jitter on Android

A problem with video on Google Talk on Android (tablets and smartphones) is the jitter and instability. Google is looking to fix this issue and has approached SRI International to embed its video stabalization software in the Google Talk application for Android. This should help prevent the jitter and instability on Android smartphones and tablets, while video chatting via Google Talk. The company, SRI International is the same company that is responsible for the invention of the computer mouse. It's a Menlo Park, California based non-profit organization and has been working on this video stabalizing software since the nineties. Now that Android tablets are fast and powerful enough to sustain this software, it only makes sense for integration. Video chat on Android via Google Talk will be easier The software works by recognizing the face of the user video chatting and stabalizing that video before compressing for transmission. The steadiness and stabalization of that shot allows for better compression, making the video actually look sharper with less noise. The stabilization software is only available for devices that have Android 3.0 installed. The difference between this software and other stabilization software is that this works in real time, a necessity for video chatting.

IBM Introduces Single Wafer Graphene Chip

Graphene will be among the latest substances to be employed in the production of chips. Graphene, is known to be the most thinnest substance in a honeycomb structure, around, since it’s only an atom thick. Now, technology biggie, IBM will use Graphene in its circuit production. The researchers at IBM have been toying around with this concept since 2004, before which they found it painful to deal with lesser thin substances.

Super slim

Graphene is primarily a mesh of carbon, and has gained prominence owing to the single wafer-ed thickness that the circuit is made of. The graphene circuit prepared by the researchers, according the IBM’s announcement, will operate at a broadband radio frequency of 10 GHz. It goes without saying that the ultra-thin graphene circuit is being largely looked as a replacement to IBM’S CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) technology, which is slowly turning obsolete. The researchers’ state that the graphene circuit will prove particularly beneficial to up the ability of mobile gadgets’ to send and receive signals. The technology,  however, is still in its infancy stage.

IBM will soon reach its centenarian year, and the graphene technology breakthrough seems to be the perfect way to welcome that.