Google upgrades search technology

Google is going visual, audio, location-based, social and real-time starting immediately, says InternetNews.

The search engine giant said it was working to tie its search service more closely to cellphones. It showed off a new search option called Google Goggles that allows users to submit pictures rather than key words as queries, which would allow for identification of images taken via cellphones.

In a fast-paced presentation, Google vice-presidents revealed a slew of enhancements to the world's leading search engine. They include audio search via Google Voice, real-time audio language translation, location-based "what's nearby?" searches, and real-time searches incorporating Twitter and news feeds.

AVI-SPL, a video and audio communications solutions provider, has established a dedicated Cisco practice focused on unified communications (UC) and telepresence, states PR Newswire.

The company is working towards its telepresence Authorised Technology Provider (ATP) status from Cisco, and expects to complete the requirements early in the first quarter of 2010.

The company plans to establish a network of UC and telepresence demo centres at some of its offices around the country, where customers can see these solutions in action.

Sight & Sound Productions has bought the assets of its competitor, Communicate Media Technologies, reports Jacksonville Business Journal.

It's the third time this year Sight & Sound has bought the inventory of another local event production company. Included in the deal were computers, LCD monitors, printers, copiers, video switchers and projectors.

Sight & Sound is the fourth-largest audio-visual production company in Jacksonville, according to the Business Journal's 2009 Book of Lists, with $3.5 million in revenue in 2007.