The
American Intelligence National Security Agency has arranges the surveillance on
senior German government officials since Barack Obama ordered to stop its
spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel. NSA already had lost the reputation for
spying on technology companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, so it
not surprise to hear Obama about the surveillance. Last year they detected the
spying software’s on Markel phone, which shocked Germans. An interior speak
person has denying the statement that Obama made. The US earns international displeasure
after the leaks about the surveillance on German Chancellor, which president Obama
never disclose.
TechCrunch published a full report “Part of the issue with this current leak is
that it’s difficult to verify. The original NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden,
came out publicly and the NSA only months later admitted some details about the
controversial phone record collection program. An anonymous source leaking
information about much lower profile activity may not incentivize agencies to
release details either confirming or denying Bild am Sonntag‘s claim.
Certainly, this new leak will not help US-European relations. For a bit of
levity. Germans are especially sensitive about snooping due to their
experiences in the Nazi era and in Communist East Germany, when the Stasi
secret police built up a massive surveillance network.”
Berlin was also being accused for no
spying deal with pentagon. German Foreign Minister is on the visit to America
right now. He said that he doubt that such deal is made much effect on both country’s
relationship. The Mass-circulation report says that there is over 320 people is
on the NSA surveillance in Germany- Mostly from Political and Business backgrounds.
But Washington said they did not spy on companies to gain business success to
US corporations.
Google, the internet giant company has launched its latest project into
the field of renewable energy sources, which is the biggest solar power plant.
This plant is highly equipped with voice security and surveillance over the area
to catch any type of unwanted things. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Station
is located on California Nevada border. It uses 347,000 mirrors that direct
face sun, to generate 392 Megawatts of electricity. This amount of Electricity
can be uses to power more than 140,000 homes; plants build up with $168 Million
investing and one of the latest ventures in series of sixteen ventures, which
Google started last year in renewable energy field, this investment taking
company into $1 billion investing into such field.
Rick Needham, Google’s director of energy and sustainability said “We’ve
invested over a billion dollars in 15 projects that have the capacity to produce
two gig watts of power around the world, mostly in the US, but that’s the
equivalent of Hoover’s Dam worth of power generation..The fact is that all of
these things, procuring power for ourselves, investing in power plants,
renewable power plants, they all make business sense, and they make sense for
us as a company to do. We rely on power for our business.”
The Ivanpah plant is worth about $2.2 billion but half of the investment
comes from Federal loans so with such involvement the plant is owned jointly by
NRG Energy and Bright Source Energy with Google. Sources say that 34 % of
Google business is powered by such plants. This plant was accused of killing
birds because plants generate thousand-Degree of heat, which push it into
abyss. Nonetheless of issue of the company, it still makes the top place into “Green
IT”, which is the table for environmentally friendly technology firms in 2013.
Along with new
CEO another big change in the executive ranks is: Bill gates the former CEO and
cofounder of company is leaving his post as chair person of the board and
taking a new post as “Founder and Technology Advisor”, company commented these
changes as “Step up”, which involved gates more in the company. Microsoft, the
giant system software and CRM integration
software’s developer and seller, is appointing John Thompson as a new chair
person of board. Firms noted that gate will dedicate more to company, guiding Nadella
in shaping the technology and productions and he will remain as part of the
board directors.
Microsoft’s
innovation towards the technology can be evaluated by putting the emotion detection technology into xbox
game play and the new tablet surface 2. Gates this move is not very promising for
those who watching him lead the company. The involvement of gates is at least 1
day in a week at office with less administrative work.
Firm said in the official Blog “under Gates' leadership, Microsoft's mission has been to continually
advance and improve software technology, and to make it easier, more
cost-effective and more enjoyable for people to use computers. The company is
committed to a long-term view, reflected in its industry-leading investment in
research and development.Gates transitioned out of a day-to-day role in the company to
spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation.”
