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June 10th, 2009Fastest supercomputer on Earth
November 21st, 2008After five months, we have a new heir to the supercomputing throne. With 1.64 petaflops of peak processing power, Cray Inc.’s XT4 “Jaguar” supercomputer has surpassed IBM’s “Roadrunner” to take the top spot.
So what does $100 million get you? According to Engadget, this beast-of-a-PC features 45,000 (yes, fourty five thousand) Quad-core Opteron processors (which makes up 180,000 processing cores, for anyone keeping score), 362 terabytes of memory, and 10 petabytes of storage in a hard-disk array. Read the rest of this entry »
SuperSpeed USB 3.0 finalized, released
November 21st, 2008The new USB 3.0 spec, which can handle data transfers of up to 4.8 Gbps, is the successor to USB 2.0 and should be appearing in devices in late 2009, according to ZDnet.
The USB 3.0, which is also dubbed “SuperSpeed”, is up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0 is predicted to be more power-efficient. Read the rest of this entry »
50 Social Sites That Online Business Needs
November 20th, 2008If your business limits its online presence to advertising banners and blogging, it’s missing out. The Internet provides powerful networking opportunities that allow users to effectively target their audience by logging on to social sites like LinkedIn, Digg and more. Take advantage of these tools by asserting your company’s presence online and reaching more potential customers, business partners and employees.
Social-Media/Social-Bookmarking Sites
Share your favorite sites on the Web with potential clients and business partners by commenting on, uploading and ranking different newsworthy articles. You can also create a member profile that directs traffic back to your company’s Web site. Read the rest of this entry »
Global demand for Arabic language software continues to soar
September 23rd, 2008UAE. WinSoft is responding to increased global demand for Arabic language software by highlighting its dedicated Middle Eastern version product suite at GITEX Technology Week.
The leading multilingual software publisher will give visitors the opportunity to discover the latest Arabic language software offerings from leading publishers including FileMaker and Adobe Systems. WinSoft collaborates with leading global software publishers to adapt software products to suit the unique requirements of Middle Eastern users. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Vs Microsoft…Again!!!
September 3rd, 2008MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – The new Web browser that Google Inc. released Tuesday is designed to expand its 
huge lead in the Internet search market and reduce Microsoft Corp.’s imprint on personal computers.The free browser, called “Chrome,” is being promoted as a sleeker, faster, safer and reliable alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which has been the leading vehicle for surfing the Web for the past decade. Despite recent inroads by Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox, Internet Explorer is still used by roughly three-fourths of the world’s Web surfers. Read the rest of this entry »
How secure is your card info?
August 18th, 2008 By Maggie Shiels
Technology reporter, BBC News Website, Silicon Valley
Technology reporter, BBC News Website, Silicon Valley
Stolen information was encoded on blank cards used at ATM machines
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In light of the biggest identity theft case ever prosecuted in America, the spotlight is being turned on just how secure is our credit and debit card information?
The question is a simple one but the answer might appear to be a bit harder to pin down.
VeriSign, a firm that secures websites for e-commerce, told the BBC that credit and debit card information is “vulnerable” but they are working with retailers to change that.
“Credit and debit card information is just not incredibly secure,” said Perry Tancredi, VeriSign’s senior product manager for fraud detection. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Index Reaches 1 Trillion URLs
August 14th, 2008Three years after Google (NSDQ: GOOG) declared that its index was three times larger than any other search engine and then declined to cite a specific number to support that claim, it was widely believed that Google had tired of index one-upmanship and that it would no longer be measuring its index.
Well, Google has its yardstick in hand once again.
Two Google engineers on Friday said that Google’s index of the Web now contains 1 trillion unique URLs. Read the rest of this entry »
Russia as datacenter hub? Not so fast
August 4th, 2008Russia apparently could become a datacenter hub. It has hydroelectric power, cold temperatures to keep all those servers cool and a booming economy with lots of engineering talent. But there are enough moving parts to require a little more homework on that Russia as datacenter capital theory. Read the rest of this entry »
Offshore outsourcers likely to beef up security following Bangalore blasts
August 4th, 2008A series of bombs have exploded in Bangalore and companies that have technology operations in India are likely to need increased security precautions following what appears to be a terrorist attack.
According to various reports from Reuters and Rediff.com, nine bomb blasts have rattled Bangalore, which hosts offices of some of the technology industry’s biggest players–Intel, Qualcomm and Infosys. Read the rest of this entry »