tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107775572012-01-14T06:17:49.920-08:00Quarknoreply@blogger.comBlogger1131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-39759517878744031732008-06-22T18:56:00.000-07:002008-06-25T19:11:28.347-07:00

Roadrunner (photo courtesy: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Berkeley)With the publication of the latest edition of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, the global high performance computing community has officially entered a new realm—a supercomputer with a peak performance of more than 1 petaflop/s (one quadrillion floating point operations per second).The new No. 1

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-28849826447241085722008-06-11T09:10:00.000-07:002008-06-11T09:33:13.818-07:00

Prof. Robert langer [photo courtesy: Stu Rosner Photograhy & Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT]Today at Helsinki, the 2008 Millennium Technology Prize was presented to Professor Robert Langer of Massachusettes Institute of Technology and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology for developing innovative biomaterials for controlled drug release.The world’s largest technology

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-76353767038179185032008-04-23T15:35:00.000-07:002008-04-23T15:48:37.542-07:00

iDataPlex uses 40 percent less power while increasing the amount of computing that can be done 5X. To achieve these breakthroughs IBM created a design that, among other things, turns the standard rack on its side [Image courtesy: IBM]Today, IBM unveiled a new type of server design that targets so-called Web 2.0 companies operating or building massive data centers with tens of thousands of servers

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-69968602026942958242008-04-16T16:31:00.000-07:002008-04-16T16:59:23.043-07:00

In two papers published in the April 11 issue of Science, IBM Fellow Stuart Parkin and colleagues at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose describe both the fundamentals of a next-generation nonvolatile memory dubbed "racetrack" as well as a milestone in that technology. "Racetrack" is expected to initially replace flash memory and eventually hard-disk drives.Using spintronics --the storage

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-32568276887040765982008-04-08T22:25:00.000-07:002008-04-08T22:45:38.801-07:00

The finalists for the 2008 Millennium Technology Prize have been announced at a press conference held at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London on Tuesday.Four innovations have been shortlisted for the world's biggest technology award, the 2008 Millennium Technology Prize. The winner will be announced at a ceremony in Finland on June 11, 2008.Names in the final list are:Professor Alec

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-81025248826953237882008-03-25T20:47:00.000-07:002008-03-26T22:55:12.846-07:00

Intel Corporation has further increased its energy-efficient performance lead today with the introduction of two low-voltage 45 nanometer (nm) processors for servers and workstations that run at 50 watts, or just 12.5 watts per core and frequencies as high as 2.50 GigaHertz (GHz). The Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor L5400 Series takes advantage of Intel's unique 45nm manufacturing capabilities

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-28412508161840544472008-02-25T18:54:00.000-08:002008-02-25T19:18:00.323-08:00

The complete radio (left) and magnified views of nanotube transistors wire-bonded into standard packages (right) [Photo courtesy: John Rogers Research Group, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign]John Rogers and his colleagues from the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, IL and Northrop Grumman Electronics Systems, Linthicum, MD have reported the development of the first practical

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-72942911856348222512008-02-03T18:14:00.000-08:002008-02-03T18:26:06.647-08:00

High Speed NAND [Image courtesy: Micron Technology]Intel Corporation and Micron Technology Inc. today unveiled a high speed NAND flash memory technology that can greatly enhance the access and transfer of data in devices that use silicon for storage. The new technology – manufactured by the companies' NAND flash joint venture, IM Flash Technologies (IMFT) – is five times faster than conventional

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-37354528817599898192008-01-24T20:49:00.000-08:002008-01-24T21:19:43.227-08:00

Swiss Researchers of the Department of Physics at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, in Switzerland, have demonstrated the practicality of a new high-resolution x-ray imaging technique called 'Dark-field x-ray imaging' that can be used to generate highly detailed images of bones and to distinguish between substances that look identical in conventional x-ray images, such as explosives and

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-59567398074482586702008-01-07T20:36:00.000-08:002008-01-07T20:52:34.115-08:00

Intel 45nm quad-core processor die [image courtesy: Intel]At the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show at Las Vegas, Intel Corporation unveiled 16 products today, including the company's first 45 nanometer (nm) processors for Intel® Centrino® Processor Technology based laptops. Among these, 12 are designed for new laptops and desktops products and 4 are for servers. All are now lead-free

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-66039046964718547762007-12-12T20:40:00.000-08:002007-12-12T21:25:37.037-08:00

In a paper published in the journal Optics Express, IBM researchers detailed a new computing technique that uses light pulses rather than electricity to transfer data. This could eventually provide laptops with the power of today’s fastest supercomputers which currently consist of thousands of individual processor "brains" connected by miles of copper wires.The breakthrough -- in the form of a

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-66897457260413954962007-11-30T12:57:00.000-08:002007-11-30T15:16:29.276-08:00

Tandy Trower [photo courtesy: Microsoft]In the 1970s, Bill Gates predicted a personal computer would be in every household one day. That sounded a too far-stretched imagination at that time but, by the turn of the millennium, much of that prediction got transformed into reality.Now, after three eventful decades that saw revolutionary advancements in almost all aspects of technology, Tandy Trower,

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-63067786627104409082007-11-10T06:54:00.000-08:002007-11-24T07:07:49.654-08:00

Cray XT™ [Photo courtesy: Cray Inc.]Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. launched the Cray XT5 family of supercomputers, marking a significant step toward Cray's vision of adaptive supercomputing. Incorporating all the benefits of the successful Cray XT line, the Cray XT5 massively parallel processor (MPP) system includes a new compute blade that quadruples local memory capacity, doubles

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-53192389935832274522007-09-01T01:46:00.000-07:002007-09-11T10:51:25.812-07:00

IBM has announced two major breakthroughs -- the first is a technique that could allow data to be stored in bits containing as little as a single atom. The technique developed by physicists at IBM involves using a scanning tunnelling microscope to place an iron or manganese atom at a specific location on the surface of a non-magnetic thin film -- where interactions between the atom and the

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-37768877939286545572007-08-13T23:58:00.000-07:002007-08-14T23:17:25.530-07:00

Today Intel introduced a couple of quad-core Xeon processors, X5365 and L5335, with improved virtualization capabilities. The new processors boast unprecedented combinations of performance and energy efficiency.The X5365 and L5335 are for running server and workstation applications. The former is a 3.0-GHz chip that fits inside a 120-watt envelope. The L5335 has a clock speed of 2.0 GHz within a

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-14161317924432924152007-06-28T11:02:00.000-07:002007-07-02T23:36:01.635-07:00

BlueGene/L system, No.1 Supercomputer [Photo courtesy: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)]Yesterday the 29th edition of the TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers was released at the International Supercomputing Conference held in Dresden, Germany. For the fourth straight time, the top spot was occupied by the BlueGene/L system, developed jointly by IBM and Department of

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-50565142760327912832007-05-21T21:46:00.000-07:002007-05-21T22:04:35.761-07:00

Today IBM officially announced its Power6 chip, claiming that the next-generation microprocessor for its Unix and Linux systems offers double the performance of the earlier Power5+ device while consuming roughly the same amount of electricity. IBM's new POWER6 chip is a 64 bit, dual-core processor with 790 million transistors running at up to 4.7 GHz and eight megabytes of on chip Level 2

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-34212351754793166472007-05-02T22:52:00.000-07:002007-05-02T22:54:56.667-07:00

(Photo Courtesy: IBM )Today IBM announced the first-ever application of a breakthrough self-assembling nanotechnology to conventional chip manufacturing, borrowing a process from nature to build the next generation computer chips.Self assembly is a concept scientists have been studying at IBM and in labs around the world as a potential technique to create materials useful for building computer

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-80792096182619444572007-04-30T20:22:00.000-07:002007-04-30T20:47:17.620-07:00

Microdisk laser made by layering indium arsenide on top of gallium arsenide and etching out disks about 1.8 micrometers across on pillars of gallium arsenide. Scanning tunneling microscope image (inset) shows some of the approximately 130 "quantum dot" islands of indium arsenide in each disk. (photo courtesy: National Institute of Standard and Technology)A typical laser has a vast number of

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-61033343800466739892007-03-26T16:55:00.000-07:002007-03-27T19:09:00.441-07:00

Today IBM scientists announced that they would demonstrate this week at the 2007 Optical Fiber Conference a prototype optical transceiver chipset capable of reaching speeds at least eight times faster than optical components available now. The chipset is able to move information at blazing speeds of 160 Gigabits per second by speeding the flow of data using light pulses, instead of sending

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-4950452688240439712007-02-14T22:43:00.000-08:002007-02-17T23:26:49.153-08:00

Almost as an answer to Monday's announcement of Teraflops-chip by Intel, today IBM announced at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco that it has devised a way to triple the amount of memory stored on chips and double the performance of data-hungry processors by replacing a problematic type of memory with a variety that uses much less space on the slice of

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-80346464034670780252007-02-12T18:22:00.000-08:002007-02-13T19:04:42.096-08:00

Intel has designed an experimental computer chip with 80 separate processing engines (or cores), that promises to perform calculations as quickly as an entire data center - while consuming as much energy as a light bulb. The world's biggest chipmaker announced today that it developed a programmable processor that can perform about a trillion calculations per second, or deliver a performance of

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-49435547713712443742007-01-27T08:22:00.000-08:002007-01-27T09:08:00.510-08:00

Yesterday, in separate announcements, Intel Corp. and IBM detailed major breakthrough in transistor technology in nearly four decades. The breakthrough, achieved via separate research efforts, involves using a new exotic material to make smaller transistors. At the transistor level, the use of basic materials never changed since the 1960s and without a breakthrough, the Moore's Law (that the

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-19622032102243615852007-01-21T09:57:00.000-08:002007-01-21T10:18:50.773-08:00

Photo: An eCoupled intelligent wireless power prototype developed by Fulton Innovation charges popular consumer electronic devices wirelessly without the use of cords or device-specific chargers. Adapters...Adapters ...everywhere!! Power cords and chargers have been the bane of consumer devices for years, with bulky cords and cables contributing to office and home clutter and presenting a

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-30896222128374188072007-01-10T19:35:00.000-08:002007-01-11T19:28:09.764-08:00

Boston College scientists (L-R) Krzysztof Kempa, Michael Naughton, Jakub Rybczynski and Zhifeng Ren have transmitted visible light through a "nanocoax" cable they developed that is hundreds of times thinner than a human hair [photo courtsey: Boston College]A team of scientists from Boston College have created the first nanoscale coaxial cables that can transmit visible light. Operating much like

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-21719568756027524312006-12-26T22:17:00.000-08:002006-12-26T22:33:37.864-08:00

Today Samsung Electronics Co. announced that it has developed the industry’s first one gigabit (Gb) Mobile DRAM (dynamic random access memory) for mobile products, using 80nm process technology. The new chip is also called low-power DDR (double data rate) or synchronous DRAM. It will be more cost effective than other high density mobile solutions and can be used for a wide range of advanced

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-75626001252342820252006-12-18T08:44:00.000-08:002006-12-18T09:12:29.735-08:00

Jesus del AlamoEach of us has several billion transistors working on our behalf every day in our phone, laptop, iPod, car, kitchen and more. Estimates that float around in the semiconductor industry circle state that within the next 10 to 15 years we will reach the limit, in terms of size and performance, of the silicon transistors key to the industry. As a result, both academic and industrial

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-27057154105903457842006-12-14T06:21:00.000-08:002006-12-19T18:36:45.532-08:00

An international team of Physicists, computer scientists, and network engineers joined forces to set new records for sustained data transfer between storage systems during the SuperComputing 2006 (SC06) Bandwidth Challenge (BWC).The high-energy physics (HEP) team is led by the California Institute of Technology, CERN, and the University of Michigan and partners at the University of Florida and

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-44818237021272692422006-12-11T11:59:00.000-08:002006-12-11T12:20:53.126-08:00

The test set-up for 'phase-change' memory (photo courtsey: IBM)Scientists from IBM, Macronix, and Qimonda achieved a major breakthrough in developing a new type of computer memory that could well be the successor to flash memory. Their joint work at IBM Research Labs succeeded in designing, building, and demonstrating a prototype "Phase-change" memory device that is able to switch over 500 times

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-85905833943163020762006-11-28T18:06:00.000-08:002006-11-28T18:25:01.040-08:00

Silicon nanowires, because of their small size and excellent electronic properties, could enable ultrasensitive handheld sensors for detecting cancer or identifying biological hazards. These nanowires could also lead to more powerful, energy-efficient computer chips. But until now, prototypes of nanowire-based circuits were made using techniques that are not suitable for batch processing.Now,

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-41052365173886152732006-11-14T06:47:00.000-08:002006-11-14T07:03:37.952-08:00

Today morning Intel announced that it will be releasing quad-core processor products geared for servers and workstation PCs. These new processors are made up of two Xeon 5100 dual-core processors in a single unit. This release puts Intel ahead of its rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which is expected to release a quad-core processor in mid-2007.Dell, IBM and Hewlett-Packard all are launching

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-7173346044088913902006-11-03T06:12:00.000-08:002006-11-03T06:21:00.504-08:00

Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, the British scientist who invented the World Wide Web, wants to turn the Internet into a science: Web science. In keeping with his vision, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Southampton on Thursday announced the launch of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), a panel that will understand the scientific, technical and social challenges

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-56935906649759983152006-10-18T20:01:00.000-07:002006-10-18T22:36:26.449-07:00

Gordon MooreIn absence of any news about any key development in the world of technology in last few days, let us look back at those laws that governed minds of technocrats in last few years as they looked forward in time:Moore's Law: The number of transistors we can fit on a chip (or semiconductor) or, effectively the CPU power, will double every 18 months. He later revised the law to 'every two

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-22485781912257428442006-10-03T07:33:00.000-07:002006-10-03T07:43:12.815-07:00

Mobile phone market leader Nokia unveiled a new short-range wireless connection on Tuesday that is smaller and more energy-efficient than current Bluetooth technology and can be used in small devices such as watches. The new radio technology, dubbed "Wibree", can work alongside Bluetooth short-range wireless connections but use just a fraction of the power. It's up to 10 times more energy

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-70618215663925309202006-09-17T22:33:00.000-07:002006-09-17T22:36:36.262-07:00

2006 is the 50th anniversary year of the hard disk drive. Seagate celebrated that with the announcement of a new world record. Seagate could pack 421 Gigabits per square inch onto magnetic media, dramatically increasing storage capacities for magnetic drives. Using perpendicular recording technology, the company demonstrated this new storage feat using production equipment that is currently

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1158005274486454902006-09-11T12:45:00.000-07:002006-09-11T15:23:25.910-07:00

Hwang Chang-gyu Samsung President Hwang Chang-gyu has a law: The density of the top-of-the-line flash memory chips will double every 12 months [Remember the famous Moore's Law, which says the processing power of the state-of-the-art chips will double every 18 months].Under the stewardship of Hwang, who took the reins of Samsung's semiconductor business in 2000, the company has been realizing the

Quarknoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1157648670839392772006-09-07T09:52:00.000-07:002006-09-07T10:10:38.756-07:00

BlueGene/L [Photo courtsey: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)]International Business Machines late Wednesday said it has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration to design and build a next-generation supercomputer that could achieve a speed of up to 1,000 trillion calculations per second, or one petaflop. The DOE confirmed that

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1156871775370690542006-08-29T10:07:00.000-07:002006-08-29T10:17:24.653-07:00

Micron Technology has introduced the world's densest server memory module, a 16-Gigabyte device that enables customers to access mission-critical data more quickly and efficiently.Data retention, reliability and availability are major concerns for several types of enterprise institutions that process large amounts of data as part of their core business. So many popular applications are powered by

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1154539742052001472006-08-02T10:13:00.000-07:002006-08-02T10:29:02.096-07:00

At a company event in New York on Tuesday, AMD together with IBM unveiled the new System x3455, x3655 and x3755 rack-mount servers and the two-way Bladecenter LS21 and four-way LS41 blade servers. According to IBM the new servers powered by Opterons will be available in the next 3 months, but their price will not be specified until the new "Rev F" Opteron is on the market. The “Rev F” Opteron is

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1154007127710385712006-07-27T06:17:00.000-07:002006-07-27T06:32:07.756-07:00

Intel officially announced the introduction of 10 Core 2 Duo and Core Extreme microprocessors for desktops, workstations and notebooks. Intel said it has over 550 customer system designs underway, with the CPUs built on 65 nanometre technology. Machines using the desktop chips will be available in early August, while notebooks will become available at the end of that month.Five of the family are

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1153154837844864242006-07-17T09:34:00.000-07:002006-07-17T09:48:21.213-07:00

Today HP has announced the development of a miniature wireless chip small enough to embed in almost any object. The experimental chip has been developed by the "Memory Spot" research team at HP Labs in Bristol, England and is based on the CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) standard. This is a widely used type of semiconductor but has been shrunk by HP so it's just 2mm to 4mm square in

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1152564297174104652006-07-10T13:32:00.000-07:002006-07-19T08:58:04.300-07:00

Micrograph of the MR2A16A MRAM deviceFreescale Semiconductor, which was spun-off from Motorola in 2004, has produced the first commercial non-volatile RAM product that can compete with normal RAM for speed and endurance but maintain its memory when the power is switched off. Austin, TX based Freescale announced the first commercial Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM) device is now in

Quarknoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1151954577290398592006-07-03T12:10:00.000-07:002006-07-03T12:25:26.683-07:00

BlueGene/L system, No.1 Supercomputer[Photo courtsey: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)]Last week the 27th edition of the TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers was released at the International Supercomputing Conference held in Dresden, Germany.The top spot was occupied by the BlueGene/L system, developed jointly by IBM and DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration (

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1150825330023645852006-06-20T10:31:00.000-07:002006-06-20T10:43:17.146-07:00

A research team from IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology has demonstrated the first silicon-germanium transistor able to operate at frequencies above 500 GHz. This is more than 100 times faster than the fastest PC chips sold today, and about 250 times faster than the typical mobile phone chip. That speed could be achieved when researchers cooled the transistor to minus 451 degrees

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1150379943653646382006-06-15T06:45:00.000-07:002006-06-19T12:23:27.946-07:00

Prof. Shuji Nakamura (photo courtsey: Univ. California, Santa Barbara)Finland's Millenium Prize Foundation said Thursday that its one-million-euro technology prize had been awarded to Shuji Nakamura, a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara and inventor of the high-brightness gallium nitride light-emitting diode (LED) and a blue laser. In 1993, Prof. Nakamura stunned the

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1149736925138022702006-06-07T20:03:00.000-07:002006-06-07T20:22:05.156-07:00

Today has been a great day for Seagate Technology as it announced three new 2.5-inch mobile hard drives built on perpendicular recording technology with up to 160GB capacities. The first of the new laptop hard drives (Momentus 5400 PSD) combined flash memory and magnetic storage to reduce power consumption and increase performance, which Microsoft's upcoming Vista operating system will utilize

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1149564742308158522006-06-05T20:20:00.000-07:002006-06-05T20:40:13.310-07:00

Today Japanese electronics giant Toshiba Corporation released a new hard drive that can store 200GB using the recently developed perpendicular magnetic recording technology. In April hard drive manufacturer Seagate caused a stir announcing a new perpendicular drive technology that enabled the production and release of a 750GB hard drive. The new technology enables bits of data to be stored in a

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1149356934260454722006-06-03T10:31:00.000-07:002006-06-03T10:50:21.626-07:00

Photo: Gallium nitride wires growing on a silicon substrate (credit: Lorelle Mansfield/NIST )Scientists at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has grown a variety of nanowires and extensively characterized their structural and optical properties and studied defects, strains or impurities, which resulted in high light output compared to the bulk material. NIST is one of few

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1147968579612985762006-05-18T08:58:00.000-07:002006-05-18T09:09:39.626-07:00

Today Micron Technology unveiled a new imaging chip that could help the company expand into the digital camera market. Micron already dominates the mobile phone market. Its CMOS — complementary metal-oxide semiconductor — image sensors are used in one-third of the camera phones on the market. But Micron is a smaller player in the digital camera market because most mainstream digital cameras are

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1147621489999242992006-05-14T08:25:00.000-07:002006-05-14T08:51:22.900-07:00

Flash memory, a popular form of information storage device nowadays, is a nonvolatile form of memory and it does not need any power to store information. Flash devices store information by applying an electric field to a polycrystalline silicon at the center of a transistor (termed "floating gate") . This is surrounded by an insulating material that needs to be relatively thick so that small

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1146105892244086282006-04-26T19:34:00.000-07:002006-04-26T19:44:52.263-07:00

Today Seagate introduced its Barracuda 7200.10, the first computer desktop hard disk to reach the 750-gigabyte storage mark. The drive has a retail price of $559. The drive would be able to hold 375 hours of standard-definition television or 75 hours of high-definition video or 10,000 music CDs converted to the MP3 format.A technology called perpendicular recording (read our past posting) is what

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1145422589363700782006-04-18T21:44:00.000-07:002006-04-19T05:31:31.853-07:00

Seagate Technology has announced its Cheetah 15K.5 hard drive, the latest generation of Seagate's flagship enterprise product line. The new Cheetah 15K.5 drive delivers fast performance with high reliability. Available with up to 300 Gigabytes capacity and 30% increased performance, the Cheetah 15K.5 hard drive enables a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for a wide variety of enterprise

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1144673274069173542006-04-10T05:25:00.000-07:002006-04-10T05:47:54.090-07:00

Last week Apple released the beta-version of a software called Boot Camp, which lets owners of Intel-based Mac computers install Microsoft's Windows as well as the MacOS operating system, which comes pre-loaded on the machines (To ratify our statement -- Boot Camp won't work with earlier Macs built around PowerPC chips). Many believe that embracing Windows could help Apple boost sales to some of

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We regret that due to unavoidable reasons, we need to take a break. We'll not have our regular postings in next two weeks. Regular postings will resume on April 10th. In the mean-time, you may go through our past postings on various topics of interest. We suggest that you use the search box on top to search for past postings on topics of your interest (e.g. 'Intel', 'Nanotechnology', 'iPod', etc.

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Graphics chip developer Nvidia and physics specialist Havok have announced they will be showing off some new software technology at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) next week in San Jose, California. Running physics calculations through a graphics GPU is not a new idea, it’s been mooted for Xbox 360 – it’s perfectly possible for part of the console’s ATI GPU being fenced-off and used for

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1142222937891115652006-03-12T20:02:00.000-08:002006-03-12T21:01:44.073-08:00

Microsoft unveiled a new class of computer – the "Ultra Mobile Personal Computer (UMPC) at the CeBIT trade show in Germany. Codenamed "Origami", the device is designed to provide the features of a Microsoft Windows PC but will be about half to one-third the size of a traditional notebook computer and, at 1kg, will weigh about the same as a bag of sugar.UMPCs are expected to cost $US500-$1000. A

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1141496059873010512006-03-04T10:00:00.000-08:002006-03-04T10:14:19.896-08:00

The LHC is being installed in a tunnel 27 km in circumference, buried 50-175 m below ground. It's located between the Jura mountain range in France and Lake Geneva in Switzerland (photo courtsey CERN)The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Computing Grid is the world's largest scientific computing grid. The LHC is expected to produce 15 million Gigabytes of data per year, once it is operational in 2007

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1141161340498888682006-02-28T13:05:00.000-08:002006-02-28T13:17:10.503-08:00

According to Steve Jobs, "It's home stereo reinvented for the iPod age".Today Apple Computer Inc. introduced a home stereo and new Mac Mini PC designed to give the company a bigger foothold in living rooms. The iPod home stereo system will sell for $349 and goes on sale today. The Mac Mini with chips from Intel Corp. will be two to five times faster, Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs said today

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1140450939256877252006-02-20T08:10:00.000-08:002006-02-20T08:02:32.183-08:00

Pictured on the left is the record-small array of 29.9-nanometer-wide lines and equally sized spaces created by IBM scientists (at its Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California) using a variation of optical lithography. These lines are less than one-third the size of the 90-nanometer features (example at right, same magnification) At "SPIE Microlithography 2006" conference today in the

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1139468768172332902006-02-08T22:52:00.000-08:002006-02-09T14:36:24.160-08:00

IBM has announced the Cell Broadband Engine, or Cell BE, the first of its own hardware to use the newly developed Cell chip, which was co-created by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM, and will first debut in Sony's PlayStation 3 console, due out later this year. It may also be included in some select Toshiba HDTVs this year. Before today's announcement, Cell's only assignment outside of Sony and Toshiba had

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1138248777361798642006-01-25T20:04:00.000-08:002006-01-25T20:12:57.390-08:00

Today Intel announced that it has become the first company to reach an important milestone in the development of 45 nanometer (nm) logic technology. Intel has produced what are believed to be the first fully functional SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) chips using 45nm process technology, its next-generation, high-volume semiconductor manufacturing process. Achieving this milestone means Intel

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1137600923521565842006-01-18T08:05:00.000-08:002006-01-18T08:15:23.826-08:00

On Monday Seagate Technology announced that it is shipping the Seagate Momentus 5400.3— the new 2.5-inch notebook PC drive featuring the addition of perpendicular recording for elevated levels of hard drive data density and capacity for notebook users. The Momentus 5400.3 offers up to 160GB of capacity and delivers 132 gigabits per square inch on the 5,400-rpm drive. Seagate also plans to apply

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1136781513422158942006-01-08T20:38:00.000-08:002011-11-02T03:27:19.806-07:00

Many of our visitors are college students and many of them are interested in pursuing a career in 'nanotechnology'. Today we provide a list of Universities in USA which offer courses on Nanotechnology. Click on these links and enjoy exploring what they are offering: Arizona State University http://www.eas.asu.edu/~nano/index.html Brown University http://en732c.engin.brown.edu California Institute

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1134143123640513842005-12-09T07:32:00.000-08:002006-01-18T08:24:20.313-08:00

An international team of scientists and engineers for the 3rd consecutive year has smashed the network speed record, moving data along at an average rate of 100 gigabits per second (Gbps) for several hours at a time. A rate of 100 Gbps is sufficient for transmitting 5 feature-length DVD movies on the Internet from one location to another in a single second.Physicists, computer scientists, and

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1133542409980262242005-12-02T08:35:00.000-08:002005-12-02T08:56:09.716-08:00

Holography was discovered 58 years ago and the first presentations of the principle of holographic recording was made 16 years after that. Holographic recording technology has the potential to realize 200-Gigabyte to 1-Terrabyte optical discs. [Good Article to read for technical details: "Holographic Memory" by Gregory T. Huang -- cover story of MIT's Technology Review, September, 2005]

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1132206736804502512005-11-16T02:36:00.000-08:002005-11-16T21:52:16.850-08:00

MIT Media Lab's research initiative, to build a $100 laptop for students across the globe is chugging along, with Nicholas Negroponte, laboratory chairman and co-founder, MIT, to demonstrate a working prototype at the World Summit on the Information Society, the giant UN-sponsored gathering that starts Wednesday in Tunis.According to reports, Steve Jobs had offered to provide free copies of OS X

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1132027400467859622005-11-14T17:50:00.000-08:002005-11-14T20:03:20.486-08:00

Looking to leapfrog its rivals, today Sun Microsystems announced an “eco-friendly” server chip that it claims will deliver more performance while requiring less electricity than competing microprocessors. UltraSparc T1 processor, code-named Niagara, has eight computing engines on a single chip, with each core capable of handling up to four tasks at once, Sun said. It uses a 90-nanometer process

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1130771480221697582005-10-31T05:05:00.000-08:002005-10-31T07:12:36.023-08:00

The most powerful computer on the planet has broken its own record — now able to do more than twice the number of calculations per second. IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer can now do 280.6 teraflops — 280.6 trillion calculations a second. This makes it twice as fast as when it was ranked the most powerful computer on earth in June — every six months the fastest supercomputers are ranked by

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1130391665992949272005-10-26T15:28:00.000-07:002005-10-26T22:41:06.013-07:00

IBM has unveiled details of the unnamed processor that will slot into Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console due out on Nov. 22. The processor, which is based on IBM's 64-bit PowerPC architecture, comes with three cores, or calculating engines, that each run at clock speeds greater than 3GHz, IBM said. The cores, based on the PowerPC design, connect into a shared 1MB L2 cache. Overall, the chip has

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1129780399123124082005-10-19T19:46:00.000-07:002005-10-19T20:57:57.743-07:00

Apple rolled out two new workstations today based on NVIDIA's Quadro FX4500 solutions, featuring dual and quad processors. The latest machinesare top-to-bottom NVIDIA machines--making the news a first for bothcompanies.The news was announced today in New York by Philip Schiller, Apple'ssenior VP of Worldwide Product Marketing, who said,"The Power Mac G5Quad delivers the workstation performance

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Apple has unveiled its new video iPod. Theoriginal white version of the digital musicplayer has been upgraded, and now featuresa bigger screen and a thinner casing. Thenew iPod will be available in either black orwhite and customers will have a choice of 30or 60 GB of storage. The video-playinggadget follows Apple's development of theiPod shuffle, mini and nano. Announcing thenew product, Apple

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Nicknamed 'Alice', a Ford E-350 van converted into a 'No Driver No Remote Control'Robot Car by students and faculty team of Caltech (Pasadena, CA)Tomorrow in Mojave desert 23 teams will participate in the 2005 DARPAGrand Challenge, a desert race for robot cars (no driver no remotecontrol) with a $2 million prize sponsored by the Defense AdvancedResearch Projects Agency (DARPA), the research arm

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1127790646186038082005-09-26T19:00:00.000-07:002005-09-26T20:14:10.546-07:00

Today Palm, Microsoft and VerizonWireless unveiled the latest version ofPalm's Treo (touted around the web asthe Treo 700w) at a news conference inSan Francisco. This forthcoming Treosmart phone runs Microsoft Corp.'sWindows Mobile 5.0 operating system andwill have Outlook Mobile, Office Mobileand Internet Explorer Mobile built into thesmartphone as standard. It will beavailable in the US early

Quarknoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1127485856358016702005-09-22T07:21:00.000-07:002005-09-23T07:34:49.560-07:00

Using a mobile phone on board a plane is banned by airlines because offears that the signal from a handset will interfere with the aircraft'ssystems as it attempts to connect with phone masts on the ground. Newtechnology developed by Geneva-based OnAir [a joint venture betweenAirbus and Netherlands-based technology company SITA], however,uses a small transmitter placed within the aircraft to send

Quarknoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1127009610226592812005-09-17T19:04:00.000-07:002005-09-17T19:42:36.183-07:00

Today Sprint announced the launch ofthe first Pocket PC phone in the U.S.to run Microsoft's new Windows Mobile5.0 software platform. Sprint PCSVision Smart Device (PPC-6700), thefirst PDA/phone-combination handsetin the country sports a 416 MHz Intelprocessor, a 1.3-megapixel camerawith built-in flash, digital zoom andcamcorder functionality, a slidingQWERTY keyboard (that opens fromthe side and

Quarknoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1126584854489390932005-09-12T20:08:00.000-07:002005-09-12T21:30:09.826-07:00

Samsung Electronics Co. introduced a high-capacity flash memory chip onMonday that could let Apple Computer Inc. and other makers of portableelectronic devices pack more data into less failure-prone gadgets. The 16-gigabit NAND flash memory chip, equivalent to 2 gigabytes of storage,doubles a chip Samsung introduced last September.The new chip will allow memory-card makers to design cards with

Quarknoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1126585606415284662005-09-12T06:20:00.000-07:002005-09-12T21:29:42.846-07:00

Sun Microsystems Inc. introduced newindustry-standard servers that it saidwill more than triple the amount of thecomputer server market it can addressas the computer maker seeks to rebuildmomentum lost to rivals since the dot-com bust nearly five years ago.The servers, named X2100, X4100 andX4200, use Opteron micro -processorsfrom Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD).The new servers, which can house

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Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobsintroduced a music-playing phoneWednesday that is capable of storingabout 100 songs. The iPhone, made byMotorola Inc. and loaded with iTunessoftware, can store podcasts as well asmusic. Users can transfer songs to thedevice from their PC or Macintoshcomputers and make calls throughCingular Wireless."It's an iPod shuffle right on yourphone," said Jobs and noted

Quarknoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1125674269708481722005-09-02T06:14:00.000-07:002005-09-02T08:23:41.643-07:00

Nikon is redefining the digital camera shooting experience with theannouncement of two new revolutionary Wi-Fi enabled models. TheCoolpix P1 and P2 are the world's first built-in Wi-Fi-enabled(IEEE802.11b/g) digital cameras to hit the marketplace.Eastman Kodak Company also plans to commercially introduce itsEasyShare-One zoom digital camera in October. The camera willincorporate basic Wi-Fi

Quarknoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1125151554038365322005-08-27T06:55:00.000-07:002005-08-27T07:25:20.986-07:00

Background:Continuous DataProtection (CDP) is anemerging field whichtargets a growingsegment of the $2.6billion backup andarchive softwaremarket. Some of theCDP vendors includeStoractive of Marinadel Rey, California,and startup Lasso Logicin San Francisco. Inaddition, Symantec'sBackup Exec (formerlyfrom Veritas) will beextended toincorporate a CDP version before the end of this year. It is

Quarknoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1124891767941878172005-08-24T06:45:00.000-07:002005-08-24T07:02:33.710-07:00

Step by Step ... Google isfurther expanding beyondits roots in Internet searchdelivering newer and newerproduct lines. This timeGoogle introduces softwarethat lets people send instantmessages and maketelephone calls with theircomputers, matchingproducts from MicrosoftCorp., Yahoo! Inc. and SkypeTechnologies SA.The new program, GoogleTalk, will compete againstsimilar free services offeredfor

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1124857135458899002005-08-23T21:11:00.000-07:002005-08-23T21:34:55.210-07:00

This posting is not Technology-related ...may be War-related but we feel our readersmay find this story interesting to read.Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) ridiculedIntel's move for power-efficient chips(see our last posting) :"[The new micro-architecture] is taking thePentium 3 architecture and using that in thedesktop space. By calling it next generation,they are trying to put the best coat of

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1124856690460676772005-08-23T15:54:00.000-07:002005-08-23T21:30:31.843-07:00

We reported on August 12 that Intel wasplaning to unveil a new mobile processorthat will dramatically cut power consumption.Today Intel chief executive Paul Otellini usedthe opening keynote of Intel Developer Forumin San Francisco to give a first publicdemonstration of the next generationlow power micro-architecture.Heat production is a major issue in processorchips. It prevents computer builders

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1124762946318421932005-08-22T08:50:00.000-07:002005-08-22T19:10:27.730-07:00

Google has updated its software for searching PC hard drives and theinternet, giving the free program a new look and adding tools that deliverpersonalised information based on a user's web surfing habits. GoogleDesktop 2, available today as a public beta test, is the company's latestvolley against Microsoft and Yahoo as all three race to expand theirpresence on PC desktops.The software works on

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1124200676474495792005-08-16T01:43:00.000-07:002005-08-16T06:59:33.490-07:00

Intel plans to bring forward the release of dual-coreXeon processors. Last night the chip giant announcedthat 'Paxville', the 90 nanometer dual-core Xeon MPpart will ship later in 2005 instead of 1st quarter of2006, as originally planned. Intel also said that itwould ship a Xeon DP part based on Paxville laterthis year too. The Xeon DP line was scheduled to godual-core sometime in 1st half 2006

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1124084063163564882005-08-14T11:29:00.000-07:002005-08-14T22:37:39.580-07:00

TiVo is planning to allow users todownload programmes to theirset-top boxes over the internetin a new trial service. The digitalvideo recorder company haswritten to subscribers sayingthat they will be introducinga number of broadband featuresin the autumn, including downloaddelivery of selected televisionprogrammes, games, streamingradio and podcasting.The current trial will involvethree

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1123903903436265152005-08-12T20:20:00.000-07:002005-08-12T20:36:04.100-07:00

In 2 weeks' time Intel plans to unveila new mobile processor that willdramatically cut power consumption.The chip will be released at IntelDeveloper Forum to be held between23-25 August in San Francisco.Reducing power consumption has beena major theme in chip design forseveral years. A more power-efficientchip not only allows mobile battery-powered devices to last longer, butcuts the heat

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1123594910533518782005-08-09T03:32:00.000-07:002005-08-09T06:45:34.473-07:00

Macromedia has updated its market leading Webdesign and development tool. Dreamweaver 8provides updated visual layout tools, applicationdevelopment features and code editing support,which should help designers and developers tocreate standards-based sites and applicationsmore quickly and efficiently. The software isavailable as a stand-alone product or as acomponent of Macromedia's Studio 8,

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1123509886017013532005-08-08T05:52:00.000-07:002005-08-08T07:07:34.633-07:00

Simple but powerful keyword searches have revolutionised the wayinternet users locate and retrieve information. The advertising world gotcompletely transformed by this concept. But IBM is looking to bring inanother path-breaking method that office workers may use to siftthrough the piles of data stored inside organisations.IBM plans to give away key corporate data search technologies that

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1123213132907105162005-08-04T20:33:00.000-07:002005-08-04T20:40:12.036-07:00

Yahoo today introduced a new Internet search service that allows usersto find downloadable songs, podcasts to interviews and newscasts.The free service, which is still in its testing Beta period, is called YahooAudio Search and can be found at Yahoo Audio Search (Beta).The audio search feature for the first time breaches the barriers betweenthe various online music services, providing access to

Quarknoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1123042339694355952005-08-03T01:04:00.000-07:002005-08-02T21:16:12.810-07:00

For a long time PC users have been making fun of Mac users for onlyhaving a single mouse button but that time has come to an end. Appletoday announced the Mighty Mouse which has not 1 or 2 buttons, but 4programmable buttons plus the clickable Scroll Ball, making for a total of5 buttons. The mouse still uses the 1-piece design of previous Mac micebut is touch-sensitive in that it'll detect which

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1122990349505325982005-08-01T23:40:00.000-07:002005-08-02T06:47:09.426-07:00

AMD has broadened its dual-core technology base with the addition ofthe new, cheaper dual-core CPU - the AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+, whichenables users to experience dual-core computing on their desktop PCs atmainstream prices.AMD's Athlon 64 X2 processors considerably enhance the power of thedesktop by employing dual-core technology. The new AMD Athlon 64 X2will provide users the ability to

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1122751968155960902005-07-30T12:27:00.000-07:002005-07-30T14:00:29.580-07:00

Electron microscope imageof a qubit from Hans Mooij'sresearch group at DelftUniversity of TechnologyQuantum computers have the potential to do certain calculations fasterthan any foreseeable classical computers, but their success will dependon preserving complex coherent quantum states. A quantum computermakes use of the fact that a quantum mechanical system cansimultaneously exist in two states

Quarknoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1122298542110550232005-07-25T06:27:00.000-07:002005-07-25T06:36:47.773-07:00

EMC unveils 2 new high-end storage arrays that give users not onlybetter performance but higher capacity for business critical andtransaction-intensive applications.The Symmetrix DMX3500 and DMX4500 have more than 3 times thestorage capacity of present EMC arrays and more cache memory andthroughput for high-performance. They are not meant to replace EMC'sSymmetrix DMX800, 1000, 2000 and 3000, but

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1122042388619448872005-07-22T07:14:00.000-07:002005-07-22T07:33:58.253-07:00

Once upon a time (in fact long long ago ...) we first heard a name'Longhorn'. Today morning that name changed forever! Today morningMicrosoft announced its next generation operating system willhenceforth be called "Windows Vista" !!The Windows Vista Web site has also been unveiled. The first beta testingof the system will be targeted at developers and IT professionals. It willbe available by Aug.

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A competing technology for Broadband access through TV cable is brewingup. Finnish broadband equipment maker Teleste announced today a costefficient technology called "Ethernet to the Home" or EttH. This can allow100 Mbps (Megabits a second) download speeds in as early as 2006. Thespeed boost would be 50 times the speed of today's cable broadband.The method is cheaper because it utilizes the

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10777557.post-1121657526776279302005-07-17T20:16:00.000-07:002005-07-17T20:38:37.190-07:00

Linksys WRT54GX XXXXXXXXX Belkin Pre-N RouterAbout 2 years back the wireless networking gear 802.11g was introduced.And now the time has arrived for MIMO-enhanced routers. MIMO standsfor multiple input multiple output. Using a single channel for multiple datastreams this technology enhances both the range and the throughputsubstantially over that of standard Wi-Fi gears.The pictures above

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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)has approved the ".mobi" domain suffix for the exclusive use of cell phoneusers accessing the Internet. This is the 17th top level domain approvedby ICANN. They have, however, indicated their doubt that .mobi websiteswill be available before 2006. In any case this will certainly pave the wayfor widespread use of the Web by cell phone

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In an event in Tokyo last week IBM announced its new PowerPC 970MPchip, the dual-core version of the PowerPC 970FX. Code-named Antares,the 970MP yields more than double the performance of its predecessor.Its target is customers are those who require 64-bit symmetricmultiprocessing (SMP) in a small, entry-level embedded system rangingfrom 1.4 to 2.5 GHz.Each of the two 64-bit PowerPC 970MP sockets

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Bill Gates commented in a Microsoft seminar in Singapore thattechnological advances will one day allow computers to be implanted inthe human body and could help the blind see and the deaf hear.He noted that cochlear implants and other medical implants werealready being used to treat hearing problems and some conditions thatcause constant pain, and were changing some people's lives

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