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Apple TV Content Disappearing Issues Solved
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Apple TV users may be relaxed as the engineers have solved the issue by which the movies and TV shows were disappearing from the Apple TV. Now such TV content disappearing issue was fixed by the installation of firmware 3.0.1 in their systems. Now, Apple has advised its users to get the firmware installed to see the re-synced content on the interface. Earlier, though the content wasn’t wiped out, yet it wasn’t visible on the interface. There had been large scale unhappiness among the users who had faced the similar problem on their Apple TVs. They had complained to the company about the abnormalities. They couldn’t re-sync their large volume of data stored in their TVs. To the users’ delight, the content disappearing issue was solved with the release of the new 3.0.1 update. The software update will help the users to sync and display a large amount of data without any problem.

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VIA Nano 3000 Processors Launched
Sunday, November 8, 2009

VIA has launched its Nano 3000 series processors for netbooks and all-in-one desktops. This will ensure in getting high performance with low energy consumption. Nano 3000 series processors can be chipped with the superscalar 'Isaiah' microarchitecture and can support the newly launched Windows 7 OS. The new notebooks are faster due to the implementation of the SSE4 instructions. The frequency for the processors is kept between 1GHz and 1.8GHz. According to the company sources, the new chips can playback in a high bit rate. It is said that the chips consume 100mW or 500mW power in the idle mode. More to it, the VIA Nano 3000 Processors use the NanoBGA2 package technology, which was being used by the previous versions. The chips also use Adaptive PowerSaver Technology that reduces power consumption and improves thermal management in the chip. Though the experts have already started comparing the VIA chips with the Intel Atom processors, still it will be revealed after it starts its production in 2010.

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How to protect Your Virtual Privacy - A Closer Look At Digital And Internet Security
All the details of your personal life, such as grocery purchases and pizza topping preferences, are collected every day -- online and by club and discount cards from the gym, department store and supermarket. Though this data seems innocent enough, when it's put together it can tell a whole lot about your health, finances and behavior. That information, a Tel Aviv University researcher reminds us, could eventually be used against you. Dr. Michael Birnhack of TAU's Faculty of Law and Prof. Niva Elkin-Koren from the University of Haifa recently completed a comprehensive study on information privacy laws in Israel and found compelling reasons for lawmakers everywhere to take notice. "Our research from Israel can serve as a case study of the shortcomings of a comprehensive data protection program," says Dr. Birnhack. "It's not just sites like Facebook and Twitter that should cause concern," he continues. "It's all the trivial things that are collected about us that we're not protected against." So take care.

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HP Compaq L210tm Multi-Touch Monitor
Friday, October 30, 2009

With the launch of the new Microsoft operating system, HP has also unveiled its Compaq L210tm Multi-Touch Monitor to run the Windows software. This product is aimed at individual consumers and Small Office Home Office segment.
The new product is a 21.5-inch multi-touch monitor which is Windows 7 certified. This multitouch panel can be operated with one finger or two finger swipes. The user can scroll up and down using one finger whereas two fingers are necessary to perform gestures to replace the mouse.
The HP Compaq L210tm Multi-Touch Monitor is bundled with a hard stylus to give better presentation. The other features of this product include a 1080p HD content playback support, VGA port, DVI-D with High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection. It also has NTSC color gamut with 1000:1 contrast ratio.

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Computer Memory: New Material Could Dramatically Boost Data Storage, Save Energy
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far exceeding the storage capacities of today's computer memory systems. Led by Dr. Jagdish "Jay" Narayan, John C.C. Fan Family Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and director of the National Science Foundation Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures at NC State, the engineers made their breakthrough using the process of selective doping, in which an impurity is added to a material that changes its properties. The process also shows promise for boosting vehicles' fuel economy and reducing heat produced by semiconductors, a potentially important development for more efficient energy production. Working at the nanometer level -- a pinhead has a diameter of 1 million nanometers -- the engineers added metal nickel to magnesium oxide, a ceramic. The resulting material contained clusters of nickel atoms no bigger than 10 square nanometers, a 90 percent size reduction compared to today's techniques and an advancement that could boost computer storage capacity. Information storage is not the only area where advances could be made. By introducing metallic properties into ceramics, Narayan says engineers could develop a new generation of ceramic engines able to withstand twice the temperatures of normal engines and achieve fuel economy of 80 miles per gallon. And since the thermal conductivity of the material would be improved, the technique could also have applications in harnessing alternative energy sources like solar energy. The engineers' discovery also advances knowledge in the emerging field of "spintronics," which is dedicated to harnessing energy produced by the spinning of electrons. Most energy used today is harnessed through the movement of current and is limited by the amount of heat that it produces, but the energy created by the spinning of electrons produces no heat. The NC State engineers were able to manipulate the nanomaterial so the electrons' spin within the material could be controlled, which could prove valuable to harnessing the electrons' energy. The finding could be important for engineers working to produce more efficient semiconductors. Working with Narayan on the study were Dr. Sudhakar Nori, a research associate at NC State, Shankar Ramachandran, a former NC State graduate student, and J.T. Prater, an adjunct professor of materials science and engineering. The research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

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Samsung Corby S3653 Launched In India
Sunday, October 4, 2009

Samsung launched in India its Corby S3653. The phone promises to be a cheap solution for those looking for a touchscreen mobile. The Samsung Corby is smaller than most touchscreen phones but sports a significantly large 2.8 inch touchscreen, a 2MP camera and support for Bluetooth A2DP profile. The phone will be sold for around Rs. 9600 and promises to be a hit among mobile phone users wishing to go touchscreen but not wanting to burn a hole in their pockets. The phone is available in a variety of colours including orange, yellow, pink and black. The phone also supports social networking through live feeds for Facebook, Twitter and My Space. The UI is provided by the TouchWiz interface. Quite understandably there is no support for 3G in this phone. There is however support for GPRS and EDGE.

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JournE Toshiba Touch Multimedia Tablet Unveiled
Saturday, September 5, 2009

Toshiba announced its first touch-screen mobile device, JournE Touch, on Thursday, in an international consumer electronics trade fair. The device was launched at Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA), Berlin. The launch of Toshiba’s touch-screen came as a surprise, as people were expecting the company to announce its first Blu-ray disc player instead. The JournE Touch has a seven-inch screen, is half-inch thick and weighs less than a pound. It also has integrated Wi-Fi and Windows CE. Toshiba executive Marco Perino said that Touch can be used “when you want to access the Internet without booting your PC.” Perino also promoted Touch as a choice over smartphone, which he said “is not so practical because the keyboard is not the right size.” According to reports, JournE Touch is “purely for accessing the Internet or sharing content to other devices around the home.” Toshiba said that the new phone would be introduced in Europe by the end of 2009. It would be released in other regions in early 2010. It would cost 249 Euros, or roughly $360. At this price, Toshiba’s Touch would be cheaper than its competitor Apple’s device.

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Google Translate Adds Nine New Languages
Thursday, September 3, 2009

Google Translate service now includes nine new languages, was announced on Monday by the company. The nine new languages are Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh, Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish and Yiddish. This takes the total number of languages in the translation service to 51. Like other Google Translate updates, these changes will also take place in other Google services where machine translation is used. It will include Google Friend Connect, Google Talk, Gmail, and most recently Google Docs. The changes have not yet been made in any of these services. Google had released the alpha version of Persian translating for the Iranian presidential elections in last June. The company has noticed that the Persian translations along with the new additions will not be as accurate as the most widely used languages. The Company feels that the new languages will take some time to come up to same level in terms of quality like the German, Spanish and French translations which were first to be introduced in the translation service.

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Asus Ultra-Thin Laptops With Intel CPUs To Be Launched On Sep 7
Monday, August 31, 2009

The ultra-thin laptops of Asus, which are scheduled to be launched on Sep 7, comes equipped with Intel's upcoming 45nm CPUs. According to a report from DigiTimes, the new ultra-thin laptops from Asus will be launched in China, Europe and Taiwan. Intel's two microprocessors, Intel Celeron 743 and Intel SU2300 processors, come at a cost of $107 (Rs. 5,150 approx.) and $134 (Rs. 6,450 approx.) respectively. These new Intel microprocessors are meant for the entry level market. Asustek president Jerry Shen had mentioned that the ultra-thin laptops will from 10-20% of the net shipment of Asus in the Q3 of 2009 fiscal. MSI and Acer, who are the close competitors of Asus, will also be launching new ultra-thin notebooks very soon. Probably, MSI would bring more X-Slim ultra-thin laptop models. The ultra-thin notebooks will so become the new segment between the netbooks and entry level but thick-heavy laptops.

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Dell 2009-2010 Q2 Net Profit Dips By 23%
Friday, August 28, 2009

US leading computer manufacturer, Dell, has posted a 23% decline in its net profit for the second quarter of 2009-2010 fiscal. This dip in profit comes even after the corporate spending has been cut down to a great deal. Even though the net earnings have seen a decline, the $472 million earnings on a sales of $12.76 billion has managed to beat the predictions that have been put forward by Wall Street journal. Dell, which is based in Texas, has admitted that there are chances for improving. "If current demand trends continue, we expect revenue for the second half of the year to be stronger than the first half," chief executive Michael Dell said. Dell has posted earnings of about $616 million on sales worth $16.4 million. Dell, which is the second top among the computer manufacturers of the world, has been especially hard-hit by the fall in corporate spending because business customers account for 80 percent of its revenue.

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Intel's new 34nm solid-state drive
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

The chipmaker announced last Tuesday that it had started shipping its first SSDs made using the 34nm manufacturing process — a shift that should make the drives faster and cheaper. However, on Friday a US custom computer maker said the Bios defect had forced it and other online retailers to pull the first batch of 34nm SSDs from their sites.
"There was a lot of confusion, but it was clear that something was wrong with these first units — enough so that Newegg and other online vendors had also pulled them entirely from their sites," blogged William George, the customer service lead at Puget Systems. "We too stopped listing them, and began contacting our customers who were expecting us to ship them out this afternoon." Intel confirmed the flaw on Monday. "If a user has set a Bios drive password on the 34nm SSD, then upon disabling or changing the Bios drive password, followed by powering off/on the computer, the SSD becomes inoperable," the company said in a statement.
George said Intel had initially told Puget that the drives might require a complete reworking. However, the chipmaker said it has come up with a firmware fix that it expects to deliver in about two weeks. "The root cause has been identified and a new fix is under validation," the company said. It suggested that users who have not yet enabled a Bios drive password should refrain from doing so until the firmware update comes through.

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Software To Understand Viruses
Saturday, July 25, 2009

Computer scientists and biologists at the University of Southampton have used the combined power of computing resources within the institution to develop software which provides a better understanding of how viruses evolve. Researchers from OMII-UK, an organisation based at the University's School of Electronics and Computer Science and a team from the School of Biological Sciences worked together to try and better understand viruses using the latest e-Research techniques. Dr Richard Edwards, Head of the Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution Group, who studies how proteins interact and is particularly interested in short, linear motifs - known as SLiMs - worked with OMII-UK to extend his successful software SLiMFinder, a system which compares viral and human proteins and allows biologists to understand both forms better.
‘A protein can be thought of as a sequence of amino acids, like beads on a string,’ explains Dr Edwards. ‘SLiMs consist of about three-to-five specific amino acids in the protein and could be responsible for the signalling pathways between many proteins, because they control the ways in which proteins interact. They are potentially useful to viruses too. They are small so it is relatively easy for a virus to evolve a structure that mimics them, and hijack the signalling pathway controlled by the SLiM.’ As a result of his studies, Dr Edwards wrote SLiMFinder which predicts the SLiMs responsible for specific protein interactions.
This collaboration focused on the creation of a workflow for SLiMFinder, which used OMII-UK’s very successful Taverna software. This allows the automation of repetitive tasks, such as data collection from databases, or data manipulation and provides a user-friendly interface. Development of the software was funded by the Engage project, which brings together the software expertise of OMII-UK and the infrastructure of the National Grid Service to help researchers around the country adopt e-Research techniques. ‘This superior ease of use, combined with faster execution times, is helping to make SLiMFinder into a tool that could be of great interest throughout biological sciences,’ said Dr Edwards.

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Sony may begin selling a netbook computer as early as next month
Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Sony may begin selling a netbook computer as early as next month.
The company will begin selling netbooks in Japan and parts of Europe, but not in North America yet. Sony are more recognized for their entertainment line, therefore it is hard to know what to expect from their very first netbook. Their netbook, dubbed Vaio W, comes with a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N280 processor, a 10-inch monitor, and comes with a higher resolution.
According to Sony the high resolution screen, 1,366 by 768 allows for more of a web site to fit onto the screen, resulting in less scrolling. Netbooks continue to be the only field of computer sales overall that have continued to flurrish throughout the current economic downturn.

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Now Sony entering netbook PC market with new Vaio

Sony Corp said on Tuesday it plans to launch a new Vaio laptop that will sell for around 60,000 yen ($629) in Japan in August, making its entry into the fast-growing netbook market. Netbook PCs are smaller and cheaper than traditional notebook computers and optimised for simpler computing tasks such as Web browsing and email. Pioneered by Taiwan's Asustek in 2007, other global brands such as Acer Inc, Hewlett-Packard Co and Dell Inc have pushed out their own lines since then.
The new Sony machine is equipped with Microsoft Corp's Windows XP operating system and Intel Corp's Atom processor. Shares in Sony were down 2.1 percent at 2,360 yen, underperforming the Tokyo stock market's electrical machinery index , which fell 1.3 percent.

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Dell slings its "blade" server line
Tuesday, July 7, 2009

As expected, the new PowerEdge 1655MC server--a relatively slender modular machine designed fit into a rack with others of its kind--features dual Pentium III processors from Intel. Originally scheduled for introduction in the third quarter, it ran into a modest delay and comes to market later than blades from other hardware makers such as Hewlett-Packard. The Dell blade server is part of a larger effort by the company to expand into areas beyond the PC. Though the company has reached the No. 1 spot in industry-standard servers, machines that are based on Intel hardware and the Windows or Linux operating systems--and though it continues to grow its market share in that area and in the overall PC market--Dell wants to continue expanding into higher-margin markets.
Meanwhile, IBM also announced general availability of its own BladeCenter server, a thinner, less blocky system than Dell's product. IBM's BladeCenter takes a higher-powered approach than Dell's initial systems, with dual Xeon processors on each blade. The BladeCenter also missed a third-quarter shipping schedule. Server specialist Sun Microsystems has had trouble meeting deadlines too. Sun earlier projected that its blades would ship this year but more recently extended the deadline into the first quarter of 2003. Blade servers fit nicely into Dell's expansion plans. The company could sell a larger number of servers using the blade approach and also package them with a range of its new services, such as doing the job of migrating companies' computer networks to blades from large numbers of standalone servers. Dell can also combine the servers with its storage products and services.
Blades as a category of server were designed to be cheaper to own and maintain--a major selling point in the down economy. That is because they take up less space than standalone servers, offer neater cabling and can be managed from a central console, making them easier and less time-consuming for company IT staff to administer. Dell's servers are expected to be a little larger than some competing products, but the company argues that its machines are more powerful, less costly and easier to manage in that they use the same power supplies and network gear as its other servers. Still, the new product isn't for every company, with the benefits accruing to those who plan to buy large number of servers.
"It's at three you'll have a cost savings crossing over to the new architecture," a company representative said. "Our strategy was to immediately provide a cost benefit they'd be able to use by taking advantage of shared components." The new PowerEdge 1655MC product line allows a single rack to hold 84 servers, each equipped with up to two 1.26GHz Intel Pentium III processors and two hard drives with capacities up to 73GB each. Six servers fit in each enclosure, and 14 of the enclosures fit in a single rack. IBM's designs permit the same number of servers, 84, to be fit into a single rack. AOL Time Warner has been using IBM's blades, Big Blue said. The blade servers from Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM all use chips from Broadcom subsidiary ServerWorks to handle communication between CPUs and other system components as well as from one blade to another.

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AMD launches the ATI Radeon HD 4770 Graphics
Sunday, July 5, 2009

The ATI Radeon HD 4770 graphics card delivers leading technology and strong performance to the mainstream gamer for as low as $99. As the newest addition to the award-winning ATI Radeon HD 4000 series, it is the world’s first 40 nm process desktop graphics chip.

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HP launches 6 new models
Friday, July 3, 2009

The HP has unveiled six new models which cater to a wide price range. The new models expand its dv2, dv3, dv6, Compaq CQ 610 and Mini 110 Series.
HP's Mini 110 which comes at a low price of Rs. 22,990 is intended to be a stylish and highly mobile computer for those who have internet centric work.
Kevin Frost, vice president and general manager, Consumer Notebooks, Personal Systems Group, HP, says, “With these new HP Minis, we’re enhancing the customer experience by adding compelling features that allow users to interact with their Mini in a fun way, our broad portfolio of mini companion PCs truly offers customers choices to fit every need and every personality.”
The dv2 and dv3 series are their more compact offerings with screen sizes of 12.1” and 13.3” respectively. The compact and slim HP Pavilion dv2 series entertainment notebook starts at 38,000 while the dv3 is more featured, with a wide 16:9 screen, inbuilt webcam etc, and comes for 50,990. The dv6 is for more power hungry people and starts at 40,990. This 16” laptop is a more powerful solution for those who want something more capable of desktop functionality.
The HP Probook is their new business offering, and will be available for Rs. 40,990. The ProBook integrates some of the most powerful components, for an even better broadband experience.

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Intel Updates $1,000 CPU
Thursday, June 4, 2009

The great Intel bumped up the speeds of its Core i7 chips Tuesday night, while confirming that the "Clarkdale" chip combining graphics and a CPU was still slated to begin production in the fourth quarter. Intel announced the 3.33-GHz Core i7 975 Extreme Edition, as well as the the 3.06-GHz Core i7 950, which Intel claims are the highest-performance enthusiast processors on the planet. And those chips are priced accordingly: an estimated $560 for the Core i7 950, and a whopping $999 for the Core i7 975. Although the price may faze most consumers, enthusiasts eye the price/performance ratio. And that didn't dissuade ExtremeTech from favorably reviewing the processor, although the site's reviewers recommended a cheaper model.
"In the end, the Core i7 975 Extreme only offers the tiniest increment in CPU performance over the old 965," reviewer Loyd Case wrote. "Of course, it's the same price, so you're not paying more, even if the gain is slight. The Core i7 950 seems like a better deal than the 940, at around $560, but the big gap in price between the 950 and Core i7 920 begs to be filled. "In the end, though, you can build yourself a Core i7 system and not break the bank," Case added. "One reason is the quirk in pricing for 6GB DDR3 kits, which are sometimes the same price, and occasionally cheaper than the 4GB kits with two modules." Intel also looked forward to "Lynnfield," the next-generation platform shipping in the second half of 2009. Lynnfield will be a four-core, eight-thread processor built on the Nehalem architecture, complemented by the Intel P55 chipset. According to Intel, the Lynnfield will deliver 40 percent more integer performance versus the Q9650, or last year's "Penryn"-class chips.
Finally, Intel began showing off "Clarkdale," which integrates the graphics die within the package. By keeping the graphics die inside the package, the combined Clarkdale platform can theoretically offer increased performance and reduced latency versus a standalone chip; on the other hand, Intel's integrated graphics chipsets have usually lagged those of its competitors. Clarkdale will also be on the Intel 5-series chipset platform, the company said, and feature a technology called "Braidwood," which appears to be an improved version of the "Robson" flash cache technology of 2006, which never gained much prominence.

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