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Change your look at Windows by completely customizing your desktop.

Neat. I'd never have to recharge my phone. Although I don't know if I would want all that radioactivity happening right next to my brain.

What does that have to do with anything dairyman?

So if this battery was installed in my laptop...If I drop it would it go BOOM?

n the light of next week’s supercomputing CONFERENCE in Reno, AMD has announced its next generation GPGPU card: the FireStream 9170 graphics processor. The new card, tailored for HIGH performance scientific and engineering calculations, will provide 500 Gigaflops of throughput from a 55nm process technology.

The new card is reportedly based on the RV670 GPU chip, which is expected to appear in Radeon HD 3800 cards later this month. It features double-precision floating point technology, 2GB of GDDR3 RAM, and will CONSUME around 150W of power.

FireStream is AMD’s answer to a similar initiative launched by Nvidia earlier this year to find broader uses for increasingly powerful graphics chips. In order for developers to take advantage of FireStream’s architecture, AMD will release a software development kit, giving them to access key APIs and specifications that will enable performance tuning at the lowest level and development of third party tools. The FireStream 9170 is scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2008, priced at $1,999.

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2GB of GDDR3 RAM

priced at $1,999.

Anyone else want one?

Under a NEW program announced Friday, large COMPANIES that sell refurbished PCs can get a brand SPANKING new copy of Windows to put on the MACHINES--provided they pay Microsoft for the PRIVILEGE.

Back in April 2006, we made a change to how Internet Explorer handled embedded controls used on some webpages. Some sites required users to “CLICK to activate” before they could interact with the control. MICROSOFT has now licensed the technologies from Eolas, removing the “click to activate” requirement in Internet Explorer. Because of this, we're removing the “click to activate” behavior from Internet Explorer! It’s important (and cool) to note that this change will require no modifications to existing webpages, and no new ACTIONS for developers creating new pages. We are simply reverting to the old behavior. Once Internet Explorer is updated, all pages that currently require “click to activate” will no longer require the control to be activated. They’ll just work.

So you’re probably wondering when we are going to release this update? The first chance will be with an optional preview release, called the Internet Explorer Automatic Component Activation Preview, available in December 2007 via the Microsoft DOWNLOAD Center. Additionally this change will be made part of the next pre-release versions of Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3. After giving people enough time to prepare for this change, we’ll roll this behavior into the IE Cumulative Update in April 2008, and all customers who install the update will get the change.

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/07/11/09/microsoft-to-launch-test-build-of-ie-refresh-in-decemberNo MATTER what they'll do..............ehhhhhhhhh!

n theory, a 15,000 CHARGE cycle life would translate into a battery that would last greater than 40 years if it was CHARGED daily, as would be the CASE in an electric vehicle or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle environment.

Seagate is rebating customers for alledgedly misstating HDD capacities in a class action SUIT...

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I'm going to get the free software offered instead.I'm sure I've got a Seagate hard drive that would qualify for this. But not worth it to open each computer in hunt for one of the drives.

I agree though I'd definitely go for the software over the $1.72.

I had 3 drives that QUALIFIED...my manic documentation thru the years PROBABLY got me a lousy piece of software.... The Seagate drives must have been purchased in the U.S. from an authorized Seagate retailer or distributor, separately as a Seagate product that was not preinstalled into and bundled with a PC or any other TYPE of electronic device.

I SEE another lawsuit on the horizon,For the company/computer manufacturer that sold with a Seagate making the same claim.

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There's absolutely no reason you should be waiting the three-plus minutes it takes your computer to BOOT up Windows, says Woody Hobbs, CEO of Phoenix Technologies. And INDEED, if Hobbs has his way, you may not have to endure those waits much longer.

Phoenix says its new technology, HyperSpace, will offer mobile PC users the ability to INSTANTLY fire up their most used apps -- things like e-mail, web browsers and various media players -- without using Windows, simply by pressing the F4 button.

A creative approach to price minded PC shopping...

$200.00 U.S.

Full StoryI think Google is about to overtake Microsoft!

MSN Internet Access : TiSP
Live Search : Google Search
Windows : GPCUbuntu has done some fine work and this is a reward for there efforts...if you are interested on checking iti out visit there site...they will ship you free up to 10 copies of the most current version.
Nice thing is they ship a "Live" CD that doesn't install just runs from the CD and a full install CD in each PACKAGE...YEAH, Ubuntu is pretty good. I wonder how gOS will turn out.gOS is BASICALLY Ubuntu with all the Google online apps plugged in...it's not a real google OS so to speak.
I tried to check out this machine to do a review on it but the closest WallyWorld that had them in stock was 130 miles away...
I'll wait awhile.Gallery of pictures of this COMPUTERS OS.

How is this news?

How is it not news?

BC, I think you would make a great lawyer. Lolz.

BC, I think you would make a great lawyer. Lolz.

Objection!

Objection!

Internet USERS will receive a warning if sites do not respect their privacy thanks to new tools being developed by the WEB's standards setting body.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) wants to help users CONTROL how their personal data is managed.

It is designing CONTROLS to shield personal data and reveal when sites do not honour privacy requests.



Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15723407


I think this is AWESOME, my privacy policy is top notch (I believe) and have no qualms about this. When I say I believe mine is top notch on space and science is because I follow it and stand by it.

Warren Buffett - one of the world's most closely watched investors - has disclosed building a 5.4% stake in IBM.

Mr Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway fund started BUYING SHARES in the firm in March, eventually SPENDING around $10.7bn (£6.7bn).

The billionaire had STEERED away from technology firms in the past.

Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15728306Quote from: Mulreay on November 14, 2011, 02:51:28 PM

The billionaire had steered away from technology firms in the past.

A decision is to be made today by the CRTC re the type of billing system to be created in the ISP industry in Canada, The Canadian Government did an intervention after a substantial public backlash against an earlier CRTC ruling that would have effectively killed any competition by smaller companies with their larger dominant RIVALS. Here is a link to the news article that gives details and background on this issue. truenorth
http://www.canada.com/technology/CRTC+rule+unlimited+Internet+plans+from+smaller+telecom+providers/5708439/story.htmlI imagine you're hoping the CRTC makes a decision that will not stifle or destroy competition. I'd like to see more competition in the ISP arena here in my area in Ohio. We now can choose AMONG numerous suppliers for natural gas and electricity, even though Columbia Gas and American Electric Power (AEP) provide the actual delivery since they own the distribution lines. I'd like to see that same thing done in telephone and Internet service, in the manner Canada has been doing it. Yes absolutely i am hoping that the status quo is maintained. It was only after years of concerted effort by small telecommunications would be providers that the monopoly companies (essentially they had divided the whole country up into regions and NO competitors existed in their regions--not even each other) were the monopolies forced to allow competitors to use the infrastructure (on a rental basis).
Of course the big boys never were happy with that and this is the way they are trying to eliminate that competition. That is to force a billing system based on degree of use (which they use) on the small providers. A personal example would be that i am a subscriber to Distributel. They lease the infrastructure from Bell Canada (a misnomer because they only exist in Ontario and Quebec provinces). Distributel does NOT have packages with prices varying on a basis of use. They only offer one price for what would be essentially Bell's highest price PACKAGE (but at a substantially lower consumer cost). The original infrastructure was highly subsidized by taxpayer's dollars at the time of it's creation and sustained by a pricing structure very favorable to the monopoly companies (by CRTC pricing criteria). Also to give this some size prospective currently the small providers are 5% of the total market place in Canada. But even that is too much for the insatiable appetites of the wannabe monopolies. truenorth For those people interested in this topic here is the current link to the CRTC ruling and the comments made by other groups or the Federal Government to the ruling RENDERED yesterday.
http://www.canada.com/technology/Government+study+Internet+billing+ruling/5718561/story.html
truenorth

I just WANT to TELL you CMS7 EXAM NEW released,its exam name is ITIL Foundation v.3,hope you don't CONFUSE this exam with EXIN or ITIL exam.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More than 25 million CURRENT and former Netflix SUBSCRIBERS are being OFFERED a SLIVER of a $27.5 million settlement from Wal-Mart.

UK broadband speeds drop by an average of 35% from their off-peak highs when most people are online in the evening, according to a report.

The research, conducted by the comparison site Uswitch, was based on two million broadband speed tests.

The peak surfing times between 7pm and 9pm were the slowest to be online, the report said.

Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15742055This has been true ever since I first got online in 1998. Not sure why this is SURPRISING. It has been this way ever since web and net CONNECTIVITY became a mass-market product in the mid 90s.


It's a pretty well-accepted fact for a reason. They don't call it "prime time" for nothing. It's not just TV that get's the most viewers from 7-9, it carries over to the internet as well.Just about every mass-use service or resource will experience peaks of usage. Roads, telephone systems, electric power grids, natural gas supply networks, etc. When I was a kid I learned that the British National Grid put extra capacity online on Mondays and Wednesdays at 7:45 PM because millions of people watching a popular soap, "Coronation Street", would all switch on an electric kettle to make cups of tea when the ad break happened.
The general point of the story is about this

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Critics say consumers are being misled by internet service providers who continue to ADVERTISE their maximum broadband speeds, EVEN though many users do not get them.

New rules from the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) say that from April next year providers will no longer be able to advertise maximum speeds for net packages UNLESS 10% of customers receive them. They must also make it clear if a significant proportion of users wll not be able to get the headline speed.

New Scientist is carrying a story saying that full disk encryption schemes (such as Bitlocker, Truecrypt, etc) are making life hard for investigators.

"Full-disc encryption is good at keeping your computer secure. So good, in fact, that it's got digital CSI teams tearing their hair out. Computer security engineers, including a MEMBER of the US Computer Emergency Response Team, are complaining in a research paper this week that crooked bankers, terrorists and child abusers may be getting away with crimes because it is proving impossible for digital investigators to unlock their encrypted hard drives."

The US CERT team say that strategies that agencies should adopt include improved scene-of-crime procedures and better preparation of search warrants, but their conclusion is "somewhat hopeless" says New Scientist:

"Research is needed to develop new techniques and technology for breaking or bypassing full disk encryption."

New Scientist concludes:

"...Which kind of GOES against the whole point of encryption, we would suggest."

The paper:

The growing impact of full disk encryption on digital forensics

Eoghan Casey, Geoff Fellows, Matthew Geiger and Gerasimos Stellatos

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1742287611000727

Having thought about this, I have installed Truecrypt and created a volume in which I have put my bank statements and sensitive financial information.
I find the idea that any form of encryption can be "too good" to be a somewhat silly statement. Maybe these investigators should look for a different job if their finding it difficult to break encryptions designed specifically to keep people out.

It would be like if door locks were improved, and suddenly the police are complaining that their jobs aren't as easy because they can't just kick the door in.

And really, I don't see how it really affects law enforcement. If they are trying to break encryption they are doing it wrong. When you have, say a suspects laptop and you have the legal precedence to try to decrypt it, you shouldn't waste your time constructing a million dollar distributed system in a futile attempt to crack their 4096-bit RSA. Instead the first response ought to be to Drug him and beat the person with a 5 dollar wrench until he gives them the password. Of course it wouldn't come to that, but I would still think that they are attacking the thick part of the wall. People are the weak part of the encryption.

Interesting. By the way, has anybody noticed this?
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PGP Products | Symantec
http://www.symantec.com/business/theme.jsp?themeid=pgp
PGP and Symantec are now one company. We are currently in the process of migrating content and functionality from the Altiris websites, and have created this …

"Research is needed to develop new techniques and technology for breaking or bypassing full disk encryption."

They say they're "too hard to break", but who knows what technology, for example, the FBI and CIA have at their disposal?
And if this is done, the same research will be used to develop stronger encrpytion.

They say they're "too hard to break", but who knows what technology, for example, the FBI and CIA have at their disposal?

FBI hackers fail to crack TrueCrypt
Open source encryption on Brazilian banker's hard drive baffles police dictionary attack

By John E Dunn | Computerworld UK | Published: 10:55, 30 June 2010

The FBI has admitted defeat in attempts to break the open source encryption used to secure hard drives seized by Brazilian police during a 2008 investigation.

The Bureau had been called in by the Brazilian authorities after the country's own National Institute of Criminology (INC) had been unable to crack the passphrases used to secure the drives by suspect banker, Daniel Dantas.

Brazilian reports state that two programs were used to encrypt the drives, one of which was the popular and widely-used free open source program TrueCrypt. Experts in both countries apparently spent months trying to discover the passphrases using a dictionary attack, a technique that involves trying out large numbers of possible character combinations until the correct sequence is found.

"Bless my cracked CORN and ground bone mixture!" ejaculated the chicken fancier. - "Tom Swift And His Electric Locomotive"

That is how real people can setup a hard code. They both have copies of the same book. A reference to a specific edition of a Tom Swift book by men who speak Brazilian Portuguese would be very unexpected.

The world’s fastest supercomputer according to TOP500 supercomputer list of 2009 is Cray XT5, also known as Jaguar. Jaguar bagged the No. 1 spot, beating IBM’s Roadrunner, who held the top crown from 2008 to 2009. It can perform more than 1 quadrillion calculations per second.

Other stuff here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_XT5

But is it?

Where in the world can you crunch over 8 quadrillion calculations per second? Find 672 computer racks linking an astonishing 68,544 CPUs, each of which harbors eight cores? Where the computing output is roughly equivalent to the power of 28,160 PlayStation 3s? *

On Japan's "K" computer, that's where. The supercomputer was built by Fujitsu Co. and thrusts Japan back into the rarefied top 10 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers—the topmost spot, in fact, where it's just wrestled the lead away from the Chinese National University of Defense Technology. The list is maintain by Top500, and it's based on how fast each computer can crunch a benchmark app called Linpack, which calculates a computer's floating point prowess.

Read more: http://techland.time.com/2011/06/20/worlds-most-powerful-supercomputer-is-faster-than-28000-ps3s/#ixzz1aUb5Xesz


It's hard to judge. Here's an excerpt from the Wikipedia entry for Cray XT5 which the Time.com article neglected to mention.

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The XT5 family run the Cray Linux Environment, FORMERLY known as UNICOS/lc. This incorporates SUSE Linux ENTERPRISE Server and Cray's Compute Node Linux.

Reminded me of these relevant articles:

Does any here know when the ASUS Transformer prime will be released in the UNITED KINGDOM? I am hoping to get this for SOMEONE as a CHRISTMAS gift, but there isn't a great deal of news about release dates.You mean Optimus Prime?

First 10GB Etherjack ®
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Norcross, Georgia, USA and Martinsried/Munich, Germany. November 3, 2011. ADVA Optical Networking launched today the ADVA FSP 150CC-XG210, an ultra-compact 10Gbit/s Ethernet service demarcation and aggregation device.

When would a personal user need to transfer at a rate of 10GB/s?

You'll never need more than 64K of memory - Bill Gates

When would a personal user need to transfer at a rate of 10GB/s? I can understand a commercial computer, one which would be serving multiple people at the same time, but personal users don't need this...yet

Point made.

I noticed you are using Windows XP.

Not long ago people were saying 'No way would a home user never need a 1 TB hard drive'.
With optical technology, extreme date transfer is possible and almost here.

Point made.

QUESTION: "I read in a newspaper that in 1981 you said '640K of memory should be enough for anybody.' What did you MEAN when you said this?"

ANSWER: "I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time."

Gates goes on a bit about 16-bit computers and megabytes of logical address space.

"Meanwhile, I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again."

our FSP 150CC-XG210 is the ideal solution for all Carrier Ethernet applications in access and backhaul networks. You can deploy it as a demarcation solution to HAND over reliable and scalable high capacity access to your carrier and enterprise customers. Or use it as an ENNI and aggregation solution further back in your network. Seamless interworking with our lower speed FSP 150CC demarcation solutions is guaranteed. And it comes with a temperature-hardened design to offer you maximum deployment flexibility – both indoor and outdoor.

But you still won't need an aggregator like that in your home. That's my point. has anybody checked what an aggregator does?

Google has announced that it is DROPPING SEVEN more products in an effort to simplify its range of services.

The out-of-season "spring clean" brings an end to services including Google Wave, KNOL and Google Gears.


Full story: HTTP://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15853323"With diversity of innovation comes myriad SUCCESSES and myriad failures"

That's not actually a quote from anybody, I just put it in quotes to make it seem like it was coming from an authority.

One of the losers was:
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Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal - a project which aimed to find ways to improve solar power

Fox News

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FCC CHIEF Told AT&T, Deutsche Telekom CEOs of Move Against Deal
Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski telephoned AT&T Inc.’s top executive to say the agency would move to block the company’s $39 billion purchase of a smaller rival, AT&T said in a filing. ...

(CNN) -- Ohio authorities on Saturday advanced their INVESTIGATION into killings tied to a Craigslist job listing when they identified the last of three bodies FOUND last month, a SHERIFF said.

The body of Ralph H. Geiger, 56, of Akron, Ohio, was identified by the Licking County Coroner's office, said Sheriff Stephen S. Hannum of Noble County. His CORPSE had been discovered by investigators November 25 in a shallow grave in EASTERN Ohio.

He and two other men found dead -- also in different shallow graves -- are believed to have been killed after answering a Craigslist ad to work on a cattle farm in eastern Ohio, authorities said.

Full story: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/03/us/ohio-craigslist-killings/index.html


Be careful people

I have just become aware of a MALWARE email circulating that i want to make you aware of for your protection. You MAY receive an e-mail MESSAGE from someone that you know and trust that has as it's subject "check this". The e-mail will contain as it's message in big bold blue letters "click here to view the video". DO NOT CLICK ON THE CLICK HERE. If you do your total E-mail list of your CONTACTS will become the basis for the message to be forwarded to all of them as if coming from you. Whatever else it may cause to happen is unknown to me at this point.truenorth

First off, I want to tell everyone that this is not about pirating or any illegal activity if that is what you were thinking. I don't want to get myself kicked from the forum.

Anyway, apparently the UK is seeking to hire people for computer security related purposes and for some reason this crack it thing is getting a lot of publicity. I even heard about it on a US national news STATION. I gave it a try, and got somewhere, but failed to complete it.

I have concluded that the code is actually an assembly language program and that you have to use one part to decode the other or something and there is also a key stored in the header of the main png file on the page.

I figured I'd post this because I was surprised by the amount of publicity it was getting and I also thought BC_Programmer could probably solve it.

Here is the link: http://www.canyoucrackit.co.uk/index.aspI came across this after a simple search on Google:
http://www.canyoucrackit.co.uk/soyoudidit.asp

And here's a blog post about this: http://www.alwaysbetesting.co.uk/seo/how-to-crack-the-gchq-code-breaking-competition-using-google/

Anyway, that was a good motivation. People who really solved the problem proved themselves that they can do it. And no, that wasn't any illegal activity at all.Quote

http://www.canyoucrackit.co.uk/soyoudidit.asp

Details of the first real-world test of a new MEMORY chip technology have been revealed by IBM scientists.

The demonstration involved Racetrack memory - a system which stores information as magnetic PATTERNS on tiny wires.

IBM said the technology promised FASTER data access speeds than were possible using hard drives or flash disks.

Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16047098This may change everything...
They've been working on it for 6 years...

Bloomberg:
Hewlett-Packard Plans to Turn WebOS Into Open-Source Project
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December 09, 2011
By Aaron Ricadela
(Updates with Whitman’s comments in third paragraph.)
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Hewlett-Packard CO. will turn its WebOS software into an open-source project, aiming to get other hardware makers to embrace the struggling operating SYSTEM as an alternative to software from Apple Inc. and Google Inc.
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And, of course, MS would never do this with say, Windows 95.

Internet Censorship. Home and Abroad.

Here is a recent ABC news report about:
Criag's List
Google in CHINA.
SOPA

Dec. 8, 2011

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/sopa-internet-censorship-anti-piracy-bills-congress/story?id=15108326#.TuWNNHopo8EI suggest everyone read this article. This is a very important issue. I intend to contact my Congressman via his website. Sometimes I think it is BOGUS when there is a website, such as the pirate bay, that any ding dong can log into and see links to download pirated media - and that because of some law or loophole there is a legitimate protection to have that site up. Something like this should be stopped or at the very least extremely discouraged. Now as far as being so strict that any site anywhere should be treated as a THEFT site if there is the slightest potential they may leak one copyrighted piece of information or another, eithe intentionally or unintentionally - that is bogus. I do believe if we set new rules that makes it much more difficult to find and distribute pirated media, most people would give up and such practices would really dwindle to a very small group.

How hard is it for a search engine like Google, to be required to block sites out of their search filter? How hard is it for a web browser or an antivirus program to be given a list of sites that are known for priacy and provide a warning to users? How hard is it for an ISP to track the use of piracy sites, and even just send a warning letter or email to customers that the sites that were accessed as a required addition to their statement? Maybe it still would not be illegal to access the sites due to freedoms of information, but it would scare a lot of people with not wanting to use them.Too late...it already passed.So what happens if somebody accidentally copies a sentence that I posted once?

This is getting ridiculous. For the most part the majority of people online do not have any malicious intent.

I know it's a ridiculous comparison, the bill is ridiculous as well. QUOTE from: patio on December 12, 2011, 09:32:39 AM

Too late...it already passed.

Too late...it already passed.

Google has removed 22 applications from its Android Market after they were discovered to contain fraudulent SOFTWARE.

Apps POSING as popular third-party software such as Angry Birds tricked users into sending premium TEXT messages.

Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16177013

From January, INTERNET Explorer (IE) users will be AUTOMATICALLY updated to the latest version of the BROWSER.

Microsoft said it was starting the project to update millions of machines to improve security online.

Future updates to the browser would be applied without a user's knowledge to help beat scammers catching PEOPLE out with fake updates.

Full story: HTTP://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16214912Quote from: Mulreay on December 17, 2011, 11:23:07 AM

to help beat scammers catching people out with fake updates.

From CNN. AT&T withdrew it's bid for T-Mobile. No big surprise, but it cost AT&T billions to GET this far to fail.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/19/technology/att_tmobile_dead/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2There was a Topic on this when it was originally ANNOUNCED and i PREDICTED this...

BTW it didn't cost them near that much.

I realize this is a completely DIFFERENT realm from my and your personal computing but it may be a topic of interest to you: 2011: The Year Data Centers Turned GreenVery interesting article. Not to be disparaging but probably a great deal of the motivation for these projects was economy (not a bad thing). HOWEVER if we are to really take the issue of the PLANET's future abilities to sustain life (particularly of the human variety) seriously a much greater emphasis will need to be applied to climate change. Personally i had always wanted "waterfront property" and the way THINGS are going i may SOON get it without moving.truenorthYears ago, when "data centers" were a few racks of servers, nobody worried about energy costs. Now that data centers can take up hundreds of racks (sometimes over a thousand), energy costs can be astronomical. Not to take away from anybodies desire to go green, but cost is a big factor.

Google has gained hundreds of patents from IBM as it continues its intellectual property spending spree.

It has acquired 187 patents and 36 applications, ADDING to the 1,000 it purchased from IBM last summer.

The latest patents INCLUDE a system for "using semantic NETWORKS to develop a social network".

FULL story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16409081And if Microsoft was to do this, everybody WOULD be screaming anti-trust.

A computer worm has stolen 45,000 login credentials from Facebook, SECURITY experts have warned.

The data is believed to have been taken largely from Facebook accounts in the UK and FRANCE, according to security firm Seculert.

The CULPRIT is a well-known piece of malware - dubbed Ramnit - which has been around since April 2010 and has previously stolen banking details.

Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16426824That is really scary.
This UNDERSCORES the need to use different passwords on different accounts. And limit the amount of personal information PUT on any site.

Mobile operator O2 is to provide free internet to "millions" of residents and visitors in central London by launching Europe's largest free wi-fi zone.

The service will be rolled out across the boroughs of Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea in 2012.

It will be powered by a system installed on street furniture.

Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16440911From my current experience, ANY mobile broadband is useless and a waste of time and money.Quote from: kpac on January 06, 2012, 05:46:09 PM

From my current experience, ANY mobile broadband is useless and a waste of time and money.

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It will be powered by a system installed on street furniture.
Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16440911

Western Digital
Caviar Blue, GREEN, and Scorpio Blue – Drops to 2 years.
Caviar BLACK, Scorpio Black, and external drives – Stay at 3 years.

Seagate
Constellation 2, Barracuda XT, and ES.2 – Stays at 3 years.
Barracuda, Barracuda Green, and Momentus – Drops to 1 year.

All drives shipped to distributors prior to Jan. 2nd 2012 will retain the current warranty terms. Because of existing inventory in the distribution channel there will be a short period of TIME when some drives with a 3-year warranty will be sold at the same time as drives with a 2-year warranty.

If you have any doubt about the warranty of a drive you purchased, you can go to support.wdc.com, select Warranty and RMA Services and proceed to the Warranty Check page

The small PCB can connect up to a TV or screen via USB 2.0 or HDMI and sports a 700MHz ARM11 processor from Broadcom with 128MB of RAM, a SD/MMC/SDIO memory card slot and OpenGL ES 2.0. It runs a Linux-based operating system, and videos demos have shown the diminutive computer able to run compute intensive video games like Quake, as well as 1080p HD video. The device also comes with the option of an additional USB hub and 10/100 Ethernet controller.

Eben Upton, the foundation’s executive director, who also works as an SoC Architect at Broadcom, said in a recent interview with Business Insider that the aim was to build a computer so cheap, it could be handed out to children like textbooks.

...is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator

It is, indeed, a PC by any definition.

It's a calculator and/or stupid phone at best...
Far from a PC.

Scelbi advertised its 8H computer, the first commercially advertised U.S. computer based on a microprocessor, Intel´s 8008. Scelbi aimed the 8H, available both in kit form and fully assembled, at scientific, electronic, and biological applications. It had 4 kilobytes of internal memory and a cassette tape, with both teletype and oscilloscope interfaces. In 1975, Scelbi introduced the 8B version with 16 kilobytes of memory for the business market. The company SOLD about 200 machines, losing $500 per unit.

I did not define the term PC. I was not the authority. Bu now you are?

Was the Apple ][ a PC?

By your narrow definition it was not until nit become popular and widely used.

So you are saying a CPU type was not used widely would disqualify a device from being a PC?

Well, carrying that form of reasoning further

It looks like a duck.
It walks like a duck.
It talks like a duck.
Is it a duck?

Also, you say that something that is less powerful that PCs used ten years ago is not a PC?

Raspberry Pi will have more computing power that many popular PCs used ten years ago. But why should that even natter? PCs made even 25 years ago are still being used somewhere and still do what they used to do.

So the device made by Raspberry Pi foundation sways requires a working PC to jump start it? Where is that information? I did not see that in the PR from them. If that is true, then it is not a PC. Because a real PC is an independent device that does not require another computer to make it work.

Hard to believe, now Intel wants to put a Intel chip inside a Motorola Samrtphone.
Would this be like Chevrolet making an engine for Ford?
No, but almost.

The story comes from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
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Intel Medfield chip on Motorola and Lenovo smartphones
By Leo Kelion Technology reporter, BBC News, Las Vegas
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Intel's new processor designed for mobile devices will be used by Motorola Mobility and Lenovo in upcoming Android-based smartphones.

I don't get some of your news rants...phone manuf. are free to use any chip that serves them best...
Why would this be an issue ? ?

Price not given.
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Today [Sunday January 08, 2012] at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, One Laptop Per Child and partner Marvell introduced the new XO 3.0, a rugged and low-cost Android-powered tablet
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Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often shortened to RMS[1] is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project[2] to create a free Unix-like operating system, and he has been the project's lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he initiated the free software movement; in October 1985[3] he founded the Free Software Foundation.

Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft, and he is the main author of several copyleft licenses including the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license.[4] Since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time advocating for free software, as well as campaigning against software patents, digital rights management, and what he sees as excessive extension of copyright laws.

Anyone who thinks just handing something to someone that will better Society or humankind to solve the worlds ills is mis-guided...

Of course this is only my opinion and as it's teetering on the political side of things i will just leave it at that.

A $10m (£6.5m) prize is on offer to whoever can create a Star Trek-like medical "tricorder".

The QUALCOMM Tricorder X Prize has challenged researchers to build a tool capable of capturing "key health metrics and diagnosing a set of 15 diseases".

It needs to be LIGHT ENOUGH for would-be Dr McCoys to carry - a MAXIMUM weight of 5lb (2.2kg).

Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16518171

Android on a watch at Gimmick or way COOL, we wonder?

Full story: (This is a VIDEO STREAM) HTTP://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MuWR3aq4Q8I don't even use a watch. I have ETHICAL issues with keeping time.