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The IBM Green Power 7 chips, launched today which only use a quarter of the energy used by the Power 6, but this new products offer double the performance.

The Power 7 chips, which compete against Sparc and Niagara processors from Sun JAVA (now part of Oracle) and Hewlett-Packard’s Itanium chips, support the Unix, AIX, and Linux operating systems. IBM also unveiled four new mid-range servers, the first to feature Power 7 chips.

Increasing heap of IT equipment packed into corporate datacenters, firms have been wrestling with spiraling energy costs, prompting companies like IBM and Microsoft to beat an increasingly eco-friendly thump.

IBM Hardware and software giant’s has unveiled the latest version of its Power processors, which will form a foundation for companies green IT efforts . This type of Green power processors help into new revenue streams. IBM is keen to tap into users’ energy concerns while boosting revenue.

The company’s general manager of Power systems, Ross Mauri said that IBM’s Smarter Planet strategy aims to build green technologies, which will require lower-power processors.

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Google has released beta versions of its Chrome browser for Mac and Linux. Google makes clear that Chrome Brower is easy to install, and each extension runs in its own process to avoid crashing or significantly slowing down the browser.

Google first unveiled Chrome in September 2008 but it is only for Windows. Chrome for Mac and Linux were released in June, but they did not include Flash support and did not has any other required feature. Google takes great care to make Google Chrome a native application for Mac. Grabowski and Pinkerton said the Mac team was focused on delivering rock-solid depth in a few critical areas for the browser, rather than a breadth of feature that are rough around the edges.

For the Linux Rakowski said the team again focused on speed, stability, and security, but given that most engineers use Linux machines, Google wanted Chrome to be a high-performance browser that integrated well with the Linux ecosystem. Kegel and Martin warned that those who installed the less stable, dev channel version of Chrome for Linux should uninstall that version before downloading the beta version. Google has also made a beta version of extensions available for Chrome in Windows and Linux.

News, Personal, Tech News Google Chrome for Mac and Linux is Now available

Intel’s New CPU With 48 cores on a single silicon chip which marks the future of cloud computing. Intel’s Tera-scale Computing Research Program contains 48 cores on a single silicon chip. Intel engineers envision this multi-core chip as the future of cloud computing. As all 48 cores of this postage stamp-sized chip use 125 watts at their maximum performance, the advent of similar chips could herald a new era of energy-efficient, smaller data centers, making cloud computing less expensive and more portable. Using only as much electricity as a single Intel processor, this experimental chip could enable future generations of laptops.

Intel plans on sharing 100 of these prototype chips with researchers in order to develop software specially honed for the 48-core chip, but details of the prototypes’ availability to industry and academic experts are yet to be released.

Applications for these chips include the rapid processing of images, allowing for new methods of interacting with computers with a camera, rather than with keyboards or mice. Virtual dance lessons and more intuitive controls for video games could become commonplace for laptops. With so much processing power available in a small area.

News, Personal, Tech News Intel's New CPU With 48 cores on a single silicon chip which marks the future of cloud computing

Dell has announced the availability of their ultra-slim premium laptop model Adamo XPS in the Indian market. This newly launched model is considered one of the thinnest laptops in the world, as it is only 340 x 273.9 x 9.99 mm (w x d x h) in dimension. The company claims that Adamo XPS’s innovative design provides strength to the 13.4-inch widescreen. The laptop, which comes with Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit edition, is available at a price of Rs 1,50,000.

Features of Dell Adamo XPS:

• It is powered by the 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo ultra-low-voltage processor.
• 4GB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR3 memory.
• 128GB solid state drive.
• It comes with 16:9 HD display and gives the laptop a solid feel in spite of its thinness.
• It includes Metallic key cap, full-size keyboard, integrated 2MP webcam and integrated mono digital microphone.
• It has DisplayPort, 2 USB 2.0, headphone connector and headphone, Standard connectors via external dongle: RJ45, and DVI.
• Dell Adamo XPS is loaded with advanced lithium ion technology, which supports backup of up to 5 hours 17 minutes with optional 40 WHr extended battery.

The main Advantage is: if any case batteries drain out, then you can easily swap out these during sleep mode, without turning off the system.

News, Personal, Tech News Dell Has Launched Their ultra-slim premium laptop Adamo XPS in the Indian market, Dell Laptop

The Recent survey conducted by the European Commission found that of the 610 government, educational and other industry organizations questioned across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, just 17 per cent have upgraded to a new Internet addressing technique called IPv6.
These aren’t the Web address you type into a browser to surf to your favorite website, but rather the underlying Internet protocol addresses that denote individual devices connected to the Internet. These form the foundation for all online communications, from e-mail and web pages to voice chat and streaming video.
Due to this we’ll be down to our last tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of web addresses by the end of next year. New companies looking to establish a presence on the internet will have no option but to adopt the IPv6 address format.
Making the transition from the current system, called IPv4, to the IPv6 format is relatively straightforward, though it involves the purchase of new networking equipment. But support has been built into Windows and Macintosh computers for years.
Every day thousands of new devices ranging from massive web servers down to individual mobile phones go online and gobble up more combinations and permutations. The situation is critical for the future of the Internet economy.
As addresses run dry we will all feel the pinch: Internet speeds will drop and new connections and services will either be expensive or simply impossible to obtain. The IPv6 solution was agreed upon more than a decade ago, providing enough addresses for billions upon billions of devices as well as improving Internet phone and video calls, and possibly even helping to end e-mail spam.

News, Tech News Current Internet speeds may drop over next year: Recent survey

Windows 7’s first weekend among the public looks like it was Microsoft’s most successful OS launch yet.
Microsoft offer deals to students looking to get a copy of Windows, and this time around was no exception. Microsoft offered a Windows 7 upgrade to students for $29.99. Students were able to download the discounted OS from a dedicated Website starting October 23rd 2009.

some students reported problems installing the new OS once they downloaded it. As the weekend progressed, four separate issues surfaced, including Windows 7 installs getting hung up and corrupted download files. Two issues involved users trying to upgrade from a 32-bit operating system to Windows 7’s 64-bit version. Microsoft has posted information and solutions for these issues on this forum thread. Now getting Windows 7 on a netbook using a flash drive was possible before, but Microsoft’s new tool makes it that much easier. The new tool also fits into Microsoft’s goal of getting Windows 7 on as many netbooks as possible.

A good thing of the company’s revenue was attributed to Windows 7 pre-sales worth about $3 billion.

News, Personal, Tech News Microsoft's Windows 7 the most successful OS launch

The Nokia 2220 slider is expected in advent of the New Year.  The Nokia 2220 slider will be of reasonable price $100.
The only con of Nokia 2220 slider is it does not seem to offer a comprehensive multimedia experience. The handset will be made available in black, white, blue, green and violet colors during launch.

Features of Nokia 2220 slider:

• The entry level Nokia 2220 slider mobile phone is based on S40
• It supports dual band GSM connectivity (900/1800 MHz).
• The Nokia handset features 128 x 160 TFT display
• Nokia 2220 slider comes with 10MB of internal memory.
• The Nokia 2220 slider handset packages a 3.5mm headset jack, an FM radio, Opera Mini along with a VGA camera.
• Battery offers up to 8 hours of talktime and around 400 hours of standby time.

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Asus introduced two new M20 and G60 GPS-enabled smartphone models in the Indian market in alliance with Garmin, a maker of navigation oriented devices. Both the phones are available in India for a steep Rs. 30,000 price tag.

The features are as follows:

• Both the smartphones incorporate a carfinder feature and a 3 megapixel camera.
• Two models offer you with the M20 which comes with a 2.8-inch touch screen and weighs in at 99 grams and comes loaded with the recently launched Windows Mobile 6.5 mobile OS.
• The G60 is the larger of the two phones has a bigger screen (3.5 inch).
• A decent full HTML browser and support for various connectivity options including 3.5G and W-Fi.
• The navigation abilities of the phones, both the devices also act as extremely capable mobile phones and come with almost all the features you’d expect from “normal” mobile phones.
• Features like Location Link, which is aimed at helping the user reach a location by just selecting the PoI and then by navigating to the desired destination.
• The Carfinder feature which helps the user to easily find his car even in an outdoor parking.
• There’s support for Panoramio shots as well.

Asus had announced that it is partnering with Garmin to sell location enabled/oriented phones and what we see now is the fruition of the same alliance.

News, Tech News Asus introduced two new M20 and G60 GPS-enabled smartphone models in the Indian market

Microsoft said some in-place upgrades from Windows Vista to the new Windows 7 may take some users over 20 hours to complete. Chris Hernandez, who works in the Windows deployment team Said that the best that users can hope for is a 1 hour and 24 minute process. So-called clean installs, where the user overwrites an existing edition of Windows to end up with the OS, but no former data or applications, take less time: from 27 to 46 minutes.

Hernandez said the in-place upgrade times were obtained from lab machines in three different configurations: labeled low, mid-range and high-end — with three simulated users: a medium user, a heavy user and a super user. The profiles differed in the amount of data and the number of applications that were on the PC before the upgrade to Windows 7. The medium user profile, for example, assumed 70GB of data and 20 applications; the super user profile, on the other hand, contained 650GB of data and 40 applications.

One of the main goals with Windows 7 in general has been to be better than Vista. As part of the Windows Upgrade team we have tracked Windows 7 upgrade performance using Vista as our baseline comparison. The in-place upgrade from Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) to Windows 7 at least 5% faster than an in-place upgrade from Vista SP1 to a new copy of Vista SP1.

Windows 7 upgrade time is faster or equal within a 5% threshold to the Vista SP1 upgrade time.

News, Tech News Windows 7 upgrade time is faster than Vista

What’s special about the arrival of two new Samsung digital compact cameras? Here  they help you take self-pictures – thanks to its dual LCD . The ST550 and ST500 are the two camera models that will feature this technology.
Both cameras feature a 12.3 megapixel sensor and a 27mm wide angle Schneider Kreuznach lens with 4.6x optical zoom. The 1.5-inch TFT LCD located on the front of the camera is common to both camera models. This display can be used for shooting self, with self-timer, for shutter info, function info as well as children modes. In fact, while taking self shots, there is no need to even press the shutter button – just a big smile will trigger the cameras to take the picture.

At the back, the ST550 features a 3.5-inch wide touch screen LCD while ST500 comes with a 3-inch Wide LCD. The touchscreen LCDs on the camera rear feature Smart Gesture User Interface technology, enabling users to tap and browse through features.

The ST550 and ST500 are expected to be available in the US in September 2009 at a suggested price of $349.99 (Rs. 16,867) and $299.99 (Rs. 14,457) respectively

The ST500 and ST550 record HD video in 1280×720p resolution at 30 frames per second in H.264 format. The ST550 also features HDMI connectivity via an optional adapter, so you can see your HD video creations in glorious HD on an HD TV.

News, Tech News Two new Samsung digital compact cameras ST550 and ST500