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Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Revamping...
It has been a while since I updated my blog. I was not busy rather I was lazy. Got some great plans and quality time to renovate my blog. In the coming weeks I will try to add informative posts to my blogs and I will strive to keep updating....
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Microsoft confirms Windows 7 is done
Redmond (WA) – Microsoft officially signed off on Windows 7 and released the code of the software to manufacturing. The RTM code will be available for select customers and developers beginning on August 6, while the general public will have to wait until October 22. Windows Server 2008 R2 reached the RTM phase as well and will be “available on or before that date.”
Windows 7 is likely to be the most important operating system Microsoft has ever released, as the software will have to repair the reputation and perception Windows Vista has damaged and defend Microsoft against rivals such as Apple’s Mac OS X and some Linux distributions, which gained market share during Vista’s time. With Windows 7 at RTM, Microsoft sees the light at the end of the tunnel and can prepare to get rid of the current desktop Windows operating system and its broken brand.
Hardware and software vendors will use Windows 7 RTM (build 7600) to finalize their products that will adapt the operating system. As previously reported, Microsoft will begin selling the software on October 22, just in time for the Christmas season. However, developers and certain customers, including Technet subscribers, will be able to download the operating system as early as August 6.
Conceivably, Windows 7 fixes many of Vista’s shortcomings. Most importantly, the software will bring UI enhancements and feature a streamlined memory footprint, which will allow the software to run on much less powerful hardware, including netbooks. Given the extremely long development cycle of Windows Vista, Windows 7 was on a clearly accelerated schedule on Microsoft’s A priority list. Windows Vista was released on January 30, 2006 and we heard of the first Windows 7 Milestone 1 release in January 2008. The software has been finalized within 18 months after the release of the M1 version, which is an impressive achievement, if the final version of Windows 7 is as good as Microsoft claims.
Windows Server 2008 R2 also the RTM phase, and will be, according to Microsoft, “available on or before that date.”
Courtesy: http://www.tgdaily.com/
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Google to Launch Open-source Chrome OS This Year
Google is developing an open-source operating system targeted at Internet-centric computers such as netbooks and will release it later this year, the company said Wednesday.
The OS, which will carry the same "Chrome" name as the company's browser, is expected to begin appearing on netbook computers in the second half of 2010, Google said in a blog post.
It is already talking to "multiple" companies about the project, it added.
The Chrome OS will be available for computers based on the x86 architecture, which is used by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and the Arm architecture.
Prototypes of Arm-based netbooks began appearing last month at the Computex show in Taiwan and Google's support for the architecture could give it a significant boost. Microsoft's mainstream Windows operating system doesn't run on Arm chips so many manufacturers were talking about using Linux or a version of Google's Android operating system. It's not immediately clear how much the two operating systems share in common code but Google said they are aimed at very different devices.
"Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android," it said. "Android was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of devices from phones to set-top boxes to netbooks. Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the Web."
While Google is initially looking at the netbook segment of the market it might compete with Microsoft and Apple on larger, Internet-centric machines.
Chrome OS is "being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems," said Google.
More to come.
Courtesy: http://www.pcworld.com/article/168029/google_to_launch_opensource_chrome_os_this_year.html?tk=rss_news
Monday, July 06, 2009
India Plans Spending More on Education Using Technology
India plans to spend 9 billion Indian rupees (US$189 million) on education programs using information and communications technology in the fiscal year to March 31, 2010, the country's finance minister said on Monday.
India needs to convert the demographic advantage that its relatively young population gives it into an economic advantage by providing them the right education and skills, the country's Minister of Finance, Pranab Mukherjee said while presenting the country's annual budget to Parliament.
The minister also announced a 20 billion rupee hike in spending on higher education, including on setting up new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). The IITs have over the years provided key engineering staff for Indian and multinational technology companies.
India's outsourcing industry benefits from the country's large number of low-cost and highly trained staff.
The immediate benefit from the budget for India's outsourcing industry is, however, likely to come from the extension of tax holidays for exporters up to the fiscal year ending March 31, 2011. The minister said he was extending these benefits to help tide exporters over an economic slowdown.
Mukherjee also announced that the first set of unique identity numbers for Indian citizens will be rolled out in 12 to 18 months. The government has set up for this purpose a Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), and appointed as its head Nandan Nilekani, former co-chairman of outsourcer Infosys Technologies.
The UIDAI will set up an online data base with identity and biometric details of Indian residents and provide enrolment and verification services across the country, Mukherjee said.
The project could provide large opportunities to IT services companies, according to analysts.
The budget has been criticized by industry because of its large deficit of 6.8 percent of gross domestic product in the current fiscal year, and its focus on large development and rural spending. Share prices on Indian stock exchanges fell as the budget was being announced by the finance minister.
Courtesy: http://www.pcworld.com/article/167881/india_plans_spending_more_on_education_using_technology.html
India needs to convert the demographic advantage that its relatively young population gives it into an economic advantage by providing them the right education and skills, the country's Minister of Finance, Pranab Mukherjee said while presenting the country's annual budget to Parliament.
The minister also announced a 20 billion rupee hike in spending on higher education, including on setting up new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). The IITs have over the years provided key engineering staff for Indian and multinational technology companies.
India's outsourcing industry benefits from the country's large number of low-cost and highly trained staff.
The immediate benefit from the budget for India's outsourcing industry is, however, likely to come from the extension of tax holidays for exporters up to the fiscal year ending March 31, 2011. The minister said he was extending these benefits to help tide exporters over an economic slowdown.
Mukherjee also announced that the first set of unique identity numbers for Indian citizens will be rolled out in 12 to 18 months. The government has set up for this purpose a Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), and appointed as its head Nandan Nilekani, former co-chairman of outsourcer Infosys Technologies.
The UIDAI will set up an online data base with identity and biometric details of Indian residents and provide enrolment and verification services across the country, Mukherjee said.
The project could provide large opportunities to IT services companies, according to analysts.
The budget has been criticized by industry because of its large deficit of 6.8 percent of gross domestic product in the current fiscal year, and its focus on large development and rural spending. Share prices on Indian stock exchanges fell as the budget was being announced by the finance minister.
Courtesy: http://www.pcworld.com/article/167881/india_plans_spending_more_on_education_using_technology.html
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Wii expected to dominate global console market
San Francisco (CA) - A veteran industry analyst has predicted that Nintendo will continue to dominate the global console market. According to Michael Pachter, the Wii's low price point, "innovative" controller and compatibility with standard definition television sets are likely to provide it with a "competitive advantage" over the next two years.
"We expect Nintendo to sustain this competitive advantage by introducing a high definition version of the Wii, perhaps as early as the end of 2010, in order to convert its large installed base into true 'next generation' households," Pachter wrote in a report quoted by IndustryGamers. The report, titled "Money for Nothing, How Ancillary Revenues Can Extend The Console Cycle," also hypothesized that the PS3 is likely to capture significant market share - or second place - due to Sony's "victory" in the high definition DVD format war. Concurrently, the Xbox 360 will "fade to third place" as it suffers from a significant "lack" of popularity in Japan.
"We expect the Wii to capture 49% share of the U.S. and European market by the end of 2009, followed by the Xbox 360 at 29% and the PS3 at 22%. By the end of 2011, we see Nintendo 'winning' the console war by maintaining its share, with 48% of this market. We expect Sony to pull even with Microsoft, each with 26% market share. These estimates do not include console sales in Japan, which we expect to be dominated by Nintendo with over 65% market share through 2011," stated Pachter.
In addition, Pachter surmised that videogame storage would increase exponentially to 1 terabyte or more - with digitally distributed software accounting for only 50 percent of all software sales by 2019.
"We expect Nintendo to sustain this competitive advantage by introducing a high definition version of the Wii, perhaps as early as the end of 2010, in order to convert its large installed base into true 'next generation' households," Pachter wrote in a report quoted by IndustryGamers. The report, titled "Money for Nothing, How Ancillary Revenues Can Extend The Console Cycle," also hypothesized that the PS3 is likely to capture significant market share - or second place - due to Sony's "victory" in the high definition DVD format war. Concurrently, the Xbox 360 will "fade to third place" as it suffers from a significant "lack" of popularity in Japan.
"We expect the Wii to capture 49% share of the U.S. and European market by the end of 2009, followed by the Xbox 360 at 29% and the PS3 at 22%. By the end of 2011, we see Nintendo 'winning' the console war by maintaining its share, with 48% of this market. We expect Sony to pull even with Microsoft, each with 26% market share. These estimates do not include console sales in Japan, which we expect to be dominated by Nintendo with over 65% market share through 2011," stated Pachter.
In addition, Pachter surmised that videogame storage would increase exponentially to 1 terabyte or more - with digitally distributed software accounting for only 50 percent of all software sales by 2019.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Toyota Research Achieves Brain Control of Wheelchair
Researchers in Japan have developed a brain-machine interface (BMI) system that allows for control of a wheelchair using thought.
The system processes brain thought patterns and can turn them into left, right and forward movements of the wheelchair with a delay as short as one-thousandth of a second. That's a vast improvement over other systems that can take as long as several seconds to analyze and react to the user's thoughts.
It was developed by scientists at the BSI-Toyota Collaboration Center, a research and development center established in 2007 by Japanese government-related research unit RIKEN, Toyota Motor, Toyota Central R&D Labs and Genesis Research Institute.
The system measures the electrical activity in a person's brain using electroencephalography (EEG) data gathered from five sensors above the areas of the brain that handle motor movement. It seeks to interpret the measurements to achieve control of the wheelchair.
It can also adapt to a particular user's thought patterns to improve accuracy to as high as 95 percent, the researchers said. Training on the system for 3 hours a day for a week is enough to have it tuned in to a user's motor-control thought patterns.
In a video released of the experiments a researcher is shown navigating a wheelchair left and right between six chairs in a room using the technology. A laptop computer mounted on the wheelchair is all that's needed to interpret the researcher's thought patterns.
To perform an emergency stop, the researcher just had to puff out his cheek: a sensor mounted there detected the movement and brought the wheelchair to a halt.
Courtesy: http://www.pcworld.com/article/167525/toyota_research_achieves_brain_control_of_wheelchair.html
The system processes brain thought patterns and can turn them into left, right and forward movements of the wheelchair with a delay as short as one-thousandth of a second. That's a vast improvement over other systems that can take as long as several seconds to analyze and react to the user's thoughts.
It was developed by scientists at the BSI-Toyota Collaboration Center, a research and development center established in 2007 by Japanese government-related research unit RIKEN, Toyota Motor, Toyota Central R&D Labs and Genesis Research Institute.
The system measures the electrical activity in a person's brain using electroencephalography (EEG) data gathered from five sensors above the areas of the brain that handle motor movement. It seeks to interpret the measurements to achieve control of the wheelchair.
It can also adapt to a particular user's thought patterns to improve accuracy to as high as 95 percent, the researchers said. Training on the system for 3 hours a day for a week is enough to have it tuned in to a user's motor-control thought patterns.
In a video released of the experiments a researcher is shown navigating a wheelchair left and right between six chairs in a room using the technology. A laptop computer mounted on the wheelchair is all that's needed to interpret the researcher's thought patterns.
To perform an emergency stop, the researcher just had to puff out his cheek: a sensor mounted there detected the movement and brought the wheelchair to a halt.
Courtesy: http://www.pcworld.com/article/167525/toyota_research_achieves_brain_control_of_wheelchair.html
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Gateway introduces high-definition netbook
San Francisco (CA) - Gateway has introduced a high-definition netbook with an 11.6-inch display. The LT3100 - which weighs just 3.14 pounds - features an AMD Athlon 64 L110 processor, a full-size keyboard, multi-gesture touchpad and a ATI Radeon X1270 GPU.
"The Gateway LT3100 is a smart netbook choice - it gives customers the freedom to connect to the Internet for everything from staying up-to-date on the latest viral videos and enjoying digital music and photos, to checking on the status of projects and studying for classes," explained Ray Sawall of Acer America. "At the same time, it delivers reliable mobile communications. Customers get the larger-sized 11.6-inch display along with enhanced netbook performance, so they can do even more while on the go."According to Sawall, the LT3100 can be purchased with up to 2GB of DDR2 memory, a 250GB internal hard drive and a 6-cell Li-ion battery that provides five hours of power.
Other features include:
- Multi-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader
- 802.11b/g Wi-Fi
- Integrated Web Camera
- Two Built-in Stereo Speakers
- Three USB 2.0 Ports
The LT3100 is pre-loaded with Microsoft Windows Vista and has a starting MSRP of $400.
People will dump their Crackberry for an iPhone
Four out of 10 Blackberry users are tempted to switch to an iPhone while iPhone users are fanatically loyal to the Apple device.
That's according to a survey by Crowd Science. The CEO of the outfit, John Martin, claimed that the results "reflect the great challenges Blackberry faces in stemming the iPhone stampede."
The survey shows that only 14 percent of non-Blackberry smartphone users will buy another Blackberry. And 82 percent of iPhone users are loyal followers of the Apple fashion.
The survey also shows that people using iPhones use a wide range of the functions available on the phone, including email, GPS, wi-fi and Internet access.
And iPhone users appear to be far happier with their machines than Blackberry users are, according to the survey. They like the screen size, the way you can navigate on the iPhone, the large number of add-ons and video playback.
Rather than being restricted to a bunch of fanboys, 71 percent of owners of smartphones use them for business and pleasure.
Courtesy: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/42958/145/
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