26.10.2010

The majority of today’s supercomputers follow a tested and reliable template. Hundreds, thousands, and occasionally tens of thousands of processors are clustered together to work in concert. The processors are almost invariably built by Intel or AMD, and aren’t particularly special–the Jaguar supercomputer, which is widely regarded as the world’s most capable, is essentially just a cluster of 37,376 2.5GHz AMD Opteron processors, which are just as readily sold to consumers building servers or gaming computers as they are to governments or research institutions.

Nobody knows how many file sharers are getting warnings from France's new P2P infringement authority, but Billboard.biz says that French labels are sending 25,000 complaints a day to Hadopi, the agency enforcing that country's "three strikes" law.

This month, Google broke an equally impressive Internet traffic record — gaining more than 1% of all Internet traffic share since January. If Google were an ISP, as of this month it would rank as the second largest carrier on the planet.

t was just a few months ago that Digg dropped 10% of its staff. Now the company is making much deeper cuts – 25 employees will be laid off, a little more than 37% of Digg’s total staff.

When Google rolled out a new feature called Google Instant for its search engine in September, thousands of its AdWords advertisers—who pay the company every time a user clicks on their text ads next to search results—took note. Now Marin Software, one of the largest managers of advertiser spending on search engines, has weighed in on the effects of the new feature.

Messenger for Mac 8 provides real-time collaboration between Mac users and their Messenger friends, whether those friends are using Messenger on a PC, phone, through Hotmail, or on another Mac. You can use instant messaging, audio, and video calls to communicate with your Messenger contacts by signing in with your Windows Live ID.

It seems like there’s a huge bug in iOS 4.1 for iPhone: with a combination of sleep / power button and a fake emergency call, it is possible to access the iPhone’s contact list and phone keypad even if the device is locked. I personally tested the method and, indeed, it works: I was able to bypass iOS’ passcode lock check and make a phone call to a friend of mine.

Orlando, Fla.--Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and the company behind it, Canonical, surprised the hundreds of Ubuntu programmers at the Ubuntu Developers Summit when he announced that in the next release of the popular Linux operating system, Ubuntu 11.04, Unity would become the default desktop interface.

Ortus have just unveiled their latest and the worlds smallest HD display. It measures just 4.8 inches but has a massive 1,920×1,080 resolution and a pixel density of 458ppi. Ortus expect the new display to be used for security systems and with its 6.8 million colors and 160 degree viewing angle will provide the perfect viewing vehicle for HD security systems.

Android has just rocketed past a major milestone: 100,000 applications available in the Android Marketplace. The announcement was made with just a tweet from the Android Dev Twitter account. “One hundred thousand apps in Android Market,” was all the tweet needed to say to spread the news. The search giant recently expanded the Android Marketplace to 20+ countries in an effort to kick its developer ecosystem in high gear.

In IOS 4.2 for iPad is the switch on the side going to be the mute and not screen orientation lock from now on?

We had a look at the VLC player for iPhone last week but now it is available for general consumption. While there are some issues, you can now play a much wider array of movie formats on the iPhone. Download here free.

Adobe is pleased to announce at the Adobe MAX 2010 conference the availability of Adobe AIR 2.5 for televisions, tablets, smartphones and desktop operating systems. Adobe AIR 2.5 now supports: Smartphones and tablets based on BlackBerry® Tablet OS, Android™ and iOS Desktops running on Windows®, Macintosh and Linux® operating systems Televisions with Samsung as the first television manufacturer to ship Adobe AIR in its line of Samsung SmartTV devices

Rajesh Rao is a man who believes that the best type of robotic helper is one who can read your mind.

Earlier today Mashable broke a rumor that Facebook would be taking investment from Apple in a new Series E round of funding. Understandably, twitter is abuzz with discussion but a sharp response from Facebook’s Director of Corporate Communications Larry Yu to flatly deny the rumor should bring that to an end.

The story goes that a tipster sent David Carnoy at CNET a link to a product page for a Nook screen protector. The only thing is, said screen protector wasn’t for the current generation Nook. Nope, it was for an unannounced model. This alone would be strange, but there was a rumor last week that stated a new Nook was coming real soon, which makes this leak seem so much more real.

Валерий Наследников больше не директор ФГУП «Главный радиочастотный центр» (ГРЧЦ). Его отставке предшествовал скандал с выделением частот «Скартелу» (бренд Yota)

Сегодня Mail.ru Group назовет цену, по которой ее акционеры рассчитывают продать GDR на ее акции в ноябре на Лондонской фондовой бирже. Как стало известно «Ведомостям», компания оценила себя в $4,8-5,6 млрд

More of you want to use the power of digital media to express your ideas. You might want to create an interactive report complete with video and music, spice up presentations with animation and interactivity, craft a visual email with self-created graphics, or design and publish your first website for the world to see. But, you don’t know where to start.

I tried Google TV yesterday. Flying a Cessna is easier and has fewer controls than the Sony remote

According to research by Spam Ratings, 1 in 10 UK websites are responsible for malicious spam. In addition, dangerous spam has doubled in the last 12 months.

В списке - #newtwitter, YouTube Instant и другие.

(Reuters) - Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss -- two of the central characters portrayed in "The Social Network" -- say the film accurately portrays Facebook's birth, the focus of a legal dispute in which they are involved.

We're willing to bet that even the most seasoned Mac user won't have used half of these cunning techniques on their machine. With this huge selection of tips at your disposal, prepare to speed up the way you work on your Mac forever.

High-speed broadband has become a phenomenon of densely-populated Asian cities, which now account for 74 of the top 100 global cities offering fast connections according to Akamai's latest State of the Internet report.

Nearly one in ten (9 percent) web users have never met a quarter of their online friends, says Geomium.

Sario Marketing, the company behind a digital marketplace for unique on-demand content called Textbroker.com, has landed a “multi-million Euro growth financing round” through funds advised by ViewPoint Capital Partners.

Lady Gaga took to Twitter this morning to announce that her YouTube videos have hit the lofty milestone of 1 billion total views. The musician is the first to reach such a goal, but Justin Bieber is trailing close behind with 962,726,797 total video views.

In its most concrete comments yet about the next version of Windows, Microsoft said in a blog post on its Dutch Web site that Windows 8 is about two years from hitting the market. Microsoft is working on the next version of Windows, the blog says in Dutch, but it will be about two years before Windows 8 is on the market.

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