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Sun is trying to replace the wires between computer chips with laser beams to eliminating a bottleneck. For decades, the semiconductor industry has broken silicon wafers into smaller chips to improve manufacturing yields. From the article:
Sun Microsystems is trying to do for computing what all the king’s horses and men failed to do for Humpty [...]
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Interesting development; from the article:
Hardware piracy, or making knock-off microchips based on stolen blueprints, is a burgeoning problem in the electronics industry.
Computer engineers at the University of Michigan and Rice University have devised a comprehensive way to head off this costly infringement: Each chip would have its own unique lock and key. The patent [...]
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India has now official broke into top ten super computers in the world.
For the first time ever, India placed a system in the Top 10. The Computational Research Laboratories, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Ltd. in Pune, India, installed a Hewlett-Packard Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c system. They integrated this system [...]
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Nikon is a Japanese company and famous for cameras, binoculars, microscopes, measurement instruments etc. Now there is a Nikon Digital Learning Center which provides practical photography tips, demonstrations from Nikon professionals and industry experts, as well as other useful information as it relates to capturing the shot you really want.
Several of Nikon’s sponsored professional [...]
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The (in)famous Maddox an American author and magazine columnist, wrote an interesting and real review of the Apple iPhone. I think it is a non-biased review:
No, I’m not going to get an iPhone, quit emailing me about it. I’m not getting one because I already have a phone that’s better: it’s called the Nokia E70, [...]
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The world’s fastest internet connection is in Sweden at 40 Gigabits per second connection – thousands of times faster than the average ADSL / DSL / Cable home Internet connection.
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Maryland Professor creates desktop Supercomputer ( a mainframe computer that is among the largest, fastest, or most powerful of those available at a given time) using nothing but normal desktop computer parts.
A prototype of what may be the next generation of personal computers has been developed by researchers in the University of Maryland’s A. James [...]
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A little history about modern mobile phone and its inventor Dr. Martin Cooper.
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I’m looking to build a new computer for gaming purpose. I think any gaming system should consider following fast components
=> A fast Intel or AMD dual core processor / CPU (Intel core 2 extreme, is the latest in ass-kicking technology)
=> 1GB dual channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz
=> 512 MB Graphics card from ATI or [...]
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