Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

MIT Genius Stuffs 100 Processors Into Single Chip

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Forget dual-core and quad-core processors: A semiconductor company promises to pack 100 cores into a processor that can be used in applications that require hefty computing punch, like video conferencing, wireless base stations and networking. By comparison, Intel’s latest chips are expected to have just eight cores. With a revolutionary new ...

The Text Message/SMS Turns 19 Years Old

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

  [caption id="attachment_98" align="alignright" width="119" caption="SMS Text Message Turns 19 Years Old"][/caption] According to Wikipedia, the first SMS text message was sent over the Vodafone GSM network in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1992, from a man named Neil Papworth using a personal computer to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone using an ...

Top 10 Key Information Technology Trends For 2012

Monday, October 31st, 2011

At the Gartner Symposium IT/Expo, David Cappuccio, managing vice president and chief of research for the Infrastructure teams with Gartner, said the Top 10 Trends show how IT is changing in that many of them in the past been outside the traditional purview of IT, but they will all affect ...

Consume Less Energy With Blade Servers

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

In this extremely competitive market, well-informed business owners know that reducing power consumption is a smart and environmentally friendly way to cut operating expenses without reducing product quality or employee output. Switching IT processing to a Dell Blade system can save money while increasing productivity. Improved Design Traditional rack servers bundle components ...

Royal Society Makes 350 Years Of Sciene Papers Freely Available Online

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

BBC reports that the world's oldest scientific academy, the Royal Society, has made its historical journal, which includes over 8000 scientific papers, permanently free to access online. You can reach all the old journal articles from this page at the Royal Society by selecting a journal and going to past issues." [caption ...

Mobile Phone Brain Cancer Link Rejected

Saturday, October 22nd, 2011

Further research has been published suggesting there is no link between mobile phones and brain cancer. The risk mobiles present has been much debated over the past 20 years as use of the phones has soared. The latest study led by the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Denmark looked at more than ...