Archive for the ‘Computing’ Category

• Apple’s OS Snow Leopard Will Be Arriving Soon

  Saturday, August 29th, 2009

  Apple has come out with their new operating system for Mac users. Called the Snow Leopard, this is found to have a more responsive finder, and will free up to 7GB in your hard drive once you install it in your Apple laptops.
  Here are the salient features of this OS:
  - Mail that loads messages up [...]

• The PowerPC debacle

  Saturday, August 29th, 2009

  EAST FISHKILL, N.Y.–When the PowerPC was introduced in 1993, many people saw it as a sure-fire winner. For one thing, it was the product of a strategic alliance of three of the best and biggest names in the electronics industry: IBM, Motorola and Apple Computer. Analysts saw it looming as a formidable competitor to Intel’s [...]

• Intel ups Q3 revenue expectations on stronger than expected demand for MPUs, chipsets

  Saturday, August 29th, 2009

  Intel adds to the recent string of good news, improving its Q3 revenue and gross margin expectations. The new guidance calls for $9 billion in revenue, a $1 billion improvement over Q2, and Q3 gross margin percentage in the upper half of the previous range of 53%.

• Dialog develops a power management IC for the Intel Atom

  Friday, August 28th, 2009

  Dialog Semiconductor, with Harman Becker, has developed a power management IC for the Intel Atom.
  Dubbed DA6001, it will be used Harman’s in-vehicle infotainment command centres.
  It is the only available integrated power management and clock supply IC for the Intel Atom, claims Dialog, and allows a substantial reduction in the number of active and passive system [...]

• USB stick makes easy automatic backups to discs

  Friday, August 28th, 2009

  There’s really no excuse for not backing up your computer these days. Used to be that making a backup was a fairly complex task. But today’s backup offerings make it pretty much a no-brainer. In the recent months, I’ve written about several of the newest backup methods and products that make backing up a breeze. [...]

• IBM Power7 architecture illustrates some issues for the rest of us

  Friday, August 28th, 2009

  By balancing execution speed, memory bandwidth and latency, and coherency overhead the Power7 architects have attempted to make possible systems that will scale up to 256 CPU cores without experiencing a sharp drop-off in performance-per-core. As such, the Power7 is not only a major stride in microprocessors for large systems, but a textbook on the [...]

• Better Products for a Better Future

  Friday, August 28th, 2009

  Epson knows that planning for the future requires a strong commitment to the environment and strives to create innovative products that are reliable, recyclable and energy efficient. The Artisan 710 and 810 are designed to be recycled7,  ENERGY STAR® qualified and RoHS compliant. In addition to supporting printing on recycled paper, the estimated power consumption [...]