Smartphone Shipments Overtake Client PCs In 2011 For The First Time Ever
February 6th, 2012The year 2011 marked a beginning of an important trend in mobile computing.Smartphone shipments topped PCs for the first time ever last year, by 73 million units, according to figures published by research firm Canalys.
The total global shipments of smart phones for the whole of 2011 was 487.7 million units, up 63% on the 299.7 million smart phones shipped throughout 2010. By comparison, the global client PC market grew 15% in 2011 to 414.6 million units, with 274% growth in pad shipments. Pads accounted for 15% of all client PC shipments in 2011.
MIT Genius Stuffs 100 Processors Into Single Chip
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 chip architecture and programming tool set, Anant Agarwal ofTilera embedded the processing power of hundreds of cores on a single chip. Tilera’stechnology addresses the three biggest challenges in today’s semiconductor market, offering a processor that is high-performance, power-efficient, and easy to program.
“This is a general-purpose chip that can run off-the-shelf programs almost unmodified,” says Anant Agarwal, chief technical officer of Tilera, the company that is making the 100-core chip. “And we can do that while offering at least four times the compute performance of an Intel Nehalem-Ex, while burning a third of the power as a Nehalem.”
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The Text Message/SMS Turns 19 Years Old
December 3rd, 2011
SMS Text Message Turns 19 Years Old
The text of the message was “Merry Christmas”.
The technology behind the SMS text is 27-years old, having first been developed in the Franco-German GSM cooperation in 1984 by Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert. It was then, eight years later, that the “Merry Christmas” text was sent.Read the rest of this entry »
Top 10 Key Information Technology Trends For 2012
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 how IT does its job in the future.Read the rest of this entry »
Consume Less Energy With Blade Servers
October 26th, 2011In 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 into individual cabinets along with separate energy consuming devices like graphics cards and keyboards. Each server requires a power source and extensive cabling and patching. A single optimized blade system can replace an entire room of rack servers and operate from a solitary source of power. The innovative design improves the effectiveness of internal fans and cooling systems, reducing current draw by as much as 65 percent for a fully loaded blade chassis over similarly configured rack systems. Since a single cabinet houses an entire block of servers, the need for external cooling systems or “cold rooms” drops as well.Read the rest of this entry »
Royal Society Makes 350 Years Of Sciene Papers Freely Available Online
October 25th, 2011BBC 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.”
Over the centuries, many important scientific discoveries have been published in the Philosophical Transactions
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