A 75 year old woman managed to cut the internet connections of Armenia and part of Georgia just a pickaxe. Monday, March 28, much of Georgia and Armenia was without internet connection for several hours. Georgian police said, the head of this cut was a 75 year old woman, arrested in of stealing cable, but left [...]
British engineers at the University of Surrey are preparing to test a new technology – the Strand-1 (Surrey Training, Research and Nanosatellite Demonstrator) – a satellite with a ‘smartphone’ integrated. The novelty will be launched into orbit this year. The project is being developed by British company “Surrey Satellite Technology Limited.†The company’s aim is how a [...]
Dell confirmed on Monday, 13, the company had agreed to buy the vendor Compellent virtualized storage systems, for $ 960 million. Excluding the credit of the Compellent box that is about $ 140 million, which the computer maker will inherit upon the transaction, the business IFRC at $ 820 million. The acquisition is still subject to [...]
If someone invites you to play video games, do not forget to bring comfortable clothes and a towel to wipe off sweat. Strange? Not if the device is connected to Kinect, an accessory released by Microsoft that is revolutionizing the way we relate to video games. The device, smaller than a DVD player, reads the motion and voice [...]
Google on Tuesday launched two products expected for months: Chrome notebook with the new operating system company, and the Chrome Web Store, an application store for your browser. The notebook is the result of the Chrome project , an operating system based on cloud computing, that is, with routines and data stored on servers shared [...]
The U.S. Department of Defense submitted its fastest supercomputer, after three years of research and development along side with Sony. The new U.S. supercomputer, named “Cluster Condor” would rank 33rd in global position in terms of speed and power. It is claimed that at two million dollars, it is able to provide 500 teraflops of [...]
Seagate has been pretty busy lately, mainly to fight hand in hand with Western Digital for first place among manufacturers of hard drives. However, they have been so busy that the company almost forgot to celebrate their hard disk release number 1,500,000,000. This milestone was achieved on October 20, only two and a half years after arriving at the disk [...]
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sold the equivalent of $ 1.34 billion in company stock during the past week, which marks the first public offering of the software maker in seven years. According to a document sent by Ballmer to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the regulator of capital markets in the United States, he [...]
The MacBook Air is thin: it is 1.7 cm in its thickest part. So that when you raise it for the first time, you will be surprised by its weight. It is not heavy. Solid: its aluminum casing does not bend even if it is held by its thinnest edge … which is very thin. [...]
Intel Light Peak, a type of high-speed connection capable of transferring up to 10 gigabytes of information per second, could be ready earlier than expected. Light Peak is “on track to make its appearance in products during the first half of 2011 – and probably earlier,” according to a source within the industry who spoke [...]
