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Titan Named World’s Fastest Supercomputer
From PCmag.com: The U.S. once again has the world’s top supercomputer. The Titan, a Cray XK7 system installed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, has been named the fastest supercomputer in the world in the 40th edition of the twice-annual Top500 List. According to a Top500 news release, the Titan achieved 17.59 […]
Microsoft To Retire/Kill Off Windows Live Messenger
Microsoft’s long time popular instant messaging client, Windows Live Messenger is going to be retired/killed off in favour of recently aquired Skype. Microsoft has officially confirmed that the company will discontinue Windows Live Messenger in 2013, moving all users over to Skype early in the new year. This move will include migrating Messenger’s existing 100 […]
Gmail overtakes Hotmail as world’s top e-mail service
For the first time since launched in 2004 Google’s Gmail has finally overtaken Microsoft’s Hotmail to be the top e-mail service worldwide, according to ComScore which tracks Web site traffic. Data from October 2012 shows Gmail had 287.9 million unique worldwide visitors during the period, narrowly edging out Microsoft’s Hotmail which finished with 286.2 million […]
Windows 7 expands lead over XP
Microsoft Windows 7 has increased its lead over Windows XP in October 2012. Recorded by Net Applications a detailed Web tracker, Windows 7 scored a total market share of 44.7 percent last month, a slight gain from September’s 44 percent. Over the same time, XP’s share fell from 41.2 percent to 40.7 percent. The gap […]
Demographics – Smart Phones & Tablets
As more of today’s consumers own both a smartphone and a tablet, how do they choose which device to use? How, when, and why do people use their smartphones versus their tablets? A new study from Flurry Analytics aims to answer that question. Just as smartphones have conquered the home and the workplace, tablets are […]
47 years later Moore’s Law continues on at Intel
Article from Cnet: In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore foresaw an inexorable rise in chip power that eventually delivered the computer to your pocket. While long in the tooth, Moore’s prediction still has plenty of life in it. Here’s why. Year in, year out, Intel executive Mike Mayberry hears the same doomsday prediction: Moore’s Law […]
A Peak Inside Google’s Data Centers
Google has released pictures offering a rare glimpse inside its secretive but colourful data centres. Until now, the search engine heavyweight has only allowed a handful of employees access to its eight buildings around the world. But these images, taken by photographer Connie Zhou, offer an insight into the technology that powers billions of web […]
Microsoft’s Windows 8 biggest wild card: The hardware
Article from ZDnet: The armada of hardware designed to popularize Windows 8 is starting to surface and one thing is certain: Form factors are going to be critical for Microsoft’s latest operating system and the upgrade cadence. As most tech watchers know, Microsoft launches Windows 8 on Oct. 26. The ambitious effort is Microsoft’s attempt […]
PC Sales Expected to Decline for First Time Since 2001
Article from Nasdaq: After 11 years of growth, sales of PCs – including notebooks, netbooks and desktops — are expected to decline. This revelation comes from three different researchers. In a report by IHS iSuppli, the researcher showed that worldwide PC shipments will contract this year by 1.2 percent to 348.7 million units. In 2011, 352.8 […]
One-Third of World’s Population has the Internet: UN
More than a one-third of the world’s population is now online while mobile phone uptake increased by more than 600 million in 2011 to around six billion, a UN agency said Thursday. But the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) highlighted huge disparities in the cost of services, with the poorer parts of the world tending to […]
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