Linux tends to dominate as the operating system of choice on the world’s fastest supercomputers. A full 469, or 94 percent, of the top 500 supercomputers now run Linux, according to the Top500 report. Meanwhile, only three of the world’s top supercomputers in this latest report — ranking at No. 132, 165 and 183, respectively — run […]
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Google Unveils $199 laptop
Google has launched Acer C7 Chromebook for $199. Specifications are: 11.6’’ (1366×768) display 1 inch thin – 3 lbs / 1.4 kg 3.5 hours of battery Dual-core Intel® Celeron® Processor 100 GB Google Drive Cloud Storage2 with 320 GB Hard Disk Drive Dual band Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n and Ethernet HD Camera 3x USB 2.0 1x HDMI […]
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Amazon-Kindle fire
Technical Details Display 7″ multi-touch display with IPS (in-plane switching) technology and anti-reflective treatment, 1024 x 600 pixel resolution at 169 ppi, 16 million colors. Size (in inches) 7.5″ x 4.7″ x 0.45″ (190 mm x 120 mm x 11.4 mm). Weight 14.6 ounces (413 grams). System Requirements None, because it’s wireless […]
HP today announced that its board of directors has appointed Meg Whitman as president and chief executive officer. In addition, Ray Lane has moved from non-executive chairman to executive chairman of the board of directors, and the board intends to appoint a lead independent director promptly. These leadership appointments are effective immediately and follow the […]
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Google Wallet goes live
At long last, Google has launched its Google Wallet mobile payment application on Sprint Nexus S 4G smartphones. Google Wallet, which Google first announced this past spring, utilizes near-field communications (NFC) technology to send very short-range signals to nearby NFC tags to complete payments — or as Google tells it, you’ll only have to tap […]
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Carol Bartz out as Yahoo CEO
Carol Bartz has been fired from her job as Yahoo CEO and replaced on an interim basis by the company’s chief financial officer, Tim Morse, Yahoo said on Tuesday. Bartz sent a brief e-mail to employees saying she had been fired by Yahoo’s chairman, according to the Wall Street Journal’s All Things D blog, which was the […]
Digital certificates issued by GlobalSign have come under scrutiny after a hacker’s claim that he broke into the company’s computer systems. If true, it would be the second such compromise in the past few weeks. The hacker, known as Comodohacker, said on Monday he had broken into Dutch certificate authority (CA) DigiNotar and that he […]
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SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc, the biggest maker of smartphone software, agreed to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc for $12.5 billion in its largest acquisition, gaining mobile patents and expanding in the hardware business. Motorola shareholders will get $40 a share in cash, the companies said in a statement. That’s 63 per cent more than Motorola Mobility’s closing price on […]