David Levy, a computer scientist and professor with the Information School at the University of Washington, found that those who had meditation training were able to stay on task longer and were less distracted. Levy and his co-authors discovered that meditation also improved test subjects’ memory while easing their stress.
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Read moreThe Chinese, who also developed the Loongson MIPS CPU, were looking to order at least ten million graphics processors. The problem is that the GeForce / Quadro driver from NVIDIA is only available for Linux x86 and x86_64 architectures, not MIPS or even ARM (only the Tegra driver is for ARMv7). NVIDIA refused to release the source-code to their high-performance feature-complete cross-platform driver to the Chinese, and it would cost them millions of dollars to port the code-base, so they went to AMD for their GPU order.
The order was at least for ten million GPUs, which given the current low-end parts, would value the order at least 250 to 350 million dollars (USD).
A few days back, Linux founder Linus Torvalds was unhappy with NVidia because of their Linux drivers are binary only. In the talk he called NVIDIA “the single worst company we have ever dealt with” and he said a few other nice words too. 
Hope NVidia open sources it drivers.
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Read moreAs if Android everywhere wasn’t enough
Microwave Android Integrated Device (MAID) can auto-cook virtually unlimited number of dishes besides making microwave operations simpler with user-friendly interface.
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Read moreVirtualization and its many flavors has been one of the most dominating and influential technologies that has evolved over the past five years. While the technology has gained wide acceptance, it is also seen as a key element behind the cloud computing wave that is sweeping the IT landscape today.
Indian IT partners have started adopting the technology and are building successful business practices around it. In this article, we take a look at key trends in the virtualization market.
“Canonical is keen to explore opportunities, and offers very flexible packages for partners looking at virtualization services. Open source is emerging as not just a cost-effective alternative but also as an equally secure and stable alternative,” says Prakash Advani, Regional Manager, Asia Pacific, Canonical.
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Read moreAccording to research firm Zinnov, currently 30 percent of the top 1,000 R&D spenders across verticals have a presence in India. As per the report titled “Global R&D Benchmarking Study: FY2011” released, there is a total installed talent pool of 2,20,000 in MNC subsidiaries in India and these MNCs have spent USD 7-7.5 billion on the headcount in India in FY11 alone. The study also found that the opportunity areas for India to attract R&D investment span over 13 sectors with software being the most invested in sector.
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Read moreAMD is now embracing ARM to beat Intel with 2 major announcements recently:
AMD, ARM, Imagination, MediaTek, and Texas Instruments would be joining forces to form the HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation. MediaTek is one of the leading wireless chipset and are very important supplier in the low cost smart phones.
The companies will work together to drive a single architecture specification and simplify the programming model to help software developers take greater advantage of the capabilities found in modern central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs), and unlock the performance and power efficiency of the parallel computing engines found in heterogeneous processors.
By standardizing the heterogeneous programming model, developers can more easily and cost-effectively develop new software tailored to take advantage of the expanding $55.5B heterogeneous (also known as “hybrid”) processor market. The HSA Foundation will help usher in the next era of software innovation, from enabling unprecedented user experiences to improving cloud-based data management, streaming, and security.
AMD also announced recently that it will be including an ARM core in their CPU to run TrustZone for security in the CPU.
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Read moreThe Cloud Faceoff!
The stage was set for a lively debate between public cloud rivals at GigaOM Structure in San Francisco Thursday – representatives from Citrix, Eucalyptus and the OpenStack project certainly delivered. Nebula CEO and OpenStack co-founder Chris Kemp didn’t even get past the introductions before he challenged his fellow panelists on their “closed” cloud implementations and embrace of Amazon Web Services’ API, which he compared to the Walmart of infrastructure.
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Read moreDoes the rest of the cloud computing world really need to clone Amazon Web Services in order to succeed?
Probably not, says Lew Moorman, the president of Rackspace, the San Antonio, Texas, company that plays second fiddle to Amazon in the cloud game. According to him, some customers want companies like his to clone all of Amazon’s Application Programming Interfaces, the coding standards that let a program interact with Amazon’s cloud. But he thinks it’s a bad idea that isn’t going to work out.
Rackspace is also moving to OpenStack on August 1st! wow!
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Read moreFrom the The online vigilantes
In a similar vein, industry watcher and erstwhile journalist Prakash Advani says, “For any democratic country, freedom of speech is important… And even though ours is a democracy, it is not easy for people to express their opinions freely… groups like Anonymous have found ways to express themselves. “
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Read moreAfter Dell and HP, now MiTAC has announced that they are doing an ARM server.
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Read moreFrom TG Daily..
UK carrier Vodafone has confirmed that it has received more pre-orders for the device than any other Android phone in history.
Finally Samsung has an Apple killer!
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Read moreOlympus has a new baby in the micro four-third category. The OM-D E-M5. This is new OM-D series as compared to the PEN series.
Here is what is cool:
What not so cool:
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Read moreFrom Deccan Herald Article:
The Android-based smartphones which can work like PCs by connecting them with a monitor, keyboard and mouse, will be out in the market in a matter of months, said Canonical, developer of the Ubuntu Operating System.
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Read moreIt may be known to some as the Dropbox-for-the-enterprise, but Box.com could be forgiven for insisting on its own identity. With more than 120,000 customers, including 82 percent of the Fortune 500, the company has made a name for itself as one of the leaders in the enterprise cloud storage and data management space.
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Read moreIn the battle of the desktop operating systems (OS), there are only three dominant players left – Windows, Mac and Linux. At some point, Windows was cast as the platform for the common man, Mac as the one for the artist, and Linux as the geek’s playground.
Linux found favour in powering servers, supercomputers, large businesses and even stock exchanges. And Google even used it as the platform to build its popular Android mobile operating system. But in the desktop and notebook space, it still failed to gain traction.
There’s an image associated with Linux that can be frightening for a normal user, invoking pictures of command lines and terminal windows. But over the past 20 years, some massive steps have been taken to make the OS more accessible.
The same was also published on Economic Times.
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Read moreAfter having a very successful Galaxy S II, now samsung has come up with SIII. It is Samsung’s flag ship brand and they seem to make no compromise in the configurations. Here is what is cool.
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Read moreUbuntu 12.04 LTS is here. This is the first time Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Desktop) will be supported for 5 years.
Torrent is preferred method for me.
| Ubuntu 12.04 LTS |
Torrent Links | Direct Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu Desktop 64-Bit Edition | Torrent | Main Server |
| Ubuntu Desktop 32-Bit Edition | Torrent | Main Server |
| Ubuntu Server Edition 64-Bit | Torrent | Main Server |
| Ubuntu Server Edition 32-Bit | Torrent | Main Server |
Other Links:
Ubuntu Core – Just 35 MB of pure Ubuntu.
Have fun
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Read moreFor those who got excited with the Zotac Nono, you can now buy it and build your media center/small PC. Ideal for loading Ubuntu/XBMC.
Config:
Ports:
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Read moreAfter the successful ASUS Transformer Prime which also comes with a full size keyboard dock, ASUS has launched a lower priced version of the Prime the ASUS Transformer Pad 300.
The prime has better display and Aluminum body, while the Pad had plastic body. Here is what is cool.
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Read moreHP has now jumped on the bandwagon as a cloud service provider with HP Cloud. Here is an excerpts from Senior VP of HP Cloud services:
On When OpenStack Reached Its Tipping Point: My thesis: The day Canonical shifted Ubuntu’s cloud bet from Eucalyptus to OpenStack, it was a wake up call for small vendors that were still getting ready to make their bets. “I would completely agree,” replied Singh. “A bunch of private cloud guys have been at it [trying to develop platforms] for awhile but OpenStack caught up and passed them. We’ve been impressed with CloudStack and we’re glad to see it moving along, and we’re happy to see Eucalyptus working with Amazon. But look at the ecosystem and OpenStack looks impressive.”
On How HP Will Differentiate from Other Cloud Providers: “With all due respect to Rackspace, we’re a little larger and we have a global reach. And we’ll address that reach in the cloud as well.”
In terms of HP’s secret sauce, “Nobody is ever going to turn away from a secure, business-driven, SLA_driven cloud service,” said Singh. “I challenge you: Who is delivering that type of cloud today? Amazon Web Services has a lot of stickiness but folks are saying ‘I need more tools and I need good, old fashion service.”
HP will differentiate above the IaaS level, focusing on platform as a service, database as a service, and analytics as a service, he added. “Standing up VMs is so 2009. It’s time to stand up quality clouds, tools, APIs, and service that scale. We’ll offer a complete stack of services, and we’ll give you a complete [cloud] marketplace on top of that.”
Read more of the interview of Zorawar ‘Biri’ Singh, senior VP and GM of HP Cloud Services.
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