IBM Power7 and Apple’s ARM A4: The Advantages of Having Your Own Processor
A lot of things change in a decade. At the end of the ’90s, it seemed clear that Intel’s Itanium was going to dominate the UNIX world and that the proprietary processors would give way to the inevitable.
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IBM Power7 and Apple’s ARM A4: The Advantages of Having Your Own Processor
6 Tips To optimize the notebook battery power Tip 1 Windows power management switch The operating system can affect energy consumption. The following settings slowing your notebook quite a bit more, but you work much longer without laptop battery electricity.
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6 Tips To optimize the notebook battery power
Remember the helicopter footage of the police chasing OJ Simpson in his white Ford Bronco on Los Angeles’ Interstate 405? Now imagine being able to watch that on your smartphone–instead of your TV set–and even tilt, zoom and pan the camera to get different views, similar to what you would do with Google Earth. A new mobile technology product called HT 4Sight promises to bring live, encrypted video feeds direct from air crews to smartphones on the ground
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Helinet Brings Live Aerial Video to Cops’ Smartphones
3 ( three.co.uk ) has brought back its 15GB mobile broadband dongle with prices starting from just £25 a month. Available to order online now at the three.co.uk website, the 15GB data allowance dongle is available with two of 3’s mobile broadband packages, both of which offer download speeds up to 7.2Mbps.
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3 Mobile Broadband 15GB Dongle Returns For £25
Orange ( orange.co.uk ) has been ranked the UK’s number one mobile broadband provider for a second time following January’s YouGov Dongle Tracker survey. UK mobile broadband users ranked Orange top in nine out of fifteen categories, including reliability, customer service, ease of use and upload speeds
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Orange Mobile Broadband Ranked No.1 Again
Who was the biggest star at the Grammys yesterday? For us nerds, the clear winner was Stephen Colbert, who pulled an iPad out of his (presumably specially tailored) jacket pocket and flashed it to the crowd. Colbert, who also won a Grammy (for some Christmas Album, if you care), was presenting an award, and pulled out the iPad to read off the list of nominees
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Stephen Colbert Already Has iPad, Is Cooler Than Jay-Z
Apple’s much-awaited iPad tablet is a good looking, multipurpose e-reader but it is no Kindle slayer, say publishing executives and electronic-book enthusiasts. Instead, the iPad is likely to raise the stakes and help traditional e-readers evolve into more sophisticated devices
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Apple iPad Raises the Stakes for E-Readers
Here are pics of a HTPC (Home Theater PC) we built for someone in 2009. The case was black to match the rest of the customer’s stuff (cable box, blueray, DVD players, tuners, etc). We used a slim case- it almost looks like a VCR or DVD player! The case we used has nice ventilation on the top and a fan on the side to remove heat floating around the case
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Will’s HTPC
In some ways Oracle, by acquiring Sun, has created a company that on paper looks very similar to the direction that IBM was going in the 1960s but with software, not hardware, in the lead.
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Snorkel (Sun + Oracle) vs. IBM: The Enterprise Battle of This Decade?
Bundle deals involving 3G mobile broadband access and the newly launched Apple iPad could be on their way to the UK later this year. Following the sucess of mobile broadband and laptop packages, speculation is mounting that the UK’s mobile broadband providers like Vodafone, Orange and O2, together with 3rd party retailers like the Carphone Warehouse are eying similar deals involving the Apple iPad
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Apple iPad & Mobile Broadband Deals Could Be Next
Mobile operator 3 ( three.co.uk ) has activated its 10,000th 3G site as part of plans to boost its mobile broadband network coverage and capacity across the UK. The 10,000th site as Shooters Hill in South East London forms part of the company’s network improvement programme that aims to have 13,000 3G sites in operation, which will provide mobile broadband coverage to nearly 93% of the UK population.
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3 Mobile Broadband Network Coverage Extended
BT ( BT.com/deals ) has launched three ‘BT Winter Deals’, including free unlimited anytime phone calls for 3 months and a broadband and calls package for £7.99 a month. Customers wanting to order a new BT line, reconnect a BT line, or switch their calls to BT, can now order BT’s Unlimited Anytime calling plan for free for the first 3 months, followed by £4.99 a month thereafter.
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BT Winter Deals Offer Free Anytime Phone Calls
85 WHr 9-Cell Lithium-Ion Dell Inspiron 1420 battery The Dell Inspiron 1420 Battery is special for the Dell 1420 notebook : The 1420 is offered with the new Core 2 Duo processors with 800MHz front side bus and clock speeds ranging from 1.5GHz to 2.2GHz. Along with T7100, T7300, and T7500 Core 2 Duo CPUs there
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85 WHr 9-Cell Lithium-Ion Dell Inspiron 1420 battery
If I were to describe two companies, one that is heavily leveraged by partners with global consumer and corporate scope and another that is largely U.S.-centric and largely limited to the consumer market, you might assume the first company was more successful. And up until the end of the past decade, you would have been right by choosing Microsoft.
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At the Core of Why Apple is Outperforming Microsoft
BT ( BT.com ) has announced the launch of BT Infinity Broadband, BT’s new up to 40Mb broadband service with prices starting from just £19.99 a month. Powered by the latest fibre optic technology, BT Infinity Broadband provides lightening fast download speeds of up to 40Mbps and upload speeds up to a market leading 10Mbps – all of which promises to transform peoples’ experience of the Internet. From Monday, new and existing BT customers living in enabled areas will be able to order one of two BT Infinity packages online at the BT.com website
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40Mb BT Infinity Broadband Launches At £19.99
The Massachusetts special election on Tuesday is dominating news headlines around the country, with many pundits claiming that the election means President Obama will lose his ability to push through key reforms as the Democratic majority in the Senate whittles…
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Senator Introduces Legislation to Ban EPA Carbon Regulation
Next week begins the post PC era, what could be the one of the most important events in technology since the launch of the Apple II. Apple launched a revolution and then watched other companies take that revolution away. This time, with an older and wiser Steve Jobs, the company will get a second chance to both change the future and be the primary beneficiary of that change.
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Apple Tablet Dance: Rise of a More Powerful Apple or a New Decline?
TalkTalk ( talktalk.co.uk ) has won the UK’s ‘Best Home Phone Provider’ award in the latest customer satisfaction survey conducted by Homephonechoices. The phone and broadband supplier won seven out of the ten categories including ease of understanding bills and clarity of pricing. Awards for quality of customer service were won by Sky, while niche supplier Primus Saver was voted best provider in the value for money category.
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TalkTalk Wins Best Home Phone Provider Award
3 ( three.co.uk ) has upgraded its mobile broadband deals with the latest next generation Huawei E1750 dongle that’s capable of boosting download speeds to up to a maximum 7.2Mbps. From today, all of 3’s contract mobile broadband packages will include the E1750 dongle which will be supplied free of charge. The Huawei E1750 dongle provides a maximum download speed of up to 7.2Mbps compared to the maximum 3.6Mbps speeds offered by the ZTE MF627 dongle that it has replaced.
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3 Mobile Broadband Deals Get Speed Boost
The combination of Sun and Oracle (Snorkel), is increasingly looking like the company that can never be. After it finally appeared to get through EU approvals , now Russia is threatening to block the merger ( China may follow ), due to their inability to distance themselves from MySQL, which has likely added billions to the cost of this merger and effectively taken billions from the value of the merged company. Here in California, where both companies are located and where we may shortly need snorkels to breathe, it was being reported ( mis-reported?
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Sun-Oracle: Death by Bureaucracy