Sakshat, $10 laptop from India?
Government hopes its mini-computer, the world's cheapest, will bridge the digital divide between rich and poor.
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7.2.2009 Computer after accident
Usage of second-hand computer
Internet Computer Names
I had a very exciting chat with some beta users today where, for the first time, we talked about a feature I am very excited about that we are calling Internet Computer Names.
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24.8.2006 Super Personal Computer
Tyan Computer has announced its latest TyanPSC T-650 series personal supercomputers powered by Intels 50-watt quad-core Xeon processors. Tyan targets the TyanPSC T-650 series towards office environments. The new TyanPSC T-650 is a 5-node cluster with 40 CPU cores per system.
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22.3.2007 Cray Computer Founder Joins Microsoft
Microsoft confirmed on Friday that Burton Smith, formerly the chief scientist for Cray, would be joining the company as a technical fellow. Smith will work to expand Microsoft's efforts in parallel and high-performance computing, and would report to chief technical officier Craig Mundie.
Smith had worked with Cray since its inception as Tera Computer Co. in 1988. He has also published several works on issues regarding parallel computing. "As microprocessor technology continues to evolve over the next decade or so, we're going to see the capabilities of a supercomputer cluster on the desktop which will require a different software architecture," Mundie said. "Burton will be investigating how to develop software to benefit from the opportunities which multi-core multiprocessors will present."
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9.12.2005 10 Biggest Computer Flops of all time
Over the years, computers have changed the way we live today! In order to get us there, many hardware and software companies have pushed the envelope to create what we use today.
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22.10.2006 Vista encryption 'no threat' to computer forensics
Security advances in Windows Vista are unlikely to frustrate cybercrime investigation, according to a leading computer forensics firm.
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2.2.2007 The Ultimate Windows Vista Computer Design
Fest your eyes on the Ultimate Windows Vista computer design concept. The image included on the left, as well as the ones at the bottom of this article are a part of the Carbon Design Groups portfolio.
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17.9.2007 The Windows 7 11-Second Boot and the Computer That Made It Possible
Windows 7s evolution compared to Windows Vista is undeniable, and the lucky few that so far have had access to the RTM bits of the latest Windows client can confirm this.
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18.9.2009 Computer Maker Files Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft
Computer maker Tangent has filed a federal antitrust suit against Microsoft, accusing the software maker of anticompetitive behavior that forced it to overpay for the Windows operating system.
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23.2.2006 Microsoft's new OS Vista spurs computer sales
US sales of computers carrying Microsoft's new operating system Vista soared in the week after it was launched, defying the expectations of analysts who gave Vista lackluster reviews.
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10.2.2007 Windows Vista at 1 year: A computer maker's view
I've been working for a while on an upcoming story coinciding with Windows Vista's first year on the market, and I've talked with a variety of people who have been using and working with the Microsoft operating system in different ways.
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30.1.2008 Microsoft: The Windows OEM License Dies with Its Computer
Licenses for Windows come in various flavors from Retail to Volume, but perhaps the most common of all is provided by original equipment manufacturers together with operating systems preloaded on new computers.
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17.6.2008 Fix Windows 7 Does Not Start After Force Shutdown of Computer
No Microsoft operating system is bug free and it starts getting uncovered as more and more users start using it.
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10.10.2009 Home Computer Restore CD [Dual Boot] BETA now available
The Windows Home Server team would like to invite you to download a BETA version of the "Windows Home Server - Home Computer Restore CD (Dual Boot)" from Microsoft Connect at http://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer.
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6.4.2008 PC login Now - How To Change a Windows XP Limited User Account Into a Computer Administrator
One of the place that I work at has a few hundreds of computers and it is shared by students.
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12.7.2008 Shutdown Genious 2.2.8 - Automatically Shutdown Computer
Automate your PC shutdown, power off, log off, lock work station, hibernate, stand by or screen save etc. It can be started without the user having to login to the machine.
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27.6.2008 Home Computer - Home Network - Home Server
In the 1960s & 70s the idea of a home computer was unheard of outside of science fiction circles. Before the late 1980s home networks were unheard of.
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2.12.2007Sakshat, the $20 laptop from India
Presumably said with a straight face, India unveiled its Sakshat $20 laptop yesterday. What's hard to come by is how the actual laptop will
be built as are no known pictures of the laptop published. The Sakshat laptop, which translates to "before your eyes", will boast 2GB of storage,
WiFi, Ethernet and use only 2 watts of power. That is all that is known for now about the cheap laptop but it has many wondering if it is anything
more than vaporware. The idea of a $20 laptop is going to be quite the task and is slated for a release this summer.
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04.02.2009Dell spearheads the EPA's computer recycling drive
Computer maker Dell and the US Environmental Protection Agency have a computer recycling event tentatively scheduled for this weekend in the
metropolitan Washington, DC area...
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19.04.2008One admin's missing password leaves San Francisco in a lockdown state
A former San Francisco city computer network administrator remains in a Bay Area jail after pleading not guilty to four charges of computer tampering.
Meanwhile, the city's computer network is in limbo...
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19.07.2008NVidia Enters Computer Business with 'Deskside Supercomputer'
NVidia today may have launched
the stand-alone GPU-centric
computer business all by its
lonesome, with today's
announcement of a kind of
computer system specifically
designed to mesh graphics
processors together to perform
rich math functions. Its goal
is to enter teraflop territory
with a 1U server unit...
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21.06.2007Want to be a computer scientist? Forget maths
A new book seeks to demolish
the concept that computer
science is rooted in
mathematics and, in particular
that the notion of the
algorithm is fundamental to
computer science.
In
particular, he says the notion
of the algorithm, "has been
largely ineffective as a
paradigm for computer
science." Fant argues that,
because mathematicians,
notably John Von Neumann and
Alan Turing, were intimately
involved with the early
development of digital
electronic computers in the
1940s they transplanted a
mathematical model of
computation, including the
algorithm - commonly
understood to be an exact
prescription, defining a
computational process, leading
from various initial data to
the desired result - into the
fledgling science of
computers.
He claims
that "What is essentially a
discipline of pure mathematics
has come to be called "the
theory of computer science,"
and "the notion of the
algorithm has been decreed to
be a fundamental paradigm of
computer science" However, he
says this mathematical
perspective "is the wrong
point of view" and is asking
the wrong questions...
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05.07.2007A fond farewell to Computer Shopper in print
Before the Internet, in the era when information was delivered in packages and envelopes and crates, there was Computer Shopper .
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28.02.2009FAA computer glitch briefly snarls flights across US
The Federal Aviation Administration's computer that manages flight plans failed early Tuesday afternoon, causing some airlines to delay departures...
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27.08.2008Microsoft: We want your computer to talk in its sleep
Microsoft Research in partnership with USCD are working on a USB device, called the "Somniloquy" (which by definition means to "Talk in one's
sleep") which allows your computer to carry on performing network processes while it is asleep or in a low power state. The Somniloquy allows a
computer to process network traffic, even if the computers CPU, hard disk, display and I/O buses are powered down, without losing network
connectivity. As described in the research paper, the interface could manage many network-related tasks such as maintaining a remote desktop
connection, receiving instant messages, torrenting and managing a VOIP account, while the computer itself is asleep.
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24.08.2009Britain's oldest computer rebooted, first time in decades
According to the BBC's technology website, Britain's oldest computer, the Harwell, is being reported to be undergoing a reboot for the first
time in decades. Plans are being made to transport it to the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley where it is to be restored to working order.
The computer was originally built and used at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell, Oxfordshire. Construction started in 1949, and
became operational in April 1951 and remained in use until 1957. The computer used dekatrons for volatile memory (similar to RAM in a modern computer)
and paper tape for both input and program storage. Its purpose was to perform mathematical equations.
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06.09.2009Employee hands over passwords to hijacked San Francisco computer network
Much to the delight of San Francisco computer network officials, Mayor Gavin Newsom was given the password so the city can again have access to its
computer network after it was hijacked by a city employee...
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24.07.2008Keep a Record Of All Things You Do On the Computer & the Web
There are so many things you do on the computer at the same time.
You watch videos on YouTube, reply to emails, write Word
documents, upload photos, listen to MP3 music, play games, read blogs, chat with friends, search the web, share files and so much more.
So here are some free software programs / web tools that help you know exactly how you spend time in front of the computer they record all
computer activity including the websites you visit, the applications you run, etc.
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06.07.2008Simple Loop Helps Special Needs Youngsters Use Computer Mice
A Microsoft employees ingenuity and creative colleagues lead to a mouse that gives special needs children greater access to computer technology..
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30.04.2009A Look at Microsoft Researchs New Platform for Science
The Project Trident workflow system greatly simplifies data-intensive research by allowing researchers in any discipline to build their own custom
computer experiments without relying on computer scientists to write them from scratch...
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21.07.2009Apple Without the 'Computer:' Life with iPhone
On Tuesday morning in San
Francisco, Apple did something
it had never done before. In
1976, it basically created the
personal computer industry; if
it had ever come into fruition
without Apple, the computer
today would probably be
unrecognizable, and maybe even
unlikable. In 2001, the
company essentially invented
the portable digital music
industry, even though MP3
players existed prior to 2001,
and personal computers of some
sort existed prior to 1976...
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12.01.2007One-Third of Computer Attacks Start in US
Most computer attacks
originate in the United
States, a study has found.
Additionally, hackers are
increasingly becoming more
organized, creating crime
rings that are becoming more
effective in carrying out
attacks...
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19.03.2007Coming soon: A supercomputer for the rest of us
What if your desktop computer could run 100 times faster than a PC and were simple enough for a high school student to program?
Thats not an idle question. Researchers at the University of Maryland have built a prototype of a desktop supercomputer that can do just
that.
The new computer is at least three years from reaching commercial markets, but it could have a big effect in industries
that process large loads of data. They include the pharmaceutical, aerospace, military and entertainment industries, for applications such as drug
modeling, computer-aided design and digital content creation.
The Explicit Multi-Threading (XMT) computer combines the
decades-old philosophy of using parallel computing algorithms with the huge number of transistors in modern processors...
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09.09.2007CherryPal computer-Internet appliance hybrid goes on sale for $249
Not quite a thin client, not quite a full-blown desktop, the two-watt CherryPal C100 "cloud computer" is available for order today...
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22.07.2008Computer club explores 'nerd auction'
Looking to recruit more women, and perhaps date some sorority women, the largest computer club at Washington State University is exploring a "nerd
auction."
The idea is for members to trade their computer skills for a makeover and, possibly, a date.
"You can buy a nerd and he'll fix your computer, help you with stats homework, or if you're really adventurous, take you to dinner!" Ben Ford,
president of the Linux Users Group, said on its Web site recently.
Ford acknowledged that some of the group's 213 registered
members may not be ready for the auction block.
"The problem is that we're all still nerds. Let's face it, guys. If anyone's
going to bid on us, we'll need some spicing up," he wrote. "And who better to help with that than sorority girls who like nothing better than a
makeover?"..
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27.09.2007Job gains and losses in IT: The latest numbers
Although the telecom industry lost 3,400 jobs from August through September of this year, the computer manufacturing business lost virtually none, and
"computer systems design and related services" picked up 8,500 more employees...
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08.10.2008Apple computer sales seen surging in US, Acer also strong
While Apple has yet to make its mark among worldwide computer shipments in two major surveys of PC sales, it continued to show impressive strength
stateside. But Acer is #3 or #4, depending on whom you ask...
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