Feb
8
2010
Feb
8
2010
Technology By Ernesto Custodioe | No comments yet

Canon’s Latest PowerShot Cameras: An Overview

Canon unveils its latest PowerShot SD cameras recently. There are four new PowerShot SD are in Cannon Digital ELPH line. They are – PowerShot SD1400 IS, PowerShot SD 1300 IS and PowerShot SD3500 IS and PowerShot SX210 IS. All these four modes of Cannon are next-generation models, which looks very stylish and equiped with high technologies. All the four PowerShot cameras of cannon have an increased shooting flexibility.

Cannon PowerShot SX210 IX

Among all the four Cannon PowerShot cameras, Cannon PowerShot SX210 IX is very much compact with high zoom and this particular model is followed by the success of Cannon PowerShot SX 200. Cannon PowerShot SX210 IX comes with 14x optical zoom with 14 mega pixel sensor and it also comes with 3.0 inch wide-aspect display. This Cannon PowerShot SX210 IX has the capacity to record 720p HD video. Cannon PowerShot SX210 IX comes with three attractive colors such as gold, purple and black. The price of Cannon PowerShot SX210 IX is MSRP $349 and that will hit the market from March 2010.

Cannon PowerShot SD 3500 IS

Cannon PowerShot SD 3500 IS easy to use and it comes with 3.5 inch touchscreen display and it has lesser discrete buttons when compared to previous touchscreen efforts of Cannon. Cannon PowerShot SD 3500 IS also comes with modest 5x lens (24-120mm). Similar to Cannon PowerShot SX 210 IX, Cannon PowerShot SD 3500 IS
also has 14 mega pixel sensor plus 720p video and its cost is $330 and this model ships at the end of this month.

Cannon PowerShot SD 1400 IS

Cannon PowerShot SD 1400 IS also comes with 14 mega pixel sensor plus 720p video with 4x (28-112mm) lens. Cannon PowerShot SD 1400 IS cost will be $250 and ships at the end of FEBRAURY 2010.

Cannon PowerShot SD 1300 IS

Cannon PowerShot SD 1300 IS is the cheapest of all the four models and it is a budget model, which has 12 mega pixel and 720p video that costs $200 and ships at the end of this month.

Feb
8
2010
Google, Technology By Ernesto Custodioe | No comments yet

China Banned Major Hacker Website in the Country

China’s Black Hawk Safety Net website is the biggest training website for hackers. The site teaches the lesson how to hack and sell downloads of malicious software. After the issue of Google pull out of China, hacking has become more sensitive in the country.

The Black Hawk Safety Net organization was found in 2005 and its headquarters is in Xuchang city, Henan Province, which is near to Hubei. With the help of this organization, the subscribers learned how hack others financial accounts and how to steal funds from others accounts. To teach such kind of lessons, the organization charges 100 to 2, 000 Yuan.

This hacker training website, very openly enrolled thousands of subscribers through online and the site thought them the lessons of cyber attack and supplied them malware like Trojan software. As we all know, Trojans is major virus that controls the computers illegally. So far, the hacker website has recruited more than 12,000 paying members and 170,000 free members.

The hacker website mainly target on students and the students download Trojan software from the site for fun in order to control others computer and few other people attack the account of others to make fortune. Hacking process is very simple to do and mostly dropped out school students do it for money.

Totally, there are three organizers of the site arrested so far by the police of Hubei. One of the local media said that the police already had raid in last November but there is no idea why they didn’t take further actions.

Today (Monday, Feb 8) Black Hawk Safety Net was not in Web and the site is totally unavailable but still it was not clear when the shut down process took place and the Hubei government also denies remarking on this issue.

Hubei police not only arrested three organizers of the website but they also freeze million dollars assets of the hacker organization. Apart from that, Hubei police seized five computers, nine servers and other associated websites. However, there is no idea whether these accusers or their hacking website associate with the recent cyber attack on Google.

Feb
8
2010
Technology By Ernesto Custodioe | No comments yet

IBM Power7 Chip on Ramp

International Business Machine (IBM) is unveiling new saver system today (i.e. Monday, Feb.8, 2010) at an event in New York City. Competitions are there for IBM’s new Power7 Processor. Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Intel also expected to release their next generation version of the Itanium Processor. In an interview, a Pund-IT Research analyst, Charles King said, ““We’re seeing three very big vendors … sharpening their elbows a bit,”

However, IBM officials are very much confident about their Power7 Processor. In an interview, Scott Handy, the vice president of IBM Power System Platform said, “We view the Unix market as very, very robust and mission-critical, and with [the Power7] platform, we have a perfect spot in the market,”

IBM new Power7 Processor is specially designed for certain projects like analyzing financial stuffs, managing electrical grids and processing cancer research data. This Power7 server system made of integrated servers, storage and software and so on.

When compared to Power6 processors of IBM, these Power7 processors will deport better performance and capabilities (its virtualization capability is very much strong and powerful as it supports almost 1,000 virtual servers at one physical host).

One of the most distinguished aspects of IBM Power7 servers is it costs the same price of Power6 processors but Power7 consumes half the energy of Power6. For instance, when compared to its predecessor (Power6), Power7 servers are four times faster and the Power7 chip consists of eight processing cores that help to support 32 threads and each cores of Power7 chip is extremely powerful.

IBM inserts series of new features in Power7 System and one of the most distinguished one is it uses a latest technology called TurboCore and the other distinguished feature is “Intelligent Energy” that supports to minimize the power consumption up to 90 percentages.

IBM Power7 system was under the testing process since August and the experts were testing projects like cancer research process with Texas Medical Center. The testing come out with the good result with the advantages of speed, memory and other performance of chip.

There are totally four new Power7 server models are in ramp that cut the data energy prices. The four models of Power7 server are – Power 750 Express, Power 755, Power 770 and Power 780. Among all the four Power7 servers, the first two servers shipping will start from February 19 and the last two Power7 Servers shipping will start on March 7.

Feb
8
2010
Business, Google, Microsoft, Technology By Gary Singer | No comments yet

Bing the default search in the Facebook world

Bing is now the default search in the Facebook world. The networking site gets its management side of advertising.

Last Thursday facebook celebrated its sixth anniversary and announced it had 400 million users, Facebook has extended its cooperation with Microsoft.

The Redmond company makes managing advertisements in Facebook which has been handled so far under an agreement expiring in 2011. A “mutual” decision as stated Jon Tinter general manager Bing, Microsoft, however, continue to present advertisements related to the search results.

Consideration probably negotiated by Microsoft, Bing will now offer search engine exclusive service in the world. Microsoft has particular advantage in creating synergies with its own advertising social platforms Windows Live Hotmail, Xbox Live and MSN.

In addition, Microsoft will offer in coming weeks to further “experiments in-depth research. The Redmond Company suggests that the advice given by family and friends should play a leading role in this area. We can therefore expect to see social research landed shortly in Bing. Google has just started a beta test of its Social Search service, which presents search results from social networks to which the user subscribes.

Feb
7
2010
Technology By Gary Singer | No comments yet

Facebook six years old, hackathon contest for Facebook employees

Facebook founder said that Facebook celebrates the 6th anniversary of the company’s. In addition to celebrate their will be a “hacker Marathon” (Hackathon) competition, that is, Facebook technical staff will participate in the programming competition, new products at the same time make Facebook creativity.

According to foreign media reports, this week 4 (February 4) for the U.S. social-networking site Facebook celebrated 6 years of age “birthday”, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg informed through company’s official blog, the author said that before this week, Facebook users worldwide will reach 400 million.

Zuckerberg said that Facebook created to celebrate the 6th anniversary of the company’s addition to the celebration of the General Assembly, will also hold so-called “hacker Marathon” (Hackathon) competition, that is, Facebook technical staff will participate in the programming competition, while new product ideas proposed by Facebook .

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg informed through his bolg post that, Today we will celebrate the Facebook, 6 birthday. Before this week, Facebook users will reach 400 million. A year ago, Facebook users do not amount to the current half. It is the strong support of majority of Facebook users, so that our various businesses have made significant progress, so that global public contact and a substantial increase in the degree of openness.

Facebook was six years ago today. I and my roommate was co-developed the Facebook, is designed around the family and friends to provide a more rapid information sharing, mutual understanding and contact way. We hope that the Facebook can improve the public’s quality of life. After seeing the growth of Facebook, the global public to use Facebook to share all types of information for various services and to strengthen ties, we are very pleased.

For me personally, over the past six years, in my efforts to improve the performance of services, while Facebook, I also through that site with the alumni, family members and colleagues to maintain close contact. When other users get the help or Facebook to share information with others, no matter to me or other persons, all have extraordinary significance.

Life is a tragedy regardless of the public are willing to share information with others and help each other. There is this human need to inspire us to continue to strengthen the enthusiasm of technology development, to further the activities of the public sharing of information easier.

To celebrate the 6th anniversary of creating Facebook and Facebook users reached 400 million, we are doing our most favorite work – the development and introduction of users like the product. This evening, we will be held at the headquarters Facebook celebration, when we will release some new products and services, including one or two products is designed to be user requirements and release. We then will publish the details related to this.

After the release of new products, we will hold a “hackathon” Contest – Facebook employees will overnight programming activities, and propose new product ideas Facebook.

Once again, grateful for the support to users. Facebook six years of age wish a happy birthday.The future, we will continue to introduce more new products to the majority of Facebook users with better services.

Feb
7
2010
Business, Technology By Gary Singer | No comments yet

Apple tablet iPad potential buyers

With their iPods and iPhones Apple has conquered the technology-savvy young. But with its iPad, Apple will reach a new demographic: middle-aged people.

The iPad is half an inch thick, some of the models will be able to connect to a 3G cellular network, it can introduce important new technology, but signs of a potential change in the way of relating to everything from newspapers to legal documents and video.

Experts says that business executives are the kind of weary consumers more likely to spend $ 499 to $ 829 for the IPAD – at least in principle – instead of carrying heavy laptop and are the parents who spend the money to calm restless children in restaurants and airplanes.

The device comprises functions common to laptops and smartphones and can browse , read a digital book or creating business presentations drawing on the screen.

When Apple unveiled the iPad on 27 January, Steve Jobs, CEO and other executives was introduced as a device for everyone, including games for teens, an e-Reader for all ages, a photo album for family.

The latest creation from Apple and other new tablet computers hitting the market, it can change how students read textbooks and how families access from their living rooms to episodes of their episodes of its series of TV from Web sites.

Feb
7
2010
Business, Google By Gary Singer | No comments yet

Superbowl ad courtesy Google

Google CEO Eric Schmidt implicit yesterday that Google may be running their first ever Superbowl ad in a Tweet he sent out and through details leaked to search blogger John Battelle.

Battelle believes that the ad Google will run is called “Parisian Love.” It’s a sweet tale of searching for love and finding it–without ever leaving the comfort of your laptop.

He also kindly pointed to a 2006 Schmidt quote that described brand advertising as “the last bastion of unaccountable spending in Corporate America.”

The tweet has following text Can’t wait to watch the Superbowl tomorrow. Be sure to watch the ads in the 3rd quarter (someone said “Hell has indeed frozen over.”) — Eric Schmidt

Feb
7
2010
Science By Gary Singer | No comments yet

Low cloud ceiling forced NASA to postpone the launch of Endeavor

A low cloud ceiling on Sunday forced NASA, the U.S. space agency to postpone the launch of the shuttle Endeavor by 24 hours . The shuttle Endeavor suppose to take six astronauts on board to the International Space Station (ISS) .

“We tried really up but the weather was too unstable and we were simply not comfortable for the shuttle launch tonight,” said Mike Leinbach, launch director, about ten minutes before the scheduled time off. “Therefore we decided to postpone the launch by 24 hours,” he added.

NASA will try again Monday at 09H14 GMT (04H14 local). Weather forecasts give a 60% chance of favorable conditions. Until Saturday night, the odds of acceptable weather for launch Endeavor were 80% but had been revised to 60% shortly after 0500 GMT on Sunday before moving into the red less than an hour before launch.

Endeavour’s next launch attempt was scheduled for Monday at 4:14 am (0914 GMT).The main objective of this flight of 13 days, the first in 2010 by a shuttle is the delivery and installation of Tranquility module (Node 3), and the Cupola observation dome, built for NASA by the European group Thales Alenia Space in Turin (Italy).

With the delivery of Tranquility – 18 tonne, 7 meters long with a diameter of 4.5 m – Dome and Cupola – 1.9 ton, 1.5 m long and 2.9 m in diameter — ISS will be 90% completed.

The installation of these modules will require three spacewalks orbit 6 hours and a half each by a team of two astronauts. Tranquility contain the support system of life with the most advanced ever flown in space. It includes sanitation and environmental control for the orbital outpost and a toilet compartment for the crew.

The small module Cupola will also be attached to Tranquility. This dome with six windows on the sides and a central window, all equipped with shutters to protect against micro-meteorites, offer a breathtaking view of Earth from the ISS. But Cupola will also be a function key with its robotic workstation, which will be monitored the maintenance of the ISS.

The mission comes at a time when NASA is experiencing a revolution with the abandonment request to Congress by President Barack Obama’s Constellation program, which provided a return Americans to the moon by 2020.

Besides the death of Constellation and uncertainty about what will succeed it, 2010 also marks the end of three shuttle flights remaining in the fleet after five more missions planned including one that has been postponed. The first orbiter was launched in April 1981.

The ISS, which Mr. Obama wants to extend until 2020, is a project involving 16 countries, costing 100 billion dollars mainly funded by the United States.

Once the shuttles will fly over the United States depend exclusively on Russian Soyuz to transport astronauts to the ISS.

To reduce this dependency period and lower costs, Obama wants to encourage development of private transport services orbital from which NASA will outsource the delivery of its astronauts to the ISS.

Feb
6
2010
Google, Technology By Gary Singer | No comments yet

Project Titan: facebook webmail client

Project Titan ,facebook webmail client:- Facebook is now planning to launch its own webmail service. The information is revealed by Techcrunch obviously the creation of a Web messaging is perhaps one of the best ways to retain users as the proof is, MySpace. The popular social networking site facebook is facing slow these days and in order to retain its strengths Facebook, is also considering establishing a similar service like Myspace.

Nicknamed “Titan”, the application would be considered a “Gmail killer” by its designers, if we believe the sources of Techcrunch. Google mail client is one of the most renowned in the world and facebook is planning to compete the google’s Gmail.

However, if the information is accurate, no doubt that Google should carefully monitor this issue and take the threat very seriously. Facebook is now nearly 25% of page views in the United States. Moreover, the social network would be more effective and more viral than Google News, according to the latest estimates from Hitwise.

Hence to say that Facebook will be the gravedigger of Google, However, more than a search engine or a galaxy of services is really the social and community drives the content.

A revolution that Google is probably worried, even when it comes to a “simple” webmail client.

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