2007 ... Bye, no return

We are only minutes away from the end of 2007

We hope that 2008 will bring us all happiness and properity

We pray to Allah to grant us all the wishes

Living ...

Which part of the earth you prefer ?
Lets talk sones and daughters !
Everyone's little efforts counts at the end; dont smoke, tune your car, encourage environment friendly industries and discourage the others ....

Pakistan !

Pakistan ! the home of the scientists, thinkers, loyal people, ... ? is it out of good men in 2008 ?
Seems that what I have said about Nepal is true ?
Son of Benazir Bhutto, a 19-year old student with no political experience, is appointed symbolic leader of the party, and her Husband Asif Zardari, also known as "Mr. 10%", an 8-year prisoner of corrupt charges appointed active leader... try to guess where Pakistan is headed ...when those play the dirty power game

NEPAL ! why is that ?

Kingdom of Nepal will soon become a state; the current king will be the last to reign in a peaceful end to the monarchy (in 2008).

To me, it looks bad ! unless there is a very strong constitution and well educated people to form a nation, monarchy is better. At least kings care about their sons (future kings) and will not make it a mess. I don't want to generalize, but consider the world we know; Arab states (Muslims states and many others are no exception) ..., compare the states or republics (with elected presidents .... ha) and the monarchies and see for yourself; economy, stability, education, quality of life and ... you name it

Carrier Pigeon

Carrier pigeon, a breed of homing pigeons, is capable of traveling at an average speed of 50 Km/h and burst top speed of 100 Km/h. A record range of 2700 Km has been cited in many places. Navigation theories based on sun light, earth magnetic field ......

Might have been used by Egyptians and Persians nearly 1000 BC. However, the oldest professional in carrying messages was in Baghdad around 1150, and later by Genghis Khan

In 1860, Paul Reuter, who later founded Reuters press agency, used a fleet of over 45 pigeons to deliver news and stock prices between Brussels and Aachen.

232 years! could this be true ?

Imagine ! after 232 years of patenting the telephone invention, Alexander Graham Bell is to be found stealing the idea from his rival Elisha Gray. A new book details evidence; claiming that a aggressive lawyers and corrupt patent examiner are behind the erroneous credit with filing first. Click below to read about

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/techbit_bell_book

Quad-Core ...welcome

Core 2 Extreme QX9650, Intel's quad-core processor may have a high price tag (beyond $$$), but it lays the groundwork for what is likely to be a stream of new chips manufactured with a more power-efficient method. January 2008 is probably the year of quad-core going mainstream with the forthcoming release of Intel's Core 2 Quad and AMD's Phenom processor.

Waiting for the right notebook? sounds like it is an endless wait

Vista Features: ReadyBoost

This feature is supposed to speed up the hard disk access through caching, new generations of hard disk (a.k.a. Hybrid Hard Disks) use good amount of flash memory for this purpose. However, one can use a regular USB flash drive (nearly 1 to 3 times the size of the system memory) to achieve this goal.

The USB flash drive has to support this feature; it has to be large enough and fast enough. Although hard disks are possibly faster in sequential accesses (80 MB/s as opposed to 20 MB/s), they are nearly 10 times slower when it comes to randoms accesses. And this is where we gain performance, random access to small pages (maybe 4 KB) is what we most of the time work with.

New to this feature? Have some questions? try the Q&A blog below to get an idea

http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/2006/06/02/615199.aspx

EID ...

EID Mubarak for the all Muslims around the world
May Allah almighty bless us and grant us all the wishes
We pray to Allah to make us the best messengers to the world

أعاده الله على الأمة الإسلامية وهي ترفل في ثياب العز والسؤدد

"CHEESE" saving Camera ...

This camera, from SONY, can save alot of cheese ...
How? just press the shooting button half-way, and the camera will take the picture! only when your buddy smiles, no need to say "cheese" anymore. This is perfect for me as a vegetarian, and of course this camera is a problem to those who don't smile

http://www.news.com/2300-1041_3-6211192-13.html?tag=ne.gall.pg

Green Camera ....

Kudos to SONY, SHARP and all who care about the future of the Globe ...
The picture is for a new digital camera from SONY. Click the link below to read and see how nice it is to the environment, and try to figure out how many of those good thing can be outperformed by just one micro bus on our roads

http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9833605-1.html

What can a robot from Japan do?

What do you think? shakehands? walks ? run ? get in and out of a care ? move upstairs?
Those have been done before few years ago. So, what is next ?
Toyota's newest robot can lay violin ... wow !
I hope that they will soon master the Arabic melody to replace the modern generations of composers. Check the link below for more on this

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/12/06/toyota.robots.ap/index.html

Rudd & Musharraf

Howard, PM of Australia & Bush Ally, was humiliatingly defeated by Rudd, the PM elect of Australia.

Labor leader Kevin Rudd, has promised to draw his the troops from Iraq, and to sign the Kyoto Protocol on capping greenhouse gas emissions, leaving the U.S. as the only industrialized country not to have joined it.

The man could say YES to his people and NO to Bush. I wish Musharraf could do that, but it seems that GREEN and NATION are not the dictionary of the man who is usually dressed in military.

There will be no link for this, check it yourself to see who is doing what to his nation and the humanity

OLED is in ...

Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED), also Light Emitting Polymer (LEP) and Organic Electro Luminescence (OEL), is device whose emissive electroluminescent layer is comprised of a film of organic compounds. The layer usually contains a polymer substance that allows suitable organic compounds to be deposited, typically in rows and columns onto a flat carrier by a simple printing process, to emit light of different colors. Such systems can be used in television screens ...

By the time we are excited about getting plasma TVs and LCD displays for our computers, some countries are banning them; to save the environment. Australia is one, click below

http://www.oled-info.com/competing_technologies/australia_goverment_proposes_to_ban_high_power_tvs_by_2011_plasma_lcd

PCs get greener ...

Thanks to Marvell, which has released chips to control the power supplies that can substantially cut down the amount of power required to run these machines; a type of power factor correction (PFC) controller based around a digital signal processor, effectively determine the amount of power an application will need and optimize accordingly, and keep peak current at the lowest level.

http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9811365-1.html

Earning ...

Even in the US, earning from education is not set right. Imagine, it is even lower than the nonprofit organizations pay more, set aside the retail or other sectors. Click for details

http://www.networkworld.com/salary/2007/092407-total-education.html

Call it WiFli

As opposed to WiFi with 110 mbps max (draft n is the latest), this technology is nearly 100 times faster in transferring bits around, 2.4 gbps using the 60 GHz band. It surely satisfies many needs that the current WiFi fall short of. Mohammad Soyuer of IBM leads the research, click the link below for details.

http://crave.cnet.com/8300-1_105-1-0.html?categoryId=2045&tag=category

Gaming Platform

Enjoy the game to the fullest

http://www.d-box.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=39

Invisible hearing aids...

Its both invisible and waterproof, because it's inside the head. A new type of hearing aid can be worn while showering, swimming, or .... Click for details

http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/19307/

English ...

At last, English is not the only language for the domain names on the Internet. 11 languages have become available now, so you can use a name of your language for all domains

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-09oct07.htm

Mice traps go high tech

It is a sophisticated digital system that kills the offending rodents in 45 seconds using infrared beams, carbon dioxide and toxic gas. It will then send a text message to the owner, announcing the mission accomplished.

I understand the whole thing except the "message to the owner" !!!, maybe to arrange a funeral? I wondered, too. Click below for details

http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9793681-1.html

How much is one worth ?

A jury awards 6.1 million dollars to Louise Ogborn (now 21 years old) who was forced to strip for search (3 years ago) in a McDonald's back office after someone called the restaurant posing as a plocieman and reporting a theft. Click the link below for details.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071005/ap_on_re_us/strip_search_hoax

I am just wondering how much such a case would be paid in somewhere else; say .....

Want to buy a car ? wait ...

A futuristic dream is coming true, maybe everyone of us dreamed of a flying car, to avoid road jam or to get to the destination faster. It might be very near now. Check the link below

http://www.pal-v.com/

America is headed to the right

America and the whole world will one day convert to Islam (the right one). Simply, they are seeking the best and Islam has the best of everything. They started with a central issue that might solve many issues in life; the boys and girls are to be separated in schools. They realized that boys and girls are different (Arabs and others are still trying to do what they did few decades ago; boys and girls are the equal). Click for more details

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071001/ap_on_re_us/single_gender_classes

Intel ....

Intel details future products, including 32 nm technologies

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20070328fact.htm

iJacking, a new concept from Apple

I never thought that the iPod would have all this, I mean all it meant to me is a way to listen to music (with a little distraction from life events) and that's why I got my son one few years ago. click the link below to know more about the iPod

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/19436

Nano Tubes in Space

Imagine detecting cracks in mechanical structures, like airplane wings, and possibly fixing them while in space. That is what nanotube are supposed to do next. Click here for details

http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9786594-1.html

Attention Smokers (and Nonsmokers)

I am pro "No Smoke World", but if you have to smoke then get the hell out of my face, or technically, use the system below (I don't care then about wasting your money). Read about the invention for those who want to smoke and still care about others, click the link below the picture

http://crown7.com/

My dreams come true

Only 14 years late, my dreams come true...
Back in the 1994, I was in the US and got overwhelmed with the amount of information one can get over the Internet or on CDs. I though of an electronic book-sized thin battery operated slate, with no mechanical parts; pure solid state card-sized media. My professor at that time termed this "crazy idea", and I destroyed everything I wrote about it. But 14 years of research has made this reality. Read about the "iLiad "here
http://www.irextechnologies.com/products/iliad

History of Nations

An article by Dr. Zaid Hamzeh, the former minister o health in Jordan. Remind remind yourself with what the governmets did to the poor over history. Read the article in Arabic on the link below
http://www.alrai.com/pages.php?opinion_id=6393

Web Surfing Speed: 40 Gbps

And who is just doing that?
75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg is now cruising the Internet with a dizzying speed.
Lothberg's 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, Karlstad city officials said.
In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer -- many thousand times faster than most residential connections, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, head of the Karlstad city network unit.
Jonsson and Lothberg's son, Peter, worked together to install the connection.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/07/20/superfast.net.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

World Learers, attention please ....

NO for Torture

President Bush signed an executive order Friday prohibiting cruel and inhuman treatment, including humiliation or denigration of religious beliefs, in the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects. Read details here

CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/20/bush.terrorism.ap/index.html

Yahoo: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070720/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_terrorism

Apple Shuffle: 2 prices

The well known MP3 player of Apple, the Shuffle, is now offered with two prices for the same size and quality. Which one to go for ? check the two sites below, as one is for 79 $ while the other is for only 10,000 $

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?nnmm=browse&mco=C85D28DC&node=home/ipod/ipod_shuffle

http://www.bornrich.org/entry/ipod-shuffle-dipped-in-real-18-carat-gold/

Wearable Power

The Pentagon (US Department of Defense) pushes for wearable power; a source to drive the soldier gadget for 4 days at less than 4 kgs of weight, to support the many devices of today’s technology. Read details for the competition.

http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9741122-1.html

Software Patent Applications: Peer Review

How can one guarantee the blindness in this case?

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office begins an unprecedented experiment this week that will allow you (yes, you!) to review software patent applications. The USPTO is hoping the wider community of programmers and engineers will do a better job of spotting bad claims and thereby prevent innovation-killing legal tussles. Read in the spectrum

http://spectrum.ieee.org/jun07/5275

LED Based Sand Timer

In the past, people had no access to atomic or electronic precision clocks, so they used sand timers and other things (maybe just counting their eye blinks even before that). Now we have presice electronic timing elements and LEDs, and we are making sand timers with LEDs, now which way we are headed, forward or backward. Clecik belo to see it (or buy it if you wish)

http://livesciencestore.com/56833.html

I am not at all againt this though, I am just aksing

Attention Students: Semester in Sea

I like that, and for 17 to 30 KUSD ? ! wow, a whole semseter in sea
Let us "see" what we are going to "see". Cleck he link for slide show

http://news.com.com/2300-1033_3-6190123-1.html?tag=ne.gall.pg

What is your connection speed?

Many software vendors had words about the web-based software in the past, as away to control the piracy (they would say: to stay up to date) and now Adobe is taking it seriously. You can hardly run those hefty software packages from your drive, and now you need to be patient, because you have to wait for some parts to come from the Internet site. Read here
http://webware.com/8301-1_109-9692372-2.html?tag=nl.e729

Google for traffic info

Google has added traffic info to its maps, far from being full coverage and full use, but a good start. Read this on webware (link below)
http://webware.com/8301-1_109-9692556-2.html?tag=nl.e729

Tera FLOPS in your next PC

Intel fabs 80-core teraflop processor, its a concept for the 32 nm era (maybe few years to come), 3.1 GHz and 20 MB SRAM on each core. Read here
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/09/26/intel_teraflop_processor/

Japanese boffins show off 512-core chip, 500 MHz cores on a 300 Million transistor 17 mm x 17 mm die, promise 2 TFLOP in 2008. Read here
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/11/06/japan_512-core_co-pro/

Google is the best company to work for

Google receives 3,000 job applications aday, that is 1,000,000 a year, why? Google is being called the Utopia by some, its people feels more than home, want to know why? see this at YouTube link below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHu3hXSl7M4

Aha, nvidia goes 64-bit !

Guess why ! your next graphic card will offer supercompouting processing power, hundreds of GFLOPS per card. Read the story
http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/02/16/nvidia_cuda/

A new superjumpo; Airbus 380

German made superjumpo that can carry 853 passengers (all couch version) and 555 in 3 classes with feel-home luxury is in the sky. Read here

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/BUSINESS/02/07/airbus.a380.reut/index.html

A fine; for using high tech gadget this time

The new yorker will pay a $100 fine for using the cell phone or the iPod while crossing the street; the public safety guyes think they might get distracted. Well, the poor new yorkers might have to visit a thirld world country where they learn how to smoke cegarrite, talk over the cell, chat with a friend setting beside, listen to the radio (and possibly reading the newsaper just to avoid reading the street signs), all at once while driving. by the way this is all free and you might get a free cigarrete. Read about the iPod ban here

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/02/07/nyc.ipod.reut/index.html

Intel's 45 nm process is around the corner

Ten years ago, the manufacturing process was expected to reach 70 nm by 2008, Intel will be ready for the 45 nm in 2008. It will be making in a year what was planned to be made after 6 years from now. Read more on the new step
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9681475-1.html?tag=more

Killer Tie

Gotta watch when you meet a man with a Tie, you might be taped while you talk left and rigth. Read about this

http://www.spycatcheronline.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=486

crossbar on chip

At last, the crossbar enters the chip, read it as it comes out of the inventor; HP

http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2005/jan-mar/crossbar.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

Can't hide anymore .....

Camero, a company out of Israel that has developed a camera that can "see" things through solid walls. Read it here

http://crave.cnet.com/8300-1_105-1-0.html?keyword=Ultrawideband+Israel+X-Ray+Camera&tag=keyword

MacWorld Conference 2007

Steve Jobs, thanks for the iPhone concept; it’s time for many vendors to rest

Steve Jobs, your clicker did not respond at the end of the keynote speech! Why? Look at it; do you see the Apple logo on it? still wondering?

Bill Gates, the PC & Windows package is “not working”, it is not capable of catching up. Sorry, no more choices, get yourself a Mac

While I was watching Steve on the stage on my PC, the XP started the screen saver because it thinks watching a video is no activity, unless you keep monkying with the mouse and the keyboard, and the great Windows logo appeared on the screen. well, I started monkeying with the mouse as a reaction (because we have to react, why would buy the Windows then?) and the screensaver swiftly disappeared (in less than 5 seconds, thanks to the windows managing a 3 GHz Pentium, 1GB DDR2 and 128 MB NVIDIA Video accelerator). However, the poor XP did nothing after that until few tens of seconds later and Steve is back (problem is that I can not afford not see Steve that long)

Well, that maybe is not a good reason to dam a PC. Actually, I was thinking of buying a MacBook, and asked a friend of mine who is a Computer Engineering Professor and Cray Supercomputer Architect is a Dell fan, he said many of his colleagues there have MacBooks and they are extremely satisfied.

double-sided LCD

Samsung has just announced that it has created the first LCD panel that can produce independent images on each side of a mobile LCD display. Samsung's new double-sided LCD can show two entirely different pictures or sets of visual data simultaneously on the front and back of the same screen. Full story from Samsung is below, click

http://samsung.com/PressCenter/PressRelease/PressRelease.asp?seq=20070104_0000309294

Happy New Year

I wish everyone a happy new year
May Allah almighty make it a positive life turn for everyone, epecially those who can not find food or place to live