Friday, June 24, 2011

AMD and others quit benchmark group due to 'Intel bias'

"The heart of our complaint is this: the SYSmark benchmark is not only comprised of unrepresentative workloads (workloads that ignore the importance of heterogeneous computing and, frankly, favor our competitor’s designs), but it actually generates misleading results that can lead to very poor purchasing decisions," AMD's chief marketing officer Nigel Dessau wrote in a blog post.


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Sunday, June 12, 2011

LinkedIn, for 3 Billion Dollars

Still remember when Ahmed Kilani, invited me to the place ... I, then, expressed my feelings towards this "just another human network" thing. While it truly is, its value is nearly 3 Billion Dollars now. I truly dont understand how those business get to this level of income and hence worth ! Click the title for more on this


Friday, June 10, 2011

A step in mass storage technology

A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) has built a solid state storage system that they claim outperforms state-of-the-art flash memory products. The new system, know as Moneta, uses phase change memory, a technology that some predict will replace the NAND flash memory used in nearly every solid state drive (SSD) today. The UCSD prototype will be on display this week at the Design Automation Conference in San Diego


Friday, June 3, 2011

Skype protocol reversed engineered

Efim Bushmanov has decided he wants to open source the Skype protocol. The researcher claims to have already achieved the reverse engineering part.

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