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

Ambient Forecasting Umbrella !

Will it rain ? ask the umbrella ! this high tech umbrella will connect to AccuWeather and let you know if it is going to rain. Details is on the link below

http://www2.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=35309150

USPS News: Philatelic Releases

I like that....
The U.S. Postal Service is expanding its Holiday Celebrations Series with a new stamp highlighting the Muslim holiday of Eid. The 34-cent Eid stamp will be issued on Sept. 1 at the annual Islamic Society of North America's convention. For details from the source, please click here
http://www.usps.com/news/2001/philatelic/sr01_054.htm

Tech Tech Tech . . .

Tech Trick, this time from India
An Indian chess player has been banned for 10 years for cheating after he was caught using his mobile phone's wireless device to win games. Umakant Sharma, was finally caught at a recent tournament when officials discovered that he had stitched a Bluetooth device in a cloth cap which he always pulled over his ears. He communicated to his accomplices outside the hall, who then used a computer to relay moves to him, Indian chess federation secretary D.V. Sundar said on Wednesday. Full Story is here
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/12/27/chess.cheater.reut/index.html

Security Flaw in MS Vista

So, MS is still MS, Surely, the 50 MLOC Vista is impossible to be error-free. Well, this just gives me another reason to wait on the Leopard (of course the first is the interface and ease of use)

NEW YORK (AP) -- Windows Vista, the new computer operating system that Microsoft Corp. is touting as its most secure ever, contains a programming flaw that might let hackers gain full control of vulnerable computers.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/12/26/microsoft.security.ap/index.html

Steve Jobs . . .

"Our friends up North spend over $5 billion a year on R&D, and yet these days all they seem to do is try and copy Google and Apple. I guess that's a good example of how money isn't everything".

"We don't want our friends to start their photocopiers any sooner than they have to".

An Optical Breakthrough

My dream at UAH in 1991 is now a fact; an optical breakthrough poised to change the world of mobile entertainment. Lumus will be demonstrating the new video glasses at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this January.

http://www.israel21c.org/bin/en.jsp?enDispWho=Articles%5El1497&enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enVersion=0&enZone=Technology&

David Progue

Microsoft's Vista is not stolen from Apple's OS. See this video, it might change your mind
http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=d14603c1e23e6ce37920a8134a2e27b1405a4991&rf=bm

Digital Life: Picture Frames

An LCD, a battery and a small logic with a media card interface makes a digital picture frame, see one from philips

http://www.consumer.philips.com/consumer/catalog/product.jsp?language=en&country=US&catalogType=CONSUMER&productId=9FF2M4_37_US_CONSUMER