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50 Competitor is Ready to Compete with Ipad

2010-03-11T18:27:00.000-08:00

IPad success inspired many companies to concocting a similar product. This is emphasized by the ARM microprocessor company. They said that this year the market will be flooded with similar tablets to tens of species.

"The first tablet to be released in the second quarter (2010), and in the third quarter you'll see more," he said Roy Chen from ARM as detikINET quotes from Computer World, Friday (12/3/2010).

Although the tablet computer that would flood the market mostly China-made result, but companies in other countries also do not want to lose it. Still according to ARM, the number of devices that will rival the tablets iPad will be around 50 devices, including HP and Dell's output.

ARM also estimates there are 10 telecommunications operators who will join the world to enjoy the waterfalls of this business competition with product bundling

Cotton Yarn can Supply Power for Mobile

2010-03-11T02:33:00.000-08:00

Cotton yarn can be a conductor of electric current for power supply for various electronic devices such as mobile phones. How does it work?

This new breakthrough developed at Cornell University in collaboration with a number of universities in Bologna and Cagliari in Italy.

Juan Hinestroza, assistant professor of Fiber Science and Apparel Design and his colleagues developed a technique to coat the cotton fibers with nano particles conducting electricity.

"Instead of regular cable, we use cotton conductive to conduct electrical current. So this conductive cotton became part of the clothing," Hinestroza said.

Hinestroza claim that they have developed technology that allows cotton remain flexible, lightweight and comfortable, although the current conductor.

"The technology exists but has been conducting fibers become stiff and heavy. This new technique makes the thread remained friends when woven, sewn or knitted," Hinestroza added as quoted from Cellularnews, Thursday (11/3/2010).

A student Hinestroza, Abbey Liebman, inspired by this technology. He also made an outfit that uses solar panels to supply power electronic devices such as mobile phones and MP3 players via a USB charger is placed at the waist.

New Atom Processor from Intel?

2010-03-11T02:03:00.000-08:00

Intel reportedly was preparing processor Dual-Core Atom for netbooks. If true, the netbook will be capable of graphics and a more capable processor.
The News was obtained from the French site called PC Impact, Thursday (11/3/2010). Based on these rumors Intel was preparing a netbook processor called the Atom N500.

Previously, Intel's Atom processor has been made a double on the nettop brains, called the Atom 330. If the rumors are true, then the advanced version of the Atom 330 will also be present. His name D510 Intel Atom.

Not yet clear whether the two types of these new processors have a 45nm or 32nm architecture. However, Dual-Core Atom for netbooks will have a memory controller and integrated graphics. This would make netbooks more 'run'.

In previous years, Intel is quite successful with the atom processor. The problem is when will the 'new brain' be released?

If Intel to launch dual processors for netbooks brain this year, automatically he will fight with the products of single-core Atom own. Atom class processors because AMD's, not too 'achievement' and ogled the vendor.

When Intel assault with products such brain-double, AMD may be even more focused on the ULV. We'll wait the two rivals battle it.

Bing, Start to Pursue Google

2010-03-11T01:33:00.000-08:00

Bing, search engine from Microsoft increasingly showing its fangs in order to compete with Google. During nine months in a row, Bing continued success in increasing its market share the United States.

Based on recent data from comScore, market share Bing became 11.5 percent in February, up from 11.3 percent rate in January. This is the ninth month climbed Bing position.

Meanwhile, Microsoft's new partner in the search field, Yahoo, has decreased. Their market share fell to 16.8 percent from the previous 17 percent. Another search engine, Ask. com and AOL each pocketed 3.7 percent and 2.5 percent of the market.

However, Google's performance was still impressive. They are still very dominant with a market share of 65.5 percent from 65.4 percent previously.

Microsoft did make Bing to undermine Google. Even as quoted from AFP , Thursday (11/3/2010), Microsoft held a promotion worth U.S. $ 100 million to advertise Bing.

Although still very much in comparison with Google, increasing market share Bing continuously indicates that search engines are beginning to accept the public.

Upgrade your PC's security

2009-08-20T04:03:00.000-07:00

Nowdays there are many threat in the internet that always harm your PC or Laptop security sistem. But don't worry because you can make your PC/Laptop safer.
We will give you some tips that easy to do to make your PC/Laptop safer, here there are :
1. Install Firewall on your PC or Laptop.
There are 2 kinds of firewall, hardware and software firewall. A hardware firewall usually installed on your router and you can configure it using software from your hardware provider. And for software firewall you can get it for free or buy it. Actually, your operating system usually has firewall installed on it. For example if you using Windows from Microsoft, you can activate your firewall by configure it from control panel. Always update your firewall regularly for optimizing your security system. Sometime if you connect your PC/Laptop to the internet, your firewall software will try to reach their update from internet and update it automatically.
2. Always update your Antivirus
Always update your antivirus regularly because it will inform to your antivirus program about new definitions viruses on the net.
3. Practice patch management
Your operating system is not perfect. Sometime there are many holes in the security system that usually attract to be attacked. For this purpose, your OS provider always release new patches to close the holes. Always update your OS security system by downloading new patch update. If you use Windows OS like XP or Vista you can activate automatic update, so when you connect to the internet you will get your OS update automatically when new patch is released.
4. BACK UP your data
Always back up your important data regularly because we don't know when your security system is crash. And you have to know that the most important stuff in your PC/Laptop is your DATA!

Tips & Trick for Choosing Laptop :

2009-05-05T16:52:00.000-07:00

There are tips & trick for choosing laptop :
1. Decide if you're better served by the PC/Windows platform or the Macintosh or the Linux. You can generally get a faster computer for your money by choosing a Windows OS (Operating System) platform or if you want more complete built-in software you should choose laptop with Macintosh platform. For the cheapest choice you can buy laptop with Linux OS, this OS is very good in security and provide free service, update and software but Linux is harder to understand for beginner.
2. Choose the top brand's laptop to ensure your laptop's quality. Top brands are Dell, Acer , IBM, Hewlett- Packard and Toshiba. And if you want to use Macintosh OS of course you have to choose Apple.
3. Think about what you will do with your laptop. If you want to make your laptop as Multimedia tools, doing your homework and for playing your favourite game, you should consider to buy laptop with good vga card inside (at least with 256 MB memory) and at least with 1 GB RAM. So you can run your favourite applications smoothly. But if you just use your laptop for doing homework, you can choose laptop with at least 512 MB RAM and it's ok to choose low end vga card (with 64 MB memory or shared memory).
4. What about the processor? sometime we think that this is the most important thing in laptop. Yeah, sometime we can be true or we can be wrong. But in fact memory or RAM (Random Acces Memory) is more critical than a faster processor. Buy as much random-access memory (RAM), or system memory, as you can afford. At a bare minimum, get 256 megabytes (MB); 512 MB or 1 GB is preferable. (For a Macintosh, get at least 256 MB and for Vista get at least 1 GB to run it smoothly, but for Linux you can use 128 MB or more than 256 MB (is preferable)). There are two famous brand of processor : Intel and AMD. For gamers and overclockers, they usually choose AMD and for graphic designers they usually use Intel's processor. At the same level, you can get AMD's processor cheaper than Intel's processor.
5. Get at least two universal serial bus (USB) connections and a FireWire (also called IEEE 1394) connection. These will connect peripheral devices, such as a printer, PDA, digital cameras , scanners and game controllers. And you should choose a laptop with card reader, ethernet card (lan card), modem and wi-fi card inside. This will be very useful for you to connect to the internet and transfer data to another terminal.
6. Make sure that you choose laptop with DVD writer so you can burn your data to CD or DVD. Make sure your machine has a DVD drive if you want to watch movies on your laptop. And also you should choose laptop with large capacity of hard drives if you have large data to save (120 to 180 gigabytes (GB) is now commonplace).
7. Ask about upgradability if you intend to use your laptop for a long time, which is considered three or more years. And ask about guarantee of your laptop, many major manufacturers usually also provide support and service on the web. So you can send them an email or browse their website if you have a problem with your laptop.

How to use your PC or Laptop safely

2009-01-02T05:29:00.000-08:00

Our behavior of using PC/laptop determine the safety of our pC/laptop. Although the effect from our fault can make we lose
some data and files, some people maybe don't to be bothered with it. There are many tips for you to make your PC/laptop more
safe.

1. Use password
Use combination of letter, number or character and always use different password for different account. Although it will bother some people if they don't have strong memory, you will safe your account.
2. Clean your PC/laptop from junk files
Make sure that you clean up your PC/laptop from junk files regularly. You can use many free software available at internet for this purpose. Also clean & remove duplicate files from your hard disk. Junk files and duplicate files only reduce your hard disk space.
3. Activate your firewall
Internet world nowdays is not a safe world anymore. There are many scammer & spyware that always watching for you. So you should activate your firewall because it will block all acces which don't have permit from you.
4. Update your antivirus
Beside firewall, you need to install antivirus program. But that is not enough. You should update it regularly. Good antivirus is antivirus which can update automatically.
5. Limit your program
Limit your installed program. Just install programs/software that you need and avoid installing software from unknown source. Scan your file with antivirus after you download and remember read the license carefully:)
6. Beware of email
Do you accept email with attachment? Beware of it! Although your email is from your friends or relations, make sure that you scan it first with your antivirus. There are many kind virus and malware which are using attachment file for their medium.
7. Beware of click
Do you always click when you curious about something? Wait! Beware of it! Make sure you know the extensions (.exe, .txt, etc) first. If they have .exe extension, you should scan it first before you click it because maybe you will click a virus:( And make sure when you open a folder just change the appearance into the detail version so you can know the file's type.

Tips for choosing a web hosting service

2008-12-23T17:06:00.000-08:00

Nowdays, internet technology spread quickly to all over the world. And many people use it for many purposes. Some people use the internet to earn some money, to share their knowledge and to make them famous. For this purpose people need to built their own website and for most people they built simpler website called Blog (weB LOG). Along with the development era, some people need to built their website with their own web hosting to make easier when they need to upload some files to their website and many other purposes which cannot provide by free web hosting. So before you buy web hosting, I got some tips for you :
1. Reliable
Web server that you rented can always be accessed with good speed and also be guaranteed. 99.5% of minimum time of 1 year in the web server must be accessible.Note, who knows the providers are willing to give discounts if the server which hosting your site can't be accessed.
2. Good Technical Support
Technical support is very important. Because if something happens on a web server, the technical officer have to can be contacted. It's better, if technical support staff is ready to help 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Not just ready to receive complaints, but technical support staff should also be able to provide solutions.
3. Installing Additional features
Some web hosting providers do not allow the installation of PHP, CGI scripts without permission. If only web site that would host the need to be, PHP, CGI scripts, Telnet, SSH access and so forth, they needed some time before the web site can host to the server.
4. Email Service
Usually every service will allow email making. Notice that if they provide POP3, automatic responder, and forwarding.
5. User Friendly Control Panel
Control panel, where we control our web like adding or deleting file and email address along with ability to change password, is better to be provided by the hosting provider. I think it is better that you can use the control panel by yourself than if you have to contact tchnical staff to do it.
6. Enough space
Website is built from many files. Files have many variations in size. It depends on their element like picture, text, animation and so forth. Note that the amount of space rented and compare with the price. Usually, the initial package offer server space of 20 MB. Select a service that allows us to upgrade space for our website
7. Sufficient Bandwith
Quota transfer of data is often also called taffic or bandwidth is the number of bytes transferred from a web site that people visit the web site. Browser property visitors will download the files belong to several web sites. The amount of data transferred from a web server to the visitor's computer is usually limited. For example, the service provides a monthly quota of 1GB. The more visitors visit the web, the more quickly 1GB quota is exceeded. If within 1 month of data transferred more than 1 GB, each 1MB more will be charged. Some services even block access to Web sites.
8. Subdomain
If you plan to use subdomain then make sure that web hosting service provides this feature.
9. The price balanced with the quality of service.
Price and service should be balanced. At first, compare few service providers before the vote. Do not buy a cat in a sack, we must really know the quality they offer, so we will not be disappointed someday.
10. Operating system that used by web server
Operating system that used by web server must also be noticed. If only the sites in the host built using ASP, It must be Windows OS have to be selected. The other choice is a server that use a Linux-based operating system.