Archive for the ‘IT’ Category
Friday, January 30th, 2009
We have seen recent announcement of job cuts in almost all Telecom and Tech companies, including Microsoft and Google only to name those that are new to those announcements.
GigaOm recently echoed a recruitment firm report that estimated almost 200,000 job cuts in the tech industry in 2008.
Still there are reasons ...
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Sunday, January 18th, 2009
The rise of Netbooks, of which 21 million units* will be sold in 2009, may put in jeopardy the progression of Moore's Law, as netbooks cannibalize sales of laptops. As a result of Moore's Law, the price of a mid-range PC has not changed much since long, but every year ...
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
Year 2008 will be remembered for the financial crash but also as the year when
iPhone 3G confirmed Apple's revolution of mobile phones. RIM also strengthened their corporate position with new multimedia capable models and Android saw its first handset launched, the G1.
Wireless broadband became a reality, with 3G/HSDPA/EVDO ...
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Mike Manos, Microsoft Data Center Chief, has unveiled in his blog the design of future "Generation 4" Microsoft data centers. With the mission to provide massive easy-to-scale computing infrastructure to power the Cloud, Microsoft envisions pre-assembled containers equipped with a few thousands of servers each and its associated cabling and ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
These are the top hottest five topics that we have covered over the past twelve months with the biggest potential for a disruption in both the Communications Industry and in our habits.
1) Mobile Internet, the Internet way.
The iPhone and Google's Android have revolutionized Mobile Internet in the handset, making web ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
Online players, such as Google and Amazon cope all bets to reign over the Clouds, benefiting from their global reach and huge experience on web scalability. Others foresee IBM -talking about utility computing for decades- or HP, after acquiring EDS, as strong contenders to put IT systems on the clouds.
But ...
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
While the IT industry has Moore's law in their DNA, the Telecom industry (both telcos and vendors) have not yet been able to embrace the concept and many analyst keep raising doubts about the sustainability of Telecommunications decreasing margins.
Microprocessors, hard-drives and memory cards double its performance/cost ratio every year. The ...
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
Jim was decided to buy a netbook. One friend recommended him the Asus Eee PC. Jim does not know much about computers, but his brother-in-law Greg is one of these geeks that knows everything about the latest toys.
Jim: Which Eee should I buy? Linux or XP?
Greg: First, among the ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
We have lived enough IT history to know that reality has exceeded Moore's Law prediction of computers doubling capacity every 18 months. In fact, the period is now close to 12 months.
Following this exponential growth these are the specs for a $1500 Laptop in 2018, and some accessories:
Microprocessor number of Cores: ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
With a total of 116,640 processor cores, including AMD Opteron processors as well as 12,960 IBM Cell processors similar to those created for the PlayStation 3, IBM has broken the one petaflop mark with the new Supercomputer commissioned by the American military administration. The $133 million machine*, called Roadrunner, will be used to ...
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