From a mobile phone to a wind turbine, just about every device that has become indispensible in our lives has a few not so well known ingredients – Europium, Neodimium or other such rare earth metals. Despite the lack of… Read More »
November 18, 2012
This computing beast is all set to redefine the limits of scientific calculations, creating a whole new era of “Accelerated Computing”. It was way back in 2009 that the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory was gifted with a… Read More »
November 2, 2012
When it comes to something as significant as life being at stake, there are systems that just cannot afford to fail. Systems Failure turns out to be one the biggest nightmares both for the Computer Engineers as well as the… Read More »
October 23, 2012
Over the years, it is not only the geometric dimensions of TVs that have changed but also those of the images themselves. After HD and Smart TVs had become household names, the next novelty to hold the viewer captive is… Read More »
October 14, 2012
Oracle sets out another series of high end servers with extreme configuration and performance. CEO and Co-Founder of the Database giant Oracle, Larry Ellison releases another monster in the lineage of its Exadata high-end servers. The fourth generation of the… Read More »
October 10, 2012
Television has come a long way since its early days of inception. The Television as we see today was first conceptualized in 1926 in Scotland, but it was a mechanical based television set. Before the start of World War II, ‘electronic’ television… Read More »
October 8, 2012
Hitachi, the Japanese multinational has come out with a technique that allows data to last forever and not degrade. Hitachi, in fact claims that it can preserve information for hundreds of millions of years. The technology utilizes a high precision… Read More »
October 4, 2012
Near Field Communication to put the world in your pocket! If you thought Bluetooth made mobile sharing easier, think again! Think NFC! Near Field Communication is the next big thing in wireless sharing. This interesting technology gets very close to… Read More »
September 24, 2012
Touch input is a technology that is widely used today in almost all electronic devices right from mobile phones to tablets and personal computers. Touch sensitive display is offered in two variants today – Capacitive and Resistive. Resistive touch screens… Read More »
September 24, 2012
High Efficiency Video Coding a.k.a H.265 is the next generation standard Video Codec and is the successor to today’s H.264 a.k.a AVC (Advanced Video Coding) . Amsterdam was the place that witnessed another landmark in the lineage of video compression… Read More »
September 21, 2012