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SSD prices may drop following impending price war | MacFixIt – CNET Reviews
As a result of this impending price war, if you are planning on upgrading your system with an SSD, you might consider waiting for a few months to watch the market and see how much prices fall. via SSD prices may drop following impending price war | MacFixIt – CNET Reviews. Great analysis and news…
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AnandTech – The Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7 3770K Review
Similarly disappointing for everyone who isnt Intel, its been more than a year after Sandy Bridges launch and none of the GPU vendors have been able to put forth a better solution than Quick Sync. If youre constantly transcoding movies to get them onto your smartphone or tablet, you need Ivy Bridge. In less than…
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Owning Your Words: Personal Clouds Build Professional Reputations | Cloudline | Wired.com
My first blogging platform was Dave Winer’s Radio UserLand. One of Dave’s mantras was: “Own your words.” As the blogosophere became a conversational medium, I saw what that could mean. Radio UserLand did not, at first, support comments. That turned out to be a constraint well worth embracing. When conversation emerged, as it inevitably will…
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Fusion-io shoves OS aside, lets apps drill straight into flash • The Register
Like the native API libraries, directFS is implemented directly on ioMemory, significantly reducing latency by entirely bypassing operating system buffer caches, file system and kernel block I/O layers. Fusion-io directFS will be released as a practical working example of an application running natively on flash to help developers explore the use of Fusion-io APIs. via…
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Cloud Is Bigger Than Its Backbone, Research Finds | Cloudline | Wired.com
Innovative cloud apps are hitting legacy-based industries too; TV broadcasters being one of them. Consumers want internet access to shows and sports on tablets and phones. via Cloud Is Bigger Than Its Backbone, Research Finds | Cloudline | Wired.com. Sun Microsystems once marketed itself with the phrase, “The Network IS the computer“. Now the Cloud…
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Google shows off Project Glass augmented reality specs • The Register
But it is early days yet. Google has made it clear that this is only the initial stages of Project Glass and it is seeking feedback from the general public on what they want from these spectacles. While these kinds of heads-up displays are popular in films and fiction and dearly wanted by this hack,…
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Picture This: Hosted Lifebits in the Personal Cloud | Cloudline | Wired.com
It’s not just photos. I want the same for my whole expanding set of digital objects, including medical and financial records, commercial transactions, personal correspondence, home energy use data, you name it. I want all of my lifebits to be hosted in the cloud under my control. Is that feasible? Technically there are huge challenges,…
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Apple A5 from the Apple TV 3 – and an iPad 2! » Chipworks
Not only did Apple roll out a new processor that was not what it was advertised to be, but it also snuck in a new process technology for the manufacturing of this new A5. The previous generation A5, part number APL0498, was manufactured on Samsung Semiconductors’ 45 nm LP CMOS process. This new A5 processor…
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Originally posted on WordPress.com Blog: People blog for different reasons, but many post with hopes of seeing feedback from readers. Here at WordPress.com we’ve studied why some posts and blogs get more comments than others, and want to share our advice with you. You need visitors before you’ll get comments. You won’t get comments until…
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Nvidia: No magic compilers for HPC coprocessors • The Register
And with clock speeds topped out and electricity use and cooling being the big limiting issue, Scott says that an exaflops machine running at a very modest 1GHz will require one billion-way parallelism, and parallelism in all subsystems to keep those threads humming. via Nvidia: No magic compilers for HPC coprocessors • The Register. Interesting…
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