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IBM researcher Shawn Hall inspects a new BlueGene/P supercomputer. Future IBM BlueGene supercomputer technolology will be used to build Sequoia, a 20-petaflop system for the U.S. government that's more powerful than the combined performance of today's top 500 supercomputers.

    GM CEO Rick Wagoner at the Consumer Electronics Show introduced the Cadillac Provoq, a concept car powered by fuel cells. You won't be able to buy one for several years.  Designed for smaller businesses, Intel modular server building blocks can support up to six server compute nodes and 14 serial attached SCSI 2.5-inc hard disk drives.        The (Red) logo that will appear on Dell's PCs and printer.  The Dell (Red) XPS M1550 notebook will available this week through Dell and Best Buy.    IBM's Mashup Hub acts as a catalog of mash-ups and shows how they've been built.  Via shows prototype of its reference design of a 8.9-inch screen mini-notebook using its C7-M ULV low-power chip architecture.    The sub-compact laptop is expected to include three USB ports, a card reader, a VGA out, and an Ethernet connection.  Eshi Otawara, the Second Life avatar of Irena Morris, and one of her real-life paintings. Morris is fighting deportation due to a U.S. immigration law known as the   Nvidia's Tesla C1060 card slips into a PCIe slot for delivering high-performance computing to workstations. The card delivers 1 teraflop of power for $1,699.  The Nvidia Tesla S1070 is a 1u system that offers 4 teraflops of power, and can be added to a standard 19-inch server rack. The system costs $8,000.  Tandberg E20 desktop communicator  Micro-Blog users at the campus can now see geo-tagged information from other users on their mobile devices.   The CF-U1, the first ultra-mobile PC in the Toughbook product line, is 7 inches wide, 6 inches deep, and 2 inches high.   The Studio notebooks are available in seven colors and start at $799 for the 15-inch model and $999 for the 17-inch version.  The new 128-screen hyperwall-2 system, at NASA's Ames Research Center in Calif., can render one quarter billion pixel graphics.  The soil appears similar to that found in Antarctica's dry upper valleys and the salts it contains are another indication of the presence of water.  The X4 9950 Black Edition features what the company calls   Black-I Robotics expects to ship its LandShark robot to Iraq this year to protect the buddies of the company founder's fallen son.  The camcorder features a 680,000-pixel image sensor that delivers a maximum resolution of 720 x 480 pixels.  The $249 Linux-based mini-desktop consumes only 2 watts of power, compared with the 100 watts of some desktops.     Sir Richard Branson's latest sub-space ship is a white, four-engine plane expected to undergo flight tests later this year.  The 8-inch consumer desktop ships with Windows Vista, is available with either an Intel Pentium Dual Core or Intel Core 2 Duo processor, up to 4GB of memory and 320GB of storage.  The laptop includes a 17-inch DreamColor display capable of displaying 16 million colors versus the 260,000 on traditional notebooks.  Dell's new line of Latitude business notebooks range from the ultra-portable 12.1-inch model to the 15.4-inch desktop replacement.  Lenovo's latest 17-inch ThinkPad mobile workstation comes with a built-in Wacom graphics tablet.  Computer racks inside the Andrews Area Processing Center that consolidates e-mail, Web, file sharing and other data for more than 160,000 Air Force members. Photo by Senior Airman Steven Doty, 316th WG PA.   Alternate Message  HP EliteBook 2730p  The solar-powered aircraft soared 60,000 feet above the Sonoran Desert for more than 82 hours.  The solar-powered aircraft soared 60,000 feet above the Sonoran Desert for more than 82 hours.  Dell's A840 and the larger A860 are tailed for emerging markets outside the U.S.  The badge's metal clasps, if installed backwards, will become a projectile when the badge is opened creating a potential eye injury hazard.  The Olin-Boston Engineering project's   By harnessing kinetic energy, M2E Power's cell phone charger will give users up to 60 minutes of talk time.  The A62 is available with Lenovo's optional Dash 1.1 card, which enables an IT department to remotely manage, boot, audit and update a desktop.  The 52-page diagram shows gestures on the touch screen associated with a number of tasks, including zooming, panning, scrolling, rotating, enlarging, and floating controls.  The Mini 9, which weighs 2.28 pounds, has an 8.9-inch LED display with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels and is available with built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless support.  The Mini 9, which weighs 2.28 pounds, has an 8.9-inch LED display with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels and is available with built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless support.  The lock allows for keyless entry through 4-digit access codes that can be activated, deleted or disabled on the lock's 11-digit push button keypad, or via the Schlage LiNK web portal or mobile application.   HP developed a messenger bag and put the HP Pavilion dv6929wm Entertainment Notebook PC inside, which is part of Walmart's eco-design challenge.  In the proposed Apple-Nike system patent, sensing units are placed at three points in shoe soles -- heel, midsole, and toe and could determine when shoes are worn down and should be replaced by a runner before it impairs the runner's stride mechanics.  The device includes an ambient light sensor that adjusts display brightness based on the surrounding light.  The laptop sports a 10.2-inch LED screen with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels with an Intel Atom processor and 1 GB of memory.  Lenovo's ThinkPad X200s is the lightest of the company's business notebooks and sports the longest battery life.  The affected adapter was shipped with every iPhone 3G in the United States, Japan, Canada, Mexico, and several Latin American countries  With the help of the record industry, SanDisk is hoping to put an end to CDs and give music downloads a run for its money.  The Vaio TT series, the successor to the Vaio VGN-TZ298N, has an 11-inch LCD screen with an LED back light for a brighter image.  Visual Studio Team System 2010 includes a new Architecture Explorer for the discovery and exploration of existing code assets and application architectures.  Visual Studio Team System 2010 provides testers with a set of tools for managing test cases and execution as well as improved support for filing actionable bugs.  Nintendo also plans to launch an online store called the DSi Shop when the new gadget hits store shelves Nov. 1 in Japan.  IBM's latest integration offering connects its ISV partners to a network of 13 Cloud Computing Centers and 40 IBM Innovation Centers to help test applications via cloud computing models.   IBM's latest integration offering connects its ISV partners to a network of 13 Cloud Computing Centers and 40 IBM Innovation Centers to help test applications via cloud computing models.   The images show a large pattern of rays beginning in the northern parts of Mercury and stretching south of the crater.  Apple's MacBook Family  Apple's MacBook Family  Apple's MacBook Family  The company's latest network storage device is designed for SMBs and measures 3 inches by 8 inches by 5 inches and weighs nearly 5 pounds.  The Taiwanese company alleges that Apple has used illegal tactics, such pressuring Luxpro's retail partners to stop selling Luxpro music players, in an attempt to monopolize the MP3 music player market.  Google's new iGoogle layout gives developers more space for their applications and enhances their commercial prospects.  The HP Pavilion Verde Special Edition a6645f is available exclusively at at Circuit City for $579.  The Pavilion Phoenix Special Edition a6655f is sold only at Best Buy and costs $659.  The cable company's Road Runner broadband services is working with TransMedia and its Glide division to offer online file storage and sharing to compete with Google Apps.  The Google Earth app displays the same imagery and offers the same navigational capabilities as the desktop client and at launch will feature layers with geo-located Wikipedia articles and Panoramio photos, as well as map labels and borders.   The FX160 is Dell's first thin-client computer designed for small and medium sized businesses.  The Optiplex 960 is a high-performing business desktop that's available in three form factors.  The PC is available with either a 9- or 10-inch display, runs Microsoft's Windows XP Home Basic Service Pack 3 and includes up to 1 GB of memory.  The PC is available with either a 9- or 10-inch display, runs Microsoft's Windows XP Home Basic Service Pack 3 and includes up to 1 GB of memory.  Andrea Feick and Hannah Emerson with U2 front man Bono and musician Simon Carmody in St. Tropez.  Users can search and share digital media through mobile and social networking services, including Facebook and MySpace.  The all-in-one machine comes with Windows Vista Home Premium, 4 GB of memory, and a 320 GB hard drive.  Western Digital's Passport Firewire Hard Drive  Analysts with the Radicati Group say companies with on-premises e-mail solutions averaged from 30 to 60 minutes of unscheduled downtime and an additional 36 to 90 minutes of planned downtime per month.  HP's recall involves a total of 32,000 batteries in three notebooks, the HP Pavilion, models dv1000, dv8000 and zd8000; Compaq Presario, models v2000 and v2400; and the HP Compaq, models nc6110, nc6120, nc6140, nc6220, nc6230, nx4800, nx4820, nx6110, nx6120 and nx9600.  Dell's affected notebooks are the Latitude, model 110L, and Inspiron, models 1100, 1150, 5100, 5150, and 5160.  Western Digital's TV Media Player  Neil Young's 1959 'Thinkin Lincoln'  Fujitsu Mini-Tablet PC  Toughbook H1 Medical Clinical Assistant  Election Night In Second Life  Intel's CEO showed off a device that was larger than an iPhone and smaller than an ultra-mobile PC that could perform real-time image-to-text optical character recognition and translation from Chinese to English. Photo: James Duncan Davidson  The Toshiba Qosmio X305-Q708 and X305-Q706 are the first notebooks to incorporate three Nvidia GPUs. Prices start at $1,999.   The device is designed to reduce stress on people's knees, help them up stairs and stay in crouching positions, which might be particularly helpful to people on assembly lines or in factories.  With its Internet connection, the GPS-enabled Shotgun can proactively search for traffic congestion and offer customers an alternative route.   Google is adding video chat capabilities as part of its Gmail application that will allow subscribers to connect while they are logged in.  The Fuze has the productivity and interoperability features one expects from the Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system, but the smartphone utilizes HTC's TouchFlo 3D user interface.  The Kayak reference design utilizes Qualcomm's dual-core Mobile Station Modem MSM 7xxx-series chipsets, which can be combined with Opera's browser, which is popular on mobile devices.     About 25 light-years away, the planet is estimated to be less than three times Jupiter's mass, and whose star is part of the constellation Piscis Australis, or the 'Southern Fish.'  In partnership with the Transportation Security Administration, the airline will enable customers to receive a two-dimensional barcode on their cell phones that will act as a boarding pass.  Schematic of Pan-STARRS gigapixel camera.  Six 25,000-gallon tanks of the toner arrived this week at Xerox's Webster, N.Y., plant, where production of the new product is expected to begin next year. The product can cut overall power consumption of digital printing devices by as much as 30 percent.  The showcase included a demo of DreamBox Learning K-2 Math adventure game that teaches math to children in kindergarten and first and second grades.  The system weighs 2.28 pounds, supports up to 1 GB of memory and is available with a 4-GB, 8-GB, or 16-GB solid-state drive.  Blockbuster's Direct-To-TV Player  Such displays could someday reduce the costs of production of laptops, smartphones and other electronic devices.  The technology makes it possible to disable a laptop by sending a message via short message service, or SMS, which is a form of text messaging on mobile phones.  The SSD is marketed as a   HP's Linux-based Compaq dc5850  Acer's Mini-Laptop At Radio Shack  The vendor plans to showcase the storage device at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nev., in January.  The partnership with Z Corporation allows for on-demand 3D resin models derived from in-game graphics files.  The idea behind the MediaSmart Server, which runs the Microsoft Windows Home Server platform, is to provide a central repository for backing up and accessing digital music, videos, photos and from multiple computers on a home network.  With a 480 refresh rate per second capability, the TV can show crystal-clear pictures of racing cars and other images that typically cause motion blur on LCD TVs.  This first beta of a standalone Picasa application for the Mac matches the speed and most core features of Picasa on Windows.  Lenovo A600 IdeaCentre  The most innovative feature in the upgrade is a new battery that Apple claims will last up to eight hours on a single charge and can be recharged up to 1,000 times.  The S121 gets up to eight hours of battery life with its 512 GB SSD and Asustek's Super Hybrid Engine, a technology created through redesigning hardware, software and BIOs to boost performance and power efficiency.  The camcorders include the HMX-H106, HMX-H105 and HMX-H104, which have storage capacities of 64 GB, 32 GB and 16 GB, respectively. In terms of recording times, the largest drive holds 12 hours of high-definition video, the middle drive six hours and the smallest device three hours.  Sony Vaio P Series Netbook  The consumer networking products reflect the transitioning of the vendor's Linksys division into a full-fledged consumer business group.  The consumer networking products reflect the transitioning of the vendor's Linksys division into a full-fledged consumer business group.  The player includes Panasonic's Viera Cast application, which gives consumers with a broadband connection access to select entertainment Web sites.  Share Of Advertisers By Search Engine  Metaplace is an open platform based on the principals of 2-D MMORPG that lets subscribers build a virtual world and collaborate with other users.   The desktop comes bundled with the ThinkVision L195 LCD monitor and has a starting price of $399.   The Lenovo K220 is available with up to 1 TB of storage and an optional Blu-ray drive and Nvidia GeForce 9300GE graphics card. The system also comes with Lenovo's VeriFace facial recognition technology that enables multiple users to use their facial image to log in to the system. The camera is sold separately.  The desktop, which is about the size of DVD player, is the company's latest product in the low-end of the consumer PC market, where MSI sells its Wind mini-laptop.   Nvidia Quadro NVS 420  The 5010 is a one rack unit, 28-port switch that supports 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Cisco Data Center Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, and Fibre Channel.  The Extender helps IT managers dealing with an increasing number of servers and a growing demand for bandwidth from each server, particularly as virtualization is used to run more business applications in one machine.  The latest hard drive has a 32 MB cache and a SATA interface with a maximum data transfer rate of 3 Gb per second.  Google's data center efficiency benefited in the fourth quarter from cooler weather and ongoing efforts to optimize data facilities.  Blurb for both: Just in the past three months, security researchers at AVG Technologies have seen the number of new infected Web sites grow by 66%, from 100,000 to 200,000 per day to 200,000 to 300,000 per day. And the company's researchers expect the trend to continue.  Blurb for both: Just in the past three months, security researchers at AVG Technologies have seen the number of new infected Web sites grow by 66%, from 100,000 to 200,000 per day to 200,000 to 300,000 per day. And the company's researchers expect the trend to continue.  The patent describes a method for using digital editing software that uses a storyboard method of assembly. The patent may help bolster Apple's iMovie and iDVD products.  Samsung is targeting manufacturers' new generation of   Al Gore and Google CEO Eric Schmidt discuss Google Earth 5.0 beta.  To achieve 9.5 hours of battery life, the user would likely have to lower CPU performance, dim the screen and turn off the system's Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and camera  IBM researcher Shawn Hall inspects a new BlueGene/P supercomputer. Future IBM BlueGene supercomputer technolology will be used to build Sequoia, a 20-petaflop system for the U.S. government that's more powerful than the combined performance of today's top 500 supercomputers.  Google's social mapping software lets people with mobile phones and other wireless devices automatically share their whereabouts with family and friends.  Samsung expects the finer DRAM to consume 30% less power than current 50-nm technology.  New features in Box.net include the ability to set up for each employee a profile page that includes information on their role in current projects and their latest activity on documents, such as editing, commenting on or discussing.  The a celebrity focused Web site aims to compete with the likes of Eonline.com and TMZ.com.  The Latitude XT2 weighs 3.6 pounds with a four-cell battery and 3.8 pounds with a 6-cell power supply. Pricing starts at $2,399.  Identity fraud victims have increased 22 percent to 9.9 million in 2008, according to Javelin Strategy and Research.  The company's $109,000 electric car that according to Tesla does 0 to 60 mph in 3.9 seconds.  The Omnia HD smartphone can record in high-definition resolution and has an 8-megapixel camera, while the Beat DJ handset has Bang and Olufsen technology for playing music.  The Omnia HD smartphone can record in high-definition resolution and has an 8-megapixel camera, while the Beat DJ handset has Bang and Olufsen technology for playing music.  The camera includes the DIGIC 4 Image Processor, which the company says improves signal processing speed and produces higher image quality.  The latest version, which is available in 1 TB and 2 TB models, offers   The ultra-portable features an Intel Atom processor, 1 GB of memory, an LED screen, and up to a 160 GB hard disk drive. The system ships with Windows XP, supports Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless technology and weighs 2.86 pounds with a three-cell battery.  The MR58 is designed for outdoor use, is weatherproof, and has three radios that can be used for backhaul, front-end networking, and meshing with other networks.  The design uses a Gigabit Ethernet to connect to the home network and a USB 2.0 port for peripherals, such as direct attached storage. For application development, Marvell offers support for standard Linux 2.6 kernel distributions.  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's Pioneers 09 Show A model for a mobile Virtual Cocoon that allows an immersive virtual experience.  The Dell Latitude E6400 XFR's shell is made from materials used in ballistic armor and can withstand a 4-foot drop while powered down.  The PC includes a choice between an Intel Core 2 quad-core or dual-core processor. In addition, there's graphics hardware support for DirectX 10, the collection of application programming interfaces in Microsoft Windows Vista for handling multimedia tasks.  The company's transformation of its GrandCentral acquisition includes the ability to transcribe conversations and archive them for later searches.  The company's transformation of its GrandCentral acquisition includes the ability to transcribe conversations and archive them for later searches.  Social Networks and Discovery (SaND), an application that combines social expertise discovery and social networking.  The Studio One 19 is a combination 18.5-inch monitor and Windows Vista PC that sit on a metal stand. The widescreen display, which has a resolution of 1,366 by 768 pixels, has integrated stereo speakers and is available in five colors.  The lawsuit, filed in Ohio where plaintiff Lynette Antrobus purchased the music player, claims that Antrobus' son suffered second degree burns on his leg after his iPod Touch   Cisco's entry into the server business includes networking, virtualization, storage, and server management software pre-installed. The 4-way or 8-way blade servers have consolidated access to SAN and NAS fabrics and are based on Intel's Xeon   Dell Adamo Laptop  The NAS appliance can configure up to 2 terabytes of storage and advanced information management, protection and sharing capabilities including remote access and peer-to-peer bit torrent download management.  The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) said it has handled 2,329 cases under its dispute procedure for Internet page names. The most ever.  A general view of a clinic at Bagamoyo in Tanzania  A view of the surroundings in Lambarene, Gabon at the Albert Schweizer Hospital  A screenshot of the x-ray images which will be viewed and diagnosed by the independent radiologists in Argentina, Tanzania and Kenya.  The mobile browser uses the TraceMonkey engine for JavaScript support, and this is the same engine found in the Firefox 3.1 desktop browser. Developers will be able to bring popular extensions like an ad-blocker to the mobile browser, and Mozilla said it shouldn't be too difficult to port existing extensions.   The Open(3)'s basic configuration includes the Mac OS X Leopard v10.5, an Intel 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo E7400 processor, 2GB of system memory, a 500 GB hard drive and a Nvidia GeForce 8400GS graphics card.   For its first flight, the Transition was flown by Phil Meteer, a retired Air Force Colonel at Plattsburgh International Airport in Plattsburgh, NY. The chase aircraft was piloted by Giora Guth.   The Transition cruises up to 450 mi at over 115 mph, can drive at highway speeds on the road, and fits in a standard household garage.   Categorized as a Light Sport Aircraft, the Transition requires a Sport Pilot license to fly.   The console comes with 1 GB of flash memory for storing games, 256 MB of system memory and three USB ports. The device displays games at a maximum 640 x 480 resolution. The Zeebo will be focused on less-graphic intensive games than the high-end content available for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.   A kiosk running the game Mafia Wars on iGoogle, as demonstrated at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco.  Tesla Model S Sedan  Unreal Vision Improvement From Video Game Playing  GeForce GTX 275  ATI Radeon HD 4890  Sony Handycam HDR-TG5V With GPS  Super Talent RAIDDrive  Xcerion's iCloud  Scareware On The Rise  Tropos 802.11n Mesh Router  Twitter's Popularity Soars  Iomega StorCenter Pro NAS Server  Lego Rock Band        Segate Replica  HP ProBook 4515  Flip Ultra Camcorder Goes HD  CA's Mainframe Software Management Console - before  CA's Mainframe Software Management Console - after  EBay Fighting Auction Fraud  Chocolate-Fueled Formula 3 Race Car  Amazon Kindle DX  Amazon Kindle DX  Amazon Kindle DX  Xerox Unveils Lower-Cost Color Printer 

IBM BlueGene/P Supercomputer

IBM researcher Shawn Hall inspects a new BlueGene/P supercomputer. Future IBM BlueGene supercomputer technolology will be used to build Sequoia, a 20-petaflop system for the U.S. government that's more powerful than the combined performance of today's top 500 supercomputers.