Back in the Intel Pentium years, the Pentium processors are famous for high speed processing, until Intel hit the ceiling in the gigahertz race. Now that the Intel Core processors are at their second generation, you can still find Intel Pentium processors, albeit in the lowest budget bin.
Instead of killing off the Pentium brand and all the negative perceptions of the Netburst architecture, Intel is still keeping the Pentium processors, and has quietly launched four new Sandy Bridge chips under the Pentium brand name, with the codename G00/G800.
The G620 (dual-core, 3MB cache, 2.6 GHz), G840 (dual-core, 3MB cache, 2.8 GHz) and G850 (dual-core, 3MB cache, 2.9 GHz) are positioned as general processors, while the 2.2 GHz G620T (dual-core, 3MB cache) is a low-power option. Prices start at $64 (2.6 GHz) and end at $86 (2.9 GHz).
These processors run on the same LGA1155 platform used by the Sandy Bridge processors, and they are using the same 32nm Lithography processing too. All of them are dual-cores with no HT technology and no Turbo Boost Technology, but they do have the Intel HD Graphics embedded in them, which makes them possibly the best choice for super-low-end budget systems used as simple servers for SOHO.
We whine about the awful and bloody expensive internet speed that we had; the one that kept on dropping from time to time too. Also, we go jelly times and times again looking at the 100Mbps offers that our neighbours had. But over at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), things are not just 100Mbps; things are mind boggling in terabits! Can you imagine transferring data the size of 700 DVDs in just a second? I don’t think your SSD can even handle this rate.
Scientists at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have succeeded in encoding data at a rate of 26 terabits per second on a single laser beam, transmitting the data over a distance of 50 kilometres, and decoding the information successfully. So yes, the shit works, and only users a laser beam, which is also the largest data volume ever to be transported on a laser beam.
Buying a new car has always been a big issue for many of us, especially us who lives in a crooked up country. Anyway, reliability is the most important thing, and as always manufacturers will provide warranties and 1-to-1 exchange on certain critical parts when under the warranty. Also, the car has to have features to impress potential customers, and the latest would be the car’s potential mileage, as world’s crude oil price skyrockets.
But how do we know that all these facts and figures provided by the manufacturers are trustable? Well at least a Volkswagen dealer is brave enough to demonstrate how durable the German’s car is, by recording his stunts and upload ‘em all to YouTube. Quite a demonstration of the sturdiness of this Golf GTI actually, I’m sure a Saga couldn’t stand such an abuse.
An innocent GTI was subjected to a few full-force door slams. That’s cringe-worthy enough in our book, but the wayward salesman wasn’t quite done. He then proceeded to use the full force of his body weight to jump up and down on the open driver’s door.
While we appreciate a dealer’s desire to prove how well the vehicles he sells are built, we wouldn’t want that done to our own cars. I feel sorry to the would-be owner of that car.
We already know that Mozilla’s Firefox roadmap is falling behind, but that’s not all. They now seemed to be desperate in pushing Firefox 5 out.
Mozilla has pushed the Firefox 5 Beta 1 out and made available for download for Firefox 4 users, hoping that adoption rate will be increased. This is part of the company’s plan to move to a faster release cycle designed to get experimental builds of the web browser out to a wider audience.
The first beta release of Firefox 5 adds support for CSS animations, which allow developers to animate transitions between CSS states. For a list of all the animations Firefox 5 currently supports, head over to the Mozilla developer page (note that all the supported rules currently require the -moz prefix).
Firefox 5 beta sees some performance improvements to JavaScript, memory, and networking performance. There’s also been some speed boosts for canvas-based animations. Other new features include improved support for web standards like HTML5, XHR, MathML and SMIL, along with the usual bug fixes that come with any beta release.
The desktop version Firefox isn’t alone this time either. To go along with the new desktop beta, there’s also a new beta of Firefox 5 for mobile devices. Firefox 5 beta for mobile adds support for the Do Not Track header and offers some speed improvements, particularly on 3G networks. To grab the latest version of Firefox 5 for Android, head over to the Android market.
Amazon is offering $0.99 for Lady Gaga’s new album download and a 15GB boost in Cloud Player storage today, and only today. And what did that caused? That literally crashed Amazon’s servers.
Amazon is running a ‘mega sale’ for the trend-setting pop icon Lady Gaga, selling Lady Gaga’s new album for $0.99 cents. That’s not for just one song – that’s the entire 14-track listing and the “Born This Way” digital booklet FOR ONLY $0.99!!! As if to slap Apple and Google in the face, Amazon’s insanely-cheap price is backed by a 15 GB increase in Amazon Cloud Player storage at no additional cost for an entire year.
That’s not the only crazy thing Amazon is offering. The new Lady Gaga purchase isn’t applied to the user’s cloud storage space; in fact, any digital album purchase through Amazon’s MP3 store will never count against the storage capacity.
That said, Amazon customers will always have their purchased digital music stored in the cloud for free, whereas anything ripped/purchased externally and uploaded can be stored in the free 5 GB account or one of the larger subscription-base accounts.
As previously reported, Amazon was the first to bring a cloud-based music service to the market, and did so without signing deals with record labels. As seen with the Amazon Appstore and its daily free app offering for Android devices, $0.99 album releases similar to Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” launch could put a hurting on both Google and Apple. As of this writing, Amazon’s servers were slammed with traffic, preventing the e-tailer from providing full access to all the tracks. Six hours after purchase, only the 11th track “Heavy Metal Lover” and the digital booklet are appearing in accounts. The retail transaction itself still reads as “currently being processed.”
“I just finished speaking with an Amazon MP3 Customer Service Agent, and she explained to me clearly that their server is having technical difficulties due to the overwhelming amounts of downloads of Lady Gaga’s new album,” said one user. “She reassured me that their technical teams are working diligently to solve the problem.”
The bad luck of Sony just keeps coming. On Friday the company faced more bad press when a credit card phishing site was found running on one of its Taiwanese servers. Now, it’s Sony’s Sony BMG music and entertainment arm that is in the crosshairs.
Sony BMG Greece’s website was recently hacked and user information stolen. According to Sophos, an anonymous poster uploaded a user database, including usernames, real names and email addresses of users registered to SonyMusic.gr, to pastebin.com. The hackers responsible are thought to use an automated SQL injection tool to find a flaw.
Information sent to Hacker News from the hacker, named only as b4d_vipera, shows that the attack took place on May 5. A total of 8385 users are said to be affected by the attack.
Last week Sony CEO Howard Stringer commented that no company’s system is 100 percent secure and the PSN breach was “a hiccup in the road to a network future.” However, given the trend of attacks on Sony’s system, it seems the company would do well to prepare itself for more hiccups as the high profile PSN attack seems to have made it a target for hackers.
We’ve seen the keyboard dock for the Galaxy Tab already, but now there are more. Samsung Germany has started selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 accessories. Some of them include a €150 ($213) case that sports a built-in Bluetooth keyboard, an €80 ($114) keyboard dock, USB adapters, protective cases and sleeves, a docking station and an HDMI adapter. Looks like Samsung is really working hard to make sure that their Galaxy lineup products have strong supports and accessories to give Apple a good fight eh?
Back in the Intel Pentium years, the Pentium processors are famous for high speed processing, until Intel hit the ceiling in the gigahertz race. Now that the Intel Core processors are at their second generation, you can still find Intel Pentium processors, albeit in the lowest budget bin.
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