Nokia most ecofriendly electronics maker: Greenpeace

The world's leading mobile phone maker Nokia earned the top spot in Greenpeace's ranking of big electronics manufacturers' eco-friendliness, the environmental organisation said Tuesday.Nokia scored seven points out of 10 in a report ranking companies on their policies regarding chemicals, waste and energy. Japanese game maker Nintendo came in last...

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Swords and Shields: F-35 beats Russians

Russia lags behind the United States in aerospace research and development. It has yet to produce decent competitors to America's two new, fifth-generation fighter jets, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning Joint Strike Fighter and the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor.The main Russian rivals to the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightnings are the Mikoyan-Gurevich...

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Israel wants own technology on F-35 stealth fighters

JERUSALEM, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- As Israel plans to buy the Joint Strike Fighter (F-35) from the United States, the Israeli Defense Ministry is seeking American approval to install Israeli-made technology on the stealth fighter jets it buys. One reason for Israel to ask for the changes is that the version of Israel Air Force (IAF) will be unique and superior in case the aircraft is also sold to Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries, said a Thursday report by local daily The Jerusalem Post....

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Israel Deploys New Missile Tracker Against Hamas

NEW YORK -- In yet another signal that the war with Hamas may be intensifying, Israeli media are reporting that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have deployed an experimental new rocket tracking tracking system in the port city of Ashkelon, near the Gaza border.The IAI MC4 is now in place and operational in Ashkelon reports The Jerusalem Post.The MC4, a new product of Israel Aerospace Industries, is an outgrowth of the Arrow anti-missile system jointly developed by Israel and the Pentagon.The Arrow,...

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Technology Delivers War Propaganda to Gaza, Israeli Citizens

To the suicide vest, the rocket and the battering ram, those longtime staples of conflict in the Middle East, add the cell phone.Both sides in the Gaza war have employed cell phones as a form of psychological warfare, among other purposes -- part of a trend toward using new media in a century-old conflict.Hagar Mizrachi, a 25-year-old Israeli, recently received a text message that said rocket attacks on all of Israel's cities were imminent. The message was signed "Hamas" and the sender name was...

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Voltaire Powers World's Most Powerful Supercomputer For NNSA's Los Alamos

Voltaire has announced that the company's InfiniBand-based switches are powering the world's largest supercomputer for the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Los Alamos National Laboratory.The revolutionary new supercomputer, nicknamed Roadrunner, achieved sustained performance of 1,026 trillion calculations per second breaking the petaflop...

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NASA Supercomputer Ranks Among World's Fastest

NASA's newest supercomputer at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has garnered the number three spot on the Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers. The announcement was made Nov. 17, 2008 at the International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC08) in Austin, Texas.The Pleiades supercomputer...

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NASA, Intel And SGI Team Up To Soup Up The Supercomputer

NASA, Intel Corp., and SGI today announced the signing of an agreement establishing intentions to collaborate on significantly increasing the space agency's supercomputer performance and capacity.Under the terms of a Space Act Agreement, NASA will work closely with Intel and SGI to increase computational capabilities for modeling and simulation at...

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Microsoft, Intel research parallel computing with US universities

Microsoft and Intel said Tuesday they are teaming with US universities to unleash the mighty potential of multi-core computer chips.Microsoft and Intel will jointly spend 20 million dollars over five years to fund Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.A...

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Jaguar Upgrade Brings ORNL Closer To Petascale Computing

Upgrades to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer have more than doubled its performance, increasing the system's ability to deliver far-reaching advances in climate studies, energy research, and a wide range of sciences.The system recently completed acceptance testing, running applications in climate science, quantum chemistry, combustion...

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Physicists closer to quantum computing

A team of U.S. and British physicists reports taking a step toward quantum computing by successfully using a single atomic nucleus as solid-state memory.Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Oxford University and Princeton University said they precisely doped exceptionally pure and isotopically controlled...

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Increasing Runway Safety with GPS Aircraft Positioning

For pilots, knowing what runway or taxiway they’re on is critical information. That knowledge is especially important at night, in poor weather or when the crew is unfamiliar with the airport layout.Pilots have traditionally acquired that information by looking out their windshield. Now, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has made it easier for pilots to have an invaluable electronic tool in the cockpit. It provides a moving map display with “own ship position” — that will change and improve...

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GPRS Technology Explained

Historically data speeds on mobile phones has been very very slow, in fact when modems were @ 56kbps (dial up) the mobile was still at 9.6kbps and it stayed there for quite some time, in fact if you don't have GPRS or a high speed data service and use wap you'll be using a 9,6k dial up connection.The arrival of GSM technology gave the chance for a...

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Leica introducing special edition M8.2, D-Lux 4, C-Lux 3 cameras

It's just been a few months since Leica rolled out its standard issue M8.2, D-Lux 4, and C-Lux 3 digital cameras, but it looks like the company is already set to enter the special edition fray, with new, somewhat "limited" versions of each apparently set to roll out over the next few weeks. That includes two special edition versions of the M8.2, one...

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Microsoft ditches Windows 7 beta download limit

It will be available through Jan. 24; company apologizes for Friday foul-upMicrosoft Corp. on Saturday ditched the download limit on Windows 7 beta, saying that users will be able to grab the preview through Jan. 24 -- even if the total exceeds the 2.5 million cap it had set earlier.The company also apologized for the stalled servers that prevented users from obtaining the operating system preview on Friday, the day the public beta was originally slated to launch."I know many of you have had issues...

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Microsoft restarts botched Windows 7 beta downloads

After 24-hour delay, activates download pages and begins handing out keysMicrosoft Corp. on Saturday restarted its rollout of the Windows 7 beta, 24 hours after it aborted the launch because heavy demand had stalled its servers.As of noon PST, the company said that the primary beta download site, an offshoot of the Windows section of Microsoft.com, was "up and working."Computerworld confirmed that the Windows 7 beta download page was online and taking download requests. Springboard Series, another...

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Sun Microsystems acquisition of Q-Layer

JAKARTA - Sun Microsystems successfully acquires Q-layer, a cloud computing company that mengotomatisasi implementation and management of cloud computing for the private sector and public.Q-layer company based in Belgium will be part of the Cloud Computing business unit owned by Sun to develop and integrate technology, architecture and cloud computing services.Q-layer technology to simplify the management as well as cloud computing allows users to quickly monitor and run the application. This is...

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Setting Internet Dial Up

Setting Internet used Dial Up to Internet Service Provider1. Telkomsel Flash – Halo/Simpati/As (time based)2. Telkomsel GPRS – Halo/Simpati/As (Volume based)3. Indosat – Matrix – (Volume based)4. Indosat – Mentari – (Volume based)5. Indosat – IM3 – (Volume based)6. Indosat – IM3 – (time based)7. XL – Xplor/Bebas/Jempol (Volume based)8. Telkom Flexi – Classy/Trendy (Volume based)9. Telkom Flexi – Classy/Trendy (time based)10. Mobile 8 – Fren11. Starone12. Esia (time based)1. Telkomsel Flash – Halo/Simpati/As...

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