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 with a score of 0.8.

Greenpeace praised among other things Nokia's improved return programme in India, where it has 354 collection points enabling customers to return their old mobile phones to the maker for free.

"Nokia scores very well on toxic chemical issues, launching new models free of PVC (polyvinyl chloride) since the end of 2005 and aiming to have all new models free of brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and antimony trioxide (a chemical flame retardant) by the end of 2009," Greenpeace said in its report.

It also noted that 25 percent of the energy used by the Finnish handset maker in 2007 came from renewable sources and that it aims to increase use of renewables to 50 percent by 2010.


"We want manufacturers to eliminate harmful chemicals in their product design. We want to see an end to the stories of unprotected child labourers scavenging mountains of cast-off gadgets," the group said in a statement.

Korea's Samsung came in second position with 5.7 points. It scored well on chemicals and waste criteria and for making energy-efficient products.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers took the third spot with 5.5 points, having set late 2010 as its deadline for eliminating toxic PVC plastic and all BFRs from its products.

Greenpeace slammed Nintendo and US software maker Microsoft for their use of toxic chemicals and poor handling of discarded electronic products. The companies received scores of 0.8 and 2.2 points respectively.

Source : http://www.spacemart.com/

Continue Reading...

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 recent trend is to increase computing power but reduce electricity use and heat production by crafting multiple processors, or computer brains, into each chip.

Designing software and support architecture that best enables such chips to divide tasks equally among the brains, or cores, in ways that let them simultaneously tend to jobs and maximize computing speeds has proved daunting.

"It is important for industry to work in tandem with academia to unleash the immense power of parallel computing," said Microsoft Research vice president Tony Hey.

"Working jointly with industry and academia, we plan to explore the next generation of hardware and software to unlock the promise and the power of parallel computing and enable a change in the way people use technology."

Intel and rival Advanced Micro Devices already market chips with two or four cores and say it is likely the number will rise. Intel researchers have made an 80-core research processor.

"We're quickly moving the computing industry to a many-core world," said Intel Research director Andrew Chien.

"Working with Microsoft and these two prestigious universities will help catalyze the long-term breakthroughs that are needed to enable dramatic new applications for the mainstream user."

Harnessing the power of multi-core chips will let computers "bridge the physical world with the virtual," according to Chien.

He expects "efficient and robust" applications for digital media, data analysis, and Internet-enabled mobile devices.

Predicted research breakthroughs include software enabling people's mobile telephone to recognize faces of approaching acquaintances and whisper their names to users.

Another foreseeable application is described as voice recognition software so accurate it could be used to record witness testimony in courtroom proceedings.

"This is a once-in-a-career opportunity to recast the foundations of information technology and influence the entire IT industry for decades to come," said UC Berkeley professor of computer sciences David Patterson.

The universities will have to provide millions of dollars in funding for the centers in what is said to be an unprecedented parallel computing research alliance.

source : http://www.spacedaily.com/

Continue Reading...

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 crystals of silicon with phosphorus atoms. Quantum information was processed in the phosphorus electrons, transferred to the phosphorus nuclei and then subsequently transferred back to the electrons.

The scientists said that was the first demonstration that a single atomic nucleus can serve as quantum computational memory.

"In this exciting collaboration we have reported on a very important demonstration of coherent information transfer between the electron spin (processing qubit) and the nuclear spin (memory qubit) of phosphorus atoms in isotopically enriched silicon crystals," said study co-author Thomas Schenkel, a physicist in Berkeley Lab's Accelerator and Fusion Research Division.

"The electron spin information was faithfully stored in the nuclear spin for nearly two seconds (thousands of times longer than ever reported previously) and then transferred back to the electron spin with about 90-percent fidelity," Schenkel said.

The experiment is reported in the Oct. 23 issue of the journal Nature.

source : http://www.spacedaily.com/

Continue Reading...

Spammers Use Legit Sites to Trick Search Engines

Scammers are using redirector links on interactive Web sites belonging to magazines, universities and even Microsoft and the Internal Revenue Service to take visitors to their malicious links, reports Computerworld.

In his blog, Gary Warner, director of research in computer forensics with the University of Alabama at Birmingham, warns that search engines have been tricked into returning malicious links to tens of thousands of search terms through redirector links from blog comments, guestbook entries and fake blogs.

Microsoft and the IRS have fixed the problem, but about 20 Web sites are still affected, according to the story.

Source : http://www.itbusinessedge.com/

Continue Reading...

Nokia N85 - 8GB, 3.5G & 5MP Camera Phone

Nokia N85, the latest Nokia Nseries multimedia computer made to set new standards for mobile entertainment, gaming and sharing. Along with an eye-catching 2.6" OLED screen and smooth, sleek finish, the Nokia N85 redefines the mobile experience. It boasts N-Gage gaming, music with in-built FM transmitter, 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and geotagging capabilities, three month integrated license for turn-by-turn voice navigation and high-speed connectivity, all in one device.

With a strong lineup of multimedia features, the Nokia N85 is taking the world of mobile convergence to the next level. Gaming, photos, navigation and music blend together with the newest Ovi and third party services via 3.5G HSDPA and Wi-Fi

Each Nokia N85 comes with an 8 GB microSD card, up to 30 hours of music playback time and its high-fidelity sound means favorite tracks can be enjoyed virtually anywhere. Build a personal music collection from the millions of tracks and playlists available from the Nokia Music Store or other online music vendors, or synchronize PC and mobile music libraries via USB cable. Alternatively, consumers can enjoy RDS radio or a wide selection of stations via the internet. The 3.5 mm audio jack makes connecting a top-quality headset simple and an in-built FM transmitter lets the Nokia N85 play wirelessly through a car or home stereo to really crank up the sound. connectivity to make discovering and sharing experiences quick and seamless.

estimated retail price $599-$699

Source : http://www.itswami.com

Continue Reading...

How PHP handles file uploads

The term “upload” means moving a file from one computer to another, but as far as PHP is concerned, all that’s happening is that a file is being moved from one location to another. This means you can test all the scripts in this chapter on your local computer without the need to upload files to a remote server.

PHP supports file uploads by default, but hosting companies can restrict the size of uploads or disable them altogether. Before going any further, it’s a good idea to check the settings on your remote server

Continue Reading...

File Server Cheap up with the Red Satan

If you do not want to fuss and loose enough budget, the NAS (Network attached Storage) is one of the solutions. However, if you want to utilize the old computer and hard drive that is not used, FreeNAS is a variant of the operating system FreeBSD can we useful. FreeNAS file you can download at www.freenas.org address in the form of an ISO file size of 46.6 Mega Bytes.

Unique, FreeNAS can be run as a Live-CD, alias does not need to be installed in the hard disk. If the PC motherboard, which would be used to support booting from a USB Flash disk, FreeNAS is also ready to be installed in the popular media. If you Hobie a photography store and have a media type CF Cards. This is the step-by-step configuration:

Burn an ISO file to a CD
By default FreeNAS distributed in the form of the ISO, burned to the CD. Do not forget, we do not burn an ISO file FreeNAS as data, but as the ISO.

Priorities change Booting the PC
Steps we need to do this because the computer will not boot from the hard drive us, but from a CD containing the files freeNAS that we have done previously.

Read More

Source : http://www.infokomputer.com/

Continue Reading...

How to Subscribe Speedy

How to Subscribe

What administrative requirements that must be met?

Provide a copy of ID / SIM / Passport Speedy customers.
Signing of the Contract Subscription Speedy research the materei Rp.6.000, --

No charges have arrears of payment and Speedy Phone Faximile or in the installation of the same address, both on behalf of itself and on behalf of the Personal / Company / Agency / Institution, or any name as pengontrak / or tenants and users and the place or live at the address where Speedy registered facilities.

For more information contact Customer Care Telkom 147


What should I prepare?

The device computer, a modem provided by the customer
Minimum standard technical specifications of the computer (the minimum fun):
Pentium II Processor
64 MB of RAM
Hard drives with a capacity of 2 GB if technically required replacement modem to get a new type of service, the responsibility penyediaannya become fully customer.


What are provided by Telkom?

By choosing Speedy solution needs access to the Internet you then you will get service from Telkom as follows:

Spliter installation in customer premises (the customer side of the house)
Warranty Speed Internet Access to Broadband RAS
Broadband Access Line in accordance with the type of service
Internet access through ISP Apnic

Source : http://www.telkom.co.id/

Continue Reading...

WIRELESS

When viewed as a method of data transport, wireless technology appears very similar to wired technology. You have a piece of hardware, a method of transmission, and connections on both ends that transform data from human-intelligible to transportable and back. For both wired and wireless technology, the range of transmission is an issue. You can't move your laptop 15 feet from the wall jack when depending on a 10-foot cable. Similarly, you can't go out for a jog and expect your in-home cordless phone to keep a connection five miles away from its receiver.

But if you get either a 20-foot cable or a wireless connector of sufficient power, you can move your laptop 15 feet away from the wall jack; and if you get a cellular phone, you can go jogging five miles away from your house and still take calls (as long as your service provider has a reasonable antenna set up). The methods of connection and ranges of service available vary in wireless technology just as they do in wired technology. Home telephones with a wireless handset have a more limited range than cellular phones; infrared transmissions have a more limited range than radio-wave (including microwave) transmissions. Different types of wireless solutions can communicate ten feet, ten miles, or with a satellite in orbit.

According to its name, wireless local area network is a link between some unit computers without using cable as a media. In this case, used a micro radio wave through air as a media with the frequency 2,4 GHz. This Frequency is a frequency ISM (Industrial, Medical & Science) where Indonesia and most state in world have ratified the agreement agreeing using of above mentioned frequency for the sake of industry, health, and science. The existence of the international agreement minimizes the problem of interference frequency with the facility of military and or governmental.

Frequency use 2,4 Ghz for the WLAN by empiric have given very good result especially for the tropical zone, considering wheatear condition which relative stable and at least magnetic trouble from earth. Optimal reach which can be reached till 25 km, on condition that each antenna transmitter and receiver could 'see' each other (good of line of sight, LOS).

Source : http://www.channel-11.net/engs/service/

Continue Reading...

GSM Modems

A GSM modem can be an external modem device, such as the Wavecom FASTRACK Modem. Insert a GSM SIM card into this modem, and connect the modem to an available serial port on your computer.

A GSM modem can be a PC Card installed in a notebook computer, such as the Nokia Card Phone.

A GSM modem could also be a standard GSM mobile phone with the appropriate cable and software driver to connect to a serial port on your computer. Phones such as the Nokia 7110 with a DLR-3 cable, or various Ericsson phones, are often used for this purpose.

A dedicated GSM modem (external or PC Card) is usually preferable to a GSM mobile phone. This is because of some compatibility issues that can exist with mobile phones. For example, if you wish to be able to receive inbound MMS messages with your gateway, and you are using a mobile phone as your modem, you must utilize a mobile phone that does not support WAP push or MMS. This is because the mobile phone automatically processes these messages, without forwarding them via the modem interface. Similarly some mobile phones will not allow you to correctly receive SMS text messages longer than 160 bytes (known as "concatenated SMS" or "long SMS"). This is because these long messages are actually sent as separate SMS messages, and the phone attempts to reassemble the message before forwarding via the modem interface. (We've observed this latter problem utilizing the Ericsson R380, while it does not appear to be a problem with many other Ericsson models.)

When you install your GSM modem, or connect your GSM mobile phone to the computer, be sure to install the appropriate Windows modem driver from the device manufacturer. To simplify configuration, the Now SMS/MMS Gateway will communicate with the device via this driver. An additional benefit of utilizing this driver is that you can use Windows diagnostics to ensure that the modem is communicating properly with the computer.

The Now SMS/MMS gateway can simultaneously support multiple modems, provided that your computer hardware has the available communications port resources.

Source : http://www.nowsms.com/

Continue Reading...

Information technology

Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware." IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to convert, store, protect, process, transmit, and securely retrieve information.

Today, the term information technology has ballooned to encompass many aspects of computing and technology, and the term has become very recognizable. The information technology umbrella can be quite large, covering many fields. IT professionals perform a variety of duties that range from installing applications to designing complex computer networks and information databases. A few of the duties that IT professionals perform may include data management, networking, engineering computer hardware, database and software design, as well as the management and administration of entire systems.

When computer and communications technologies are combined, the result is information technology, or "infotech". Information Technology (IT) is a general term that describes any technology that helps to produce, manipulate, store, communicate, and/or disseminate information. Presumably, when speaking of Information Technology (IT) as a whole, it is noted that the use of computers and information are associated.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Technology

Continue Reading...