Scientists and engineers from the Los Alamos government weapons lab and IBM Corp. have built the world’s fastest computer. It is capable of sustaining 1,000 trillion calculations per second, twice faster than IBM’s super supercomputer, the IBM Blue Gene system.
Microsoft Windows 7 may be due to come out a far year and a half from now, but the brouhaha that manifests the curiosity and excitement among concerned sectors – or just about anyone – is all around, this early.
While we were waiting for Apple to announce the 3G iPhone, we found out that they are looking to add “Solar cells on portable devices” as their patent is called. The application, dated 24th April 2008, shows that Apple is planning to fit in solar cells on iPhones, iPods and MacBooks.
Here we go again! Microsoft announced that they will try to reach an agreement with Yahoo! Inc., but they admit that nothing could result from these discussions. Thos guys from Microsoft said that now they will try a different approach which involves “a transaction with Yahoo! but not an acquisition of all of Yahoo!”. Microsoft “only” wants to improve their “online services and advertising business”. For the moment, no deadline for the offer and the saga continues.
Google Maps were upgraded and updated, therefore now they feature links to Wikipedia articles and geotagged photos from Panoramio. It’s a very good idea from Google to integrate these options because everybody wants to see some images of the area where they might want to go and Google Maps are very “accurate” but until now they were not complete.
