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By Dora, on November 15th, 2011% 
The University of Illinois states Seattle-based Cray Inc. is going to take over development of the delayed $300 million Blue Waters supercomputer job, 3 months just after IBM brought out citing expense and technical issues.
Cray wants to get the computer online the coming year, maintaining the project, which happens to be being mainly paid for by the National Science Foundation, on target to complete in time.
“We clearly had to do it real quickly,” according toThom Dunning, the director of National Center for Supercomputing Applications. “NSF’s goal was to keep the project . . . → Read More: New Replacement for New U.S. Supercomputer Project
By Dora, on November 14th, 2011% 
There is one more $99 touch e-reader becoming a member of the tablet line this holiday shopping time of year. Kobo has introduced its $99 Kobo Touch along with Offers, which is the identical product as a normal $130 Kobo Touch, however the screen displays advertisements when it’s in sleep mode or switched off, plus just what the company strangely describes as “discreet places.”
The 6-inch e-reader will certainly be a direct rival to Amazon’s Kindle Touch along with Special deals and Barnes & Noble’s Nook Simple Touch. The three are $99 e-ink touch units having 6-inch . . . → Read More: $99 Kobo Touch Taking on the Tablet Competiton this Shopping Season
By Dora, on October 28th, 2011% 
Hewlett Packard will continue in producing tablet computers, and they’re going to be driven by the Windows 8 os, HP explained on a phone call with the market analysts. The future of its webOS mobile Operating system continues to be unclear.
“We’re at the beginning stages of a new segment,” according to Meg Whitman, HP Chief Executive. “I hardly think that we’re too late, the work we’re doing with Microsoft is extraordinarily compelling, ultraportables are compelling.” she added.
Before the analyst phone call on Thursday, Whitman reported that the HP is not going . . . → Read More: HP will Release Tablet with Windows 8 in 2012
By Dora, on October 26th, 2011% 
The manufacturer of the Blackberry PlayBook postponed an update for the tablet pc’s os until the coming year.
RIM stated it is expecting to produce the update in February.
Research In Motion has confessed that the income of the unit are less than it expected. It recognized consumers wish native email, and contact apps.
The expected update targets to provide these features.
The company’s blog explained the decision as “difficult”, however guaranteed the modification allows the company’s mobile phones and tablet pc’s to interact much better.
Research in Motion stocks dropped about 6% according to the news.
. . . → Read More: Blackberry Playbook OS Update is Delayed
By Dora, on October 12th, 2011% 
Cray reported strategies Tuesday to set up a new supercomputer named Titan for Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tenn. which might be two times as fast and three times as power efficient as the present No. 1 supercomputer on the planet, Japan’s K computer.
The Titan system is estimated to possess a peak functionality between 10 and 20 petaflops of high end computing power, as outlined by Cray. Japan’s K computer, known as the most notable supercomputer on the planet in June, has reached a peak overall performance of 8.774 petaflops, or . . . → Read More: Titan Supercomputer for ORNL is the World’s Fastest Computer
By Dora, on October 7th, 2011% 
India has 1.2 billion people are most and of these are poor, this means that technology is out of reach and products like Apple’s iPad is beyond the grasp of many.
Telecoms and Education Minister Kapil Sibal said “The rich have access to the digital world, the poor and ordinary have been excluded. Aakash will end that digital divide…”
The government is going to buy the first batch of units of the lightweight device, called Aakash or “SKY” in English. Each unit cost $50 from a British company which assembled the web-enabled tablet computer in India.
A dry run . . . → Read More: India Introduces Cheapest Tablet Computer
By Dora, on October 5th, 2011% 
Amazon confirmed that the Kindle Touch 3G, the next generation of its 3G Kindle, will be unable to browse the internet without using a WiFi connection but users are still able to use 3G to synchronize purchased books and documents – anything beyond Wikipedia will be off-limits.
Browsing the internet was just an experimental feature on the last iteration of the ebook reader Kindle which is now known as the Kindle Keyboard 3G. The experiment appears to have failed and Amazon will restrict the 3G access of the Kindle Touch 3G to downloading books, documents, . . . → Read More: Kindle Touch 3G Will Not be Able to Access Most of the Internet
By Dora, on September 27th, 2011% 
RIM or Research in Motion retail partners have begun cutting down the prices of the company’s BlackBerry Playbook tablet just to cope up with the low market sales.
Jim Balsillie, RIM co-CEO confirmed that these price drops are expected after the company reported just 200,000 units of Playbook shipped into channels during the first year of availability. According to a report from BGR, Rogers employees were able to buy the BlackBerry Playbook for just $250.
The company (RIM) offers three types of its tablet, a 16GB, 32Gb, and 64GB entry-level model, all versions . . . → Read More: BlackBerry Playbook Slashed Down Prices Due to Unimpressive Sales
By Dora, on September 22nd, 2011% 
Amazon announced today that their Kindle can now check out books from the 11,000 libraries across the country. It’s a very simple process when doing this, simply browse to the website of the local library of your choice, enter your library card number and “send to Kindle”, then enter your Amazon information. The ebooks can then be transmitted through the wireless technology or even the use of a flash disk, any device do this too including iPhone and Android gadgets as long as it has an Amazon software.
Most titles of the books should be . . . → Read More: Check Out eBooks from 11,000 Libraries Through Amazon Kindle
By Dora, on September 15th, 2011% 
Intel Corporation, the world’s largest chip maker announced today the new “Ultrabook” under development with its technology will cost around $1,000, but the price is expected to fall down to $799 in the coming years.
A price that high (expected to be slimmer, lighter and faster than other conventional laptops) would bring Ultrabook closer to tablets in terms of pricing. The company is not expecting these new units to be in the direct competition as they also cater to different categories of consumers with different needs.
Mooly Eden, Intel Vice-President and PC Client Group General Manager, said “Initially, the . . . → Read More: Intel’s New Ultrabook Costs Almost $1,000
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