Posts Tagged ‘Hardware’
Hewlett Packard (HP) announced it would stop making the tablet and smartphone operating system based WebOS. TouchPad tablet production was stopped, but has not been long outstanding. WebOS and especially the TouchPad is seen as a victim of the popularity of Android and especially iPad tablet.
HP bought WebOS with the manufacturers, Palm, last year with a value of USD 1.2 billion. However, sales of smartphones and tablet WebOS never so exhilarating HP ultimately decided to no longer continue.
Sales TouchPad does not match our expectations.
One that makes the TouchPad is at least less desirable applications available. TouchPad also cut the price in a short time, but sales remain sluggish. David Daoud, research director at IDC assess the TouchPad can not compete with the iPad tablet and Android.
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Toshiba and Harman Kardon remain ‘cordial’ after working together in the next 10 years. Starting in 2001 until 2011, the collaboration of Japanese companies – America continued to grow the premium products in its class.
Toshiba as we know, is a Japanese vendor behind the premium multimedia laptop Toshiba Qosmio. In addition they still have a Toshiba Satellite which is also embedded board vendor for Harman Kardon audio.
“In early 2001, Toshiba became the standard laptop at the time. Toshiba when it has a DVD player but not yet supported by quality audio hardware is capable. So Toshiba began looking for music and video platform that fits,” he said at the launch of Toshiba’s latest product.
Toshiba finally met with top vendors Harman Kardon audio. The combination of Japanese-American collaboration was finally lowered Toshiba laptops with premium audio quality on the Qosmio and Satellite series.
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AVerMedia introduces their new breakthrough products. TV Tuner USB 3D first in the world comes to meet the needs of the consumer entertainment videos 3D.
No need to bother, the user just set up their desktop or laptop, and input devices are named AverTV USB 3D.
With these devices, users now can watch the 3D video content anytime, anywhere via a PC, respectively. AverTV 3D comes with their latest software called Aver Media Center 3D.
Not only that, users can record TV shows directly from 3D AverTV USB. One of the main features of this software is to convert existing 2D TV, a 3D shape. Unique is not it?
We are the company’s first 3D TV tuner in the world. AVerMedia is able to convert two-dimensional impressions into three dimensions directly from the TV signal
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One ruler processor smart phones, Qualcomm, announced that the latest generation of Snapdragon chips now is in final stages and will be cast next year.
Qualcomm said that current strength Snapdragon processor will be used for a large number of smartphones, both based on Android, including Droid Motorola, HTC Evo 4G, HTC and Google’s Desire HD Nexus One, or some Sony Ericsson devices, Palm’s smartphone, RIM devices, and even some also use the Windows Phone 7 Snapdragon in it.
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipset they claimed that the future will be dubbed the MSM8960. This processor will work up to five times better than the first Snapdragon chip them, especially because the new processor has the ability to dual-core 1.2GHz. The chip will use 28-nanometer process new to mobile devices.
San Diego-based manufacturer also announced that their future chipsets will use about 75 percent less power than current Snapdragon processor.
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Facebook is proven as the largest social networking site worldwide, with a total of more than 500 million citizens is not an easy matter to take care of him. That’s needed for an adequate software support.
As a social networking site of the most loved, Facebook does have a fairly high activity. For example, up to serve at least 570 billion page views every month.
In addition, there were approximately 3 billion photos uploaded every month by all users. That’s what makes up a large enough number of servers, which is about 30 thousand servers that existed until 2009.
In addition to hardware that supports, survival up also could not be separated from the role of supporting software such as:
Memcached, a software that served to distribute the cache memory on the up. That said, Facebook has been using this application for several years. But of course with some adjustment to the needs of today.
HipHop for PHP, the application is responsible for converting the C programming language PHP. So that will accelerate the processing of data within Facebook.
Haystack, this application is in charge of storage images in the database up. For information, Facebook has 80 billion photos in various resolutions. So it takes an application that really tough to manage.
The third addition to the software, up also has several other applications such as BigPipe, Cassandra, Scribe, Hadoop and Hive, Thrift, and Varnish. All the software used to maintain the continuity up to the present.
