The bigger the drive gets slower it feels like! There was a time when we used to be very happy having a 64 or 128 mb thumb drive and 512 was top of the line. We didnt even mind waiting for the 512 to fill up a few second more.
These metal flash drives use the latest USB spec to achieve up to 60MB/s read speeds on USB 3.0. The price is not out yet. They shall be coming in 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB sizes
Source [TechCrunch]
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Google gets Sparrow
CEO of Sparrow Dom Leca is very excited about joining with Google.. are u?
If you have used it before you would know it’s a MAC email client, also works on iOS platform. Probably the only other app I would use after Outlook or MFE.
It could be good news for windows and android users which they would release eventually.
It is just that some applications are better being independent.
This is what Sparrow CEO had to say about this accusation
“We’re excited to announce that Sparrow has been acquired by Google!
We care a lot about how people communicate, and we did our best to provide you with the most intuitive and pleasurable mailing experience.
Now we’re joining the Gmail team to accomplish a bigger vision — one that we think we can better achieve with Google.
We’d like to extend a special thanks to all of our users who have supported us, advised us, given us priceless feedback and allowed us to build a better mail application. While we’ll be working on new things at Google, we will continue to make Sparrow available and provide support for our users.
We had an amazing ride and can’t thank you enough.
Full speed ahead! “
Tag: Sparrow, google, acquisition, android, windows, iOS, mac
Source: http://sprw.me/
Kim Dotcom Sings, creating history!
He is out and kicking and making some noise which sounds kinda cool, see it yourself.
War is not over yet, looks like he is ready for a fight too.
I was never a big fan of online file vaults/cyberlockers. I like torrent better, but then looks like very body else like to have a cloud vault and share it with friends. Services like dropbox are use full. However I surely would like to see him come out of these cheers to kim.com
My earlier blog on megaupload shutdown
Tag: Mr. President, kim doctom sings, medaupload, kim.com, technology, SOPA, PIPA
Subatomic Noise in a Vacuum is truly random:
A random number generator (RNG) is a computational or physical device designed to generate a sequence of numbers or symbols that lack any pattern.
There are many methods of generating randomness, existed from ancient time like dice, coin flipping shuffling or playing cards. Among many use of random number, in computer cryptography is probably the most important one in modern technology world as it involves the security of “Everything”.
Finally a real LED TV from LG
Finally a real LED TV from LG
First there was CRT then came technologies like rate view, plasma and then came LCD and finally the so called LED TV. What we call LED is not LED it’s an LCD with LED backlist, yes surely it is better than just LCD TV, saves more power, better contrast and dynamic rate. We have been using LED displays on our phones for a while now, called AMOLED type of LED display, from Asus, nokia, htc, Samsung. Till now the available OLED technology was limited by its size and didn’t see much of a consumer grade large display on this category.
The first OLED TV is coming out from LG, it’s a 55 inch shall cost you 8000$. This is coming out on the second half of 2012. Samsung and TV manufacturers are also are also showcasing OLED TV and coming out with a similar launch time joining LG. As a consumer product the price will eventually come down and replace every other TV in the world (hopefully). I was always resistant towards moving from CRT to LCD due to quality and color. OLED in mass production shall probably finally be a technology which will stop us from worrying about quality of display like we still have to do while buying LCD. OLED is thin (4mm), light (7.5-kg) and lots less power hungry even flexible, just perfect for future and probably will be there for a long time to come, if not as long as the life span of CRT display. I just can’t wait to see one of these TV.
Motorola Vs Apple
While we fight over free flow of information and technology, apple and Motorola is going back in the court room claiming their Intellectual property. Google authorized Motorola to seek an injunction against the iPhone 4S and iCloud. They are seeking an injunction against the iPhone 4S and the iCloud over a package of six patents previously asserted against older Apple products. Some patents like “receiver having concealed external antenna” and “method and apparatus for communicating summarized data”
While apple fights for its OS interface design and hardware design, father of cell phone with granddaddy of search looking over hits apple in its core.
Source: fosspatents
Solar Storm 2012
Solar storm is on our way
It is time for one more 11-year solar cycle and “the solar storm”. (No, the world is not going to end)
Solar Coronal Mass Ejection is moving towards us at 1,400 miles per second alongside a high solar proton even some calling is “proton storms” takes from 15 min to two or more hours from the time of visual detection to reach Earth means it has already reached.
When the CME reaches earth it causes a strong geomagnetic storm. Which in effect for us shall cause particularly strong aurorae in large regions around Earth’s magnetic poles, possibility of awesome auroras at latitudes as low as New York. We may e experience disrupt radio transmissions and interruption of satellites services like the GPS. On the higher side this can cause the onboard computers in satellite to reboot. This can also affect our electrical transmission line facilities, resulting in potentially up to massive power outage. Read the rest of this entry
Megaupload Shutdown, Anonymous Strikes Back
The largest criminal copyright cases on Internet piracy has seized the Web site Megaupload and charged seven people connected with it. Anonymous strikes back on Megaupload Revange. 
The hacker collective that calls itself Anonymous attacked the Web sites of the Justice Department, Universal Music, Record Label EMI, French copyright authority HADOPI , FBI, and several major entertainment companies and trade groups in retaliation for Mega-upload’s seizure.
Russian news service RT claims this is the largest coordinated attack in Anonymous’ history—over 5,600 DDoS zealots blasting at once.
Srouce
RT, Anonymous Post, Gizmodo
Sony USB 3.0
Hacker says to release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday
“This coming Tuesday behold the full Norton Antivirus 1,7Gb src, the rest will follow,” Yama Tough posted via Twitter.
In the past week Yama Tough has released fragments of source code from Symantec products along with a cache of emails. The hacker says all the data was taken from Indian government servers.
ymantec doesn’t seem too worried, however, stating that, “Presently, we have no indication that the code disclosure impacts the functionality or security of Symantec’s solutions. Furthermore, there are no indications that customer information has been impacted or exposed at this time.” [Reuters via Gizmodo UK]
