ZDNet India : The end of BIOS:
"Intel and Microsoft are gearing up to move toward the first major overhaul of the innermost workings of the personal computer--the boundary where software and hardware meet--during 2004. "
EFI for dummies
The EFI specification is essentially a preboot environment that allows a PC to conduct activities such as scanning for viruses or running diagnostics. Intel has used EFI to create a preboot software framework that can supplant the BIOS. The framework, called Platform Innovation Framework for EFI and sometimes referred to by the code name Tiano, allows PC makers to write preboot software modules, which are similar to Windows drivers, designed to get a PC's hardware up and running before handing off control of it to the operating system.
31 December, 2003
27 December, 2003
ZDNet India : Computers may get tax breaks in Budget
Cut Customs duty to 20 percent from the peak rate of 35 percent ...
Bring down the overall tax incidence on PCs from the current 40 percent ...
Reduce Customs duty on capital goods and raw materials to zero...
Push states to cut sales tax to 4 percent...
Cut Customs duty to 20 percent from the peak rate of 35 percent ...
Bring down the overall tax incidence on PCs from the current 40 percent ...
Reduce Customs duty on capital goods and raw materials to zero...
Push states to cut sales tax to 4 percent...
15 December, 2003
ZDNet India : Google comes to India:
"Google, the Internet search king, is homing in on Bangalore for its first research and development centre outside the US. The centre is slated to open in March and will initially employ about 100 engineers, the Mountain View, California-based company announced on Thursday. "
"Google, the Internet search king, is homing in on Bangalore for its first research and development centre outside the US. The centre is slated to open in March and will initially employ about 100 engineers, the Mountain View, California-based company announced on Thursday. "
10 December, 2003
ZDNet India : Sobig blamed for fourfold rise in spam
The amount of spam email has increased by a factor of four during the past year, according to email-security company MessageLabs - and the Sobig virus is being blamed.
The amount of spam moving around the Internet has increased from one spam in every eleven emails at the end of 2002 to one spam in every 2.5 emails today; a more than fourfold increase.
The amount of spam email has increased by a factor of four during the past year, according to email-security company MessageLabs - and the Sobig virus is being blamed.
The amount of spam moving around the Internet has increased from one spam in every eleven emails at the end of 2002 to one spam in every 2.5 emails today; a more than fourfold increase.
02 December, 2003
ZDNet India : M'sian pirates tout Longhorn:
"Malaysia's pirates have struck again: Two years before the official release of the next version of Windows, codenamed Longhorn, copies have appeared in the country's markets priced at US$1.58. "
"Malaysia's pirates have struck again: Two years before the official release of the next version of Windows, codenamed Longhorn, copies have appeared in the country's markets priced at US$1.58. "
ZDNet India : Life after Moore's Law
Moore's Law, as chip manufacturers generally refer to it today, is coming to an end, according to a recent research paper. Manufacturers will be able to produce chips on the 16-nanometer manufacturing process, expected by conservative estimates to arrive in 2018, and maybe one or two manufacturing processes after that, but that's it.
.... When current flows from the source to the drain, a computer reads this as a "1." When current is not flowing, the transistor is read as a "0." Millions of these actions together produce the data inside PCs. Strict control of the gate and channel region, therefore, are necessary to produce reliable results.
When the length of the gate gets below 5 nanometers, however, tunneling will begin to occur. Electrons will simply pass through the channel on their own, because the source and the drain will be extremely close....
Moore's Law, as chip manufacturers generally refer to it today, is coming to an end, according to a recent research paper. Manufacturers will be able to produce chips on the 16-nanometer manufacturing process, expected by conservative estimates to arrive in 2018, and maybe one or two manufacturing processes after that, but that's it.
.... When current flows from the source to the drain, a computer reads this as a "1." When current is not flowing, the transistor is read as a "0." Millions of these actions together produce the data inside PCs. Strict control of the gate and channel region, therefore, are necessary to produce reliable results.
When the length of the gate gets below 5 nanometers, however, tunneling will begin to occur. Electrons will simply pass through the channel on their own, because the source and the drain will be extremely close....
01 December, 2003
ZDNet India : Craving for 'clicks' bogs down search:
Hackers and mainstream Internet companies are beginning to take extreme measures to grab Web search "clicks"--sowing confusion for consumers and posing new challenges for search providers.
"Security consultants last week discovered a Trojan horse called QHosts that changed browser domain name system (DNS) settings to redirect visitors to Web sites, including Google.com, to an alternate search site laced with ads."
Hackers and mainstream Internet companies are beginning to take extreme measures to grab Web search "clicks"--sowing confusion for consumers and posing new challenges for search providers.
"Security consultants last week discovered a Trojan horse called QHosts that changed browser domain name system (DNS) settings to redirect visitors to Web sites, including Google.com, to an alternate search site laced with ads."
14 November, 2003
ZDNet India : Kazaa to sell Bollywood films
Sharman Networks, makers of the popular Kazaa peer-to-peer (p2p) software, will sell a feature-length Bollywood movie through its service.
The Bollywood thriller Supari will be offered for sale at US$2.99 a pop after a deal was struck between Sharman Networks partner Altnet Networks, a p2p content provider, and Bollywood film maker Aum Creates. Kazaa users will also be able to purchase music files from the movie for US$0.90 each.
Sharman Networks, makers of the popular Kazaa peer-to-peer (p2p) software, will sell a feature-length Bollywood movie through its service.
The Bollywood thriller Supari will be offered for sale at US$2.99 a pop after a deal was struck between Sharman Networks partner Altnet Networks, a p2p content provider, and Bollywood film maker Aum Creates. Kazaa users will also be able to purchase music files from the movie for US$0.90 each.
05 November, 2003
ZDNet India : Java vs .Net: battleground India
A very good article comparing the two technologies...
A very good article comparing the two technologies...
01 November, 2003
E-mail virus surfaces turning PCs into spam machines:
A new e-mail virus capable of turning infected personal computers into "spamming" machines emerged on Friday targeting corporate and home users in Europe and the United States, a computer security expert said.
"The virus installs an SMTP, or simple mail transfer protocol, programme on an infected PC that turns the computer into a type of e-mail computer server capable of sending out torrents of virus-infected messages, Genes said. "
A new e-mail virus capable of turning infected personal computers into "spamming" machines emerged on Friday targeting corporate and home users in Europe and the United States, a computer security expert said.
"The virus installs an SMTP, or simple mail transfer protocol, programme on an infected PC that turns the computer into a type of e-mail computer server capable of sending out torrents of virus-infected messages, Genes said. "
28 October, 2003
Hackers get novel defense; the computer did it:
"Aaron Caffrey, 19, was acquitted earlier this month in the United Kingdom on charges of hacking into the computer system of the Houston Pilots, an independent contractor for the Port of Houston, in September 2001.
Caffrey had been charged with breaking into the system and crippling the server that provides scheduling information for all ships entering the world's sixth-largest port.
Although authorities traced the hack back to Caffrey's computer, he said that someone must have remotely planted a program, called a 'trojan,' onto his computer that did the hacking and that could have been programmed to self destruct. "
"Aaron Caffrey, 19, was acquitted earlier this month in the United Kingdom on charges of hacking into the computer system of the Houston Pilots, an independent contractor for the Port of Houston, in September 2001.
Caffrey had been charged with breaking into the system and crippling the server that provides scheduling information for all ships entering the world's sixth-largest port.
Although authorities traced the hack back to Caffrey's computer, he said that someone must have remotely planted a program, called a 'trojan,' onto his computer that did the hacking and that could have been programmed to self destruct. "
21 October, 2003
Device that lets a soldier see the unseen
A researcher here has claimed to have developed a device which will help soldiers in a battlefield see pictures of what's on the other side of a hill, forest, or a jungle.....
....The two-pound six-inch-long device made from off-the-shelf parts such as digital camera components, would be used in weapons like mortars that launch shells high in the air. Far above the battlefield, a separation charge opens a parachute, and the surveillance device floats down, transmitting digital images as it descends.......
A researcher here has claimed to have developed a device which will help soldiers in a battlefield see pictures of what's on the other side of a hill, forest, or a jungle.....
....The two-pound six-inch-long device made from off-the-shelf parts such as digital camera components, would be used in weapons like mortars that launch shells high in the air. Far above the battlefield, a separation charge opens a parachute, and the surveillance device floats down, transmitting digital images as it descends.......
Soon water will charge your mobile phones!
Wondering how? Well, engineering researchers at the University of Alberta have discovered a new way of generating electricity from flowing water.
It may soon be possible to never have to charge up a cellular phone again, instead, the phone could be fitted with a battery that uses pressurized water.
Wondering how? Well, engineering researchers at the University of Alberta have discovered a new way of generating electricity from flowing water.
It may soon be possible to never have to charge up a cellular phone again, instead, the phone could be fitted with a battery that uses pressurized water.
17 October, 2003
Inside track on Pak Hackers
They’re still in their rebellious teens and already are a part of the ‘elite’ group of hackers. Khalid Hussain from Karachi explores the seamy world of the Pakistan hackers whose favourite targets obviously are Indian sites
They’re still in their rebellious teens and already are a part of the ‘elite’ group of hackers. Khalid Hussain from Karachi explores the seamy world of the Pakistan hackers whose favourite targets obviously are Indian sites
Doing business in China @ the speed of dumb
..........Ah, here we go. This article looks like it could be promising. It’s a presentation that Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and his billionaire buddy Warren Buffett gave to business school students at the University of Washington.
Ho ho! I think we might be on to something here. Just listen to how Gates described Microsoft’s strategy in China:
“Although about three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.......
..........Ah, here we go. This article looks like it could be promising. It’s a presentation that Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and his billionaire buddy Warren Buffett gave to business school students at the University of Washington.
Ho ho! I think we might be on to something here. Just listen to how Gates described Microsoft’s strategy in China:
“Although about three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.......
14 October, 2003
ZDNet India : The future of talking computers:
"A future in which conversational computers predominate has been a staple of computer science chit-chat since the 1940s, when Alan Turing set out to build a machine that would respond like a human to typed messages. "
"A future in which conversational computers predominate has been a staple of computer science chit-chat since the 1940s, when Alan Turing set out to build a machine that would respond like a human to typed messages. "
13 October, 2003
IBM unveils giant computing grid in China:
The grid's computing power is expected to be second only to the Japanese government's Earth Simulator supercomputer, a $500 million machine that crunches more than 35 trillion calculations per second, it said.
IBM's system, which runs on the open-source Linux software, will link nearly 100 universities and 10,000 students in China when it is completed, it said.
"IBM unveils giant computing grid in China"
The grid's computing power is expected to be second only to the Japanese government's Earth Simulator supercomputer, a $500 million machine that crunches more than 35 trillion calculations per second, it said.
IBM's system, which runs on the open-source Linux software, will link nearly 100 universities and 10,000 students in China when it is completed, it said.
"IBM unveils giant computing grid in China"
ZDNet India : Drawing on software storyboard, desi animation set to go places
"In his introduction to a recent report on the animation industry, National Association of Software & Services Companies (NASSCOM) president Kiran Karnik listed four reasons as to why India is important in the animation sector. According to Karnik, Indian companies offer certain intrinsic advantages. These include a substantial base of skilled, English-speaking animators; availability of at least 12 animation studios with hardware, software and communication infrastructure; low cost of animation production; and India's vast entertainment industry. "
"In his introduction to a recent report on the animation industry, National Association of Software & Services Companies (NASSCOM) president Kiran Karnik listed four reasons as to why India is important in the animation sector. According to Karnik, Indian companies offer certain intrinsic advantages. These include a substantial base of skilled, English-speaking animators; availability of at least 12 animation studios with hardware, software and communication infrastructure; low cost of animation production; and India's vast entertainment industry. "
10 October, 2003
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