It was 9 months ago when Google's Gmail officially opened to public with initial storage of 1 gig and it is increasing but slowly. But after Yahoo! mail offered unlimited storage, Gmail was forced to increase the counting to approximately 1.12 MB every hour just to compete with Yahoo! but with Gmail offering POP3/IMAP unless Yahoo! mail offer this free to its users, I think Gmail is still the winner.

Chen spoke on the difficulties on providing a watchable HD product to many, including buffering times that don’t drive viewers away. Chen told CNet that the first HD content on YouTube should be available within 3 months.

HD is the next step forward in video, and a spectator who called on HD on YouTube was greeted with cheers from the audience. YouTube is stuck in a difficult position; their wild popularity is in part facilitated by bringing free universal upload and viewing access to everyone, where as accessibility with HD is a big issue. Whilst internet access speeds have finally caught up with the provision of video online in the last few years, the bandwidth required for HD is at a level which automatically limits audience based on internet access speed. High speed broadband continues to have a strong uptake, but outside of major metropolitan centers it remains patchy as access is often not readily available. It will be interesting to see how YouTube balances its stated desire to provide access to everyone vs the growing demand for HD, particularly at a time where competitors are, or are in the process of offering HD services. 

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 11, 2007 – Built using an entirely new transistor formula that alleviates the wasteful electricity leaks that threaten the pace of future computer innovation, Intel Corporation today unveiled 16 server and high-end PC processors. In addition to increasing computer performance and saving energy use, these processors also eliminate eco-unfriendly lead and, in 2008, halogen materials.

Called the biggest transistor advancements in 40 years by Intel Co-Founder Gordon Moore, the processors are the first to use Intel’s Hafnium-based high-k metal gate (Hi-k) formula for the hundreds of millions of transistors inside these processors. These Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme and Xeon® processors are also the first to be manufactured on the company’s 45-nanometer (nm) manufacturing process, further boosting performance and lowering power consumption.

The new 45nm (a nanometer is 1 billionth of a meter) processors boast nearly twice the transistor density of previous chips built on the company’s 65nm technology – that is up to 820 million transistors for quad-core processors, each using Intel’s new formula.

]]> http://teknoblog.i.ph/blogs/teknoblog/?p=3 http://teknoblog.i.ph/blogs/teknoblog/?p=3#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:24:00 +0000 teknoblog http://teknoblog.i.ph/blogs/teknoblog/?p=3 What is Android you might ask, it is a mobile platform developed by Google, it is new and its different from other mobile platform because it is an open mobile platform(open source operating system for mobile) unlike Windows Mobile, Apple's iPhone, wherein any handset manufacturer with membership with Open Handset Alliance can use it. That means that if a software developer made a software for this platform, it can run on 30 different handset(the number will increase for sure as more vendors join Open Handset Alliance)

Watch the video below to give you an idea of what to come.

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An early look on what to expect to expect when it hits the market.

  Here's what we know the software will support out of the box:

• Touchscreen
• 3G
• Webkit-based browser
• Optimized Java runtime layer (known as Dalvik Virtual Machine)
• Threaded text messaging
• MPEG-4, h.264, MP3, and AAC file formats
• Accelerated 3D graphics

Asus confirmed that Tablet PC for apple is real. With all the speculations and rumours about Apple, this might be true since Asus is Apple's contract manufacture and it's one of the company responsible for making iBooks, PowerBooks and MacBooks so might as well believe it. Asus Taiwan is helping apple creates its very own Tablet PC.

The question is, will this Apple's Tablet PC succeed? or will it failed just like the Apple Newton? Who knows…

Full story here: CNET U.K.