http://hardware.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for Hardware en Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:40:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2681452 unknown@Digg.com Some Dell laptops come with dissabled audio ports, after pressure from the RIAA. Dell will enable them for you for only $99. Bargin. Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:40:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2681452Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2680904 unknown@DZone.com Intel has bad news for software developers. It's been hinted at already, but now the company has stated explicitly: it's not enough for software developers to be targeting dual, quad, or eight cores. No, the future holds tens, hundreds, or thousands of cores, and developers are going to have to bite the bullet and write programs that will scale to such systems. Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:02:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2680904HardwareopinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2680105 unknown@DZone.com The microcontroller is widely used in many devices, which works in environment. The microcontroller has to face the challenges from EMI, voltage stability, crystal failure and much other interference. If the interferences are strong enough to disturb the operation, the system design should be secure enough to deal with these matters, one good practice is to reset and go on with previous normal operation state . Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:35:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2680105Hardwarehow-tomethodologySecurityProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2679755 unknown@Digg.com Having difficulty waking? You just lack the motivation to get out of bed and shut the alarm off. Perhaps this alarm clock will do the trick. When you don't answer the alarm the "Tyrant" will randomly place telephone calls to the people in your cell's phonebook! Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:50:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2679755Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2679387 unknown@Digg.com We wrote once about the Huge Floating Crane which can lift bridges and submarines. We also had a rare look inside the workings of Largest Crane and Container Ships. But this gargantuan scene asks for its own page, as the memory of the biggest gantry crane structure slowly fades into the stuff of legends. Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:20:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2679387Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2678968 unknown@Digg.com Hitachi has pledged to release a 5TB 3.5in hard drive within two years, and it claims two of the drives will boast enough capacity to store everything in your brain. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:13:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2678968Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2677198 unknown@Digg.com It's getting better and better. Loosk like ATI's Radeon 4800 is much better than Nvidia expected. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:50:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2677198Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2676427 unknown@Digg.com informed investors that "significant quantities" of previous-generation graphics chips have been failing at "higher than normal rates," and that it's lowering its Q2 estimates due to pricing pressure. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:50:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2676427Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2673153 unknown@Digg.com Homemade flame thrower using PVC pipe, a lighter and a backpack, It's made entirely of parts you can get at your average hardware store. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:20:13 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2673153Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2673106 unknown@Digg.com Solid state drives (SSDs) are the inevitable future of mobile computing, but a new experiment by Tom's Hardware is extremely disappointing. It ends up that the touted power savings of SSDs over their moving-parts-laden cousins are nonexistent. In fact, SSDs are sucking more power than conventional hard drives. How is this possible? Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:40:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2673106Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2673256 unknown@DZone.com Intel is telling software developers to start thinking about not just tens but thousands of processing cores. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:12:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2673256HardwaretrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2672924 unknown@Digg.com It wasn't so long ago that 3D graphics cards were only expected to deliver higher frames-per-second in your favorite 3D games. But now we are about to enter the age of "GP-GPU," general-purpose computing on a GPU, and it's about ready for the mainstream. Here's some of what you can look forward to. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:11:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2672924Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2672448 unknown@Digg.com Intel is telling software developers to start thinking about not just tens but thousands of processing cores.the chipmaker is now thinking well beyond the traditional processor in a PC or server."The more cores we have the better. Provided that we can supply memory bandwidth to the device." Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:19:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2672448Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2671228 unknown@Digg.com AMD?s Radeon 4850 and 4870 have been widely praised in the media and put the ATI team back on the map. But it appears that we have just seen a small portion of what the ATI guys have in space for users. The new boards are actually running at well below the clock speed they can support and these cards will be challenging Nvidia's very best. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:27:57 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2671228Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2670288 unknown@DZone.com I'm on summer vacation right now, but there's always a little room for some Java programming, as long as there's a twist to it. Some time ago I bought a WiiMote for use with the WiiMote Whiteboard that can easily turn any surface into an electronic whiteboard. Recently I noticed that there's a new Lego Mindstorms version out with a cool programmable unit called NXT that you can control through Bluetooth using Java. Since there is also a Java library for getting input from the WiiMote I could not resist the urge to put these two together and create a WiiBot! Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:18:22 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2670288HardwarejavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2665748 unknown@Digg.com It is estimated that the data storage sector consumed about 61 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2006 (1.5 percent of the U.S. total, or more than the electricity consumed by the nation?s color televisions and similar to the amount of electricity consumed by approximately 5.8 million average U.S. households. These numbers are only expected to grow. Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:20:10 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2665748Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2665554 unknown@Digg.com With Wall-E dropping nationwide today, we've been thinking about the best robots to ever pour out their mechanical hearts on the big screen. We put together this list, which is only as good as our frail human bodies allowed it to be. Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:00:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2665554Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2664433 unknown@Digg.com The team at HotHardware decided to RAID up not two but three WD VelociRaptor drives in a RAID 5 configuration with an Areca PCIe X8 hardware RAID card, to see what the numbers looked like. This is only a quick-take on read performance but it certainly gives you a sense of scale and what these drives are capable of in the right environment. Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:00:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2664433Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2662478 unknown@Digg.com Haifa (Israel) ? This one did not take long: We already knew that Nvidia is working on a CUDA version for x86 CPUs, but said it would leave a modification for ATI GPUs to others. Eran Badit of NGOHQ.com told us that he has done it already and was able to get the Nvidia PhysX layer to run on ATI Radeon cards. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:40:22 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2662478Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2661546 unknown@DZone.com Most of us have at least one computer at home, some may even have a few. And then there are the ones that almost run their own data center at home, for private use. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:58:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2661546HardwaretrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2660237 unknown@Digg.com The access to the server room is now via the women?s bathroom. There will be a sign on the woman?s door that can be changed from OPEN to CLOSED and vice versa. Should you need to enter the server room, please change the sign to CLOSED. Once you are done, please change it back to OPEN. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:40:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2660237Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2658729 unknown@DZone.com The key to the Sherlock Holmes mystery, "The Hound of the Baskervilles" was this: Why the dog didn't bark? Why hasn't the so-called multicore crisis been seen as a crisis? Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:58:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2658729HardwareopiniontrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2658269 unknown@DZone.com The announcement of a petaflop computer has resurrected my dream of computers that write their own software and come up with their own ideas. That would take us a long way toward delivering our promise of "accelerating software development", with a completely different mechanism than the organizational mechanism I am using now. Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:14:47 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2658269HardwareopiniontrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2655560 unknown@DZone.com The Java Real Time Specification is bringing Java to new places, including the unsuspecting PLC market. This year at JavaONE, Greg Bollella introduced the Blue Wonder system for industrial automation, built on top of Java Real Time. When you look at the details behind Blue Wonder, it's obvious that the Java Real Time specification is going to bring about a revival for the Java programming language, providing new opportunities in many industries from industrial automation and finance to military applications. I met up with Greg to talk about the real time specification in detail, the challenges in writing time critical applications and to see the infinite possibilities that it provides Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:19:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2655560HardwarejavaresearchtrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2654703 unknown@Digg.com Love 'em or hate 'em, Comcast sure knows how to throw together a 10 million pixel video display. The one seen here is available for ogling at the Comcast Center in Philadelphia, and covers over 2,100 square feet of wall space with four-millimeter LED lights. Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:20:17 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2654703Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2652447 unknown@Digg.com This new patented measurement device overcomes nearly all the limitations of current methods. It should enable manufacturers to improve microprocessor production methods and to optimize future computers. Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:48:49 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2652447Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2652346 unknown@Digg.com Researchers from Purdue University claim they are getting closer to develop a much more efficient cooling system that the traditional heatsink-fan design used in many computers today. Suresh Garimella and Eckhard Groll say they can miniaturize traditional refrigerator designs to become small enough to fit in desktop computers or even notebooks. Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:36:50 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2652346Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2651825 unknown@Digg.com Parts of the blogosphere have been buzzing over the discovery of a 1.5-meter Ethernet cable that is being sold for the insane price of $499. The cable would cost you $4 elsewhere. The manufacturer is Denon, and the target customer is the "audio enthusiast." Apparently "audio enthusiast" is Denonese for "sucker." Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:10:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2651825Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2650443 unknown@DZone.com Jim Gray, a man who has contributed greatly to technology over the past 40 years, is credited with saying that memory is the new disk and disk is the new tape. With the proliferation of "real-time" web applications and systems that require massive scalability, how are hardware and software relating to this meme? Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:31:38 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2650443HardwaretrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2649544 unknown@Digg.com The next stage for Intel processors? - Integrated DRAM. Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:39:12 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2649544Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2649450 unknown@DZone.com Red Hat has inked a SaaS partnership with Amazon.com to offer JBoss middleware as a hosted service. Red Hat disclosed that JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is now available within the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Red Hat claims JBoss is the first cloud-based application server. Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:29:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2649450Hardwarejavaopen sourceserverProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2647594 unknown@Digg.com Good news for green tech: The fastest supercomputer in the world is also one of the most energy efficient. In the twice-yearly list of the fastest computers on the planet, IBM has 5 of the top 10 most powerful computers, including the No. 1 spot. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:31:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2647594Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2646719 unknown@Digg.com What started as a literary genre has since evolved into an art form with incredible real-life inventions, modifications and redesigns. The following is an introduction to the art of Steampunk, with everything from awesomely altered retrofuturistic guitars to a Steampunked iPod. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:05:57 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2646719Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2645319 unknown@Digg.com Equinix is responsible for holding massive amounts of data, including storage for popular sites like MySpace.com. Take a tour of the facilities, and see how much energy it takes to keep the Web alive. CNET News.com's Neha Tiwari reports. Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:10:50 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2645319Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2644221 unknown@Digg.com Nvidia today announced its second generation of Tesla floating point accelerators based on the GT200 series of graphics processors. It is the first big upgrade for the company?s supercomputing product portfolio ? streamlining the offering and introducing double precision support. Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:33:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2644221Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2644085 unknown@Digg.com Ok, now this one is highly theoretical. But it is simple stunning how much performance is stuck within graphics cards these days. AMD says its new ATI GPUs have a number crunching capability of almost 5 TFlops - which is the equivalent delivered by about 25,000 Pentium Pro CPUs back in 1996. Amazing. Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:20:49 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2644085Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2643969 unknown@Digg.com Did you wonder why your GeForce purchasing experience may have changed? Have you wondered why you might have seen all cards priced the same or not priced at all? We have some answers for you on that front and it is called "UMAP." Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:30:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2643969Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2643591 unknown@DZone.com Here’s one simple reason why you can never EVER forget why site performance is so important. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:41:17 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2643591HardwareopinionservertrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2643284 unknown@DZone.com The multicore era has opened the Pandora box of parallel programming environments. Closing it won't be easy. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:18:28 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2643284HardwareopiniontrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2641771 unknown@Digg.com The unmanned, aerial vehicle (UAV) has been used by the Military for years but now the technology underlying the sophisticated unmanned aircraft is now so easily available and inexpensive that one of Silicon Valley's most influential figures is encouraging hobbyists to build and fly their own. Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:38:19 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2641771Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2640939 unknown@DZone.com Getting children into science and technology is one of the big challenges facing UK education today. Getting kids into programming is even harder. Or it used to be. Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:12:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2640939HardwareNewstrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2640569 unknown@DZone.com Has there been any great progress in the state of the art (of sitting) since the last time readers sought recommendations for back-friendly chairs a few years back, or the perfect computer chair nearly a decade back? Is there even such a thing as a back-friendly chair, or should we all be in astronaut-style lounge workstations? Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:13:27 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2640569HardwareopiniontrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2638781 unknown@Digg.com Dell E and E Slim revealed, taking on Eee and Air in one fell swoop Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:11:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2638781Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2637333 unknown@Digg.com Old Fashioned Grand Piano Gets Connected to the Internet Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:35:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2637333Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2632593 unknown@Digg.com Capable of sustaining 1,000 trillion operations per second. Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:52:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2632593Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2632425 unknown@Digg.com Sounds like a no-brainer to me. Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:00:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2632425Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2632379 unknown@Digg.com Great idea to protect your digital family picture album. Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:46:12 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2632379Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2626697 unknown@Digg.com Sometimes you just have to work with what you have and AMD quite apparently has mastered this art. Buy a 2.8 GHz processor, that can, if you want to, run at 3.2 GHz. (Almost) no overclocking experience required. Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2626697Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2626078 unknown@Digg.com Water channels for your computer chips. Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:06:13 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2626078Hardware http://web2announcer.com/go/2625503 unknown@Digg.com Here's a peek at the events and technologies that led to the development of Intel's x86 architecture, plus milestones in its 30-year reign. Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:28:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2625503Hardware