Posted by Dylan Dun on June 21, 2011
Many desktop PCs aren’t known to be very mobile, but all-in-one PCs can be mobile if a workspace is provided because of the initial slimmed form factor. The HP TouchSmart 610 is an all-in-one with what we called a “fast CPU and solid GPU,” touch screen capabilities, a great IPS display, and more.
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The TouchSmart 610 has inherent build versatility due to its posable stand, which allows the monitor to be tilted slightly forward, to lie almost all the way on its back, and to swival 180 degrees around. Users can put this versatility in the stand to their advantage–using the multi-touch functionality to its fullest.
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Posted by Oliver Hoinville on June 20, 2011
It seems from the most recent survey of smartphone operating system markets that they have settled down into a sort of steady state. Shortly after the introduction of the Android operating system, that powers such phones as the Samsung Galaxy S, the rise in the popularity of Android phones was so rapid that it swamped the smartphone market as a kind of marketing tsunami.
Certainly this popularity wave took it to the top of the OS pecking order and within a couple of years it had gained 37% of the market and had swamped, almost out of existence, Symbian, the once market leading OS.
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Posted by Oliver Hoinville on June 20, 2011
The BlackBerry PlayBook, which launched April 19, supports Adobe Flash. (Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com)
It’s no secret: Adobe wants to see Flash everywhere. T
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Posted by Dylan Dun on June 19, 2011
Fujitsu recently unveiled a supercomputer built for Japan that is so powerful, it outranks its nearest five competitors on the supercomputer list…put together. Intel seems a little put off by all of the news, and threw out some damage control by claiming to prepare for exascale computing in less than seven years.
Before we get there, let’s take a refresher in metric (S.I.) prefixes!
Prefix Symbol Decimal yotta Y 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 zetta Z 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 eta E 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 peta P 1 000 000 000 000 000 tera T 1 000 000 000 000 giga G 1 000 000 000 mega M 1 000 000 kilo k 1 000 hecto h 100 deca da 10
So, as you might expect, a supercomputer that starts ranking in exaFLOPS (FLOPS = floating point operations per second; it’s a number used to gauge the raw computational ability of a machine) is one heck of a capable box. T
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Posted by Oscar Hedley on June 18, 2011
Security software sales will surge over the next five years as businesses seek to increase protection against security attacks and data loss on mobile devices, according to an analyst.
The Juniper Research report, Mobile Security Opportunities, shows only 4% of smartphones and tablets currently have installed third-party security software to protect against malware and viruses, device theft and data loss.
As a result, the analyst firm predicts the mobile security software market will increase from over $630m (£388m) in 2011 to $3.6bn (£2.2bn) in 2016, covering 227 million devices, as the need to protect personal and corporate data on mobile phones increases. <
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