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Coming from Hungarian blog Technet via BlurryCam™ are these leaked shots of Nokia’s first Windows Phone 7 phone. If it looks like the just-announced MeeGo-based N9, that’s because it pretty much is. It has the same slim, iPod Nano like body, the same Gorilla Glass screen and the same 8MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens. Don’t believe that’s these are the real deal? Take a lo
Juniper Networks and OnLive has announced that the companies will form a strategic partnership. Through this partnership, Juniper Networks will become the exclusive network provider for Onlive’s infrastructure. Also the companies plan to develop a cloud-based service that will deliver an interactive media experience to mobile, desktop and presentation devices, instantly and from any location. OnLive’s cloud-based video compression technology has introduced a new way to play video games. OnLive moves the computing function to the network so that the user computer or device becomes a display device instead. With this technology media rich content and application can be transmitted instantly and securely to desktops and mobile devices through the cloud. Wit
Tilera is a small CPU design firm that first attracted attention back in 2007, when it debuted its TILE64 architecture. The company’s tech is designed to offer a grid of CPU tiles. Each tile contains a very simple CPU core, its cache, and a router. All of the processors are attached via mesh networking. Each tile has its own L1 and L2 cache. If a given CPU has a local L2 cache miss, it can reach out and search the combined L2 cache of the entire processor cluster. Tilera refers to this as a “very large, effective L3 cache.”
Today, the company demonstrated a 100-core processor it claims is capable of competing with the best Intel and AMD have to offer.
Sometimes the big data is bigger than you would like, and you need to hold onto it longer than you otherwise would for regulatory or business reasons. There’s nothing worse than waiting to get a moldy gob of data back off tape, and it is even worse (and less likely to be successful) on a very large bucket of said musty data.
With this in mind, IBM’s Netezza unit has rejiggered the TwinFin data warehousing appliance to be skinny on the blades and fat on the disks, so companies can create what is, in effect, a nearline data warehouse.
The Netezza High Capacity Appliance comes in a two-rack or four-rack configuration, and will eventually scale up to six and then eight racks and has four times the disk capacity and about 40 per cent less processing capacity than the normal TwinFin appliances.
Below is a video presentation by Nokia CEO Stephen Elop in which he shows off a “super confidential” device codenamed Sea Ray. Sea Ray looks virtually identical to the just-announced Nokia N9 and now includes a dedicated camera button and altered flash for the Windows Phone 7-based handset. There’s not much info on the OS itself apart from Sea Ray is running Mango, which includes multitasking, IE9 browser and deeper third-party app support with more advanced home tiles and camera support. In the video, Elop is adamant that the presentation not get out to the “blogosphere”, but how would a video of this quality not get noticed and were the people not on NDAs or anything? S Read more…