The next generation chips from IBM is to be powered with DNA if sources are to be believed. “The cost involved in shrinking features to improve performance is a limiting factor in keeping pace with Moore’s Law and a concern across the semiconductor industry,” said Spike Narayan, manager, Science & Technology, IBM Research – Almaden.

“The combination of this directed self-assembly with today’s fabrication technology eventually could lead to substantial savings in the most expensive and challenging part of the chip-making process.” This would mean researchers could pack in more speed and computational powers into chips.

The challenge faced by the semiconductor industry is developing the necessary lithographic technology for features sizes smaller than 22nm. The ability of the DNA structures which can serve as scaffolds or miniature circuit boards they hope will help in developing the necessary technology to overcome the sub 22nm problem.  This allows the possibility to assemble components precisely on a much smaller scale.

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Motorola and Verizon Wireless is all set to roll out Motorola Droid phone by the end of October. It is a smart phone running on Android version 2.0. code name Eclair featuring a 5 megapixel camera with flash. Other standard features include a 3.5mm jack and a full slide out QWERTY keyboard. It provides Google skin and pack. The phone is promoted as an iPod killer.

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SatNav technologies this festival season has  gifts galore for anyone wishing to buy a SatNav product. This season, SatNav will give away over 10 FREE TRAVEL TICKETS to BANGKOK , more than 10 SatGuide PNDs and hundreds of Mobile Phone and Laptop softwares across various retail outlets. In all SatNav will be giving away prizes and gifts worth Rs. 1 crore at  large format retailers (FRs) like Croma, EZone, HyperCity, Reliance Digital, Staples and many more.

The offer that began on September 15^th, 2009 ; extends for a period of two and a half months until November 30^th, 2009. For a product purchase above Rs 3,000 at listed LFRs, the customers become eligible for the lucky draw and a chance to take away free gifts from SatNav.

SatNav Technlogies makes GPS based technologies that are popular worldwide.

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The add-ons basket of Firefox is increasing day by day. While some are useful and oozes class certain other add-ons lack what it takes to be featured on blogs and in twitter conversations. Juice on the other hand deserves a lot of blog space tweets and fan pages.  Juice is an add-on that opens as a side bar once installed on Firefox.

Its cute and packs in a lot of punch. The add on features the ability to drag and drop images as well as videos, group them , sort them and download them all in one place. Well for all those Facebook addicts there is even a Facebook integration . Isn’t that juicy?. The better part of the add-on is a feature called magic . All one needs to do is drag and drop any text or image and the add-on will find relevant information associated with that particular piece of data .

This can be used for data mining.  The search option features Twitter, Google , Bing and Yahoo to mine for relevant information . Overall a great juicy add-on for bloggers, students and any information lover who would love to get more…..

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Google has recently released improved version of its  e-mail tool Gmail for both the Android and iPhone platform. some of the features of the new Gmail is that its faster and users can check their mails while offline. According to Joanne McKinley, a mobile engineer at Google : “You would definitely find it a lot faster to perform various actions like searching, navigating and opening emails. It will also allow you to open recent messages and compose when there is drop in data network.”  the new application need not be downloaded.  All one need to do is point the browser to gmail.com.  One of the advantage of this app is it runs on Balckberry, Android ,iPhone and later on Palmpre too from Google’s point of view. Some of the other features include

1. Allowing users to select multiple messages and process them to different folders like trash, inbox, sent etc
2. A floaty bar .
3. With the given search bar easier retrieval of old messages.

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Data intensive computing has been less costly nowadays due to cloud computing.  Cloud computing allowing users to buy resources online.  One major problem that plagued may users was the inability to upload large amount of data and this area has remained costly and time consuming.  Amazon announced a new file transfer protocol     which makes transferring copious amount of data a breeze and it does not requires heavy infrastructure.

One of the biggest bottle necks in cloud computing many say is the upload and download of data from the cloud.  The major bottleneck in this upload and transfer of data is the TCP a layer in the internet which is responsible for the transfer of data. TCP is fine for small amounts of data but when it comes to large amount of data it is very sluggish.

Transferring data across the United States making use of a  100-megabits-per-second (Mbps) Internet link making use of TCP can result in a latency of 100 milliseconds causing a  loss of 1 percent of packets, which translates to transfer rates at the rate of 10 Mbps and less.

Amazon Web Services makes use of technology developed by Aspera, based in Emeryville, CA and it is called the Fast And Secure Protocol (FASP).

“It  is an alternate bulk data moving protocol,” says Michelle Munson, Aspera’s CEO and cofounder. “The inefficiency [with TCP] is really very noticeable when transferring large amounts of data,” she says.

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Moto W233 is the first cellphone to be made entirely from recycled plastic. The plastic comes from recycled plastic bottles. Its also the worlds first carbon neutral phone. Motorola has offset the co2 required to make , distribute and operate the phone via investments in renewable energy sources and reforestation programs through an alliance with Carbonfund.org.

The W233 earned Carbonfund.org’s CarbonFree Product Certification based on an extensive product life-cycle assessment.  The features aren’t  what many would like to have since it is a basic dual band phone with a 128*128 color display ,WAP browser and the ability to add an additional 2 GB memory. The standout feature is the amazingly high battery life that it offers which includes up to 18  days of standby time.

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In these times of recession many companies faced with rising costs and are trying to scale down their expenditure on hardware and valuable real estate in terms of office space. So many articles have been written regarding  cloud computing and how scalable it is and how dynamic is the architecture. Most of these tech babbles cannot be comprehended by many. Starting tommorrow we will analyse cloud computing in detail and how we stand to gain from this fast emerging technology being embraced by all.

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One of the worlds most popular socail networking site has come out with a lighter version of Facebook called facebook lite. Facebook is a massive site hogging valuable bandwidth due to the innumerable applications on it. The new Facebook is lite and is moving in the direction of Twitter displaying many features of Facebook. Facebook claims that the reason for issuing a lighter version is to bypass the bandwidth problems faced in many countries. The new site is easier to navigate and at the same times faster and there aren’t many distractions.
The features are more twitter like and many believe that people will use lite more than the original apparently due to its ease of use.
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Zune HD is being brought out by Microsoft expected to be released on September 15, 2009. It comes in 16 and 32 GB version. Microsoft is planning for a September 15 2009 release. Platinum and lack are the default colors of the music player which is set to compete against iPod range of players. The music player comes with a 3.3 inch OLED touch display with a 16:9 aspect ratio. It runs on the Nvidia Tegra APX with independent processors.  It also has multi touch capabilities. Other features include accelerometer, HD Radio tuner, 720p high definition video output, WiFi connectivity, Web Browser, games and Equalizer. The player promises playback time up to 33 hours for music and video play back up to 8.5 hours. As expected the typical search engine would be Bing. The keyboard can be accessed from the bottom of the screen by swiping up . The keyboard features landscape and portrait mode. Other  features include zooming and pinching due to the built in accelerometer. Other colors will be available through the Zune Originals page from September 15. the market palce will include games and many feature rich applications.

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