Windows Azure set to be launched

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Microsoft is all set to launch the first official version of Windows Azure which is a cloud-based version of windows aimed for servers that run in Microsoft’s datacentres. This will allow developers to write programs that will run off these servers.

Windows Azure was first introduced by Microsoft in October and was made available for limited testing.

Though the pricing has not yet been declared, but according to Microsoft, the product will make money for them as well as be affordable to the customers with lots of special discount offers.

Microsoft also hinted on the fact that the increasing shift to cloud-computing is affecting the company’s sales and also to the customers in an indirect way i.e. prices of future products may be high.

Internet to run out of addresses by 2010

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We will run out of internet addresses by 2010 as the 4.3 billion addresses available on the present network is extinguishing fast with only about 500 million separate addresses left. This situation is being viewed in two ways around the world – challenge and crisis.

Some plans have been proposed already. The most likely is that - All internet users will have to upgrade to IP v.6 platform. This will provide 340 trillion trillion trillion addresses. "IPv6 provides more addresses in cyberspace than there are grains of sands on the world's beaches," said Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for the Information Society.

This will not only avoid the current situation but also provide huge cushion for the future as billions and trillions of new users and many more networking devices like sensor devices etc will be easily served.

World's Fastest SuperComputer from IBM

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IBM announced it’s new supercomputer “Sequoia” breaking all the speed barriers set by themselves. This supercomputer along with another one named “Dawn” are currently being built in US, for use in nuclear tests. These will also help in performing tasks in the field of Oil exploration, Weather forecasting and other such intelligent systems.

The new supercomputer will be 20 times faster than the previous one launched by the company 7 months ago which was the first petaflop supercomputer. Sequoia will operate at 20 petaflops per second.

In simple words, this is the world’s fastest supercomputer having a computing power equivalent to two million laptops.

The supercomputer will occupy a house of more than 300 square meters.

The Term "Netbook" Banned from Google Adsense Ads

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The term "Netbook" is a Psion owned trademark. This term was first introduced by Psion whith their product Psion's Netbook Pro. Over the last 1-2 years the netbook market started evolving hugely and Psion kept warning about the trademarked term.

Now Google has banned the term "netbook" from being used in its adsense ads. this term has become a generic term for small laptops and notebooks and most manufacturers use this term. What will we call the small laptops from now on, if this term is killed? Some new term to this category of modern laptops needs to be coined.

The only way out is, if Psion sells this trademark which is not impossible considering the unsuccessful and unpopular products from them.