Is Google ahead of Microsoft ?????

Last week Microsoft's CEO -> Steve Ballmer denied that Google is taking over Microsoft in Internet Technologies and accepted that Google is ahead of Microsoft only with respect to its
search engine..

But Google has 4 strong reasons to support that it is ahead of Microsoft's technologies over the internet --

1) Search engine : People all over use Google's search engine rather than Microsoft's MSN search .

2) Mail : As Gmail has an embedded Messenger (chat) in its webpage it has gained more prefrence over Hotmail and MSN Messenger which are 2 separate entities .

3) Blog : Google owns Blogspot which is currently hosting more than a billion blogs and still counting but when it comes to Blogs from Microsoft , it still needs to make a mark .

4) Social Networking : Google has taken over Orkut which is the best of all social networking sites as it has made a mark all over the world , on the other hand Microsoft still needs to work on its social networking as it just has a share in FaceBook . Though it shows Google a bit ahead of Microsoft , we really cant say what Microsoft can do , an Year for Microsoft can turn these things around .. So it pretty tough to Predict now which company is ahead what say :) ??

Imagine Cup --> 2008

The World’s premier technology competition for students – Imagine Cup 2008 is going to be held in Paris , France this year .

The Theme for this year's competition is " The Environment " ..

The Imagine Cup is a popular annual competition and is one of Microsoft’s ways of encouraging young people to apply their imagination, passion and creativity to technology innovations that can make a difference in the world.

Now in its sixth year, the Imagine Cup has grown to be a truly global competition focused on finding solutions to real world issues.

This year, Microsoft is calling on young programmers, artists and technologists around the world to "imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment."

Students are challenged to bring their ideas to life in a multifaceted competition that comprises 9 categories, each catering to a different technological or artistic affinity. Students’ work will reflect valuable, real world solutions, while giving them the opportunity to compete for cash prizes.

The 9 different categories available for the competition are :

Software Design

Embedded Development

Game Development

Project Hoshimi

IT Challenge

Algorithm

Photography

Short Film

Interface Design


The 2008 World Finals will be held in Paris France from July 3-8, 2008.


All the very best to all the participants ..


Labels : Microsoft , imagine Cup 2008 , Categories of Competitions in imagine Cup

Holographic disks now a rival for Bluray

Gone are the days of DVD and Bluray here comes Holographic disks with storage upto 300GB..




A Holographic disk is about the size of Dvd which can hold data 60 times more than that of Dvd!!

Can u believe it that there are holographic disks which can hold data upto 300GB..

These disks store information through the interface of light through and a technique known as holographic memory..

Holographic disks were first designed by Inpase Technolgy Inc. located in USA ..

Data can be read and written from these disks @ 10 times faster than normal Dvd's..
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The discs, at 13 centimetres across, are a little wider than conventional DVDs, and slightly thicker. Normal DVDs record data by measuring microscopic ridges on the surface of a spinning disc. Two competing successors to the DVD format – Blu-ray and HD-DVD – use the same technique but exploit shorter wavelengths of light to cram more information onto a surface.
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Holographic recording also improves the data transfer rate which is now 27MB/sec. It was 20MB/sec.


Label : Holographic disks

Unlocking iphone's can cause problems-APPLE

Well bad news to all of the those iPhone users who have unlocked their phones from AT&T network!!!

Though Apple Corp. has said it is not disabling the iPhones which are being unlocked or hacked it has announced that unlocking iPhones from AT&T Cingular network can cause some serious irrepairable damage to the device and also those iPhones which fail to work due to the installation of unlocking software are not covered under warranty ...

Apple gave this statement a few weeks after inagurating its new series of iPods and decreasing the cost of iPhone by a whooping 200$ .

There are many unlocking softwares for iPhones available in internet which apple says are dangerous for iPhones . Apple said it has sold more than a million iPhones since its introduction from june-end till this month , but the record was within first 2 days of its release into market it has sold more than 270000 iPhones .

As of till now we have'nt heard of any cases of iPhone damage caused due to unlocking the Phone anyways we just have to wait and see whether this particular announcement is a valid one or ot is just a trick to save its deal from AT&T Corp.

Label : Unlocking iPhone causes problems

AMD to launch Quad Core chip!!!!!!!!!

Advanced Micro Devices after a long wait of four years is going to unveil its new QuadCore chip today..

It features four computer engines on a single chip instead of one or two ..

AMD has entered this market of QuadCore following INTEL inc which is world's largest semi-conductor manufacturing company and whose financial budget is 21 times more than that of AMD !!

AMD said this newly redesigned Opteron(QuadCore) chip is an important improvement in high-performance computing. It's using a different engineering strategy than Intel.

Intel's four-core chips are actually a package of two chips with two cores each. In AMD's four-core chips, all the cores are placed on a single piece of silicon.

Well what can we say except wishing AMD all the very best .....

Apple unveiled a series of new iPod's

-------------------------->>>>>>>iPod Touch

----------------------->>>>>>>>> iPod Nano

-------------------->>>>>>>>>>>iPod Classic

Apple unveiled a series of new iPods which are the further developments of the existing one's..

Impessive iPod touch : It features 3.5inch multitouch widescreen display , it has Wi-Fi and we can even access youtube . we can even pinch pictures to make them smaller or larger, or rotate the device to its side to automatically change the screen orientation to landscape mode or bring up "Cover Flow," a view of album cover art.

->An 8-gigabyte model costs $299, and a 16-GB version, $399.

Franlky speaking iPhone- Phone= iPod touch

Here comes the new Nano : Video is the speciality to this iPod .You can now watch movies, TV shows and podcasts on a 2-inch screen (320-by-240 resolution) that's brighter and larger than its predecessor. Apple says the latest Nanos deliver battery life of up to 24 hours of audio playback, and five hours of video.

->A silver 4-GB version costs $149; 8-GB models come in silver, black, blue, green and red, at $199.

iPod Classic : Traditional iPods have morphed into the newly named iPod Classic, in silver and black - but not white - in either 80-GB or 160-GB capacities. The latter holds up to 40,000 songs or 200 hours of video.

Classic models also are thinner and encased in aluminum and stainless steel. Apple says the largest unit can deliver up to 40 hours of music playback or seven hours of video off a single charge.

And when it comes to iPhone the original price of 599$ for 8GB was reduced by a whooping 200$..

Well Done Apple Corp .........

Sony to launch a 12MP DigiCam

Sony Corp is launching a new digital single lens reflex camera for advanced users and avid photographers ..

Single Lens Reflex (SLR) cameras are the fastest growing segment of digital cameras now-a-days , they are High-end models with interchangable lenses ..

This new Sony's model is DLRSR-A700 which would be a 12.24 mega-pixel camera and the expected price of it would be $1,560 ..

Sony expects to compete with its rivals canon and nikon which are leading the SLR digital camera market till date ..

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Sony held a 6.2 percent share in the global digital SLR camera market in 2006, following Canon with 46.7 percent and Nikon on 33 percent, according to research firm IDC.
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Both Canon and Nikon last month unveiled their latest digital SLR camera models for the year-end shopping season, in a pre-emptive move against new entrants such as Sony.