Windows 8 on ARM SoC, Phone 7 updates, tablets

With the Windows 8 MS is going to give you a version for the ARM based processors. That creates an ARM based PC making opportunity. Similarly does it create an opportunity for the MS behemoth to move into the mobile space that they entirely missed! Can elephants dance! may be not but they can run at 40 KMPH when needed, is this an occasion, we would see MS hitting the ground running! I have nagging feeling that it is too little, too late!



CES 2011: Windows 8 on ARM SoC, Phone 7 updates, tablets

Freescale offers take on tablets, 3-D units

The microprocessor company Freescale takes a look at the future and predicts what kind of processors would be required. They aim to have them ready when the time comes. As described in this news release, their Director of global consumer marketing feels there are four trends visible. One is that future tablets are going to provide augmented reality. For example, you may be standing near a shop in a mall and yet find out what's happening around you in other shops. The second thing that is going to happen is the #D video will be common. Future tablets can take 3D video with two cameras and let you view 3D video.. Third thing that's going to happen is that the tablet will become a gaming platform and will need the necessary power to let you play the games well. And finally, tablets will be used for content creation too rather than just content consumption as is done now.
Freescale offers take on tablets, 3-D units

Striving For A Competitive CPU And Platform Edge

Brian Dipert expounds on Sandy Bridge here.The product roadmap, mobile variations, the new micro-architecture and so on. Read for all the details. But, the Sandy Bridge has suffered a set back already. The chipset helping design processor based systems turned out to have faults in them. There has been a product call back. Thus the road map talked about here is likely to slip somewhat.

Intel's Sandy Bridge: Striving For A Competitive CPU And Platform Edge 

10 new open source projects to watch

According to this article in te Infoworld are
Diaspora- open source social network
OpenStack- open source, open standards cloud computing platform.
Cloud9IDE- open source integrated development environment
OpenStackNova- open source fabric controller
NuGet- open source package management system for .NET platform
ActivitiBPM platfor- open source business process management and workflow management
SparkleShare- file sharing and collaboration tool
VoltDB- OLTP SQL database
RapidFTR-a mobile app that lets aid workers collect, sort and share information about children in emergency situations
ownCloud- an open personal cloud designed to be run on a personal server


That is a wide diversity of applications! What you can see4, is the reflection of the trends you see otherwise. Socila networking is represented. Cloud computing is given due importance, there is a very useful mobile application and then some development aids and an assortment of other tools.


Watch out!
10 new open source projects to watch 

The key mobile trends emerging from CES 2011

Compared to the Forbes report published here a couple of days back, this report looks only at mobility related trends. 4G networks are coming, smartphone could become smart enough to be the only device to be carried by consumers. If need be you could dock it with a larger screen, keyboard etc.Products are coming out that are smartphone and yet powerful enough to do double duty as a computing device and then dock with thos things if needed. Motorola Atrix, RIM Playbook etc. are some examples.

On the other side Android Honeycomb that can handle multi core ( in fact, it would require multi core processors) are going to barge into this integrated space too if they have enough communication savvy to connect to 3G and 4G networks! I am happy that, when one or the other happens, there will be only onedevice to carry rather than we trying to juggle several of them!

The key mobile trends emerging from CES 2011

Are your networks ready for the cutover to IPv6?

The worls has run out of IP addresses, I mean the 32 bit IPv4 addresses. IPv6 allows 128 bit IP addresses and that should eventually solve all the problems. June 8 has been marked as the IPv6 testing day when all the majors like Google will run on IPv6. Whenever changeover occur, there's bound to be some problems and all the kinks should get ironed out in a few years! Not to worry though, majority of users should not face any problems. In any case you will know for sure on that Jun day experiment worldwide!
Are your networks ready for the cutover to IPv6? 

Russia To Launch New Batch Of Glonass Satellites

The alternate global navigation system, GLONASS, from Russia was coming along strongly until it hit a snag. In a December launch 3 satellites to complete the constellation failed to launch. Now they planning to do the same in June. Intially the system is meant for Russia and local countries only. But, the service is going to get extended worldwide soon. Systems that can handle GPS as well as GLONASS have started appearing in the US market already. It'll be interesting to watch the level of service provided by these satellites.

Russia To Launch New Batch Of Glonass Satellites By June

Nvidia to develop PC processors

With the announcement that Microsoft is going to break out from the Wintel and support ARM, big changes in the make up of the PC as we know it would change. Since the time in eighties the PC was released, it has been the x86 processors and the Windows operating systems. Only players in the processor space were the AMD and to some extent the VIA technologies. With MS support for another very well established architecture like the ARM, there is bound to be changes in the space. Similar moves are happening to get additional players into the mobile space where the ARM architecture is  strong. The competition in both space could only do good for consumers!! Let's watch and see.
Nvidia to develop PC processors

Hottest Technologies Of 2011

Following article is a review of the new technologies that emerged as the new year dawned. this report is based on the consumer electronics show right in the first week of the year. According to this Forbes article the Motorola XOOM tablet generated a lot of buzz as that is the tablet device that is coming out first with the Android 3.0, the Honeycomb.
NVIDIA dual core Tegra is another technology to watch for. The dual core version of the combine CPU and GPU type created a lot of interest, now they are upgrading this. Microsoft's Surface takes touchscreen interface to the extreme. It is a 40 inch 1080p kind of display that takes touch based inputs. Possibilities look very promising!Samsung SUR40 also is in the game but is targeting businesses.

really thin TV and very smart smartphones and 3D cameras are some more things to watch out for! Read in detail in the Forbes article.



The Hottest New Technologies Of 2011 - Forbes.com

What Kind of Seating Suits The Tech Workers Best!

What is the best seating arrangement for IT people! Is it a complete open space or cabin/cubicle based arrangement is better! Basically the spectrum is completely private arrangement or completely open arrangement that encourages easy interaction. The complete open arrangement probably is good for creative teams. Agile process teams possibly could do with the open arrangement, but adding some space where an individual can duck into(even if it is not a complete cubicle) becomes necessary. Closed offices does not promote interactive work. What comes out from the discussion in the article is that you need to balance between the open and some private space depending on the type of work.


Cubicle wars: Best and worst office setups for tech workers