Archive for February, 2009
On Tuesday Google’s Gmail was unavailable for about two and ahalf hours dropping Google’s performance from its 99.9 percent to 99.63 percent. Goggle has announced a compensation of 15 days extension worth $2.05.
This calculation has been evaluated basing customers who pay Google $50 per user per year. Google Apps service level agreement (SLA) states that Google is bound to provide three extra days service in case its service level dashes down from 99.9 percent.
LG’s announcement for solar-powered handset indicates that soon markets will be flooded with eco-phones.
The handset hasn’t been named yet. However, it has embedded photovoltaic cells in the battery cover that will pull pollution free juice from the sun.
These panels take most of rear of the phone, but they can get enough power from the sun in ten minutes which enables you to make a three minute call. It is also being claimed that it can recharge the cell phone completely if it is placed in natural light for some long time.
LG hasn’t provided others details of its solar phone, but it seems that it has a 5MP LED flash featured camera. It is expected that the phone will be released in Europe in the second half of this year.
IBM says that the US Govt. has commissioned it to develop the world’s fastest computer.
This new computer will be used to watch over US nuclear weapons and it will perform more than 20,000 trillion calculations in every second.
IBM will bring its new Sequoia technology in this computer and it will be ready for use by the end of 2011.
This new computer will consume as much energy as five average households and it will be placed in a 34,22 square feet building to handle the information, it will have to process.
This computer has 1.6 million microprocessors and it needs to be refrigerated constantly.
