Sayan's BlogWorld
highlighting the future's bizzare as it transforms into the present's mundane
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InfoWorld: AMD: Days are numbered for 32-bit chips
Start planning today for the 64-bit hair-dryer! The real point is that the transition be as painless as possible (Intel’s transition to 64-bit in opinion is as painful as possible.)
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The Globe and Mail: Linux news will shake Microsoft
The seas seem to have suddenly parted for the Linux bandwagon.
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EE Times – MicroDisplay LCoS panel comes in under an inch
New liquid crystal technology being commercialized after a decade of research incubation at MIT.
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EE Times – Panasonic Introduces New Up to 2100 mAh Rechargeable Battery
Battery technology is something which I have been following closely for sometime… so this is good news. I recently bought a lousy set of 700mAH AAA rechargeable batteries…and I saw Ni-MH models in the market which go up to 1700mAH, they are good but this is better. Normal zinc carbon batteries average around 350 to 400mAH so you can see the difference.
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EE Times – Smart cards break out of traditional roles as chips advance
Lots of interesting action in the smart-card arena.
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EE Times – Nanowires formed using extrusion technique
Did they tell you that noodles are also made commercially using extrusion technology. I guess the world is a small place after all if you can relate noodles to nanotechnology.
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Now in Their Sights, the Hubble’s Demise (washingtonpost.com)
The jury is divided on when and how and why the Hubble space telescope must be put to rest after 13 years of yeoman service.
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EE Times – Darpa to overhaul supercomputing benchmarks by 2006
Some more news from the supercomputing world this time it is about deciding how to judge how fast a computer really is.
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reviewjournal.com — Business: Gates touts future of ‘seamless computing’
Quite interesting except that I think that I covered the rise of these technologies in this blog sometime back in a post about “Fluid Computing”
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Wired News: Social Nets Find Friends in VCs
Some more news regarding the new phenonmenon of social networking sites.
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