Intel® Centrino® 2 Processor Technology

By upgrading notebooks with Intel® Centrino® 2 processor technology you can mobilize and accelerate your business with industry-leading performance, enhanced wireless connectivity, and longer battery life. Plus, investing in new PCs with Intel Centrino 2 processors can mean big savings for your business.

Giving your mobile workforce an average of an additional 51 minutes of productivity per day,notebooks with Intel Centrino 2 processor technology offer industry-leading performance you can count on combined with reduced energy consumption by more than 26x compared to desktop PCs. You'll also get the power you need to get the most out of Microsoft Windows Vista* 64-bit environments along with demanding new applications without the need for a costly external graphics card.

Features and benefits

Upgrade performance. Built on hafnium-based Intel® Core™ microarchitecture and next-generation Intel® Core™2 processor, new Intel Centrino 2 processor technology provides a minimum of 3MB smart cache and 1066 Front Side Bus, providing performance gains of up to 50 percent.

Empower multitasking. By upgrading to notebooks with Intel Centrino 2 processor technology your mobile workforce can make quick work of the toughest computing tasks such as 90 percent faster HD video encoding and integrated Intel® Turbo Boost so you have everything you need to run Microsoft Windows Vista with support for full Aero*.

Stay productive with the longest possible battery life. Notebooks with Intel Centrino 2 processor technology will keep you unwired longer with Intel® Intelligent Power Capability and Deep Power Down Technology built in.

Unleash multimedia. With up to 90 percent faster performance when compressing HD videos and over 3X better 3D graphics performanceµ, you'll enjoy your HD entertainment experience at home or on the fly.

The future of wireless now. With integrated WiFi, you'll get up to 5X the speed when connecting wirelessly to your Wireless N home network and up to 5X better wireless performance for even faster Wireless N technology that's just around the corner.

With WiMAX rolling out in cities around the world, you’ll want to add optional WiMAX-enabled notebooks powered by Intel Centrino 2 processor technology.Φ Positioning you at the cutting edge of 4G wireless, these notebooks offer the fast, high-performance Internet experience you’ve come to require for your mobile workforce.

source : http://www.intel.com

Search for Similar Images !!

Undoubtedly, you will be using Google Image Searcher to find the images you need. However, you may probably frustrated when you need to find set of similar type of images which match to a image found when you are googling (surely you have to get stuck clicking through page after page).

No more frustrations !! Google Labs come up with another innovative idea which allow you to "Similar Images" at a single click where Similar Images allows you to search for images using pictures rather than words.

Here is the google lab web page which allow you to perform this task:
http://similar-images.googlelabs.com

- Example: Search word - "Egypt"
You will probably get following image results.

- Then say you need to search images similar to image indicated with red border.
- Just click link "Similar Images".
- You are done !! here is the result.. amazing..

Insert Images in Ur Emails Now !

I've have been looking for an easy way of inserting images to my emails since last few years, but I couldn't find a way of getting done this except some indirect ways.

Now, the Goolge Labs provides the this feature with single click allowing you to insert a either image stored in your desktop or a image stored in a web server. You can find this feature under google lab features, and once you enabled, you can find the image inserting button in the mail-formatting toolbar as you can see in figure. Make sure you're in rich formatting mode, or it won't show up. Enjoyy !

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology

Recently intel has introduced many exciting feature to their Intel microarchitecture, one of such powerful technology is Intel Turbo Boost Technology which enables processor cores to run faster than the base operating frequency if it's operating below power, current, and temperature specification limits.

This technology provides a dramatic performance improvement in both multi-threaded and single threaded workloads along with Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology). Intel Turbo Boost Technology is only activated when the Operating System (OS) requests the highest processor performance state which means the amount of time a processor spend on Intel Turbo Boost Technology state is almost depend on the workload user needs and the operating environment.The maximum frequency of Intel® Turbo Boost Technology is dependent on the number of active cores.

several upper limits of boost technology are:
* Number of active cores
* Estimated current consumption
* Estimated power consumption
* Processor temperature

according to intel,it says that when user demand additional performance,

"the processor frequency will dynamically increase by 133 MHz on short and regular intervals until the upper limit is met or the maximum possible upside for the number of active cores is reached. Conversely, when any of the limits are reached or exceeded, the processor frequency will automatically decrease by 133 MHz until the processor is again operating within its limits."

source:intel
Tags: intel,micro processors,Hyper-Threading

Cisco MXE 3000 Series (Media Experience Engines)

The Cisco Media Experience Engine 3000 is a media processing platform which automates the media production process.According to Cisco, with a single,streamlined workflow, you may

•Choose your input media from file.

•Apply preprocessing to prepare the input media for encoding.

•Encode input to produce high-quality streaming video in popular formats.

•Encode input to produce broadcast server-compatible video in several other popular formats.

•Distribute the media output to multiple destinations via copy, FTP, and HTTP post.


The ability to automate the streaming media workflow and reuse the video knowledge of others in the form of a saved set of tasks and instructions has given a great power over other products.

Basically, Cisco MXE 3000 is able to perform following specific tasks:

•The Cisco MXE 3000 transforms analog and digital media to enable:

Distribution of content in any format for playback on broadcast, Web, or portable wireless equipment

Content workflow between heterogeneous components

•Integrates many 3rd party codecs into well-defined workflows:

Automate encoding into different formats

Tags: Cisco products

HP introduces new battry for Laptops

HP technologies has planned to offer a new power efficient battery for their existing notebooks, which charges much faster than the regular battery and it is expected to last tree times longer !!

IBM collobaration with latest World Community Grid project

IBM and researchers from Harvard University are working together to invent a inexpensive and efficient solar cell base on the organic materials. Such effort will require huge computational power due to thousands of organic materials available and each of such material has to be analyzed for various combinations.The principal investigator and a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, at Harvard. "It would take us about 100 days of computational time to screen each of the thousands of compounds for electronic properties".

Therefore researches has decided to get the support of World Community Grid which enables harnessing the power of hundreds of thousands of idle PCs exist around the world.The solar power project is the latest for World Community Grid, which harnesses the power of more than 410,000 members and more than 1 million computers.Yet with World Community Grid's free computing power, augmented by cloud computing, the project is estimated to complete in two years what would have taken 22 years to run on a regular scientific cluster."
source: IBM
Tags: IBM,Grid Computing