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Hewlett Packard (HP), the world's largest seller of computers, unveiled a mini-laptop on Tuesday that sells for $500 and is aimed at the education market.

The entry-level HP Mini-Note includes a Suse Linux operating system, a 1GB memory and a 3-cell battery, while a higher priced version has Windows Vista Business, 2GB memory and a larger 6-cell battery.

A Russian university has bought one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, the first time that such sophisticated technology has been exported to the former Soviet Union, makers IBM said.

The Moscow State University has selected a Blue Gene device capable of 27.8 trillion operations per second to use in research on nanotechnology and scientific applications such as modeling the heart, an IBM spokesman said.

"This agreement with IBM heralds a new era of supercomputing in Russia," said Viktor Sadovnichiy, rector of the university.

The world's most powerful supercomputer is a Blue Gene device owned by the U.S. Department of Energy and used at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to model the ageing of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile and predict potential problems.

IBM said the supercomputer sold to Moscow University would be among the 50 most powerful supercomputers in the world but had received an export license from U.S. authorities and would be used “purely for scientific research”.

The Department of Computational Mathematics at the Moscow University paid around $5 million for two racks of the supercomputer, which can run 2,600 times faster than the fastest home PC and should be operational by April 2008.

Because of advances in technology, each rack of the supercomputer is about the size of a U.S. domestic fridge and additional racks can be added as requirements grow.

The Blue Gene version used by the U.S. government is almost 20 times more powerful than the one bought by Moscow.

We use embedded computers everyday - we don’t see most of them because, as their name implies, they’re buried deep inside almost everything that effects our daily lives - from industrial equipment to domestic appliances. Although they don’t receive anything like as much attention from the media as does the ignoble PC, the sheer number of embedded computers and their economic importance is considerable. In fact, around ninety percent of all microprocessors manufactured in any one year are destined to be embedded inside electronic products.

If you are trying to track down why your computer is running so slooowwwly, try using this simple DOS command from Digital Inspiration to uncover a possible problem:

* Type cmd in your Windows Run box.
* Type "netstat -b 5 > activity.txt" and press enter.
* After say 2 minutes, press Ctrl+C.
* Type "activity.txt" on the command line to open the log file in notepad (or your default text editor)

The upcountry IT market of Alwar is experiencing a slow but steady growth. However, the demand for the branded PCs and laptops is increasing day by day. With less corporate presence in this region, channel partners are focusing on end user segment.

Speaking to itVARnews, Owner, Best computer System, Deepak Sardana said, "Alwar IT market is growing at an annual rate of 20%. We basically deal in softwares and at present are enjoying an annual turn over of Rs. 40-50 lakh. Since corporate hold in Alwar is not so strong, we target end users mainly."

Continuig the series about some undispensible things that have crept into our world, this is the second part. In the first part we saw how Instant messaging is virtually ruling our lives. In this part lets have a look down at how webmail and Portable storage devices make sour life easy as well a "controbvversila" one at the same time.

2. Web mail
Of the respondents to the Yankee Group survey, 50% said they use consumer e-mail applications for business purposes. The problem with consumer e-mail services such as those from Google, Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo is that the users themselves don't realize how insecure their e-mail exchanges are because messages are transported over the Web and stored on the ISP's server as well as the e-mail provider's server. Without that awareness, many use no discretion about sending sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, passwords, confidential business data or trade secrets.

High-tech consumer products and services of all kinds are making their way into the workplace. They include everything from smart phones, voice-over-IP systems and flash memory sticks to virtual online worlds. And as people grow more accustomed to having their own personal technology at their beck and call -- and in fact can't imagine functioning without it -- the line between what they use for work and what they use for recreation is blurring. Unfortunately, this trend poses problems for IT organizations. For one thing, the use of these technologies increases the risk of security breaches.

Dell Inc. said it delivered its first “Made in India ” computer , with hopes that production here will lift domestic sales in a market that is growing 30 percent a year. The desktop computer from Dell’s new plant near the southern Indian … Maybe this might help dell Reports 2Q Earnings Jump 46 Percent (San Francisco Chronicle) Dell Inc. said Thursday that preliminary second-quarter earnings jumped 46 percent on stronger sales of enterprise products and services, improved average selling prices and favorable component costs.

Imagine a lightweight laptop for just Rs15,000! An entrepreneur here is working on a project to develop just such a computer that is expected to hit the showrooms by the end of this financial year.

"I want to make the laptop available to the common man," says Hirji Patel, the managing director of Mumbai-headquartered Allied Computers International (Asia) Ltd (ACi).

"The new laptop will be priced at Rs15,000 a piece. It will weigh less than a kilogram and will be much smaller than the conventional laptop currently available in India," says Patel, an expert in software and hardware development.

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