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Now you can safe your laptop through one-time-use passwords. Secure Computing Corp. has unveiled a software authentication tool, named SafeWord MobilePass, which generates one-time-use passwords for laptops and mobile devices. After registering online or downloading the software, users would be able to use the software to produce passwords, which are more secure for your devices.

SafeWord MobilePass allows users to access VPNs, Citrix, Microsoft Outlook and several other applications through one-time passcodes generated on their personal mobile devices or laptop PCs. MobilePass provides two factor authentication, which establishes identity for users to access trusted business and consumer applications.

According to Sally Hudson, research director at IDC, two-factor authentication solution like SafeWord is successful to protect remote connections to corporate networks and applications. The mobile workforce, MobilePass, allows users to carry the software everywhere.

SafeWord MobilePass works on a variety of mobile platforms including BlackBerry, Palm OS, Windows Mobile and Java2 ME-enabled devices. While on computers, the single-use passcodes are generated on the user’s notebook or desktop machine by registering online and downloading the software application.

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Eaton Corporation has launched a web based remote monitoring and diagnostic service, named eNotify 2.0 for Powerware single-phase Series 9 and Powerware three-phase uninterrupted power systems (UPS). Eaton’s eNotify 2.0, monitors the UPS and also monitors the battery conditions to prevent failure of battery.

The company has provided the eNotify 2.0 service for all its Eaton PowerTrust service plan customers. It offers real time response for 24 hours a day to more than 100 UPS and battery alarms. It also notifies about significant events through mobile phones and e-mail and allows direct access to technical experts for remote troubleshooting and rapid problem resolution. eNotify offers various other capabilities, which are given below:

1) Self-installation capabilities
2) Improved user controls for reporting
3) Notification escalations for multiple contacts
4) Expanded international voltage and phase compatibility

The eNotify reduces the risk of downtime and increases total system availability by providing access to trained technicians during UPS and battery events

Art Mulligan, manager, Services Marketing, Eaton, said,

Eaton’s remote monitoring and diagnostic services help maximize system reliability and protect critical infrastructure equipment. Monthly reporting also assists our customers in making proactive management decisions, such as scheduling preventive maintenance, planning for system upgrades and capacity expansion. Based on our research and customer meetings, extending Eaton’s ability to remotely monitor its most popular single phase Powerware UPS models as well as making eNotify easy for customers to quickly install will be a big hit among busy IT managers looking for a complete power solution.

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Samsung Electronics has announced that the chip giant AMD is using the company’s GDDR4 high-speed graphics memory chip in their next-generation graphics chipsets.

Samsung’s GDDR4 memory is being used in 1GB ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT and the 256MB ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics processing cards.

The 1GB card is claimed to have the widest bus in the industry, which has specially been designed for full-performance HDR rendering in PCs.

The memory modules are being made using 80nm process technology, which provide the cards with a 140.8GB per second performance which is claimed to be 25% faster than the 700MHz GDDR3 graphics memory.

The GDDR4 memory modules are used to process video images in PCs and laptops at high speed are mainly used for gaming purposes so these cards will be a boon for all the game lovers.

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Sun Microsystems has announced that the company is building the world’s largest supercomputer named Ranger.

Ranger will house 62,976 CPU cores, 125 terabytes of main memory, 1.7 petabytes of disk space and a whooping 504 teraflops of performance.
The computer will be hosted at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas, Austin. The company also expects that the computer will go online on the first day of 2008.

Ranger will also outshine the reigning boss of supercomputers that has been developed by IBM and is named BlueGene. BlueGene has a performance of just 327 teraflops.

Talking about Ranger, it will house 16,744 quad-core AMD Opteron processors and will consume three megawatts of raw power. This will cost the University a million dollars per year. Sun also stated that the machine’s production timeline is dependent on when AMD is able to crank out the chips which will be used in the computer.

When this new supercomputer comes online, it will help scientists conduct researches on an unbelievable speed and an unprecedented scale. The machine which will be six to seven times larger than any of the existing systems will be used in researches in the field of astrophysics, genomics, nanotechnology and meteorology.

Ranger can also be taken as a thing which will be much common in future. If the chip size goes on decreasing as fast as it is now and the cost of hardware also keeps falling then in the next five to seven years, such machines will be common and better machines would have taken their place.

But for now Ranger is the world’s biggest computer, lets see as to who comes with a better machine...!

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The Motorola MOTOJEWEL is literally a fashion phone. Besides the mirror finish of the phone, the vanity case of the phone is a substitute of the make-up bag with the vanity mirror and pockets for tucking in the necessary cosmetics besides the bankcards. The technical features of the jeweled clamshell include shining purple keypad, touch sensitive music control, stereo Bluetooth, 2-megapixel camera, Motorola’s CrystalTalk noise reduction technology and Linux-based OS for quick response. However, it is not the specs that are attractive; it is the external angular design of the clamshell with the dazzling crystal outside that makes it more like a woman’s accessory. This limited edition jeweled phone can be bought from Carphone Warehouse for ₤99 only.

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Sometimes, I really get confused when I find one search engine in another search engine. I think it happens with you also!! Well! I hope, Amvona’s new search engine will not adopt this theory.

Amvona has unveiled Discovery, a revolutionary patented media search engine where users can independently handle twelve variables to fine and tune search results for either photos or videos. The company has launched Discovery as part of the Amvona 720 social shopping and social networking community. Sliders allow users to empower the influence of variables like popularity, views, category, and member location, which gives users a complete control of their results.

Amvona’s Discovery also enhances Amvona’s free photo sharing application, Corridor. With Discovery, users can organize their Corridors by clicking and dragging thumbnails into collections.

The company is focusing on creating the fastest, easiest and most enjoyable shopping experience. Amvona claimed that the company will continue its improvement in social shopping experience for growing online community.

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After a long delay, Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) is again coming back with its new microprocessor code named Barcelona to prove it is not a one-hit wonder in chips for server systems.

Barcelona, to be formally known as quad-core Opteron processor, provides calculating engines for the midsize machines, which run websites and other key business programs. AMD CEO, Hector Ruiz will formally launch the microprocessor during an event in San Francisco. AMD’s Barcelona is not only important for an AMD turnaround but also server markets, who are searching for higher performance and lower price microprocessor.

First ARM v5 instruction set architecture compliant processor, FA626TE is now available from Faraday Technology Corp. The processor has a 32bit RISC excellent computing and power-efficient capabilities for applications like infotainment systems, portable navigation devices, IP-STBs, industrial PCs, high-speed network and storage SoCs.

FA626TE processor is the first hard core, which reaches the worst clock speed of 533MHz and it is available in UMC 0.13um process. The FA626TE processor with eight pipeline stages has following features:

1) The processor has separate instruction/data caches and scratchpads
2) A buffer writer
3) A memory management unit
4) JTAG ICE interface

The CPU of the FA626TE uses four AHB or AXI interfaces, which is configured with 32/64bit widths to communicate with external memory and devices. The device has fully synthesizable core and the single-phase clock based architecture especially designed to integrate the SoC for designers. The company is expecting that the next version of 90nm UMC running on 667MHz and 800MHz in worst case would be available by the end of this year.

According to Thomas Hsieh, associate VP of central R&D at Faraday, the company is using data path optimization, process tuning, specific library and bin sorting to improve core clock speed. Thus, the company can implement the ultrahigh-performance FA626TE processor which enables the 800MHz speed in 90nm process.

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Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a new high-reliability technology for high power gallium nitride (GaN), named high electron-mobility transistors (HEMT). The new technology will make the way for commercialization of high power GaN HEMTs.

The new technology will enable transistor to operate even at high temperature of 200 degrees Celsius for more than one million hours under pinch off condition with a drain voltage of 50 volts (50V). The company will use the GaN HEMTs technology for the high-speed wireless communications market, like atellite communication (VSATs), cellular base stations, WiMAX base stations, and other high-speed wireless communications infrastructure.

Fujitsu has analyzed and discovered that in GaN HEMTs a correlation exists between gate leakage current and reliability. The company observed that the increase in gate leakage current depends on the quality of crystal and the structure of GaN HEMTs. Fujitsu has improved crystal quality and optimized the layer structure to mitigate the electric field in a gallium-nitride HEMT structure with few surface traps by using its proprietary n-type GaN cap layer.

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Nokia has introduced new cell-phone accessory designed for users with hearing aids. The Nokia Wireless Loopset is compatible with T-coil-equipped hearing aids or cochlear implants and makes hands-free connections between the hearing aid devices and Bluetooth 2.1-equipped mobile phones. This device can help hearing aid users to enjoy premium audio and handsfree operation of their mobile devices and other compatible audio devices. The Nokia Wireless Loopset provides hearing aid users with a hassle-free and handsfree connection to their mobile phones. It comes with a comfortable neckloop and a single button for call handling. Earlier, people with hearing aids had faced difficulties in using digital mobile phones in noisy environments or due to interference picked up from the radio transmission of the phone. The induction technology has improved the calls to be distortion-free and clear. The HS-67WL has a vibrating alert function to notify users of incoming calls. It will be available worldwide in the first quarter of 2009 with an equivalent price of about $315.

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