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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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.

The Barcelona is specifically designed to improve communication between processors. It has an improved circuitry model for complex chores called floating-point calculations. Earlier, dual-processor Opterons had advantage to fetch data from memory chips. AMD’s Barcelona operates at a maximum frequency of 2.0 gigahertz, which is a bit slower than expectations.

Barcelona will come in three different categories for high-performance, standard issue and energy-efficient server models. The two standard and three energy efficient processors are now available for two-socket servers, while the high-performance processors would be available by the end of this year. Two processors for four-socket servers would be available for both standard and energy efficient categories. AMD is adopting a scheme to measure the average power consumption of its chips.

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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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X86 is a name given to a series of chips developed by Intel. This series began with the 286 microprocessor and includes names like 386, 486 etc. Even the most common processor today that is Pentium 4 is also a seventh-generation X86 processor.

PKUnity Microsystems Technology Co Ltd, a unit sponsored by the university has stated that they are capable of making PCs with the domestically developed processors.

AMD signed a MoU in October 2005, with the Ministry of Science and Technology and Peking University to license AMD x86 microprocessor technology that will enable China to develop low-power processors for UMPCs. This was the highest-level of CPU technology transfer till date.

After studying and researching on the technology, Peking University has successfully developed FPGA. This processor is compatible with both Windows and Linux operating systems.

Chinese have already started to rule the electronics segment of the market and development of “Chinese Chips” will surely give stiff competition to Intel and other who till now were the rulers of the industry.

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I can bet that even your best friend or the one with whom you spend most of your time may not be able to analysis your mood at any time. But now all you need is to be extra cautious, as you may also be caught lying with the new software that is under development, which works on analyzing your mood within a second.

The technology that will be used by the software is ‘rapid facial analysis’ and is under development at the German Fraunhofer Institute. The software will see a human face, then find out if it is male or female and will finally analyze his or her expressions. The system checks the facial expressions to know which aspects of the program stimulate a particular strong reaction.

The project manager Dr. Christian Kublbeck at the IIS said:

The special feature of our facial analysis software is that it operates in real time.

The chief facial characteristics that will be used by the system is the shape of the face, the eyes, the eyebrows and the nose.

Before its launch the researchers will first test the system in which it will be given a large quantity of data containing images of faces.

The system will relate 30,000 facial characteristics with the information that it has previously learned. On a normal PC, the calculations are so quick that one’s mood swing is tracked live.

The software package will not only be useful to psychologists but can also be used to test the user-friendliness of computer software programs.

The system also has a scope to check how alert are the drivers while driving cars.

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Intel has launched the first ever mobile extreme part, the Core 2 Extreme X7800 mobile processor. The Intel Core 2 Extreme X7800 mobile processor operates at 2.6 GHz, with 4 MB of shared L2 Advanced Smart Cache and an 800 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB).

Intel’s new Core 2 Extreme X7800 mobile processor is based on Merom core but it is fully unlocked for improved overclocking and performance. The company has removed support for Intel Dynamic Acceleration (IDA) on the Extreme series. The Intel Core 2 Extreme mobile processor has unlocked bus ratios, which offers technical flexibility to those users who desire more capability to customize the system. The device has dynamic FSB support and it has additional power management features to enable it to down to C4 and DC4 state.

The Extreme X7800 is based on 65nm technology and it has also power-saving features like the dynamic front-side bus and the ‘Enhanced Deep Sleep’ mode. The X7800 also features ‘Advanced Media Boost’ for better performance with respect to video editing, music, and photography.

The X7800 is based on the same Merom core as the top-of-the-line Core 2 Duo T7700 with the only difference being a 200MHz boost in clock frequency and the unlocked multipliers.

First, the Extreme X7800 processor based laptops will appear on the US market, while it is not confirm when they would be available in the Asia-Pacific region. The Intel Core 2 Extreme X7800 mobile processor is available to OEMs now at a cost of $851.

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Now, Microsoft’s SharePoint 2007 users can use Cardiff’s advanced business process management capabilities for automating all forms and document related process. A division of Autonomy Corporation plc and leading provider of intelligent document solutions, Cardiff will support the software giant, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for content loading and content centric process.

The Cardiff Intelligent Document solution is easily integrated with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 200, which enables users to cohesively tie together paper, electronic and mobile content and allows them to access at SharePoint Server 2007 environment. The Cardiff solution allows organizations to automate and accelerate their business process. It also improves data accuracy and also enhances the user experience.

The Cardiff Intelligent Document solution automates paper based document as well as web based document. It enhances Microsoft SharePoint for the storage of in-flight and completed documents. Now SharePoint 2007 users can use Cardiff’s advanced business process management solution to automatically extract data, metadata tagging, document classification and business process management.

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The USB phone is not a substitution for a traditional Vonage phone line. Indeed, you require a different phone number from Vonage for the V-Phone, if you are a Vonage customer and already using a Vonage number.

How it functions
It is very simple and user-friendly. The phone plugs to a USB port of a computer. The device installs itself from the stick. Then, a virtual keyboard is displayed on the screen, where users can click the numbers or type in the number on a keypad.

Features:

•Vonage Talk Software Pre-Loaded

•Detachable Stereo Earpiece Microphone

•250MB Usable Portable Memory Storage

•A New Vonage Phone Number

•Compatible with E911 or Basic 911.

Systems required

Windows 98 SE, 256MB RAM (Windows XP) or higher.

Price

$39.99

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