INDUSTRY NEWS
Nvidia To Power The Fastest Computer ever!
One of the largest chip manufacturing firm in the world, Nvidia just released details about it's latest GPU or graphic processing unit. As per the chip maker, this unit will lead to the creation of the most powerful computer in the world till date. This module will be installed in the existing super computer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee United States. Nvidia also claims that after the installation is completed, computer will operate about eight times faster than before.
All New 'Trinity' Chipsets By AMD
Tech firm Advanced Micro Devices or better known as AMD has just launched it's all new high performance processor under the name 'Trinity'. This new processor is said to produce output nearly double of what it's predecessors did thereby offering a better gaming experience. That's not all, AMD with its 'Piledriver' technology has also introduced a power saving technique that recycles the used energy present in CPU's core. The technology has been named as Resonant Clock Mesh Technology.
Yahoo Chief Calls It Quits Amidst Accusations of Fake Degree!
Chief Executive of computer giant Yahoo, 'Scott Thompson' steps down of his responsibilities amidst of constant accusations regarding a fake 'Computer Science' degree. Yahoo had confirmed the report and also stated that Scott has been replaced by Global media head Ross Levinsohn. Thompson took over the post this January and since then he had been trying to improve fortunes of Yahoo by implementing cost cutting techniques.
Now Ratings For Video Games Too!
Video standard council (VSC) to rate video games based on Europe-wide guidelines. As per the new guidelines, games will be rated according to their content and those rated as 12 will be banned among children. These ratings will be performed as per Pegi's specifications and these specifications will not be applied to games downloaded online. This type of game age ratings will create a sense of trust and confidence among the parents who all remain worried about games their children are into. The Game and Entertainment body of Ukie also plans to launch major educational campaigns to make people aware how the rating system works.
Application Store From Facebook
The all new application store launched by Facebook will now prove to be a central place where mobile users can find all the popular applications. Web developers will be able to charge a particular fee from the users who download these applications from the store. This recent move from the social networking firm was initiated to avoid advertising losses caused due to increased mobile usage of the application and also to increase advertising revenue. As per Facebook developer's blog, the application store will be launched in the coming weeks.
Google Agrees With Mozilla's Take On Windows RT Browser
Mozilla has been battling it out long time with Microsoft against the IT giant's decision of permitting only Internet Explorer in its Windows RT operating system. The latest one to join Mozilla in the initiative is 'Google', the proud maker of 'Chrome' browser. Microsoft is yet to comment anything on Mozilla's constant efforts of pushing a competitive version of 'Firefox' in its operating system. Users of Windows RT Operating system can only install applications from the Windows store of Windows update service.
Now Tibco's in-memory analytics to get Hadoop support!
The latest buzz in the technical domain is about Tibco adding Hadoop support to its spot-fire in-memory analytics software. Hadoop is actually an open-source framework that processes large informational sets. This new version will be available in the market this month onwards and will feature a data connector with Hadoop, so that unstructured data such as web blogs, text and sensor information can be managed very easily. This connector will offer the independence to the users to analyze and combine information from Hadoop with those of business applications like Oracle ERP.
A New Trackback Tool Announced By Google Analytics Team!
Analyzing each and every page on the web that may link to your website content was never easy until now, courtesy Google analytic team. A new social link tracking tool has been developed by the GA team using which you will be able to track all the website Urls that link to your content directly. Not only this you will also be able to make out in what context your content is attracting links and also the opinion people are having about the same. In this manner you will be able to make out your most linked content and replicate the success again in the future by understanding the requirement of the audience.
'People Voice News Award' For BBC News Website
BBC News receives one of the most prestigious online awards this season that is the Webbys 'People voice news award'. It is said that more than 1.5 million voters from over 200 countries participated in this years online voting process. Other than the News website, Google Plus and Pinterest also won traditional Social Media award for their outstanding popularity as a social media platform.
Now Video Streaming In CommonSpot
'CommonSpot' CMS and 'Brightcove' join hands in deploying video hosting platform in the popular CMS, like renowned names like WordPress and Sitecore. According to the news update, people who use CommonSpot will be able to retrieve and access videos from Brightcove, from within the CMS platform. The main reason behind such move is the growing popularity of video hosting as a marketing tool and these videos on the static page will offer better SEO for the website.
