GSM Services from Reliance

Reliance Communication has launched GSM Services from 30-Dec-08.

This is only service provider that has afford both the GSM & CDMA. Reliance comm. has launched GSM Services to nearly 11,000 cities in the initial period, with in short span they have planned to make coverage of 22,000 cities. 10,000 crore has been spent to afford this GSM services in last 15 months.

Chairman Mr. Anil Ambani to press meet, we provided CDMA services to all over Indian cities and GSM services to 8 cities in East India. He told , now we have established this GSM service to nation wide. Reliance comm. is going to participate in coming 3G mobile campaign. To provide this 3G services we have planned to invest 4,000 crores. And we have got approval to provide services to Srilanka and Ukanda countries.

Wrist Watch Model Mobile Disclosed

World's 1st ever Wrist Watch Model Mobile Phone Disclosed.

How, wonder about the technology!! ? South Korean firm has disclosed a mobile with lots of features. Even , can wore in wrist. Can you believe this ? The video mobile phone can wore in wrist just like a watch. "3G WATCH PHONE".

LG Electronics disclosed a mobile with a desirable features like Touch screen , Camera , Built in Speaker and customer can access high speed internet and also could able to make video calls. This device even identify voices and technically built with the facility of transformation of text to speech and Blue tooth , MP3 Player facilities also included. Mid of 2009 this mobile comes into Europe market first. Screen size is 3.63 centimeter's and 0.56 inches in thickness. 2009 : Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas on dated January 8 to 11 this new technology mobile expected to take part.

The most famous games which inspired producers to make film versions of them.

Well known “Mortal Combat” (1990-s). One of the best famous fighting games ever been created as well as one of the most violent computer games. It is a first game where real actors were playing roles. In 1995 there was released a first movie under the name “Mortal Combat”. Combining eastern mythology and martial arts it had a great effect on public gathering many people in cinemas. Though, the second part of this movie made in 1997 totally failed. No wonder – it has kind of silly plot.
Legendary game "Doom" (1993) – has a quite simple plot: run ahead, change guns and shoot as much as you can. Such simplicity is a great chance for movie producer’s and script writer’s imagination, so everybody was looking forward to see an interesting gripping movie. Finally in year 2005 it was released. But what a disappointment was waiting for audience – it got failing grades of both critics and public. The Rock was nominated as Worst Actor in Razzie Awards.
Of course famous “Lara Croft” – two movies where screened Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003). Both of them had extreme popularity due to of Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft and hit plot of the game which very alike to Indiana Jones.
Movie “Hitman” (2007) taking roots and plot from “Hitman” game. Nameless agent 47 do not remember his name or anything about himself but has a tattoo “barcode” on his neck, working as a professional killer for International Contract Agency. Looking tough Timothy Olyphant played the leading role in this movie.
A good example of horror survival games “Silent Hill” served as a base for the same name movie (2006). А desperate mother who takes her adopted daughter goes to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash her daughter disappears. The mother is starting her search. Pursued by grotesquely deformed creatures and a townspeople stuck in permanent purgatory, she begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years back. It became one of the most famous horror movies of 2000s. Game “Silent Hill” includes four parts nowadays so we should wait for the next part!
Still, I want to mark out “Alone In The Dark” (2005) which was based on the same name video adventure games. This movie won in two nominations “Worst Actress” and “Worst Director” in Razzie Awards. Two parts of “House of dead” which won “Worst Film” award. Three parts of “Resident Evil” based on video game where the leading role got Milla Jovovich and not a bad one.

Most famous logical games

Logical games – first of all they are addicting games when you start play – you long to get to the end, second – they develop logical thinking making certain good changes in our brains. You learn how to think!
There are a few logical gameswhich cross around the world became very popular in many countries. Let’s see the list of most popular of such logical and board games.
Mahjong (májiàng) also called mah-jongg one of the most famous logical board games that originated in China. It is involve skills, strategy, calculation and of course a lady Luck, includes elements of poker and Domino. The aim of player is to open pairs of cards with same pictures on.
Chess – almost all people in the world played chess once in life at least. Chess competitions took up a substantial place among other sport competitions. It is competitive game played between two players, also classified as a board game, because it is played on board in 64 squares of two colors. This game has Indian and Persian roots, though for thousands of years it was modified and appeared many strategies, new rules and classification of chess. In international tournaments famous chess champions like Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand earn millions of dollars!
Other famous logical game is a patience also called solitaire, which every of us has on the computer. There are many kind of patience exist nowadays of a quite similar character, but varying greatly in details. Solitaire is a card game played by single person. Microsoft and Apple include this games into system software package. Besides you can load different kind of this games from internet with no charge. It takes roots from a cartomancy. The objective of the patience is dealing cards from a shuffled deck into a prescribed arrangement on the tabletop by means of reordering them by suits and ranks. Each kind of solitaire has certain rules.
And of course Sudoku – Japanese puzzle game which was spread widely. The objective in this game is to fulfill a 9×9 grid (partially completed grid is given) the way that each column, each row, each of the nine 3×3 boxes would contain digits from 1 to 9 just one time! It is pretty hard, isn’t it?
This games and puzzles certainly will not harm you and your psyche. Opposite they will develop your logical skills raising IQ. Actually IQ test is a kind of logical game? Don’t you think? Plus most of these games are free in internet.

Interesting facts about games.

Show me the person who never played a game! Perhaps it is a one who doesn't know what means fun, though this article is for those who love games or at least think that he/she likes.
1. Many gamers know GTA - but not so many that aria of San Andreas in this game is 25 square kilometers - it's five times more then Liberty Sity.
2. The score record of all times in Pac-Man is 3,333,360 points.
3. Producers of Sega’s Space Channel 5 had a court examination with one lady, because of the character in the game was very alike her look - of course, she lost the hearing.
4. In the earliest version of Donkey Kong the name of Mario was Jumpman and he was a carpenter not a plumper.
5. First game with Easter Eggs is Adventure for Atari 2600; you could see names of creators in a secret room.
6. The guy who played James Sunderland in Silent Hill 2 passed casting occasionally, going with his daughter to another meeting.
7. Michael Jackson appeared in following popular games: Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Ready 2 Rumble Round 2, Space Channel 5 1 & 2, GTA: Vice City и Moonwalker.
8. Original CDs with FIFA 2001 smelled with grass.
9. The name of the game "ICO" in Japanese means "Let's go!"
10. The president of Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aime worked in Pizza Hut (this is what means "being smart"!)
11. Mario has no surname.
12. Lara Croft was planned to be Laura Cruz, though producers stopped on the second option.
13. As Entertainment Software Association says - the middle age of game players is 33 years old.
14. The source of inspiration for creating Katamari Damacy games was famous painter Picasso.
15. In 2001 a few students created a mechanism called "PainStation" which was pretty harmful for a body.
16. The voice of Solid Snake David Hayter wrote a script for the movie X-man
17. Supposaly the game playing of GameCube Animal Crossing can be prolonged up to 29 years.
18. Lara Croft got her big breast due to the work of designer Tobi Gard who increased it for 150% of original size - the rest of team supported this idea.
19. The voice of Chief in Halo is Steve Downes; he is DJ on the radio in Chicago.
20. The word "Nintendo" from Japanese can be translated like "leave your luck to the sky"
21. Now 24% of USA citizens after 50%. In 1999 it was only 9%.
22. Soundtrack for game Okami takes 5 CDs.
To be continue...
By now, just have some fun and play online games by yourself or with friends!

How does internet influence on elderly people.

Good news for all gamers! From a long time scientists are interesting in the influence of computer technologies on human brain's activity but mostly we hear about negative side like dependence from internet or game "fever". And rarely we can meet information about its positive influence on human brains.

Only recently they found out that internet search are positively influence on a brain's activity of elderly people, activating key centers of brains, which controls logical processes of mind. The most interesting fact is the regular internet search stimulates neuron actively of brain in those parts where it is detached while a common reading. Significant results of researches in this area give a hope to have a positive physiological effect and potential positive results from computer technologies in working with middle age and elderly patients.
The internet search can simulate brain activity, to train and even to improve its functionality. The simplest exercises of internet search (but regular) can increase brain activity even for elderly people. As you know - the ability of human brain to learn has no age limits.
They also found out that computer online games can decrease the danger on roads! How?
Recently one American company made an experiment: they sent one hundred thousand of game sets to clients between 50 and 75 y.o. Those PC games supposed to improve keenness of observation, to train memory, an eye sight and so on. The results were astonishing! 10 hours spent in playing similar computer games return the brain's sensitivity on 10 years back, including eye sight. So the common thinking that the human brain reaches it's peak and after with passing years getting weaker is wrong, because with some certain regular exercises you can keep your brains in a good shape.
Just like a body our brain needs regular exercises and care. Besides all what was said above - computer games improve a hearing, helps to get rid of fears, develop some skills for kids.
Though, "too much" is not good for anything, it concerns computer games and internet as well. To spend many hours every day playing computer games or chatting with friends will give an opposite result. So, know when to stop!

Strange achievements in video gaming field

Everybody knows about Guinness World Records book but not many of lucky guys can place his/her name into this book no matter how hard they try. Though some of people are really make incredible things in different fields of life. Anyhow online games (or video games) haven’t been considered till now.
Till then let’s see what we have:
The most spread character in video games is well known Mario which appeared in 116 different games not taking into account remakes.
The biggest number of players in multimode racing game was 132. All players where racing in TrackMania at once.
The longest sentence in the jail was given to Faiz Chopdat from UK in 2002 for playing Tetris on his mobile phone while the plain was in the air. It means, when you hear “please, turn off your mobile phone till the end of the flight” – so better do it!
The greatest number of item had to be collected to complete the game was in Donkey Kong 64: in total 3821. Players had to collect: 201 golden banana, 3500 colored banana, 40 banana medals, 20 banana fairies, 40 maps, 8 keys, 10 crowns, one coin Nintendo and one coin Rareware. Plus in this game there are endless number of banana coins, watermelons and earphones.
The smallest Tetris in the world – in Dutch Vrije University, on faculty of physics, with a help of microscope the game took place. Its’ teraminos were made of smallest glass spheres. The diagonal of each block was about only 1 micrometer!
The largest number of invectives was said during a game Quake III Aren which takes only one hour of playing. GVC team said 4397 invectives including a few round oaths which nobody ever heard before. They also used a whole box of computer mice, because they were hitting mice on the table each time when they are shouted.
The longest guidelines for games were made for the racing game Gran Turismo 4 in China and Japan. The pamphlet included 212 pages with catalogues of automobiles, introduction to racing physics and different professional advises.
The first game which inspired compositors to create a ballet was Dragon Quest. Please let me know if anyone saw this ballet, I wouldn’t mind to see as well!
May be the facts I was telling above will inspire you to create a new opera, a movie, to write a book or to make a new world record. Perhaps anyone thinks that he / she made a world record already playing online games or flash games or video games (it doesn’t matter) – please let me know!

Boon or bane?

90% of kids from 10 to 16 y.o. in USA spending around 20 hours a week playing computer games. This number just a little differ in Europe, Canada and Australia, where the level of economy is high than in South America and Africa for example. So we can claim that computer games are definitely influence on kid’s psyche, mentality and nervous system. And these kids are our future!
Buying computer every parent hopes that this advantage of high technologies will help a kid to develop good personal qualities, broaden mental outlook and finally to be well educated. Instead many youngsters prefer to play video games or online games in Internet! This point has both negative and positive sides, tough nowadays you cannot avoid the question: computer games are boon or bane?
First, let’s review negative aspects of video and online games. Virtual violence in these games may make kids more aggressive in real life. So experts do not suggest to play a kind of game where hunting down and killing people is the goal. Previous researches showed that after playing violence games for 3 months and more, behavior of kids is becoming more aggressive! So, dear parents, you definitely have to supervise what your child is playing on his computer. Otherwise there may be negative results, kid may start thinking that to kill, hit and kick other people is OK. We’ve heard a lot about kids where killing other kids. But not just online games are full of violence but TV and other media!
Though not taking into account “violent games” there are a few positive aspects we want to review. According to the recent research kids play online games regularly have better reaction time, visual activity and dexterity than kids who do not play games on computer. Games help children to identify things in a faster way, to develop skills in sport and business. The important feature of online games is sociability. I mean, being in USA kid communicate making friends with a kid from Japan or Europe. It heightens a level of culture and social activity excluding possibility of negative complexes appearance, which is of no small importance for future life of a kid. So, the games are boon or bane – just for you to decide! But for sure, being parents you have to supervise what your child is playing or watching. It depends from your responsibility and care which results you’ll get.

360 Degree Feedback Enhances Executive Education

360 Degree Feedback Enhances Executive Education

Written by Jim Steele, Ed.D., Assistant Professor of Management George Fox University


Feedback is a gift. That is an important lesson I want each of my graduate students to take to heart. To that end, each learner in the Executive Track MBA at George Fox University is provided the opportunity to use a Clark Wilson 360 degree feedback survey from Booth Co.

The George Fox Executive Track MBA (mba.georgefox.edu) attracts sophisticated mid-career adults looking for a learning experience that is both academically challenging and relevant to their professional lives. As leaders and executives in a variety of organizations ranging from technology to healthcare to not-for-profit agencies, their learning needs are often driven by the unique characteristics of the working environment.

Clark Wilson 360 degree feedback surveys have been an integral component of the "Organizational Systems and Change" course in the Executive Track MBA since 2006. These surveys support a key learning objective, "Articulate how your own values, preferences and management style influence your view of organizations." By providing executive learners with a firsthand view of how each is perceived in his or her work environment, they are confronted with evidence of the impact of their own leadership behaviors.

At the beginning of the course, each learner selects the survey that offers the best fit for his or her professional needs. A variety of surveys are offered, including:

• Executive Leadership Survey
• Survey of Leadership Practices
• Leadership in Health Services Survey
• Leadership Competencies for Managers Survey

Learners appreciate the flexibility to choose a survey relevant to their specific needs. From a teaching and facilitation perspective, the common design of the surveys makes it possible to provide a single overview to the survey process, task cycle and reports even though multiple surveys are in use. Individual coaching sessions after survey results are distributed provide ample opportunity to explore the unique elements of the specialized survey results.

Action plans are completed after each student has digested the results of the feedback survey. Thoughts and reactions to the assessment are also captured in student journals, which are maintained throughout the course. Reflective exercises allow learners to experience praxis – a powerful cycle of action and reflection. In today's hyperactive business environment, time set aside for this type of reflective thinking is rarely taken and frequently absent.

Executives are encouraged to select raters from their business contacts, bringing the voices of their working associates into the academic process. Barbara Mathey, a credit union CEO and 2007 George Fox MBA graduate, recalled her selection process: "I chose the survey participants carefully to assure honest, open feedback. Although some of the results were difficult to see it was exactly the feedback I was hoping for. The insight gave me the opportunity to reevaluate and change my approach to more effectively use my leadership skills and to obtain additional skills where I was lacking." In Mathey's assessment, "the 360 review proved to be one of the most productive parts of my MBA program."

George Fox University provides one 360 degree feedback survey as part of the MBA curriculum for its Executive Track students. Often, an executive who experiences a 360 survey as a student will seek a follow-up survey to evaluate progress. Consultant and Air National Guard Reservist Joseph Brewer, a 2008 George Fox MBA graduate, observed that "the power of this tool appears to be in the ability to show professional development, and that analysis came only through the second review. Through effective comparison between reviews, I was able to clearly see those areas that improved and it was both an enlightening and rewarding experience as a result." Brewer anticipates continued use of 360 degree feedback for professional development. He concluded, "This tool will remain in my professional inventory as a means to develop strengths."

As part of a course on organizations, 360 degree feedback surveys allow each learner to collect live data from his or her own working environment. Due to the personal nature of the feedback received, executive MBA students show a keen interest in learning to interpret the results. This tool has proven useful on a variety of levels. The feedback demonstrates how behaviors are reflected in the perceptions of raters who observe the subject from various perspectives. It also provides an excellent example of how data can be analyzed and reported in ways that contribute to its value and usability. Learners experience data-gathering, analysis and application firsthand in a way that contributes to professional and personal development. And finally, they are introduced to a type of tool that can be applied in a variety of ways in the organizations they serve.


About George Fox University
George Fox University is the only Christian university in the Pacific Northwest classified by U.S. News & World Report as a national university. More than 3,200 students attend classes on the university's campus in Newberg, Oregon, and at teaching centers in Portland, Salem and Redmond, Oregon, and Boise, Idaho. George Fox offers bachelor's degrees in more than 40 majors, degree-completion programs for working adults, five seminary degrees, and 12 master’s and doctoral degrees including the Master in Business Administration and Doctor of Management.


About Jim Steele, Ed.D.
Jim Steele, Ed.D, GPHR is Assistant Professor of Management in George Fox University’s School of Management. He teaches Masters and Doctoral level courses in management, organizational behavior, international business and research methods. In addition, Jim is owner and principal consultant for Working Smart Northwest, an HRD and learning consultancy dedicated to creating organizations that deliver great results through practices and processes that respect and nurture the human spirit. Jim has assisted organizations in implementing 360 degree feedback surveys from Booth Co. since the early 1990s when he was a member of the first group of internal consultants certified to facilitate the Survey of Management Practices at Intel Corporation.

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Traditions to celebrate a birthday in different countries

The birthday is a most favorite holiday for all children, when all the attention is only to a hero of the event. So we will talk about birthday traditions in different countries. Traditions to celebrate a birthday vary from continent to continent, from country to country, let’s see what kind of traditions different nations have:

Asia:

I guess in China, a birthday is a best day of a year, because most families has only one child last time due to demographical reasons, so all the attention of parents and guests is to a kid. Though all kids are obliged to show a respect to his/her parents. Like, for example, girls must help in cooking and boys in house keeping. Normally noodles are invited to wish a child a long happy life.

Children of Japan have a largest number of holidays. Besides a birthday they has special holidays for girls and boys separately, holidays devoted to a certain human age. The born of a child is the most important event in life of the family. I would like to emphasize that the most important birthday dates of a child are 1, 3, 5, 7 years like 60 and 70 for olderly people.

In Vietnam, unfortunately, they do not recognize their individual birthdays, but use to celebrate it at the beginning of the New Year.

In Korea the most significant birthday is called “tol” and celebrated on the first year child’s birth. It includes certain traditions like a kind of fortunetelling, when people are trying to guess about the future of a child. They place things on the table in front of the child and let him to choose one of items. When he or she will grow up – he will get a profession or skills depending on what he or she chose. This popular old tradition has a place nowadays and has spread to other countries.

Africa:

In South Africa people are following an old tradition: a presentation of a key made of aluminum foil or silver, or even gold, given by parents at age 21. It is suppose to be a symbol of a child’s readiness to unlock the door to his/her future.

In Europe the birthday celebration is quite similar thing, though each culture has a special zest:

For example, in Denmark, a flag is hoisted outside a window symbolizing the birthday of the house owner or someone who lives in. To make the child feel happy on birthday parents place all gifts around the bed while he/she is sleeping, then he/she can see them immediately upon awaking.

The special birthday dates in Holland are 5, 10, 15, 20, and 21 – on these birthdays the boy or girl usually gets great gifts. And, of course, living in the country of Flowers – parents decorate the kid’s room, tables, chairs with beautiful flowers and balloons.

We can keep talking about birthday traditions in different countries as there are more then 200 countries in the world, not talking about nations or national groups.

Still one or the integral parts of each birthday all over the world are a birthday cake and birthday cards. We wish you every your birthday to be better then the previous one gathering many devoted friends and relatives together!

Here you can find best birthday ecards and printable birthday cards!

Intel Centrino 2 with vPro Technology

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Keep your workforce more secure, managed, and mobile. With security and manageability built right onto the chip, Intel® Centrino 2 with vPro technology provides hardware-assisted remote isolation, diagnostics, and repair, so you can manage your mobile workforce remotely, even if the system's OS is unresponsive.¹ And with exceptional dual-core performance, 5X better wireless performanceΩ and the longest possible battery life.²

Now you can also get notebooks with Intel Centrino 2 with vPro technology in astonishingly thin and light packages. As the smallest version of Intel® Centrino® processor technology yet-50 percent smaller-you're most mobile workforce can enjoy the sleekest full-featured and performance packed notebooks³ along with improved energy efficiency and power savings.

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Big, big performance. More energy efficient.¹ Now available in smaller packages. The Intel Core 2 Duo processor-based desktop PC was designed from the ground up for energy efficiency, letting you enjoy higher performing, ultra-quiet, sleek, and low power desktop PC designs.

Multitask with reckless abandon. Do more at the same time, like playing your favorite music, running virus scan in the background, and all while you edit video or pictures. The powerful Intel Core 2 Duo desktop processor provides you with the speed you need to perform any and all tasks imaginable.

Love your PC again. Don’t settle for anything less than the very best. Find your perfect desktop powered by the Intel Core 2 Duo processor and get the best processing technology money can buy. Only from Intel.

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* Up to 1333 MHz front side bus

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Intel Core 2 Quad Processors

The ultimate multi-core performance

Introducing Intel Core 2 Quad processor for notebook and desktop PCs, designed to handle massive compute and visualization workloads enabled by powerful multi-core technology. Optimized for the longest possible battery life without compromise to performance, Intel Core 2 Quad processors for notebooks allow you to stay unwired longer while running the most compute-intensive applications.

Providing all the bandwidth you need for next-generation highly-threaded applications, the latest four-core Intel Core 2 Quad processors are built on 45nm Intel Core microarchitecture enabling faster, cooler, and quieter mobile and desktop PC and workstation experiences.

Plus, with optional Intel vPro technology, you have the ability to remotely isolate, diagnose, and repair infected desktop and mobile workstations wirelessly and outside of the firewall, even if the PC is off, or the OS is unresponsive.

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It's gaming, digital photography, or video editing, today's high-impact entertainment demands breakthrough technology. Now with a new version based on Intel's cutting edge 45nm technology utilizing hafnium-infused circuitry to deliver even greater performance and power efficiency.

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Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor
When more is better—with four processing cores the Intel Core 2 Extreme processor delivers unrivaled¹ performance for the latest, greatest generation of multi-threaded games and multimedia apps.

Now with a new version based on Intel's cutting edge 45nm technology utilizing hafnium-infused circuitry to deliver even greater performance and power efficiency. The Intel Core 2 Extreme processor QX9770 running at 3.2 GHz delivers the best possible experience for today's most demanding users.

* 12 MB of total L2 cache
* 1600 MHz front side bus

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Intel Core i7 Processor

The best desktop processors on the planet

Brilliantly fast

With faster, intelligent, multi-core technology that applies processing power where it's needed most, new Intel® Core™ i7 processors deliver an incredible breakthrough in PC performance. They are the best desktop processors on the planet.¹

Multitask applications faster and unleash incredible digital media creation. And you'll experience maximum performance for everything you do, thanks to the combination of Intel® Turbo Boost technology² and Intel® Hyper-Threading technology (Intel® HT technology)³, which maximizes performance to match your workload.
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* 8 processing threads with Intel® HT technology
* 8 MB of Intel® Smart Cache
* 3 Channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory

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Intel Core i7 Processor Extreme Edition

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But performance doesn't stop at gaming. You'll multitask 25 percent faster and unleash incredible digital media creation with up to 79 percent faster video encoding and up to 46 percent faster image rendering, plus incredible performance for photo retouching and editing.¹

In fact, Maximum performance for whatever you do, the combination of Intel® Turbo Boost technology² and Intel® Hyper-Threading technology (Intel® HT technology), which activates full processing power exactly where and when you need it most.
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* 3.20 GHz core speed
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* 8 MB of Intel® Smart Cache
* 3 Channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory

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But performance doesn't stop at gaming. You'll multitask 25 percent faster and unleash incredible digital media creation with up to 79 percent faster video encoding and up to 46 percent faster image rendering, plus incredible performance for photo retouching and editing.¹

In fact, Maximum performance for whatever you do, the combination of Intel® Turbo Boost technology² and Intel® Hyper-Threading technology (Intel® HT technology), which activates full processing power exactly where and when you need it most.
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Intel Core i7 Processor Extreme Edition

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Wield the ultimate gaming weapon

Conquer the world of extreme gaming with the fastest performing processor on the planet: the Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition.¹ With faster, intelligent multi-core technology that accelerates performance to match your workload, it delivers an incredible breakthrough in gaming performance.

But performance doesn't stop at gaming. You'll multitask 25 percent faster and unleash incredible digital media creation with up to 79 percent faster video encoding and up to 46 percent faster image rendering, plus incredible performance for photo retouching and editing.¹

The combination of Intel® Turbo Boost technology² and Intel® Hyper-Threading technology (Intel® HT technology)³, which activates full processing power exactly where and when you need it most.
Product information

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Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition
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For extreme computing. Enjoy revolutionary levels of performance enabling vivid, high-definition experiences and multi-tasking responsiveness from state-of-the-art Intel dual-core and quad-core technologies.


Intel® Core™2 Quad processor
Intel® Core™2 Quad processor
Multimedia enthusiasts, prepare to enthuse. Bring quad-core performance to your desktop with the Intel® Core™2 Quad processor. It's the ideal engine for highly threaded entertainment applications and highly productive multitasking.


Intel® Core™2 Duo processor
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor
The power to perform. With power-optimized enabled dual-core technology and exceptional energy efficiency, the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor excels running the most intense applications.

For more info intel.com/products/desktop/processors/index.htm?iid=processors_body+dt_core

INTEL Processor

Processor

Intel desktop processors deliver superb computing power, performance, and reliability at home and at work. Our notebook processors let you work and play in places you never thought possible. Our server and workstation processors provide enhanced scalability, power, and performance for robust multi-processing environments. And our embedded and communications processors combine outstanding performance with scalable, power-efficient processing for a wide range of embedded applications.

Desktop processors

• Intel Core processor family
• Intel Pentium processor family
• Intel Celeron processor family

Server and workstation processors

• Intel Server processors
• Intel Workstation processors

Internet device processors

• Intel Atom processor for netbooks and nettops
• Intel Atom processor for Mobile Internet Devices

Notebook processors

• Intel Core processor family
• Intel Pentium processor family
• Intel Celeron processor family

Embedded and communications processors

• Intel Architecture processors
• Intel Network processors
• Intel I/O processors

Resources, technologies, and solutions

• Compare features and specifications side-by-side
• Compare motherboards and barebones
• View performance benchmarks

For more info intel.com/products/processor/index.htm?iid=prod+prod_processor

Intel Core Process Family - Desktop

Intel Core Processor Family - Desktop

Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Brilliantly fast

With faster, intelligent, multi-core technology that applies processing power where it's needed most, new Intel® Core™ i7 processors deliver an incredible breakthrough in PC performance. They are the best desktop processors on the planet.¹

You'll multitask applications faster and unleash incredible digital media creation. And you'll experience maximum performance for everything you do, thanks to the combination of Intel® Turbo Boost technology² and Intel® Hyper-Threading technology (Intel® HT technology)³, which maximizes performance to match your workload.

Product information

• 2.93 GHz and 2.66 GHz core speed
• 8 processing threads with Intel® HT technology
• 8 MB of Intel® Smart Cache
• 3 Channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory

Features and benefits

Go to the next level of multi-core performance.

Intel Core i7 processors deliver an incredible breakthrough in quad-core performance and feature the latest innovations in processor technologies:

Intel® Turbo Boost technology maximizes speed for demanding applications, dynamically accelerating performance to match your workload—more performance when you need it the most.²

Intel® Hyper-Threading technology enables highly threaded applications to get more work done in parallel. With 8 threads available to the operating system, multi-tasking becomes even easier.³

Intel® Smart Cache provides a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for industry leading multi-threaded games.

Intel® QuickPath Interconnect is designed for increased bandwidth and low latency. It can achieve data transfer speeds as high as 25.6 GB/sec with the Extreme Edition processor.

Integrated memory controller enables three channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory, resulting in up to 25.6 GB/sec memory bandwidth. This memory controller's lower latency and higher memory bandwidth delivers amazing performance for data-intensive applications.

Intel® HD Boost significantly improves a broad range of multimedia and compute-intensive applications. The 128-bit SSE instructions are issued at a throughput rate of one per clock cycle, allowing a new level of processing efficiency with SSE4 optimized applications.

Source - intel.com/products/processor/corei7/index.htm

Intel Core Processor Family - Desktop

Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition The highest performing desktop processor on the planet.

Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition
Wield the ultimate gaming weapon

Conquer the world of extreme gaming with the fastest performing processor on the planet: the Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition.¹ With faster, intelligent multi-core technology that accelerates performance to match your workload, it delivers an incredible breakthrough in gaming performance.

But performance doesn't stop at gaming. You'll multitask 25 percent faster and unleash incredible digital media creation with up to 79 percent faster video encoding and up to 46 percent faster image rendering, plus incredible performance for photo retouching and editing.¹

In fact, you'll experience maximum performance for whatever you do, thanks to the combination of Intel® Turbo Boost technology² and Intel® Hyper-Threading technology (Intel® HT technology)³, which activates full processing power exactly where and when you need it most.
Product information

* 3.20 GHz core speed
* 8 processing threads with Intel® HT technology
* 8 MB of Intel® Smart Cache
* 3 Channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory
Source - intel.com/products/processor/corei7EE/index.htm

The world of flash games for casual users of Internet.

By statistic around 45% of users are surfing in Internet without a special aim, trying to get some entertainment. The life like a speed train is running ahead involving us into to hurricane of events. And when a time of vacation comes or unexpected illness keeping us staying at home, or school holidays, you may get bored from abundance of spare time. The human nature is venturesome, willing for entertainment and to raise adrenalin. Online games is a good instrument to satisfy this nature without loosing money, without odd risks, without bad after-effects they relax your intense mind, giving rest to your thoughts emotions and body, taking away amassed stress. Flash games won’t ask you to think much; they don’t have high demands to your computer hardware, but immersed you into a virtual world, the world of fantasy where everything is possible.

Well, online games are more and more popular and there is many game portal which offers thousands of games, but high quality games is only a quarter of this mass. We’ll talk about GamezHero portal, with many quality games divided into categories. It has quite simple interface understandable for users, easy controls in games, and no need for downloading plus it’s a free service. We’ll review some of categories.

Action games contain many free addicting games for your choice like Dynamic Double team based on Batman comic’s characters, where playing a Batman and Blue Beetle you will challenge Kanjar Ro’s space pirates saving an entire planet from possible distraction. Straw Hat Samurai is a unique fighting; crazy racing in Dream Racer made in 3D graphic and many others.

If you prefer to play games by yourself – no need for registration, just load a game and go ahead. For multiplayer mode you’ll have to pass a simple registration.

Arcade games – interesting game: Look out, Mr. Johnson!, where actually you are the ghost help to your friend in his adventure by… eating people. Well know Sonic Xtreme, where you should avoid the cankerworms; Batman series: “Batman. The cat and the bat” where you challenge a Cat woman, who stole your utility belt, fighting the robotic lions.

Many more interesting games like races, games for girls, puzzle, and sport you will find here.

One more plus of multimode online games is that you can find friends, just someone like you – casual user of Internet, and who know they may became your real friends.

INTEL corporate history

Intel headquarters in Santa Clara
Intel was founded in 1968 by Gordon E. Moore (a chemist and physicist) and Robert Noyce (a physicist and co-inventor of the integrated circuit) when they left Fairchild Semiconductor. A number of other Fairchild employees also went on to participate in other Silicon Valley companies. Intel's third employee was Andy Grove, a chemical engineer, who ran the company through much of the 1980s and the high-growth 1990s. Grove is now remembered as the company's key business and strategic leader. By the end of the 1990s, Intel was one of the largest and most successful businesses in the world.

Source-- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Corporation

INTEL history

Intel was an early developer of SRAM and DRAM memory chips, and this represented the majority of its business until the early 1980s. While Intel created the first commercial microprocessor chip in 1971, it was not until the success of the personal computer (PC) that this became their primary business. During the 1990s, Intel invested heavily in new microprocessor designs and in fostering the rapid growth of the PC industry. During this period Intel became the dominant supplier of microprocessors for PCs, and was known for aggressive and sometimes controversial tactics in defense of its market position, as well as a struggle with Microsoft for control over the direction of the PC industry.The 2007 rankings of the world's 100 most powerful brands published by Millward Brown Optimor showed the company's brand value falling 10 places – from number 15 to number 25.
In addition to its work in semiconductors, Intel has begun research in electrical transmission and generation

Source -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Corporation

INTEL

Intel Corporation is the world's largest semiconductor company and the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers. Founded on July 18, 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation and based in Santa Clara, California, USA, Intel also makes motherboard chipsets, network cards and ICs, flash memory, graphic chips, embedded processors, and other devices related to communications and computing. Founded by semiconductor pioneers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, and widely associated with the executive leadership and vision of Andrew Grove, Intel combines advanced chip design capability with a leading-edge manufacturing capability. Originally known primarily to engineers and technologists, Intel's successful "Intel Inside" advertising campaign of the 1990s made it and its Pentium processor household names

Source -- wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Corporation

Apple iPhone - Mapping Market

Mapping Market Opportunities for the Apple iPhone

Apple's iPhone was the hot topic during a session at the Web 2.0 Summit. The 451 Group's Raven Zachary and other panelists discussed the market potential for the smart phone in the mobile and wireless sector. Can Google, Nokia, Microsoft and RIM catch up? Here are some compelling data points that make the iPhone seem like Mt. Everest for those challengers.

SAN FRANCISCO—What is the growth potential for Apple's iPhone? That was the subject of a panel discussion at the Web 2.0 Summit here Nov. 5.

The 451 Group analyst Raven Zachary and others provided some statistics that clearly show the iPhone, the most popular smart phone, in the driver's seat versus competing smart phones from Nokia and RIM, as well as phones that run Microsoft Windows Mobile and Google's Android mobile operating systems.

There are several opportunities for application developers to create compelling applications for the iPhone, both native and Web applications.

Even John Doerr, the venture capital genius at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, told the audience at the Web 2.0 Summit later in the day that the iPhone can be revolutionary beyond the PC because it is personal, leverages broadband and can be taken anywhere.

Apple & Google Defrag Starts

Defrag Starts with Look at Strategic Intuition of Apple, Google

Google and Apple took pages out of the playbooks of other companies to create the powerhouse desktop computers and search engines we benefit from today, Columbia Business School Associate Professor William Duggan says. At the Defrag conference, Duggan discusses what he calls the strategic intuition of Steve Jobs, Larry Page and Sergey Brin that led to their accomplishments.

DENVER—Apple and Google revolutionized the PC and search engine markets, respectively, but company leaders borrowed their key concepts from others who came before them.

That was the crux of the Defrag opening keynote speech here Nov. 3 from Columbia Business School Associate Professor William Duggan.

Duggan, whose speech covered the gist of his 2007 book, "Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement," said one thing Napoleon Bonaparte, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin had in common is flashes of insight into how to improve an existing practice.

Bonaparte helped cultivate the art of war. Edison set the mass production of electric light bulbs in motion. Ford did the same for mass assembly of cars.

Jobs saw the future of computing in another company's GUI. Brin and Page combined existing data mining, Web crawling and early online advertising concepts to create Google.

To illustrate his point regarding modern high-tech innovation, Duggan showed the Defrag audience a short clip of Robert Cringely's 1996 film "Great Artists Steal." In it, Jobs discussed how he visited Xerox's PARC lab in 1979 and was blown away by the GUI the company employed for its personal computer. Jobs said in the movie:

I was so blinded by the first thing they showed me, which was the graphical user interface. I thought it was the best thing I'd ever seen in my life.

This, Duggan said, is the language of someone who experienced a "flash of insight."

Similarly, Google's Page saw something in AltaVista's search engine that flipped a switch in his own brain. That something was the process of links that "find pages that link to your site," Duggan said.

Page used reverse links, recreated AltaVista's search technique and combined it with Brin's data mining efforts, and Google as we know it was born.

To make money, Page and Brin mimicked Overture's process of listing advertisements alongside Web pages, which led what is Google's massive $16 billion-plus search keyword business today.

These flashes of insight, or strategic intuitions, in which entrepreneurial leaders combine a number of innovations to revolutionize an industry, are fueling the high-tech market, Duggan said.

Microsoft's Bill Gates was also famous for such flashes. Duggan did not mention Microsoft, though he discusses Gates in his book.

Duggan concluded his speech by saying Defrag attendees could experience those flashes of insight. Dare to dream!

Source - eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Defrag-Starts-With-Strategic-Intuition-of-Apple-Google/

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft (Semanti Offers Search Plug-in)

Semanti's SemantiFind browser plug-in lets Google, Yahoo and Microsoft search engine users leverage semantic technologies to refine their research results. The free tool, which sits on users' browsers as a toolbar, lets users virtually bookmark Web pages they found useful for future users. Crowdsourcing at its finest in cloud computing.

Semanti Nov. 3 has joined Gogimon and TigerLogic as the latest in a raft of software providers looking to augment search results from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft with a browser add-on.

One key difference: Semanti's free SemantiFind plug-in employs semantic search to help users refine their search results and boost the activity for those Web sites by ranking them as useful with one click.

The add-on, which plants a toolbar on users' browsers, was originally offered for Google and received so-so reviews from ReadWriteWeb in September. Semanti added Yahoo and Microsoft support today, giving it coverage of some 90 percent of the search market.

Semanti provides a demonstration of the tool using Google in a video. Semanti CEO Bruce Johnson did a search for "Porsche mileage" on a browser augmented with SemantiFind. When he entered Porsche into Google, he saw pop-up definitions of Porsche, and two definitions for mileage, one for distance traveled and one for fuel economy.

Upon hitting enter, he saw search results from SemantiFind at the top of the page, with Google results underneath. Google results were ambiguous, which Johnson said illustrates the problem with traditional search engines. Because SemantiFind takes into account the multiple meanings of search queries, it was able to provide more accurate results for the user.

Johnson also did a search for "Porsche fuel economy." Google provided different results, but SemantiFind yielded the same results as the "Porsche mileage" search because it understands the user's intent behind the search. Moreover, SemantiFind helps users filter out the noise associated with Google results by graying out the inaccurate results.

How does SemantiFind get its results? Crowdsourcing, of course. Searchers can boost the ranking of quality Web pages they found useful through SemantiFind by clicking the Semantify button in the SemantiFind toolbar.

This action remembers the search queries a user entered so the next time a user searches for something comparable, the Web page will show up in the SemantiFind results. This will work for not just the searcher who entered the results, but for anyone doing searches in the future. Think of it as a virtual bookmark of sorts.

In short, the searches you do on SemantiFind today will influence the searches you or someone else does tomorrow. This is great in theory, but it also means SemantiFind needs to have a lot of people searching on it to boost the value of the plug-in.

SemantiFind is essentially providing semantic search results on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft without a whole new search engine, which is an interesting value proposition.

Johnson told eWEEK Semanti didn't want to be another Hakia, Ask.com or Powerset, all of which created their own search engines. He said the current searches people are accustomed to are good enough for 80 percent of Web searchers.

SemantiFind is free for users, mainly because you can't charge for a general search engine and expect to make money and Semanti wants to build out a big user base.

In the future, Johnson said he hoped to make money through placing ads alongside SemantiFind results. No small double-edged sword here: Some users are already worn out from ads alongside Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Adding them alongside the SemantiFind plug-in may alienate users. We'll see.

Source - eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Semanti-Offers-Free-Semantic-Search-Plugin-For-Google-Yahoo-Microsoft/

Google, Yahoo Is Still Open to a Deal with Microsoft

Minus Succor from Google, Yahoo Is Still Open to a Deal with Microsoft - Yang Considers Future in Wake of Failed Google Deal
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When Battelle asked Yang about what happened with Google, Yang confirmed that Google walked away from the companies' proposed search ad deal, but told Battelle he'd have to ask Google why.

Google clearly decided that they did not want to stay with [the deal]," Yang said.

Yang also said the DOJ did not understand "our industry" and that the agency's definition of the search advertising market was too narrow. “Things like this have unintended consequences on the ... industry,” he said.

Now Yahoo is back at square one. Yang said the company is not in negotiations with Microsoft but declined to comment on any dealings with AOL. The company's stock price is $13.93, nearly $20 less than what Microsoft was willing to pay.

Despite this, Yang declined having regrets over the last 15 years. He characterized what Yahoo has been through in 2008, including the failed acquisition bid, the mass employee exodus and the plummeting stock price, as "extraordinary."

This is a characterization that should interest Yahoo investors, who lost millions of dollars on the company. GigaOM's Om Malik provides a guilt trip post here.

The embattled chief also rebuffed Battelle's suggestion that Yang's ego kept the Microsoft bid from succeeding, noting that he is not adamant about Yahoo remaining independent. Again, this is contrary to media reports that Yang wanted to turn Yahoo around internally instead of aligning with Microsoft.

Whether this has always been the case or not, we may never know. What is clear is that Yang's cooperative stance is easy to take now that both Microsoft and Google have left Yahoo without a suitor.

The question now becomes: Can Yahoo turn itself around with Yahoo Open Strategy, the company's plan to rewire Yahoo and effectively open up its cores search and other Web services to the distributed intelligence of outside programmers?

Source - eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Minus-Succor-From-Google-Yang-Says-Still-Open-to-a-Deal-With-Microsoft/1/

Google, Yahoo Is Still Open to a Deal with Microsoft

Under fire since failing to come to terms with Microsoft on an acquisition for Yahoo, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang braves the crowd at Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Among other things, Yang said he'd still strike a deal with Microsoft, though one is not pending; Google bailed; and the Department of Justice doesn't grasp the online advertising space.

SAN FRANCISCO—Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said he regrets that Yahoo and Microsoft couldn't come to terms on a merger earlier this year and that the best thing for Microsoft to do would be to buy Yahoo.

Yang, speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit Nov. 5, exhibited a Zen-like calm for a leader under fire for the last several months. The statements, made to a packed house at the Palace Hotel, seem startling given that Yang was reported to be thoroughly opposed to joining Microsoft.

Still, in answer to Web 2.0 Summit co-host John Battelle's question about what happened with the Microsoft takeover bid, Yang said, "To this day I would say the best thing for Microsoft to do is to buy Yahoo. I don't think that is a bad idea at all."

Battelle broke in, suggesting "just at $40 per share," which was what Yang and the rest of Yahoo's board asked Microsoft to pay when Microsoft made its $33-per-share bid Jan. 31. "Oh no, I think that at the right price, whatever the price is, we were willing to sell the company."

Yang added the Microsoft walked away from the offer. Yang's stance clashes spectacularly with the legacy of media coverage of the back-and-forth between the companies after the deal collapsed. Many media outlets quoted sources close to Yahoo as saying that Yang was fiercely determined to keep Yahoo as an independent company.

Reports said Yang was particularly adamant about not doing such a deal with Microsoft, which is a traditional software company trying to become a provider of popular Web services. That, of course, is what Yahoo became famous for.

Google swooped in to the rescue. Google and Yahoo June 12 struck a search ad deal proposal designed to both enable Google search keywords to run alongside Yahoo results and keep Microsoft at bay.

When the U.S. Department of Justice pushed back on the deal because it believed the deal wouldn't maintain a level of fair competition in online advertising, and seemingly balked at Google and Yahoo's concessions, Google bailed.

Source- eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Minus-Succor-From-Google-Yang-Says-Still-Open-to-a-Deal-With-Microsoft/

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft - Only Problem is

Only Problem with Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Search Is It's Awful

It is still too early to know how this is faring, but Chi noted that SearchMonkey is Yahoo's stab at investing in an ecosystem to attract folks interested in indexing structured data. Opening the platform has paved the way for MySpace, LinkedIn, Yelp and others to influence search.

Ultimately, Yahoo wants to create world in which people with "distributed intelligence" cooperate to improve search because even the thousands of programmers at Google, Yahoo and Microsoft "won't come up with everything" regarding search, he said.

One imagines Allen, Tague and Murphy breathed an internal collective sigh of relief. These men and their companies are all working on providing vertical search beyond the 10 blue links the general search vendors currently offer.

Tague said there will be a place for vertical search engines in the future and these won't necessarily cannibalize top-line search, and he is optimistic that these vertical searches will reap some ad revenue. He also said companies will have to resolve how the social graph interoperates with search in an age in which walled gardens keep data tethered.

Allen said Siderean wants to help assemble search and discovery tools on demand in a business context, which is something Google and co. won't do at this point. He said he anticipates that the paradigm of search being about getting a Web page is evolving to help users find people, places and things, so that results pages will reflect an aggregated analysis of what you want to get back.

In short, through semantic technologies that divine the meaning behind queries and the application of the social graph to search technologies, search will get smarter.

One audience member asked the panel whether and when we will be able to "skip the search results page" and receive geographically dispersed data in some other way, thanks to "folksonomies" and other relevant groupings of behavior.

Such a solution seems like some hybrid of search, social networking and wikis. Wikia and others seem to be moving in that direction, but the search results page remains.

In conclusion, no one knows what the next-generation search engine will look like, although the panelists agreed that semantics and social collaboration will play a role. Do you have any ideas?

Source - eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/The-Only-Problem-With-Google-Yahoo-Microsoft-Search-is-That-Theyre-Awful/1/

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft - Only Problem is ..

Only Problem with Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Search Is It's Awful

Search engine experts at the Defrag conference say they believe the future of search engines and corresponding Web services will involve semantic technologies and the social graph. But will this mean the gradual fading of general search results pages as we know them from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft? What will searches look like to users if this is the case?

DENVER—The search engine market is on the precipice of some great innovation, but no one knows exactly what next-generation search engines will look like, four search experts concluded during a panel on the future of search at the Defrag conference here Nov. 5.

The conversation, which included Yahoo's Tom Chi, Siderian Software's Bradley Allen, Thomson Reuters' Tom Tague (for the OpenCalais Web service) and Isys Search Software's Derek Murphy started with the basic agreement that current search engine results from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are flooded with too much noise.

This is noise in search: Allen said while running he heard two women talking about doing Google searches and not knowing what to do after receiving millions of results. "It's wonderful technology and when it works it's great, but there is no guidance" as to what to do if users can't find what they need within the first 10 blue links, he said.

Chi, whose company is the second-leading search engine behind Google and has drastically overhauled its process to change that, was less kind about the current state of search. "The only problem with search is that it's awful, but other than that it works pretty well," he said.

That blatant oxymoron aside, Chi said search is generally stupid. When he checks search logs, he said, he notices that people are still doing navigational searches for Ebay.com, which is "ridiculous."

But rather than take steps to make search more intelligent on behalf of users, Chi said, major players—Google, Yahoo and Microsoft—are not highly motivated to do this because if a user spells eBay wrong and does a spelling correction to get other results, search engines still profit from those mistakes thanks to online advertising clicks.

Yahoo is positioning itself to change this by attempting an ambitious broad stroke. Yahoo earlier in 2008 opened up its search platform, which it calls SearchMonkey, to let objective outside programmers build applications that augment search for users.

Source - eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/The-Only-Problem-With-Google-Yahoo-Microsoft-Search-is-That-Theyre-Awful/

AMD Slashes Another 500 Jobs to Save Costs

Advanced Micro Devices, which has been struggling to regain its financial standings for nearly two years, announced that it will cut another 500 jobs as its looks to "break even" by the start of 2009. The additional job cuts come after AMD already announced that it would reduce its work force by 10 percent earlier this year. In addition to these cost savings, AMD has spun off its manufacturing division into a new company has sold underperforming divisions within the company.

Advanced Micro Devices is eliminating another 500 jobs, including more than 150 positions at its Austin, Texas, facility, as the company looks to regain its financial standings after nearly two years of losses.

In a statement released Nov. 5, an AMD spokesman announced that the chip maker decided to slash an additional 500 jobs from its payroll. Earlier this year, AMD announced that it will eliminate 10 percent of its global work force to reduce costs and make the company more competitive against larger rival Intel. After the current cuts, AMD will now have about 15,000 employees worldwide.

The cost cutting comes just a month after AMD announced it will spin off its manufacturing division into a new company, which should save the company millions of dollars in costs. While this week’s job cuts are not directly related to the spin-off, it shows that AMD is doing all it can to save money while rebuilding its business around its core strengths of CPU and graphics design.

AMD is also eliminating underperforming parts of the company. In October, AMD announced that it had sold its Digital Television division to Broadcom for $141 million.

Michael Silverman, an AMD spokesman, wrote in an e-mail that these layoffs are aimed at helping AMD achieve its $1.5 billion “break-even” revenue point. As 2009 approaches, Silverman wrote that AMD is looking at other ways to save even more costs.

“Today’s announced headcount reduction is an unfortunate but necessary part of this process to help us align our people with the focused programs that achieve our objectives, eliminate duplication of efforts and allow us to operate more efficiently,” Silverman wrote.

“As we prepare for 2009, we will continue to assess AMD’s programs, activities and staffing needs, in order to ensure that we align with our global market realities, and set the company up for consistent profitability,” Silverman added.

In October, AMD reported another round of disappointing financial results. In the third quarter, the company reported a loss of $67 million, or 11 cents per diluted share. The company’s net revenue stood at $1.78 billion.

While AMD is cutting workers, Dell announced earlier this week that it will look to reduce costs by asking employees to take voluntary, unpaid vacations and the company will offer a series of buyouts for other workers. Dell is also starting a hiring freeze that could save additional costs.

Source - eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/AMD-Slashes-Another-500-Jobs-to-Save-Costs/