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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Black Berry Curve 8520


Discover a world of possibilities and apps for the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone at BlackBerry App World™. Get breaking news,and the latest scores. Track the markets, stay on top of Hollywood gossip, enjoy live radio or just play games.

Kingston Mobilelite Card Reader



The new Kingston Mobilelite card reader isn’t much larger than the average thumb drive. Its actual dimensions are 3 inches long, 1 1/8 inches wide, and 5/8 of an inch thick. But don’t let its small size fool you. It can read 9 different flash memory cards. If you wish to copy material from three different sized memory cards to your computer at the same time. You just need to load the separate cards into their proper slots and then perform the transfer operation for each card one at a time. You can even transfer files from one card to another or from your computer to the cards.

Storage Device by Western Digital


Western Digital, a specialist in storage solutions, will equip its upcoming models, like "My Book Elite" and "My Passport Elite", with a tiny show, a type of gauge which will allow you to see, with a just a immediate glance, how much free disk space is still available; without having to plug in the device.

Apart from this new functionality, these external hard drives will also show improvements in terms of security, speed and capacity with options to store 500GB to 2TB. To guarantee the effectiveness of these machines and the integrity of files during transfer (photos, music, documents, films, etc.), they are equipped with an external power supply, an USB 2.0 connectivity for PCs and a FireWire 800 for Macs.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Information Technology

Information technology ('IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of (ITAA), is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information system, particularly software applications and computer hardware. IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to convert, store, protect, process, transmit, and securely retrieve information.


Today, the term information technology has ballooned to encompass many aspects of computing and technology, and the term has become very recognizable. The information technology umbrella can be quite large, covering many fields. IT professionals perform a variety of duties that range from installing applications to designing complex computer network and information databases. A few of the duties that IT professionals perform may include data management, networking, engineering computer hardware, database and software design, as well as the management and administration of entire systems.

When computer and communications technologies are combined, the result is information technology, or "infotech". Information Technology (IT) is a general term that describes any technology that helps to produce, manipulate, store, communicate, and/or disseminate information. Presumably, when speaking of Information Technology (IT) as a whole, it is noted that the use of computers and information are associated. Hasan Kanjee of UofT stated that Information Technology is a vital part of business thus will continue to grow in the future

INTEL CORE 2 QUAD Q8200 PROCESSOR


When it comes to Intel processors things are pretty quiet as nothing new has been recently released and a price change hasn't happened in months. This year we have reviewed the Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 processor, which is aimed at the entry level quad-core market, and fastest mainstream quad-core processor: the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 processor. Priced at $169.99 and $274.99, respectively, both are fast processors, but there is a processor available that is priced between these that could be right for your next system. At $229.99 the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 has four processing cores running at 2.66GHz, 6MB of shared L2 cache and a 1333MHz Front Side Bus (FSB).
the Intel Q8300 and Q8200 processors have just 4MB of L2 cache. For those that want more cache you can move up to an Intel Q9300 or Q9400 processor as those processors have 6MB of L2 cache, which is a 50% improvement. For those that want even more performance, the Q9550 and Q9650 offer 12MB of L2 cache. AS you can see price and CPU clock frequency also increase as the cache size increases, so depending on what you do on your computer will determine which processor you really need.
The Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 was released in the Fall of 2008 and has manufacturing availability for 7+ years, which means this processor will be an important one for the benchmark charts. The Q9400 has a Thermal Design Power (TDP) rating of 95W, which is on par with the other desktop quad-core processors.
The processor I have in my hands today is an R0 stepping with the sSpec number SLB6B. According to Intel the core voltage on this processor is 0.850v - 1.3625v, but as you can see above it was running at a core voltage of 1.192v on the ASUS motherboard.

Central Processing Unit


The central processing unit, or CPU, is that part of a computer which executes software program instructions. In older computers this circuitry was formerly on several printed circuit boards, but in PCs is a single integrated circuit. Nearly all PCs contain a type of CPU known as a microprocessor. The microprocessor often plugs into the motherboard using one of many different types of sockets.
IBM PC compatible computers use an x86-compatible processor, usually made by Intel, AMD, VIA Technologies or Transmeta. Apple Macintosh computers were initially built with the Motorola 680x0 family of processors, then switched to the PowerPC series (a RISC architecture jointly developed by Apple Computer, IBM and Motorola), but as of 2006, Apple switched again, this time to x86-compatible processors by Intel. Modern CPUs are equipped with a fan attached via heat sink.