Archive for December, 2009
IBM Roadrunner dethroaned as worlds most powerful computer
In 2008, the IBM Roadrunner was featured on this blog as the then world’s fastest computer. Now, according to the latest semiannual TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, the “Jaguar” takes first place. With a staggering peak speed of 2.33 petaflops (over two thousand trillion calculations per second), “Jaguar,” located at Oak Ridge Leadership [...]
First-to-Market – Good or bad idea?
Is it a good idea to be the first and only player in a market? Intuitively one’s first reaction would be, “absolutely.” However, Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur, argues differently. Blank, also a Stanford Instructor, in a recent lecture at Stanford’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Lecture Series outlines a various reasons, including limited market opportunity, the expense of defining a new [...]
How Augmented Reality (AR) is changing our world.
Although AR has been around for some time, new developments and applications of the technology keeps pushing the boundaries of merging the physical real-world environment with virtual computer generated imagery. Many of us have heard about AR but are still somewhat uncertain as to what it exactly entails and what it actually does.
I found an [...]
Will 2010 be the year of the tablet PC?
Many technology companies are rumored to be working on tablet computers; companies such as Asustek, Dell, Microsoft, Apple and the like. Well, that’s according to PCWorld who takes a closer look at the rumors. My take is that if there is any truth in the rumors, our trend-following nature will suck is into yet another [...]
