The Korean consumer electronics manufacturer remains open to using Microsoft’s mobile operating system, but doesn’t see a huge demand for the product.
via LG has no plans for Windows Phone 8 handsets | Mobile World Congress – CNET Reviews.
A New Approach to Databases and Data Processing
The simplest way to handle more data using more cores (whether on a single machine or in cluster) is to partition it into disjoint subsets, and work on each subset in isolation. In the database world this is called sharding, and it makes scaling relatively simple; only downside is -— it makes writing compellingly complex applications hard.
Forgotten by the Future, Some Take the Internet Into Their Own Hands
The next step, after raising half a million pounds from shareholders, is to convince Lancastrians to pony up about fifty dollars a month for internet service. (Those who invest £1500 or more can get a year’s free service, a tax credit of 30%, and the option to sell the entire investment back in 2016 at full value.) This isn’t AOL dial-up: customers will have access to a blazing fast 1 gigabit connection, something that many city-dwellers, myself included, would covet.
Amdahl’s law
Amdahl’s law is a model for the relationship between the expected speedup of parallelized implementations of an algorithm relative to the serial algorithm, under the assumption that the problem size remains the same when parallelized. For example, if for a given problem size a parallelized implementation of an algorithm can run 12% of the algorithm’s operations arbitrarily quickly while the remaining 88% of the operations are not parallelizable, Amdahl’s law states that the maximum speedup of the parallelized version is 1/1 – 0.12 = 1.136 times as fast as the non-parallelized implementation.
Xerox’s CEO Wants to Shake Up the Services Market
Can you make it such that—most calls are recorded—you can look at the calls after and figure out key things, see patterns via big data? And can you actually apply that?
via Xerox’s CEO Wants to Shake Up the Services Market | MIT Technology Review.
Groupon loyalists are spending more time on the site, which could lift results
The company has been experimenting with creating the same kind of marketplace as Amazon.com Inc. and other e-commerce companies in hopes of getting its customers to shop on its website without relying solely on an email prompt.
So they’re going to compete with Amazon.com. Good luck with that.
Preorders For The Gaming-Focused Razer Edge Tablet Start March 1st, Ships Later In The Month
The Core i5 Razer Edge costs $999 while the Core i7 Razer Edge Pro costs $1299. Plus, each one of the accessories are sold separately. Just the Gamepad Controller is $249. A fully decked-out Razer Edge Pro with Gamepad Controller rings up for $1,698.
Intel Launches Hadoop Distribution And Project Rhino, An Effort To Bring Better Security To Big Data
Intel says the distribution is optimized for the Intel Xeon processor platform. In its announcement, the company states it can analyze one terabyte of data, which would previously take more than four hours to fully process, can now be done in seven minutes.
China to Provide Financial Incentives For Filing Patent Applications Abroad
Under the new Measures, patentees can be subsidized only after the patent is issued. The new regulation also requires novelty, inventiveness, utility, and a stable legal status of the foreign patent
West Virginia auditor blasts Cisco, state for “oversized” router buy
The auditor also found Cisco “showed a wanton indifference to the interests of the public” in recommending the investment in its model 3945 branch routers, the majority of which were “oversized” for the requirements of the state agencies using them, the report stated.
via West Virginia auditor blasts Cisco, state for “oversized” router buy – Network World.