Google Aims for Faster Web Downloads With SPDY Protocol

Google Aims for Faster Web Downloads With SPDY Protocol – PC World

Google is hoping to make Web pages download up to twice as quickly using SPDY, a new application-layer protocol it’s experimenting with, the company said in a blog post.

It wants to improve on the performance of using HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) by minimizing latency. For the protocol to work, the browser and the web server have to be upgraded, but changes to Web pages are not needed, according to Google.

Google’s lab tests of SPDY show an improvement in page load times compared to HTTP of between 27 percent and 60 percent, and between 39 percent and 55 percent when using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), it said.

Viziunea Kingston Technology despre upgrade si performanta

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De curând, Kingston Technology a anuntat lansarea SSDNow V Accelerator Drive de 40GB, un dispozitiv SSD cu un pret extrem de atragator: 400 lei. Accelerator Drive se recomanda ca fiind solutia ideala pentru gazduirea sistemului de operare, prin performantele deosebite ale sale (IOPS etc).

AMD believes Fusion will knock Intel for six. Or five

AMD believes Fusion will knock Intel for six. Or five

At a reviewers’ day at the Lone Star facility in Austin TX last week, AMD chief technology officer Joe Macri waxed large on Fusion and the potential it has for the future.

He said some interesting things.

Traveling with the MacBook Air Butt Kicking Dell Adamo 9.99

Traveling with the MacBook Air Butt Kicking Dell Adamo 9.99

Most thin notebooks are hot and some are really noisy, the 9.99 is neither. While I’m kind of missing the ability to use this as an iron or a somewhat reliable birth control method I’m appreciating that it only gets hot in areas that don’t touch me and is dead quiet. Granted I kind of missed the drunken gerbil on a treadmill sound that many notebooks put out in my hotel room but I got over it in like 10 seconds.

Best Feature
The best feature has to be the electronic latch. One swipe of your finger and the keyboard drops out of the screen easily without the typical gymnastics of trying to both hold a latch and lift the screen or pry the notebook open.

Mozilla Jetpack contest winner harnesses GPU power to process data

Mozilla Jetpack contest winner harnesses GPU power to process data

Mozilla Labs has announced a winner of the Jetpack .5 contest. While Jetpack is known primarily as a framework for allowing coders with a web development background to put together add-on type enhancements for Firefox, the winner ’s project wasn’t your run-of-the-mill sidebar hack.

Alex Miltsev’s submission was jetpack-to-CUDA, and it provides Jetpack developers with a simple way to offload intense processing tasks to GPUs. CUDA (demo video above) is NVidia’s parallel computing architecture – and with CUDA-capable chips in more than 100 million PCs, Miltsev’s handiwork could enable some seriously cool (and powerful) Jetpack add-ons to be developed.

Editing Memory and Multi-core Programming

bit-tech.net | Feature – Editing Memory and Multi-core Programming

So how does this new programming tool work? In order to explain to those without a Masters in Computer Science, Harris gave us a basic example:

“Suppose that a dual-core CPU is keeping track of the amount of money in two bank accounts X and Y. Then, one core tries to move £10 between the two accounts, and a second core is trying to find their total. Using Transactional Memory a programmer could write the “move” operation as something like this..” Tim scribbles down a bit of code for us:

atomic {

X.Balance = X.Balance – 10;
Y.Balance = Y.Balance + 10;
}

“The two middle lines are describing the actual operations to execute removing £10 from one account (account X), and crediting it to the balance in the other account (account Y). The “atomic {… }” around the outside says that the program should perform these operations using TM, rather than performing the removal first and then the credit,” explains Harris.

“This is important because a second core might be trying to calculate the total sum of money in the two bank accounts while the first attempts to make the transfer.”

Toshiba introduces 320GB, 1.8-in HDD

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Dell Adamo XPS Review: New Dell Adamo XPS Laptop Wows at Just 9.99mm Thin

Dell Adamo XPS Review: New Dell Adamo XPS Laptop Wows at Just 9.99mm Thin

In our new Dell Adamo XPS review, we review the Dell Adamo XPS laptop and find it bests Apple’s MacBook Air by a mile, but still makes a functional laptop computer.

I’ve been playing with the Dell 9.99 for about a week now, and this product defines amazing. If you thought the MacBook Air was thin, this is about half the thickness of the Air. Dell pulled this off by increasing the length of the notebook, but this also raises the screen in use to a much more acceptable height for most notebooks. Because this thing is so different than the run-of-the-mill notebook product, both inside and out, words and pictures don’t really do it justice. You really need to see it in person.

Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB Hard Drive Review

Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB Hard Drive Review – Page 14

Pros:

- Best in class performance
- HUGE 2TB size
- Beats even the VelociRaptor in most performance tests
- Improved Latency

Cons:

- Louder than most non Black drives
- Price
- Will make you regret previously spending the coin on a VelociRaptor (like we did)

Super Talent USB 3.0 Thumbdrive – All Hail The New Speed Champ

Super Talent USB 3.0 Thumbdrive – All Hail The New Speed Champ

Your wait for a uber-fast USB 3.0 flash drive is over. Super Talent RAIDDrive will be the first thumbdrive to use USB 3.0 specs; under SuperSpeed USB mode, it will deliver an impressive 200MB/s with regular legacy BOT driver and reach a jaw-dropping speed of 320MB/s when paired with a UASP driver. UASP stands for USB Attached SCSI, created to leverage transfer rate of the new interface. Oddly, UASP driver isn’t included. We will have to find out why.