Sangli on Fire

Hi Friends this blog is all about technology and Entertainment Posts but why a local one

Because my home town is SANGLI a city in maharashtra india

Yesturday our Pollice Chief Attacked on a Social Worker and all this starts all sangli was on fire between the peoples supportrd the social worker and the pollice and all transport all schools everything goes down. All lifestyle of peoples got desturbed i have never seen sangli as quite as this in last 22 years. What to say now but i am very disappointed with this situation.

Googles Undersea Cable

Google said Monday that it was part of a six-company consortium that would build a new $300 million high-capacity underwater fiber-optic cable linking the United States and Japan.

Google is the only member of the consortium that is not a telecommunications company. When rumors of its participation in the project first surfaced last fall just as rumors of a Googlephone were spreading, they sparked speculation that Google, which joined a bid for wireless spectrum in the United States, had broad ambitions in the telecom area.

Google itself, however, is trying to preclude that speculation. The company is essentially confirming what The New York Times reported last fall when those rumors first spread: Google is joining the project to cut the high costs of sending massive amounts of search, video and application traffic around the world.

IBMs new z10

The mainframe, the aged yet surprisingly resilient survivor of computing, is getting a face-lift. A model called the I.B.M. z10, which is being introduced Tuesday, is far faster and has three times the data-juggling memory of its three-year-old predecessor, the z9.

But the significance of the new machine, analysts say, is that it is a big step in a broad campaign by I.B.M. to make the mainframe computer a high-performance, energy-efficient engine for running all kinds of nonmainframe software.

The goal, according to I.B.M. executives and analysts, is to recast the mainframe as a nimble supercomputer in corporate and government data centers, running Web-based programs, Linux, advanced data mining and business intelligence software.

To do that, I.B.M. has refined its mainframe hardware and come up with new software tools, as part of a five-year, $1.5-billion overhaul.

“The mainframe’s ability to survive is only as good as its ability to innovate and compete for these new computing workloads of the future,” an analyst at Forrester Research, Brad Day, said. “And I.B.M. is starting to succeed at that.”

The stakes are high. Though the sales of mainframes account for less than 4 percent of I.B.M.’s revenue, the sales of mainframe software, storage and services are a big, profitable business. The overall business dependent on mainframes represents about 25 percent of company revenue and nearly half of its profit, said A. M. Sacconaghi, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Company.

At Hannaford Brothers in Scarborough, Me., a supermarket chain with stores in five states, the company has consolidated many programs onto its two mainframes. They include its consumer Web site, its Web portal for tracking shipments from suppliers and store and customer data that were once housed on computers in individual stores.

“The mainframe has become very flexible and very scalable for us,” said Bill Homa, Hannaford’s chief information officer.

Simens MenPower Cut

Siemens is to cull 6,800 jobs at its troubled corporate telecommunications unit, after announcing last summer that a relatively small 600 would have to go.

Siemens Enterprise Communications division (SEN) plans to cut 3,800 jobs directly, including up to 2,000 in Germany. SEN's headquarters and other administrative and support functions are expected to be hardest hit.

The main reason for the restructuring is that Siemens has failed to find a buyer for its division. When Siemens created a network partnership with Nokia, some of its activities became obsolete. Talks with Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel, and buyout firm Cerburus to sell off these assets led nowhere. However, sources say these negotiations are still ongoing.

IE 8

Microsoft will shortly make available the test version of Internet Explorer 8, which is set for final release in the first half of this year.

Microsoft executives are expected to reveal further details about the browser's features at the software maker's upcoming Mix conference in Las Vegas next week.

Last year at Mix, Microsoft outlined some of the features planned for IE8, including standards compliance and tools to ease web development.

Microsoft and HDDVD

Microsoft will end production of the external HD DVD drive for its Xbox 360 video game console

The company said it would, however, continue to offer warranty support for the peripheral.

"HD DVD is one of the several ways we offer a high definition experience to consumers and we will continue to give consumers the choice to enjoy digital distribution of high definition movies and TV shows directly to their living room, along with playback of the DVD movies they already own," Blair Westlake, a corporate vice president of Microsoft's media and entertainment group, said in a statement.

The drive, which currently costs about $130, was intended as Microsoft's answer to Sony's PlayStation 3 console, which contained an integrated Blu-ray Disc drive.

Microsoft is just the latest top-tier tech company to abandon the failed high-definition disc format. Along with Toshiba, Intel, and NEC, Microsoft was one of the most prominent supporters of the standard.