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Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System

Maxiwill.com -- Cisco today announced the Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System (CRS), a major advancement in Internet networking designed to serve as the foundation of the next-generation Internet and set the pace for the astonishing growth of video transmission, mobile devices and new online servicesfor the coming decades.

With over 12 times the traffic capacity of the nearest competing system, the company says that Cisco CRS-3 is designed to transform the broadband communication and entertainment industry by accelerating the delivery of compelling new experiences for consumers, new revenue opportunities for service providers, and new ways to collaborate in the workplace.

Internet Explorer's Domination May End in Europe

The browser choice screen presents a list of leading browsers.

Maxiwill.com - As of today, Microsoft will begin offering a “Web browser choice screen” to Internet Explorer users in Europe, following demands from the European Commission.

In December last year, the European Commission and Microsoft arrived at a resolution of a number of long-standing competition law issues. Microsoft agreed to use Windows Update to provide a browser choice screen to Windows users in Europe who are running Internet Explorer as their default browser. This browser choice screen presents a list of browsers, with links to learn more about them and to install them. According to Microsoft, the design and operation of this choice screen was worked out in the course of extensive discussions with the Commission. Users who get the choice screen will be free to choose any browser or stick with the browser they already installed.

Intel and Nokia Merge Software Platforms for a New Era of Mobile Computing

Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini and Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo attending the Intel-Nokia Press Conference at Mobile World Congress 2010.

Maxiwill.com -- Earlier this month, Intel and Nokia merged their popular Moblin and Maemo software platforms, creating a unified Linux-based platform called MeeGo. According to their announcement, MeeGo will run on multiple hardware platforms across a wide range of computing devices, including pocketable mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems. Intel says that this open software platform will accelerate industry innovation and time-to-market for a wealth of new Internet-based applications and services and exciting user experiences. MeeGo-based devices from Nokia and other manufacturers are expected to be launched later this year.

SGI Unveils Cyclone Cloud Computing

Fremont, CA (Scicasts) - SGI, a provider of HPC and data centre solutions, has announced the immediate availability of Cyclone, a large-scale, on-demand cloud computing service specifically dedicated to technical applications.

Apple Launches the iPad

Maxiwill.com - Apple have announced today the release of what the company describes as the revolutionary device for browsing the web, the iPad. In addition to its advanced web browsing capabilities, the iPad was also designed for sending emails, browsing through photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading e-books and more.

The New iPad from Apple

“iPad is our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “iPad creates and defines an entirely new category of devices that will connect users with their apps and content in a much more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before.”

Imperial College London Selects SGI for Academic Research

Fremont, CA and Reading, UK (Scicasts) - SGI, a global provider of HPC and data centre solutions, has announced that Imperial College London has selected the SGI Altix ICE 8200 EX, a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) solution, to add to its central high performance computing (HPC) service.

Intel Reveals its Futuristic 48-Core Processor that will Put Life into PCs

Futuristic Intel Chip: Single Chip Cloud Computer has 48 Intel cores and runs at as low as 25 watts

Maxiwill.com -- Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental "single-chip cloud computer," a 48-core Intel processor that rethinks many of the approaches used in today's designs for laptops, PCs and servers. According to Intel's announcement, this futuristic chip boasts about 10 to 20 times the processing engines inside today's most popular Intel Core-branded processors. Intel's new experimental research chip uses a similar approach to cloud computing where cloud datacenters are comprised of tens to thousands of computers connected by a physically cabled network, distributing large tasks and massive datasets in parallel. The video below describes this process in detail.

Stanford University, Berkeley Lab, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Select Convey Computer Corporation’s Hybrid-Core Systems

Portland, Oregon (Scicasts) - Convey Computer Corporation, a hybrid-core computing company, has announced that three prominent scientific organizations – the Stanford Center of Computational Earth and Environmental Science (CEES), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) – have selected the company’s Convey HC-1 computers to power a fresh wave of scientific discovery.

New Real-Time Social Search Engine that Captures the "Living Web"

Pleasanton, CA (Scicasts) – LeapFish, a Silicon Valley search and social media startup, unveiled the new multi-media and real-time search, communication, and sharing platform that provides users with an easy and personalized way to experience and share the traditional and real-time Web.

Businesses Worldwide Taken Over by Social Networking and Collaborative Application Usage

Sunnyvale, CA (Scicasts) - A new international study reveals that the use of social networking and collaborative applications for business purposes has skyrocketed in the last six month. According to the fourth Application Usage and Risk Report (Fall Edition 2009), increased adoption of Web-based applications poses new business and security risks that go far beyond potential productivity losses. Yet most companies still operate with outdated IT infrastructure and usage policies that may fail to protect them from such growing risks.

Combining Twitter with Site Monitoring for a "Better Internet"

Vasteras, Sweden (Scicasts) – Twitter has become the tool of choice for millions around the world to express and share their thoughts. It has given users a voice, and companies are listening. When users are frustrated with a product or a company's poor services, they storm to Twitter and tell the world about it. This is also the case with online media. If a web hosting company has issues, for example, you would hear about it on Twitter.

Mobile Advertising is on the Rise for 2010

Baltimore, MD (Scicasts) – Mobile advertising is a fast growing and an evolving industry, which seems to attract more marketers than ever before. This is according to a new survey produced by Millennial Media, the US-based mobile advertising network, and DM2PRO.com, a knowledge base for digital media and marketing professionals. Both companies collaborated to explore the attitudes and spending plans of leading agencies and brands towards mobile advertising.

New Study Reveals How Businesses Use Social Media

Santa Monica, CA (Scicasts) – Business.com unveiled today the results of its 2009 Business Social Media Benchmarking Study. Based on insights from 2,948 professionals across North America, the study provides extensive information on how businesses and business people use social media in the workplace.

Reaping the Benefits of Digital Outsourcing

Jenkintown, PA (Scicasts) - Small and mid-size advertising agencies are scaling back as a result of the current recession, while still under tremendous pressure to meet client demands for the latest digital platforms. According to the 2009 Digital Marketing Outlook Survey, the economic crisis will accelerate the shift of focus and importance from traditional media to digital media.

Twitter Releases a New Lists Feature – Great for Publishers, Groups and Organizations

Mountain View, CA (Scicasts) – In an announcement posted on Twitter's official blog, the company is revealed that they were putting the finishing touches on Twitter's new Lists feature, which allows users to create lists of specific interests or topics and group their tweets accordingly.

Palm Pre is Set to Shake-up UK's Mobile Market

deSciner Launches a News Science and Technology Advertising Network

Nottingham, UK (Scicasts) – deSciner Business Network, an independent international business-to-business communication centre for scientific communities announced the official release of deScinerNET Publishers Network, their international advertising network for science and technology publishers and advertisers.

Twitter Added to a University Curriculum

Search Engine Giants to Include Tweets in their Search Listings

Mountain View, CA (Scicasts) – According to Twitter's official blog posts, search engine giants Google and Bing are to include Twitter's user posts (or tweets) in their search listings. Twitter's real-time updates have proven to be not only an effective communication tool for users that wish to share their thoughts and comments, but also as an effective source of data, news and whatever that is happening right now in a given topic.

19% of U.S. Internet Users Flock to Twitter

Washington, DC (Scicasts) – A new study from conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project found that 19% of U.S. Internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others. The company says these figures represent a significant increase over previous surveys in December 2008 and April 2009, when 11% of Internet users said they use a status-update service.