Facebook gets technical, announces Open Compute Project

Facebook is using its powers for good and opening up its social-centric data servers and centers.

Sure, it wasn’t Facebook’s take on Groupon it announced today, but its new Open Compute Project definitely deserves a mention. The social network started off its live-streamed event this morning by explaining that no exciting new products or applications were being introduced today, while also reminding us that its data center and servers are how the site is able to create and power these features.

Apple  is rumored to have purchased 12 Petabytes of storage. The exact reason is unknown although we hear it’s to complement the storage space for iTunes video.The information comes from Storage Newsletter who found out from an “inside source” about the purchase of the storage solution.

Rumors of a digital storage service… aka iTunes Cloud , have been going around for a while now and perhaps the purchase of this amount of storage space could be for the service to launch within a few months time.

To give you a quick understanding of what a Petabyte is, we turned to Google to search for it and came up with this explanation from here:

Petabyte: A Petabyte is approximately 1,000 Terabytes or one million Gigabytes. It’s hard to visualize what a Petabyte could hold. 1 Petabyte could hold approximately 20 million 4-door filing cabinets full of text. It could hold 500 billion pages of standard printed text. It would take about 500 million floppy disks to store the same amount of data.

Expect to hear more in the coming months about a possible iTunes cloud launch.

Source: Internet

Android to Take 49% Share of Smartphone Market by 2012

Research company, Gartner, has been looking in to smartphone sales around the world to come up with some very interesting numbers.

The report first hints that smartphone sales will reach 468 million around the

Check Your ISP Plan(Connection speed)

Have you ever wondered what speed your Internet Service Provider should be delivering to be compliant with the contract? Do you get confused regarding the nominal speed of your connection and how it translates into an effective downloading speed? If so this guide should suit you, I will try to clarify the most frequent doubts Internet users face regarding the speed of their connection.

Back to the basics

Remember that a bit (binary digit) is the single piece of information in digital systems, it is either a 0 or a 1. A byte, instead, is a group of 8 bits. When we talk about computer memories or data storage 1 kilobit refers to 1024 (2^10) bits, 1 megabit refers to 1024 kilobits (or 1024 x 1024 bits), 1 kilobyte refers to 1024 bytes and so on.

Hyundai unveils its first sedan-style FCEV in Seoul

Hyundai unveiled its new mid-size hydrogen powered fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) concept this week at the 2011 Seoul Motor Show. Powered by a 90 kW (120 hp) electric motor that delivers fuel economy of 34.9 km/L (82.1 mpg), the Blue² (pronounced "Blue square") is intended as a "blue" print for the automaker's future sedans.

Gnome 3.0, is launched Officillay!

The  Desktop team has sent its latest creation into the wild, officially launching GNOME 3.0 - the biggest redesign the project has enjoyed in around nine years.

Launched today, GNOME 3 is a radical departure from its predecessor - thanks largely to a new creation, GNOME Shell, which sits on top of the desktop and promises a distraction-free environment for getting things done that might come as a surprise to those switching from the team's previous releases.

While the team behind the project has been hard at work on back-end improvements, including display enhancements, a new application programming interface

Panasonic 100GB Rewritable BD-RE XL Disks Start Shipping

Panasonic have now started shipping their 100GB BD-RE XL disks. The new large capacity Blu-ray disks are set to arrive in Japan on the 15th April.

The 100GB BD-RE XL is Panasonic’s first triple layer Blu-ray Disk and provides enough space for 20 standard DVDs, 100 hours of standard definition television, tens of thousands of music recordings on one disc. The disks are already supported by the latest burners from both Pioneer and Buffalo.