Choose the right tablet for you. [Infographics]

What tablet is right for you?

With so many tablets on the market, there's sure to be one that fits your needs and your budget, but how do you find the one that's best for you?

'TITAN' The fastest Supercomputer on Earth with 20 petaFLOPS

Oak Ridge National Laboratory on 29th Oct2012 made operational the worlds fastest Supercomputer ---the Titan supercomputer is a Cray machine made of nearly 19,000 processing units stitched together with 710 terabytes of memory.

Claiming the first place it made 'Sequoia' second-most-powerful supercomputer with a crunching performance of 20 petaFLOPS.
i.e this machine can perform 20 thousand trillion calculations per second.

The Cray Titan is expected to be number 1 on the TOP500 list November 2012 update in a supercomputing conference in Salt Lake City.

DNA: The New Digital Data Storage Device

From photos and videos to text to tweets, Worlds digital data is more than doubling every two years.To accumulate this exponential growth we really need a challenging storage medium.Surprisingly, Researchers found that DNA can accommodate this growing need.  

DNA, What is known to be the building block of life can now be used as a Digital storage medium.Without doubt DNA can fix this issue with its two amazing features

 it is long lasting and
 it is very much denser medium to store data.

Gauss: Stuxnet Like Worm Spotted Stealing Banking Information

A new cyber weapon which is believed to be linked with Stuxnet,Duqu,Flame in its operation (i.e to  target Iranian nuclear facility) has been discovered which was aimed at stealing financial information from customers of a series of Lebanese banks.

Like Flame, Gauss is also discovered by ITU (International Telecommunications Union) as part of its mission to maintain world cyber-peace.
Kaspersky said

“Gauss is a nation state sponsored banking Trojan which carries a warhead of unknown designation”. Besides stealing various kinds of data from infected Windows machines, it also includes an unknown, encrypted payload which is activated on certain specific system configurations.

It shares some functionalities with Flame, such as the USB infection subroutines.

Kaspersky made some analsys on this Trojan and released a technical paper  which contains several details about the worm.

New Google Search to affect Copyright offenders

Google today announced that it will update its search Algorothm to ignore or lower the search results of web domains with high number of copyright removal notices.

Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal in our rankings: the number of valid copyright removal notices we receive for any given site.

Since last year the company has been gathering data(complaints) from Copyright owners.  Couple of months back Google published this data in its Google Transparency Report .

At this moment the Top 10 affected domains are ..

Metro UI: Call It Windows 8 UI?

There has been news going around that due to a naming dispute with a European partner (Metro Group) that Windows New Layout For Windows 8 can no longer be referred to as a Metro UI but "Windows 8,", according to some sources. It's said that references to "Metro design" will be replaced with "Windows 8 Design", thought not yet confirmed by Microsoft Executives publicly.So the Metro interface on Windows Phone is now known as the "Windows 8 interface" on Windows Phone.

Credit: ZDNET

New Mac Virus Detected

A new Mac OS X exploit was discovered Friday morning by Kaspersky Labs which propogates through a zipfile attachment. The attachment tricks the Mac user into installing a variant of the MaControl backdoor via point-and-grunt. Embedded in the virus is an encrypted IP address belonging to a server in China which is believed to be a C+C server.

Microsoft debut into tablet business with Microsoft Surface:Specs [Video]

Microsoft, the company which ruled the PC business by providing Operating systems(Windows) and ubiquitous application software is now entering into the tablet space with its own hardware, Where there is a huge competition with world-class makers.

The company made the debut by unveiling Surface tablet computer. Microsoft Surface tablets will come in two versions. There will be Windows RT model with an ARM-based processor for light weight and long battery life, and an Intel powered model with which can run all Windows 8 apps, as well as software designed for earlier version of Windows.