Computers Archive
04 Nov 2011
AMD to layoff 10% of total employees by 2012
In a shocking announcement, AMD the world’s second most popular microprocessor maker has revealed that over the next few months it will layoff 10% of its total global workforce. This decision was taken to reduce costs, bring in efficiency and improve the overall financial health of the organization. This move will apparently save close to
25 Aug 2011
How Grid Computing Works?
Grid computing offers a model for solving massive computational problems by making use of the unused resources (CPU cycles and/or disk storage) of large numbers of disparate computers, often desktop computers, treated as a virtual cluster embedded in a distributed telecommunications infrastructure. Grid computing’s focus on the ability to support computation across administrative domains sets
15 Jul 2011
Sony Vaio Z Gets Its Green card
The Sony Vaio that was released last month in the UK was just released in the US. The base model of the Vaio Z is now available for $1969.99. The Vaio Z has an aluminum and carbon-fiber chassis. It is thinner than the MacBook Air and only weighs 0.68kgs. This makes it the “worlds lightest
14 Jul 2011
Sony Set to Launch its Tablet
The Sony S1 Android Honeycomb tablet is all set to be launched. The tablet is set to go up for pre-order on the 1st of September in the UK. There were rumors of a late-September launch earlier. Sony is apparently, training its staff to know the tablets inside-out. The S1 and S2 tablets were also
13 Jul 2011
Sony India publicize new vaio laptops
At an event held recently, Sony India declared to have made a great achievement by selling 5 lakh Vaio laptops in the fiscal year 2011 which is almost double the number from the previous year. Sony India has also been making preparations to spend a large sum of 50 crore towards marketing and promotional campaigns
13 Jul 2011
Intel aware of problems with SSD 320s
Users of Intel’s SSD 320 series have had shock when they were reported the capacity of 8 MB after booting their new 600 GB capacity of SSD, this seems to be quite distressing specially when this problem has been persisting from the past month and has been regularly updated in the company’s support forum along
27 Sep 2010
All about Hard Disk Drive(HDD) in a computer
Partitions in HardDiskDrive (HDD): There are two types of partitions in HDD they are primary and extended. Primary partition is a bootable partition. All the OS files and system files will be stored in this partition which will be used to boot the system. Extended partition is a non bootable partition which contains ‘n’ number