Posted: 06 Feb 2010 07:46 PM PST

Hardly weeks were done after announcing the iPad tablet which faced heavy critics because of the lack of Flash support and other disadvantages, chief executive officer of Apple Steve Jobs told the company's employees that Adobe Flash was too buggy, Blu-ray software was a mess, Google wanted to kill iPhone and the future of Internet video was HTML5. The comments seem to be rather offensive, but they may clearly mean that Apple has no plans to support certain technologies.

"They are lazy. They have all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it. They don't do anything with the approaches that Apple is taking, like Carbon. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it is because of Flash. No one will be using Flash. The world is moving to HTML5," said Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple, report Wired and Macrumours web-sites, during a meeting with Apple employees.

Clearly, Adobe Flash is not the best technology available today, however, HTML5 is still not here and it will take a long time before it will be able to replace Flash, meanwhile, Apple's products do not support Flash right now.

Even though Google Android-based phones are hardly seriously popular, Mr. Jobs still believes that the ultimate goal of Google is to "kill the iPhone".

"We did not enter the search business. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them.This 'don't be evil mantra': it is B-ullshit," Mr. Jobs is reported to have said.

"Don’t be evil' is believed to be an unofficial motto of Google, which is meant to stop the company from maximizing short-term benefits with actions that demolish long-term image and competitive position. It is not completely clear how the creation of Android platform can destroy Google's positions in the long term and why does Mr. Jobs think that Android was created by 47 companies to destroy iPhone.

During the meeting Mr. Jobs reiterated his attitude towards Blu-ray high-definition video format. According to the chief executive officer of Apple, Blu-Ray software is a mess, and Apple will wait until sales really start to take off before implementing it into their personal computers. Still, the new Macintosh systems in 2010 would take Apple to the next level, indicated the CEO.Lets see how it moves on.

Steve Jobs says that Adobe Is Lazy and Google Wants to Kill iPhone

Google takes on Apple’s iPad

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 07:07 AM PST

In the war of the giants,over Apple’s new iPad reaches a fever pitch, Google is not standing idly by.The search giant has already unveiled concept designs for its own version of a tablet, though it’s unlikely that a Google tablet will hit store shelves until at least 2011.Developers of Google Chrome OS, an open-source operating system that is set to debut in the second half of 2010, recently posted a mock tablet design on the developers’ Web site chromium.org.

The design was actually unveiled two days before Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave the world its first glimpse at the iPad. But it wasn’t widely noticed until this week.According to chromium.org, Google’s operating system would be optimized for a tablet that has a 5-inch to 10-inch screen, but it could work on larger devices.

google tablet Google takes on Apples iPad

The designs showed a user interface that includes large, square icons and controls, navigation tabs on the side and the ability to run multiple programs in separate, side-by-side windows at once.The tablet running Google Chrome OS would also include a virtual keyboard at the bottom of the screen or a keyboard that could be opened in a separate window that could be placed in different areas of the screen. Applications would be placed at the bottom edge of the screen and could be opened with an upward dragging motion.

“Google Chrome OS is still in development and we are constantly experimenting with various user interfaces to determine what designs would produce the best user experience,” said a Google spokesman.Google probably won’t design the tablet hardware itself. Instead, as with its Nexus One smartphone, which is made by HTC but runs Google’s Android operating system, Google would probably look to partner with one or more hardware makers.

With a Chrome OS launch slated for the the holiday season, it is unlikely that a Google tablet would be released until next year at the earliest.Now who is gonna win in this tablet war ? Well at present i can say Google can overtake iPad considering its running the chrome OS which is much more snazzier than the OS running on the iPad.This can be compared after the move to Android which is gaining market share like wildfire after the Motorola Droid.

“Google has tremendous momentum in software…and it certainly isn’t running away from Apple,” said Laura DiDio, principal analyst at ITIC.Though price, ease of use and hardware functionality will certainly be important factors in who wins the tablet battle, the most important determinant of who comes out on top may be the variety and quality of applications available for the devices.

Applications are what will help tailor the tablet to your use and make it relevant,” said David Krajicek, managing director of market research firm GfK Technology. “If we’re going to have tablet mania, Apple can use Safari and Google will try to convince everyone else to use Chrome.”

There is also news of HTC with Sense UI and MSI tablet too coming up soon and also the Joo Joo tablet.If you are not familiar with what is Sense UI.Sense is a UI, not an OS. Think of it as a layer running on top of your OS which helps you customize your various menus with a widget based interface and puts up multiple side-scrolling homescreen panes.So basically, it snazzed up Windows Mobile as well because it’s a UI which has been ported to both the operating systems.

Actually, Apple’s marketshare has dropped despite stellar sales. Between the third and fourth quarter of 2009, Apple had to face a 1.5% drop in market share, even though Apple sold 18% more iphones in the fourth quarter compared to the third one. This is because of the competitors. The overall smartphone market did better than what Apple did. With Android coming in headstrong, 2010 will be an interesting year, specifically after the MWC in Feb. I wonder if iPad will help them rake some greens up.

Apple touted the iPad’s ability to run all of the iPhone’s 140,000 apps. Though a tablet running Chrome OS wouldn’t likely be able to run the tens of thousands of apps available on Android phones, a “Google tablet” would be optimized to run Google’s host of Web applications like Gmail, Google Docs and Picasa.

Tablets with Chrome OS would also likely integrate Google Books to compete with the iPad’s iBookstore and other e-reading devices like Amazon.com’s Kindle.In the end, it won’t be about the most apps but the best apps, Krajicek argued. He said the winner of the tablet wars will likely be the one that integrates multimedia and Web browsing the best, but will not necessarily the one with the most bells and whistles.If a Google tablet can run e-mail, browsing, media and word processing better than the iPad, it could ultimately win out.

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Hitachi working on technology to build 10 TB HDD’S

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 04:15 AM PST

Nowadays high capacity hard disks like 1 TB from Western digital or Seagate have become common.Most of the home users are going for higher capacity ones.Hitachi reseach and development is working on a new storage technology that is expected to increase storage density to 2.5 terabit per square inch. That’s five times the capacity of the densest hard drives of today and thus could lead towards 10 TB HDDs. To achieve this density.What Hitachi is developing is a thermally-assisted recording method that heats up the media with a 20nm laser beam while the magnetic head is writing the smaller bits of data.

burn mechanism Hitachi working on technology to build 10 TB HDDS

In thermally-assisted recording, magnetic grains can be made smaller while still resisting thermal fluctuations at room temperature. As the name suggests, thermally-assisted recording uses a laser to heat up the media while the magnetic head is writing the smaller bits of data. This enables the use of media that is magnetically stable at room temperature with the very small magnetic grains required for high-density storage.

As such there is no concrete information on when the technology will be commercially available, and this would be expensive i must say but once the technology becomes common more and more companies will adapt this technology.

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Get computer parts online

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 01:59 AM PST

I had plans of getting a external hard disk once my salary gets credited and at the same time my roomie needed a ddr ram and a monitor as his was gonna conk off soon. I said to him how much GB ram he needed and which size of the monitor.So i told i have contacts with some dealers including the US ones just select the product and i ll get it for you.Then he passed me lotsa links where they sell online and he gave one more links to buy from.I just checked the site and this site dealt with computer hardware , Memory , External hard drives , Laptop Internal drives , LCD monitors etc.The pricing is quite cheap and as LCD monitors shipping would be kinda costly i ordered a 1 GB DDR ram for my roomie.Everything went out smooth.I will go for them sometime soon for my laptop upgrades.

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