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Google data center security

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If you wondered how Google protects the data in its data centers the here’s is a cool video released by Google itself. This video contains never seen before every single details of all the security aspects of Google data centers.

The video starts with describing physical security measures like restricted barriers, security fencing, video cameras, security guards and biometric scanners in the data centers. It also explains how Google engineers itself assembles the servers and use Linux based OS for the security of data centers.

Check out this cool video to know more about the Google Data Centers:

Google, Technology

Google Music Beta – ready to launch

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http://www.maximumpc.com/files/imagecache/featured_content/google_music_0.jpgGoogle plans to introduce its long-awaited service to allow people to upload and store their music collections on the Web and listen to their songs on Android phones or tablets and on computers.

The announcement of the new service, a so-called cloud-based music player, will be made on Tuesday at Google I/O, the company’s developers conference here, which will run through Wednesday.

The service, to be called Music Beta by Google, is similar to one introduced by Amazon in March, although it will store considerably more music. And like Amazon, Google does not have the cooperation of music labels, which means that users cannot do certain things that would legally require licenses, like sharing songs with friends and buying songs from Google.

But Google’s announcement at this time was unexpected because it has been negotiating with the music labels for months to try to make a deal to team with them on a cloud music service.

originally from: The NY Times
Image source:  Maximumpc.com
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BSNL network plan hits a roadblock

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http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110510/images/10bus-Internet.jpgThe Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is not keen on Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) rolling out the national optical fibre network to provide high-speed Internet connection across India.

The network rollout project is part of the national broadband plan, being finalised by the telecom ministry, to provide high-speed Internet connections to 160 million households by 2014.

Trai has argued that the move will be anti-competitive.

The department of telecom (DoT) had proposed that BSNL should act as the executing agency to roll out the network with government funding. The project is estimated to cost Rs 60,000 crore.

Originally published by: The Telegraph
Technology

Google launches WebGL Globe data visualisation tool

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http://cdn.idg.com.au/cw/gim/id/39241/res/21Google has used its Chrome Experiments site to launch a new platform for geographic data visualisation. WebGL Globe, the source coide of which is available from Google’s code.google.com repository, can map data sets stored in the JSON format to a 3D depiction of Earth.

Google has created two example WebGL Globes – one depicting world population in 1990, 1995 and 2000, and one depicting the volume of Google searches by location and language.

Google has invited developers to share their WebGL Globes and will post selected creations on the Chrome Experiments site.

The Khronos Group’s WebGL graphics library allows the use of a PC’s GPU for the hardware-accelerated display of 3D images using JavaScript and HTML5.

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Google Adds a Little Magic to Earth

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http://www.ithinkcomputers.info/Images/google_earth.jpgCalling it “the next generation of realism” Google on Monday introduced the latest version of Google Earth, promising more seamless interactivity with Mother Earth and some unusual new features.

“In Google Earth 6, we’re taking realism in the virtual globe to the next level with a truly integrated Street View experience — and 3-D trees,” explained Google product manager Peter Birch on the company’s official blog. “We’ve also made it even easier to browse historical imagery.”

Though “all great new advances look like magic when they’re first released,” Brooklyn Law School Internet and telecommunications law professor Jonathan Askin told TechNewsWorld, “Google Earth 6 is indeed world-shaking, and disrupts a lot of traditional thinking about how we view the world.”

Part of that thinking involves paradigms about privacy and law enforcement, Askin explained.

“Google Earth 6 will be met with concerns, some logically justified,” he said. “Concerns include potential encroachment on individual privacy, and potential law enforcement and security risks that ensue by placing such powerful tools in the hands of all individuals, including those with nefarious intentions.”

Read the complete article on Technology News World
image source: http://www.ithinkcomputers.info
Gaming

Nintendo Wii 2 to be unveiled at E3

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Over the past couple of weeks speculation has been growing that Nintendo is about to announce a successor to the Wii console. It all started when a price drop for the Wii to $149.99 was predicted in May, a few weeks before E3 starts. Then a number of respected retailers actually dropped the Wii from $199.99 to $169.99. At the same time, rumors of a Wii 2 appeared with the new machine expected to outperform a PS3 while including a Blu-ray drive.

It seems the rumors were all too much for Nintendo not to respond, and they have now confirmed the successor to the Wii will be unveiled at E3. We also have it confirmed that the new machine will launch in 2012. It’s thought that launch will be after April next year as Nintendo did not list the machine in its financials for this year, which ends in April 2012.

Other than confirming the existence of this new machine, which may not even carry the Wii name for all we know, Nintendo hasn’t given any more details of what to expect. But E3 begins on June 7, meaning we only have six weeks to wait before we find out for sure.

Read more at Kotaku

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5 monitors on a computer – Deus Ex human revolution

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Working with a computer that has two monitors is so 2005… with AMD’s Eyefinity, you can pop in a single video card and connect up to five displays to a single computer. And now, if you have the right video card, you can also play Deus Ex: Human Revolution on all five of those monitors. That is, when the game is released in August.

Square Enix, the development company behind the game, let word fly this week that the PC version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution will have full DirectX 11 support, 3D support, and will work with AMD Eyefinity.

That means that gamers with high end multi-core systems and brand new DX11 graphics cards will be able to make use of all of that hardware and really experience the game. Even without DirectX 11, gamers who have dual or quad-core processors on their computers will be able to leverage them for higher framerates and faster overall game performance.

The real winners though are gamers with AMD graphics cards that support Eyefinity, or AMD’s next generation multi-display technology. Since the game fully supports Eyefinity, you can connect up to five monitors as your card can support to your system and the game will expand the field of view spread out across all of them. Developers went to great lengths to make sure they weren’t just tacking on the features to have a checkbox to mark on the packaging: the video here shows that you really can play the game with at least three displays and interact with and see objects on all of them.

Eyefinity really shines in games that can benefit from a broader field of view, like racing games and simulations. Not many first-person shooters have gone down this road, but if the video is to be believed, the end product will be impressive to see. If you have a graphics card that supports Eyefinity, you may get more than you anticipated when Deus Ex: Human Revolution when it hits store shelves this August.

via PC Gamer via Kotaku

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Yet another snag in Airtel service

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I had flown over to Hyderabad first time for the last weekend, Hyderabad is nice city just like my home town Lucknow and the last thing that I want to be without in an unknown city with a phone with data connection.

Being a big fan of GPS and how it has helped me find/locate places in the past, it becomes very difficult for me to keep calling people and asking how to reach where. At times the way told by people you meet en route are different. And that is where GPS comes in handy.

The moment I landed, I was surprised to see my cell phone without GPRS icon. I tried everything I could to get back on data.

Later in the day I called up 121 (Airtel customer care) just to be told, yet another time, that my connection is outside Hyderabad Connection so I should call up Mumbai. I did call up Mumbai and they tell me that I am in Hyderabad and my data is having issues so I should call 12118. I called up yet another time being optimistic but to my dismay they just hung up the call after understanding what I wanted to say. I was being told that the agent will call up the required support team and conference my call to that team which never happened.

Airtel better learn from some good service providers like Vodafone.

I know loosing a customer here and there will not hamper Airtel in any sense but O’ mightly Airtel thou might never know when the tipping point comes.

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First-ever 3G call and tweet from summit

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It’s official, the world’s highest mountain has seen its first tweet and its first phone call thanks to a 3G network, a Samsung Galaxy S II, and a guy named Kenton Cool. That’s right, he’s so cool, he has the word in his name. The English mountaineer had climbed Everest eight times, however, Cool had never climbed the 29,029-foot mountain with a smartphone on his person before. Of course, and as you can see in the video below, this little stunt was sponsored by Samsung.

In a video from BBC News, Mr. Cool said he decided to make this his ninth climb because he wanted to prove that 3G radio worked at the highest place on earth.

http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/kenton_cool-580x330.pngBack in October of 2010, Ncell, a mobile operator in Nepal, installed the first 3G station at Everest’s base camp. The goal was to bring online services to the people of Nepal and the mountaineers who ordinarily have to carry around cumbersome satellite phones or nothing at all.

Cool tweeted from the summit, thanking both a weak 3G signal and Samsung’s Galaxy phone for giving him the change to make this small step forward for mankind.

The guy’s certainly good with his product placement. It’s just too bad that AT&T didn’t jump on-board so they could deliver the ultimate insult to Verizon in the form of the world’s best “Can you hear me now” commercial.

This article first appeared on Geek.com
Photo: Geek.com
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Gartner’s top 10 technologies for 2011

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Gartner on Tuesday outlined its top 10 technologies for 2011 that will give technology execs the most bang for their budgets. How many of these technologies will be a true hit?

Carl Claunch, an analyst at Gartner, said at the research firm’s Symposium conference in Orlando that things like sustainability, data center overhauls and virtualization were dropped. Here’s Gartner’s 2011 list, why those technologies were chosen and a few observations.

The new list:

source zdnet