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Intel With 65nm NOR Flash Memory Chips
Intel's handset OEM customers will benefit from a common flash architecture that will simplify the migration from 90nm to 65nm process technology. "With these offerings, Intel continues to lead in providing the industry's most advanced NOR flash memory for the mainstream handset market segment," said Brian Harrison, Intel vice president and general manager of the Flash Memory Group. "Our 65nm process technology will improve flash performance to enable the next generation of handsets that deliver new and enhanced capabilities for end-users". Samples will be available to customers late in the second quarter. About Intel's 65nm process technology. Intel's first production of microprocessors built on 65nm technology started in the second half of 2005. The company is currently shipping mobile, desktop, server and embedded processors......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source Microsoft Releases Three Windows Patches
The critical patches - deemed by Microsoft to address the highest threats - fix flaws that could allow an attacker to take control of another person's computer without permission. The Redmond software maker also released two patches to fix less-severe flaws in its products. Microsoft said March 23 that it was aware that a flaw in its Internet Explorer had been made public, prompting some limited attacks. The company said at the time it expected to release a patch on Tuesday, the normal day for its monthly security fixes. Building a patch can be complex as Microsoft must make sure that fixing one part of its vast Windows operating system does not break anything else. The company also must rigorously test the patch so other applications won't stop working, something that could cripple businesses and frustrate home users. But some outside security experts argue that Microsoft should be doing more to help users, such as providing temporary bandages, while it prepares fixes for vulnerabilities that are made public before a patch can be issued......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source Harnessing New England's "invisible" Assets
Not true, says Sylvia Beville, executive director of the Metro South/West Regional Employment Board, a Framingham-based resource center that provides career training and services to unemployed and underemployed workers. "Among 16-to-24 year olds in our area, the unemployment rate today is among the highest we've had since 1948," Beville says. The Bay State has a number of young workers competing for jobs in an economy still sluggish from the dot.com bust. "And if you don't have computer skills," Beville says, "you're at an extreme disadvantage." That's a problem for thousands of young, unskilled adults in the suburbs and small towns served by Metro South/West-people Beville describes as "invisible" because they are high school dropouts, don't know what they want to do with their lives, or are turned off by the idea of college or formal job training. But new efforts are aimed at helping these young people and others realize their potential by acquiring computer skills needed in today's workplace. Metro South/West and the Boston Private Industry Council (PIC) are two of nine workforce development agencies nationwide that recently received grants of cash, software and a new digital literacy curriculum from Microsoft. The company is sponsoring the two-year, $3.5-million workforce development program in alliance with the U.S. Department of Labor......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink changing semiconductors into flexible membranes
Led by materials science and engineering graduate student Michelle Roberts, the team reports in the April 9 issue of Nature Materials that the freed membranes, just tens of nanometers thick, retain all the properties of silicon in wafer form. Yet, the nanomembranes are flexible, and by varying the thicknesses of the silicon and silicon-germanium layers composing them, scientists can make membrane shapes ranging from flat to curved to tubular. Most importantly, the technique stretches the nanomembranes in a predictable and easily controlled manner, says materials science and engineering professor Max Lagally, who is Roberts' advisor. In silicon that is stretched, or under tensile strain, current flows faster-a fact engineers already exploit to help control silicon's conductivity and produce speedier electronics. Strain also becomes important whenever different materials are integrated. The new technique makes tuning the strain of materials simpler, while avoiding the defects that normally result. In addition, Lagally says: "We're no longer held to a rigid rock of material. We now have the ability to transfer the membranes to anything we want. So, there are some really novel things we can do"......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source Vulnerabilities of Rapidly Growing Internet Phone
The three-year project will investigate voice spam prevention (VoIP phone systems can be spammed like email), attacks on networks and Internet resources that render them unavailable (denial of service), quality of service, and 911 service dependability. The unique test bed will also be used to discover security holes arising from operating VoIP with conventional phone networks. "Proactively securing the next-generation infrastructure for voice communications is critical for us all," said UNT's Ram Dantu, who leads the project. "Our research will identify vulnerabilities in the technology and establish solutions--before damage is done". VoIP allows users with a computer and a standard Internet connection to make toll-free calls anywhere in the world. It also handles video and instant messaging. Companies such as Vonage and AT&T are aggressively deploying the technology, and one study predicts some 24 million U.S. households will be using VoIP by 2008. Government agencies are already implementing strategies to use VoIP-based systems......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source Monitoring Plant Health
Funded under the European Commission's FET (Future and Emerging Technologies) initiative of the IST programme, the PLANTS project sought to develop a unique system that linked plants, technology and people to continuously assess the state of crop health. Using sensors, transmitters and specialist software, the system monitors the state of the crop on a plant-by-plant basis, in near real-time. Dr Anthony Morrissey at Tyndall National Institute (Ireland) led the project which included partners from University College Cork (Ireland), Computer Technology Institute (CTI, Greece) and Eden Project Ltd (UK). "You could almost walk away from the crop and let it grow on its own," says Dr Fiona Tooke of the Eden Project, a unique public education facility in the UK's Cornwall region that gathers all the planet's major agricultural systems under a series of spectacular, and immense, plastic domes that function as high tech glasshouses. Eden joined the PLANTS project to help promote, and disseminate the ideas and philosophy behind the project......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source Single-molecule Diode May Change Computing
Diodes are critical components within computer, audio equipment and countless other electronic devices. If designers can swap existing diodes with the single-molecule one, the products could be shrunk to incredibly small sizes. The technology may allow computer designers to sustain "Moore's Law"--a prediction made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965--which suggested technological advances will allow a doubling every 18 months in the number of transistors that can fit on a computer chip. But the "law" has been nearing the end of its useful life as ever-shrinking silicon chips approach their physical limits. Created by a research team at the University of Chicago, the single-molecule diode is merely a few tens of atoms in size and 1,000 times smaller than its conventional counterparts. Recently, theorists from the University of South Florida and the Russian Academy of Sciences have explained the principles that make the device work. The researchers showed electron energy levels in a molecule are efficient channels for transferring electrons from one electrode to another. Because the molecule in the diode is asymmetrical, the electronic response is also asymmetrical when voltage is applied. The asymmetry contributes to a phenomenon called molecular rectification: the channels conduct electrons in one direction, but limit flow in the opposite direction when the voltage polarity reverses. That property makes the molecular diode a potential gatekeeper for circuits and a candidate to one day replace silicon in computer chips......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source Microsoft Introduces Exchange Hosted Services
These services offer cost-effective hosted solutions to help ensure the security and high availability of an organization's messaging environment while satisfying internal policy and regulatory compliance requirements. In addition, Microsoft today unveiled a new per-user licensing model for all the services as well as road map details, including information about the upcoming EHS 5.3 release and the 6.x series of releases that will align with Exchange "12" availability. EHS is the latest addition to the Exchange Server solution portfolio and a key offering in Microsoft's software as a service strategy. "We're driving to deliver world-class software any way customers choose," said Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft. "Exchange Hosted Services will give customers more flexibility in how they deploy, manage and maintain technology"......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source Bridging Semiconductor Chips And Nerve Cells
Hybrid neuroelectronic devices will be the basis for future information technology relying on the plasticity of networks formed by mammalian neurons in culture. Microelectronic implants interfaced with neurons in the nervous tissue will become sophisticated neuroprostheses able to rescue impairments of the human nervous system. The present project deals with the fundamental aspect of electronic interfacing of microstructured silicon chips to rat neurons in culture. Its focus is the optimization of electrical coupling in both directions, from excited mammalian neurons to transistors and from stimulation areas on the chip to the cells. This will be achieved with the expression of mutated sodium channels lacking inactivation in the neurons and with the induction of channels accumulation at the neuron-silicon interface. The use of highly integrated CMOS(Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) chips is envisaged......... Posted by: Ryan Permalink Source Strengthening Multilingual Capabilities
Microsoft Dynamics partnered with Basis Technology to audit, implement and Unicode enable Microsoft Dynamics AX, to handle multiple character sets in a single environment. The project included completely reengineering the software for Unicode and implementing the GB18030 character set mandatory by China. In addition, Basis wrote a database upgrade tool which reads a Microsoft Dynamics AX 3.0 database and converts all the non-Unicode data to Unicode to work with Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0. "Supporting our global customers and helping drive global business opportunities to them were important tasks for us to undertake," said Hans Skovgaard, Director of Development for Microsoft Dynamics AX. "Basis Technology's globalization solutions provided our team the support and expertise we needed to enhance the multilingual capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics AX"......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source |
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