Sony to Offer Google Chrome on New PCs

The market adoption of Google’s Chrome browser has received a significant boost from Sony. Following a deal arranged between the two technology giants, Sony will install Chrome as the default Windows web browser on a selection of laptops. The machines are likely to be offered in the US first with other territories coming soon after.

Chrome’s market share has increased to around 6% and is likely to overtake Safari and Opera to become the web’s third most popular browser (source: w3schools.com). Google has been heavily promoting the browser on web sites such as YouTube and we suspected they would instigate licensing deals with PC manufacturers. Sony is a popular brand and, although they are one of the smaller PC manufacturers, Google will certainly be pursuing deals with companies such as Dell and Hewlett Packard.

I HOPE TELKOM KAK'S

SEACOM is here!

SEACOM is turning on the switch for you to enjoy true broadband!’

The long awaited SEACOM cable is officially ready for service after eighteen months of feasibility studies and shareholder agreements, a nine month marine survey and a nineteen month cable construction period.

The 0-million, 15 000 km submarine fibre-optic cable system has a design capacity of 1.28 Tbps and will effectively link Cape Town and Johannesburg with London using Neotel as a partner.

“From today, the 1.28Tbps 15,000km undersea fibre-optic cable system will provide African retail carriers with equal and open access to affordable bandwidth, removing national backhaul and international infrastructure bottlenecks, thereby enhancing the competitiveness of east and southern African economies,” SEACOM said in its official blog.

Looks like google has been hard at work with a new project called Wave, which by the sounds of things is going to be a nice little (or large depending on how you look at it) active collaboration platform which can be extended into your own web applications via their (what seems to be very powerfull) API

Google as normal are not stuffing around with this, they're suggesting a Wave protocol, man they're going bit innit, "Google Wave Federation Protocol Over XMPP"

Let see what comes of this, it might certainly be usefull, i'm going to have a more thorough read through the documentation so that I can see how mobile friendly it is :)

I got me new iPhone just the other day, and must admit this is one damn fine phone, absolutly blown away by the interface the usabiluty and EVERYTHING about it, man it's neat!

I was browsing one of my favorite blogs this morning Abduzeedo and found this post with pics of some absolutely crazy work stations.

This one in perticular grabbed my attention :p

Data Centers, Power Consumption, and Global Warming - Will the web crash?

So you’ve heard the hype on going green, wouldn’t you like to know how the internet fits into the big picture of saving energy? Every time you search Google you could power an 11-watt light bulb for an hour… Think that’s bad? Wait until you put that into perspective including sites like YouTube and every other bandwidth hog on the web…

So you now know one single Google search query consumes 2 to 8 watt-hours of energy. To put this on a scale, Google processes petabytes of information on a daily basis while indexing the web and doing other various things. If we average this out to 4.5 watt hours per query, and consider Google is easily handling 400 million queries a day based on comScore metrics, then we can see 1,800,000,000 (1.8 billion) watt-hours of energy being used daily just for basic search queries. The Google Complex itself uses the amount of power as 3,333 California homes.

Some pretty interesting statistics I must say, YouTube using 10% of the world's bandwidth, stjoe!

Data Centers, Power Consumption, and Global Warming - Will the web crash?

So you’ve heard the hype on going green, wouldn’t you like to know how the internet fits into the big picture of saving energy? Every time you search Google you could power an 11-watt light bulb for an hour… Think that’s bad? Wait until you put that into perspective including sites like YouTube and every other bandwidth hog on the web…

So you now know one single Google search query consumes 2 to 8 watt-hours of energy. To put this on a scale, Google processes petabytes of information on a daily basis while indexing the web and doing other various things. If we average this out to 4.5 watt hours per query, and consider Google is easily handling 400 million queries a day based on comScore metrics, then we can see 1,800,000,000 (1.8 billion) watt-hours of energy being used daily just for basic search queries. The Google Complex itself uses the amount of power as 3,333 California homes.

Some pretty interesting statistics I must say, YouTube using 10% of the world's bandwidth, stjoe!

If I do say so myself, this is a damn sexy looking laptop, g'damn

Take a look at the apple website for a full review of the thing, it STARTS at 1800 USD, which is a fair price, about 14 000 ZAR (South African Ront) which is fair enough.

What makes it so thin
MacBook Air is nearly as thin as your index finger. Practically every detail that could be streamlined has been. Yet it still has a 13.3-inch widescreen LED display, full-size keyboard, and large multi-touch trackpad. It’s incomparably portable without the usual ultraportable screen and keyboard compromises.
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If I do say so myself, this is a damn sexy looking laptop, g'damn

Take a look at the apple website for a full review of the thing, it STARTS at 1800 USD, which is a fair price, about 14 000 ZAR (South African Ront) which is fair enough.

What makes it so thin
MacBook Air is nearly as thin as your index finger. Practically every detail that could be streamlined has been. Yet it still has a 13.3-inch widescreen LED display, full-size keyboard, and large multi-touch trackpad. It’s incomparably portable without the usual ultraportable screen and keyboard compromises.
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Eskom has been "load shedding" over the past few days, I must admit we've been hell of a lucky and only went down for about 1.5 hours on tuesday, but damn some poor companies and establishments have been down for 3 days from 8:00am till 3:00pm, I cant even imagine how much business we would have lost cause of that, and how much other companies would have lost due to that.

I will admit, our own president make an appology, hahahaha, eskom :|