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Dual-Core Android Smartphone

iiNET – BoB’s Big Brother

BoB. It’s so cool they spelt it’s name wrong at birth. (Broadband in a box > >). But the old BoB many of us have is made in America from a well known company. Because of this there has been many problems. From day one iiNET said it would make it’s own router and hardware [...]

Digital Divide

The above video is about the adoption of technology in Uganda, peoples attitudes towards technology and the Digital Divide. The above video is about the Rasberry Pi micro computer which has recently been developed

Intel Tri Gate 22nm Technology

Intel Tri Gate 22nm Technology First benchmarking test with Intel’s new Technology

Apple Granted Patent For USB/Thunderbolt-Compatible 30-Pin Connector

Apple has just won a patent, which I totally saw coming a mile away, that seemingly allows for their semi-ubiquitous 30-pin connector to support “DisplayPort (dual lane)”, which sounds a lot like the Thunderbolt standard so recently added to the Apple stable. Their is a patent that shows a step in this direction: further coalescing different [...]

Plane Finder – The Legal Way

The wonders of the intrenet! Each and every day, we discover new websites that do so much more then we ever expected. A brand new company has taken a great idea, and turned it into something that can become very popular. Todays new aircraft have a AIS or ADS-B transceiver for the airline to track and [...]

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play

First unveiled at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) trade show in Barcelona, Spain, the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play features a “4″ multitouch display, a touch-sensitive joystick, a D-pad and four of the PlayStation’s famous control buttons; triangle, square, circle and X.  PlayStation games on the XPERIA Play will be downloaded through the ‘PlayStation Suite’, an [...]

Will the Xphone be real?

We know that the PSP Phone aka the Xperia Play is real, as confirmed by an official Sony and Android commercial at the beginning of this week, but what about Xbox? The gaming platform is integrated into Windows Phone 7 as Xbox Live, but we’re lacking a genuine gaming phone with Xbox features, unless you [...]

Apple iPad 2 Gets iMovie to Go With Camera

Since the iPad 2 has a pair of cameras, Apple is porting iMovie to the iPad. The popular movie editing software debuted over 10 years ago on the Mac and brought it iPhone with limited capability last year. While even some professional movie makers used it, the small interface make it challenging to edit complex [...]

Intel Solid State Hard Drives

Intel Solid State Drives represent a revolutionary breakthrough that delievers a giant leap in storage performance. Intel Solid State Drivers are designed to satisfy the most demanding gamers, media creators, and technology enthusiasts. These new drives bring a high level of performance and reliability to notebook abd desktop computer storage, at a fraction of the [...]

BoB – Broadband in a Box! Wait a second….

You have seen the ads, people singing over this box called BoB. He stands for broadband in a box somehow and the people at iiNET think it is the best thing to ever happen to Australian internet before the NBN. BoB combines the modem, routor and also voip modem in one that allows acceess to [...]

Thunderbolt (a.k.a Light Peak) Explained

Following on from the previous post about Intel’s light peak (thanks Ricardo). http://blog.teachbook.com.au/index.php/2011/02/intel-light-peak/ Thunderbolt is the new technology that Apple has integrated into its new Macbook Pro line.  This is the same technology referenced in Ricardo’s article and was formally called Light Peak.  This technology was developed by Intel and collaborated on by Apple in [...]

Possible Apple Store Refresh Today?

Looks like the Apple store are updating there line of products! Over the last few weeks a lot of news (that you should already know, if you don’t live under a rock) about the Macbook Pro’s being updated look to be correct. With possible moves from Nivida to ATI graphics, to actual confirmed details that [...]

Future of Wireless Networks

Here is a great article to start of our merge into Networking for next week. http://mashable.com/2011/02/23/future-home-networking-tips/ Netgear employee David Henry talks about consumer demands for prioritising bandwidths, media streaming and faster transfer.  The recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) showed that all devices are now being connected to the internet, be it a TV, Blu-ray play, [...]

Top 5 Gaming Keyboards of 2010

#1  Logitech G19 Large color LCD supports digital photos and video playback; included software development kit opens LCD up to homebrew and community-made apps; 16 million color options for backlit keys; built-in USB 2.0 ports; improved macro recording capabilities with support for five simultaneous key presses. Price: $399.00   #2  Razer Tarantula Razer brings all [...]

The National Broadband Network

The national broadband network (or NBN for short) is the next best things for all gamers, nerds and people who use the internet in Australia! The NBN is designed to bring fibre to the premises, basicly meaning that eventualy, they will get a fibre optic cable and either above or below ground attach it to [...]

Alienware m15X Review

Following the redesign of the m17X gaming notebook, alienware went and gave the m15x the same extreme make over as they did to the m17x, its the newest 15 inch notebook today. Not only does this notebook have the smae extreme looks like the m17x like the menacing grill and backlit keyboard but the new [...]

Intel “Light Peak”

Light Peak is a new high-speed optical cable technology designed to connect to your electronic devices to each other. Light Peak delivers high bandwidth starting at 10Gb/s with the potential ability to scale to 100Gb/s over the next decade. At 10Gb/s you can transfer a full length Blu-Ray movie in less then 30 seconds. Optical [...]

Flash Memory

A computer chip which is read only memory (ROM),  which retains its data when the power is turned off and that can be electronically erased and reprogrammed without being removed from the circuit board. Many modem and PC’s have their BIOS stored on flash memory chip so that it can be easily updated if necessary, and [...]

The iiNetwork in Osborne Park

Over the last few months, iiNET have been redesigning, and building there Western Australia backbone data-centre. Housing a total of 88 racks, this new built centre will control the entire Western Australian network for iiNET, and also Westnet. It’s a state-of-the-art building, being flood proof (even though we don’t get floods >.<), fire resistant and [...]

CES 2011: NVIDIA Tegra 2

Matt Wuebbling from NVIDIA talking about their new Tegra 2 product.

Sandy Bridge: 2nd Core Generation vs. Core i7 Benchmarking Video

Here is a video of the new 2nd Generation intel chips verse the currrent i7 chips.

Gamespot Interview @ CES 2011: Mike Fard from Intel

Mike Fard from Intel at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show talking about the Intel Sandy Bridge Chip and what is coming up from Intel in 2011.

GPU and CPU

What is a GPU? GPU stands for Graphics Processing Unit. It is a specialized processor that offloads 3D graphics rendering from the microprocessor. It is used in embedded systems, mobile phones, computers, workstations and game consoles.  What is a CPU? CPU stands for Central Processing Unit. It is a microprocessor chip that does most of [...]

What is the difference between GPU and CPU?

Graphics processing unit or GPU is a  is a specialized processor that offloads 3D graphics rendering from the microprocessor.Modern GPUs are very efficient at manipulating computer graphics, and their highly parallel structure makes them more effective than general-purpose CPUs for a range of complex algorithms. In a personal computer, a GPU can be present on a [...]

What is the difference between Quad core, dual core and single core processors?

Single Core Processor – A process which only has one main core, so it can only start one operation at a time, in some instances it can start a new operation before the pervious operation is complete. Dual Core Processor - A dual core processor is a CPU with two separate cores on the same die, each [...]

Quad core, dual core, single core processors

A multi-core chip can execute multiple instructions at the same time. Dual cores have two cores, and quad cores have four. All the cores are on the same chip though. So, they share the same memory, and data path to the motherboard. So, a quad core chip may be able to execute the instructions four [...]

The Difference Between Single-core, Dual-core and Quad-core Processors

Single Core: A chip with one CPU (one processing unit). Microprocessors have been single core since their inception in the early 1970s. After the turn of the century, chips with two or more CPUs emerged. Dual Core: A single chip that contains two distinct processors that work simultaneously. IBM introduced dual cores in its Power [...]

The difference between Quad Core and Dual Core

Dual cores have two cores, and quad cores have four. All the cores are on the same chip though. So, they share the same memory, and data path to the motherboard. So, a quad core chip may be able to execute the instructions four times faster, but that doesn’t mean it can receive instructions from [...]

Sandy Bridge – What is it?

I bet right now you are thinking of a bridge with sand on it… … or something weird. But Sandy Bridge is actualy a code name for the just-newly-released processors by Intel. These processors are based on the 32nm process, and is designed to bring in the new age of CPU’s. On the 3rd of [...]

Intel Chip Flaw

Around the world, some PC makers are hulting all lines that include a new ‘sandy bridge’ CPU line from Intel. Dell and Hewlett-Packard have removed from there online stores some of there laptop’s and desktop’s that include Intel’s latest Core i5 and i7 processors. These brand new processors have a design flaw which make them [...]