Majority of the netbooks available in the market today are powered by 1.6GHz single-core Atom processor from Intel. The tiny processor is perfect for netbooks because of its low cost and low power requirements.

Last month, I blogged about Intel’s dual-core Atom  which will be released this month. Intel has officially announced that the dual-core version of the Atom processor has been released. The dual-core Atom 330 processor features a core frequency of 1.6GHz, 533MHz FSB, 1MB L2 cache, a TDP of 8W and supports DDR2 667 RAM. The dual-core and single-core Atom processors are pin-compatible. However, single-core Atom platforms will  need a BIOS update to support the dual-core CPUs. 

The Atom 330 processor is priced at US$40 while the single-core Atom 230 is priced at US$29.

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When Cinderella lost her shoe, a geek found it and turned it into a pink, non-wearable  phone exclusively for women and you can have one for only $22.

Can you imagine what’s gonna happen if Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Linus Torvaldz, or Steve Wozniak found it?

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In a sign that ASUS is not stopping from delivering IT products aside from hot netbooks, ASUS has unveiled the world’s first Skype-Certified videophone called the AiGuru SV1.

The AiGuru SV1 videophone makes video calls easily by eliminating the need of a PC, allowing users to make unlimited VoIP calls right on the device, seeing the other party on the line in a 7-inch LCD display with 800×480 resolution. Other features include an  integrated webcam with 640×480 resolution and a WiFi connectivity.  The AiGuru can be connected to an Ethernet via router or it can accept connection via 802.11 b/g wireless. It has a rechargeable battery that can last for 20 minutes. Unfortunately, the device weighs 1.6 kilograms making it unsuitable for mobile operation.

The ASUS AiGuru SV1 will be on sale this October for about $299.

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Good news to all geeks out there, Cray is set to release a compact personal supercomputer called Cray CX1 which will run the Microsoft HPC (High Performance Computing) Server 2008 Operating System.  The Cray CX1 with price starting at $25,000 and can go up to $80,000 or more is expected to be touted by Microsoft and Cray as “the most affordable supercomputer Cray has ever offered”.

The CX1 chassis provides enough room for eight blades of single or dual socket Intel Xeon processors. According to Cray, the current peak configuration for the chassis is 64 cores with 3.4 GHz bus working at 786 gigaflops and each chassis can be connected to up to 4 TB of storage.

Windows HPC Server 2008 is the high end version of Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 family and an alternative to Linux operating systems. Microsoft will officially launch the Windows HPC  Server 2008 on September 22 in New York City.

So if you would like to have your own personal supercomputer, it will be as easy as shopping online,  order the CX1 system using a configurator and pay with credit card.

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Debian has released an OpenSSH security updates intended for computers powered by the Debian Linux Operating System. The current OpenSSH version found in Debian has a Denial of Service vulnerability. It was discovered that the Debian version of OpenSSH server’s  signal handler implementing the login timeout uses functions which are not async-signal-safe that leads to denial of service vulnerability. An affected system suffers from tremendous amount of zombie sshd processes.

If your Debian system is running the old version of OpenSSH server, using root account and running the following commands will solve the problem:
# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade

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3M has announced the MPro100, a pocket projector that can be connected most handheld devices in the market, including digital cameras, PSP, iPod and iPhones. Once these devices are connected to the projector, the MPro100 is able to project images in 640×480 resolution with a 50 inch diagonal in any white surface.The palm sized projector has a very slick design, it is fanless, speakerless and the first in the market.

According to Popular Science who has given a sample unit for testing, “Images were discernable up to about 11 inches across, even under our bright fluorescent office lights. But they were definitely faded.”

The 3M MPro100 will be available on September 30, 2008 with a price of $359.

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