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Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest computer chip maker, said today it has developed a new solid state drive which is expected to replace hard disk drives in laptop computers.

Samsung said its 256-gigabyte solid state drive (SSD) for data storage is 2.4 times faster than traditional hard drives. The company plans to begin production of SSDs this year.

The new SSD “represents a bold step in the shift to notebooks with significantly improved performance and larger storage capacities,” the company said in a statement.

Samsung described the new SSD - which is 6.35cm long and 9.5mm thick - as the world’s smallest of its kind. It can read up to 200 megabytes of data per second.

It said, citing market research agency iSuppli, that 35 per cent of notebook computers would use the SSD by 2012.

Wow so when we get in to the SSD world we can do this (see below) with our old harddrives

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WOW I was dreaming for this for almost a decade. We’ve seen the Splashtop instant-on OS demoed on ASUS gear in the past, and now it looks like the company is making the love official: it’s going to start shipping it on all its motherboards. ASUS is calling the platform “Express Gate,” but it’s the same instant-on, ready-to-browse environment we’ve known about since October: an embedded Linux distro that runs Firefox and Skype off a memory chip linked directly to the BIOS.

You might want to hit that link and check out the screenshots, actually — with ASUS set to ship over a million mobos a month with the feature, chances are it’ll be on a machine near you relatively soon.

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So when will MS Windows on chip will be released.

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The SearchMonkey developer tool enables you to create small, sharable applications that enhance search results. A SearchMonkey application pulls in structured data from multiple sources and uses PHP to display that data according to your specifications. For example, you could develop an application that triggers on sites for various music bands, enhancing the search results to display cover art, lyrics and mp3 samples. Or you could write an application to rewrite all Wikipedia search results in l33t-speak. The choice is up to you.

Getting Started

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Language is one of the biggest challenges we have in making information universally accessible. As part of the machine translation team within Google Research, I’m happy to report we’ve been hard at work to overcome this challenge. We’ve recently added translation capabilities for 10 new languages to Google Translate, bringing the total to 23 languages. The newly featured languages include Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.

Supported Languages; (Click on the language to translate this blog)

1. English
2. Arabic
3. Bulgarian
4. Chinese
5. Croatian
6. Czech
7. Danish
8. Dutch
9. Finnish
10. French
11. German
12. Greek
13. Hindi
14. Italian
15. Japanese
16. Korean
17. Norwegian
18. Polish
19. Portuguese
20. Romanian
21. Russian
22. Spanish
23. Swedish

In addition, you can now translate text and web pages as well as perform cross-language searches between any two languages that we offer. For example, we now support Chinese translation to/from any of our languages (e.g., Chinese to French). So for those of you who will be following or attending the Olympics in Beijing this fall, you’ll be able to more easily find and access content from local sources.

We’ve also added a “Detect Language” option to help you automatically identify the language of the text you’re trying to translate. Keep in mind that the longer the text, the more accurate it will be. And for those of you who have embedded the Google Translate My Page gadget in your website to give it global reach, these new languages will automatically appear. Developers can also take advantage of these new languages in our AJAX language API.

While our system is quite good, we know it’s not perfect. Machine translation is a hard problem, but it plays an important role in helping people access content they might otherwise be unable to read. We’re constantly working to improve the quality, so if you find a translation that’s not quite right, let us know by using our “Suggest a better translation” feature.

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Today I will be attending the  Las Vegas PHP User Group meeting held at UNLV. This is my fist time at this user groups and eager to meet some cool coders.

Also if there are any interested guys gals here is the link to the usergroup meetup page.

 Meet PHP Developers near you! Come to a PHP Meetup to exchange ideas and talk about code, architecture, innovation, and open source in general. Anyone interested in PHP is welcome!

UNLV Student Union Building

Map to the Student Union Building. There is parking infront of the building.

Most food stalls are open till 8:00 pm. check the exact times here. 

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Moonlight, an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix systems, is now available in both Silverlight v1.o and 2.0 builds.  Silverlight, while it still has a long way to go to become as widely adapted as Adobe’s Flash, is leading the charge for Microsoft to become a more open eco-system for development.  Moonlight is not a Microsoft project, but Microsoft has been working together with Mono,  an open source project sponsored by Novell, to develop and run .Net client and server applications on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix, to make a Linux version of Silverlight happen.

While many pundits seem to be stuck in a “Microsoft isn’t open” mode, many indications are that the company has turned a corner, and with Silverlight, and Live Mesh, and the Windows Live platform, seems to be moving toward, if not actually embracing, a more open attitude.  Recent announcements by Google, Yahoo,  MySpace, and Facebook also indicate a general trend toward opening up the software world.

Moonlight Downloads

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