Archive for June, 2010

The Natural Choice: ASUS Launches New U Series Bamboo Collection

ASUS today reiterated its commitment to green values with a brand new Bamboo Collection that blends the wonders of natural design with cutting edge notebook computing and stylish mobility.

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Wyse Technology Showcases and Presents Desktop Virtualization-centric Cloud Computing Solutions at Cisco Live

SAN JOSE, Calif.—-Wyse Technology, the inventor and global leader in cloud client computing, today announced its presence at Cisco Live at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV, June 27th – July 1st.

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SAP to debut cloud app platform, River

NEW YORK, USA: Now, it’s SAP’s turn to enter the cloud computing space. SAP is segmenting its emerging cloud -computing strategy across multiple development platforms, including one code-named “River”, which will support lightweight extensions to its on-premises ERP (enterprise resource planning) software.

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Key component indentified that helps plants go green

A team of researchers from Duke University and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies has found a central part in the machinery that turns plants green when they sense light.

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Diamonds and the holy grail of quantum computing

Since Richard Feynman’s first envisioned the quantum computer in 1982, there have been many studies of potential candidates — computers that use quantum bits, or qubits, capable of holding an more than one value at a time and computing at speeds far beyond existing silicon-based machines for certain problems. Most of these candidate systems, such as atoms and semiconducting quantum dots, work …

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