Sunday, May 9, 2010

“Taiwan computer maker Acer posts profit in Q1” plus 3 more

“Taiwan computer maker Acer posts profit in Q1” plus 3 more


Taiwan computer maker Acer posts profit in Q1

Posted: 09 May 2010 12:59 AM PDT

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Acer Inc., the world's second largest computer vendor, said Thursday its quarterly profit surged 62 percent to 3.3 billion New Taiwan dollars ($105 million) on a rebound of global computer demand.

1 Molecule Computes Thousands of Times Faster Than a PC

Posted: 08 May 2010 11:47 PM PDT

alexhiggins732 writes with this tantalizing PopSci snippet: "A demo of a quantum calculation carried out by Japanese researchers has yielded some pretty mind-blowing results: a single molecule can perform a complex calculation thousands of times faster than a conventional computer. A proof-of-principle test run of a discrete Fourier transform a common calculation using spectral analysis and ...

PC use increasingly basks under the cloud

Posted: 08 May 2010 11:03 PM PDT

The digital world loves to revel in its own jargon, and one of its most popular phrases today is "cloud computing." You see the expression everywhere new uses for the Internet are discussed.

Computer building's easy PC

Posted: 08 May 2010 05:06 AM PDT

RESIDENTS have been learning how to build computers during a workshop at a community centre.

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