Silver jubilee of Dot-com

Exactly 25 years ago, computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc. registered the first .com web domain ever: symbolics.com. In 1985, a Cambridge, Mass, company named Symbolics became the first to register a dot-com domain. By the end of the year, only five other companies had dot-com addresses, and it was nearly two years before there were a hundred.

And while the .com crash proved that a well-chosen name isn’t enough for a successful company, .coms still play a very important part of our online lives. Despite many other top-level domains available, .com is still the most coveted TLD — the one that many people still associate with the world wide web in general.

In 1997, when the Internet was start booming there were about one million dot-coms had been registered. When the first dot-com addresses were registered, no one expected it would become as pervasive in our lives as it is today. Today, there are about 80 million dot-com sites.

Samsung’s upcoming Slate PC will compete with iPad

According to Samsung, iPad is lack of processing power and it doesn’t have enough connectivity options. Samsung claimed this tablet PC has more potential than an iPad. It also claimed that Slate PC will also have greater flexibility. Samsung reports that it is looking at two platforms from Intel to power the unnamed device: Atom or the Moorestown System on a Chip.

Samsung’s Emmanuele Silanesu assures that the upcoming new tablet pc will have a much stronger focus on the consumer market than the Q1. So that consumer can get an attractive device in a reasonable price.

Opera has decided to promote Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 to stable versions

Popular mobile internet browser provider Opera has decided to remove beta tag from its latest mobile browsers Opera mini 5 and Opera mobile 10. The beta version of Opera Mini 5 and Opera mobile 10 have been used for several months. From now the two popular mobile web browsers like Opera Mini 5 and Opera mobile 10 are available in stable version.

Opera mini 5 beta has brought many expansions including tabs options, and speed dial option. Opera Mobile 10 beta also have some improvements like tabs and speed dial (probably being the most important). This expansions have made its (Opera mini 5 and Opera mobile 10) predecessor pale in comparison.

Compared to the betas, Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 don’t bring any new feature.

Zynga’s revenue has touched the sky in 2009

Zynga is the number one social gaming company on the web. Popular social online games by zynga are Cafe World, Dragon Wars, FarmVille, Fashion Wars, FishVille, Mafia Wars, PetVille, Pirates, Roller Coaster, Scramble, Special Forces, Street Racing, Vampires, Word Twist, YoVille, Zynga Poker and so on. No download is required for Zynga games, and Zynga uses Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, Hi5, and iphone as platform for these games and social networking.

When Zynga got 5 million users its goal had been to get to 12 million daily active users by the end of the year 2009, but now they have ended 2009 with around 65 million users.

Zynga’s revenue has increased like boom with its users. According to Zynga CEO Mark Pincus, ZYnga’s revenue run rate has increased by additional 246 percent to 260 percent in the year 2009. So, Zynga’s annualized revenue run rate is now more than $300 million in 2009. And, earlier this month, the company closed a $180 million round of funding.

Based on preliminary sales trend on virtual goods, Zynga will likely do at least $200 million in revenues this calendar year through virtual farm games only.

Social networks like Facebook, Twitter may face more sophisticated attacks in 2010

McAfee warned that Social networks will face increasingly sophisticated hacker attacks in 2010. McAfee said, “The explosion of applications on Facebook and other services will be an ideal vector for cybercriminals, who will take advantage of friends trusting friends to click links they might otherwise treat cautiously,”

In its 2010 Threat Predictions report, McAfee expected that hackers were expected to try to take advantage of the proliferation of URL shortening services such as bit.ly and tinyurl.com. It has also expected to see increased threats to banking security, Adobe products (especially Acrobat Reader and Flash), Chrome computer operating system by Google, and Microsoft Office applications and email remained vulnerable for its increasing popularity among individual users, corporations, and government institutions. However, the Santa Clara, California, computer security firm said that they are expecting to see an increase in the effectiveness of law enforcement to fight back against cybercrime in 2010.

Google Chrome for Mac and Linux operating system now on air

Google has released a version of its popular web browser Google Chrome on December 8, 2009 for Macintosh computers. Google’s target is to challenge Safari Web browser offered by Apple to its users. Google also released a beta version of Chrome for computers running on open-source Linux operating systems on the same day.

Google claimed its extra effort to build a fast and polished browser for Mac. The Macintosh version of Chrome is still in ‘beta’ version and yet to unveil in full swing. While using the beta version, Macintosh users do not yet have customization features such as allowing extension programs or bookmark management.
Google has also planned that Linux and Windows compatible versions of Chrome could be customized with features such as mini “extension” programs. Already the beta version of Google Chrome for windows has a lot of extensions available to download from Google Chrome Extensions (beta).

Google Chrome for Mac runs on Mac OS X and the Linux version of Chrome supports Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora & openSUSE Linux.

Google Chrome Screenshoot from Mac OS X

Google Chrome Screenshoot from Linux

Google Chrome Extensions available in beta

Here are a few fun facts from the Google Chrome for Mac team:

• 73,804 lines of Mac-specific code written
• 29 developer builds
• 1,177 Mac-specific bugs fixed
• 12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Mac code base, 48 external code contributors
• 64 Mac Minis doing continuous builds and tests

And here are some from the Google Chrome for Linux team:

• 60,000 lines of Linux-specific code written
• 23 developer builds
• 2,713 Linux-specific bugs fixed
• 12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Linux code base, 48 external code contributors

Download Google Chrome for Mac/Linux

Download Google Chrome for Mac
Download Google Chrome for Linux

Google product manager Brian Rakowski believes that the betas of Google Chrome for Mac, Linux and extensions will fulfill some sort of e-wishes of internet users.

The world’s fastest supercomputer introducing by IBM

In 2010, IBM will release a radical new chip which may become the world’s fastest supercomputer named Blue Waters. It will be able to do massively complex calculations in an instant and it is being housed in a special building on the Urbana-Champaign campus in a water-cooled rack to pull the heat out. It’ll be capable of achieving 10 petaflops (Petaflop is the key indicator of supercomputer performance, A petaflop = 1 quadrillion floating point operations per second) about 10 times as fast as the fastest supercomputer today. IBM is going to turn on the supercomputer in 2011.

The Supercomputer uses Power7 fuses, the flagship Power chip design with key technology from a separate “Cell” processor that was part of IBM’s Roadrunner system at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. It integrates eight processing cores in one chip package and each core can execute four tasks makes the Power7 chip special. These threads can turn an individual chip into a virtual 32-core processor. As a yardstick, Intel’s high-end Xeon processors typically have two threads per processing core. It is also using novel memory technology. In this super computer IBM has avoided ballooning and costly chip counts and elected to use a technology called E-DRAM, keeping the total number of transistors to 1.2 billion. IBM said E-DRAM will help to get the performance up of the computer. Most of the crash tests are now done on these machines. Now it’s ready to unveil.