Engineers Voice

The battle between processor powerhouses Intel and Advanced Micro Devices is one of the fiercest in the tech industry. After Intel dominated for many years with its x86 line of PC and server chips, AMD upped the stakes in the server market in 2003 with its Opteron line. It caught Intel off guard by overhauling its memory design, pushing out combo 32-bit/64-bit processors when Intel was advocating a 64-bit approach with Itanium that required rewriting applications. Then AMD hit its stride with a powerful dual-core processor. It also undercut the industry leader on price. The result: AMD’s server and workstation market share rose from 2.8% in 2003 to 27% in 2006, according to the company. Read more »

I was searching online jobs directory, and found that Kalgoorlie is quite famous and in demand of looking new talents or workers in the area of mining, project management, IT and technicians. Didn’t realize that even though I’ve been in Australia for more than a year now. Apparenetly, Kalgoorlie is still absent from the Australian version of the Monopoly board. If you wish, please go to http://www.monopoly.com.au/ and vote for Kalgoorlie to appear on the monopoly board. You can place a vote everyday until 10th February 2007.

What’s so great of a college degree anyway? A promise of high paying salaries? A promise for better living life ahead? A good time to meet more talented people in a concentrated area? Although these can be all true and false statement, you would probably need to readjust your own judgement. Wanna know why? Read more »

Creators of the peer-to-peer VoIP network Skype and the controversial file-sharing site Kazaa have unveiled their latest startup: Joost, an Internet TV company that they claim will revolutionize Internet-based television. Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom formally announced Joost Tuesday, after months of speculation about the duo’s latest creation, which had been known as The Venice Project. Read more »

Intel has unveiled an improved wireless card that will allow notebook PC users to share five times the data at twice the range of their current 802.11a/g cards, improving PCs’ ability to download music and stream high-definition video. Read more »

US scientists have found that two minutes in a microwave can sterilise most household sponges and plastic scrubbers, killing more than 99 per cent of bacteria that cause illness. Microwaves ovens are after all, the best weapon against germs that cause food poisoning! Read more »

Woodside Petroleum Ltd has delivered record annual production and revenue on the back of higher commodity prices, but, as expected, output issues at its Chinguetti oil field have started to bite. Woodside, Australia’s biggest independent oil and gas producer, posted production of 19 million barrels of oil equivalent (Mmboe) for the fourth quarter. Read more »

European aerospace group EADS on Thursday issued its third profit warning in less than a year due to production problems at Airbus, which now expects to post a 2006 loss despite record aircraft deliveries. Read more »

Publishers have often complained about the rigidness of the AdSense policy that prevents publishers from running AdSense on the same page as another contextual ad program. So running AdSense & Yahoo Publisher Network on the same page during the same page view would be a no-no, but rotated 50/50 would be perfectly within the AdSense (& YPN) policies and terms. But not any more. Their competitive ad policy has gotten much, much tighter when they updated their AdSense policies on 17th January 2007. Read more »

Microsoft has poached IBM’s chief architect Donald Ferguson as part of a recruitment drive to bring more web expertise into the company. While at IBM, Donald Ferguson led teams that were involved in developing applications such as WebSphere, Tivoli and the Lotus range. Read more »