tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31728319350776900272024-03-19T07:50:13.714-04:00A Computer BlogComputer News And ReviewsAndy Wendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01442779713721596612noreply@blogger.comBlogger264125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172831935077690027.post-16135372882366213202017-01-31T12:47:00.003-05:002018-10-26T07:44:11.514-04:00Possibly Future Hologram Smartphone Concept<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;">Your future smartphone could be entirely voice activated, displaying your text messages and other info with holograms. At least, that's the idea behind<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Alo</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;">, a new smartphone concept that imagines a touchscreen-less smartphone.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Alo- Created by French designer Jerome Olivet, ditches the typical smartphone display and </span></span><span style="font-size: 15px;">instead</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"> the voice activated phone will project holograms from its camera to show you messages, or let you watch videos.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></span> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">The core of the device is molded aluminum alloy, the outer shell is a "gelatinous, supple and natural envelope that perfectly fits in your hand.". Alo will come with an AI assistant that will respond to users voice commands and learn each users speach patterns.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></span> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Need a smartphone to hold you off until the holographic market takes off? <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/wireless/smartphones" target="_blank">Rent a smartphone today!</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://mashable.com/2017/01/30/alo-smartphone-concept-philippe-starck/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-Tech-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-Tech-Partial#OI2Mse8zwSqi" target="_blank"><br /></a></span></span> <span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://mashable.com/2017/01/30/alo-smartphone-concept-philippe-starck/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-Tech-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-Tech-Partial#OI2Mse8zwSqi" target="_blank">FULL STORY</a></span>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172831935077690027.post-75543691722998512142017-01-23T14:35:00.002-05:002017-01-23T14:35:32.157-05:00Top 10 Free Software Alternatives<br />
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No one likes spending all that money on those high end software's like Microsoft Office, Photoshop and Sony Vegas Pro, unless you have a company buying the licenses for you. Here are some of the best more affordable apps that will help you get the work done.<br />
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<li>GIMP (Free, for Windows, macOS, and Linux)</li>
<li>Libre Office (Free, for Windows, macOS, and Linux)</li>
<li>Inkscape (Free, for Windows, macOS, and Linux)</li>
<li>Blender (Free, for Windows, macOS, and Linux)</li>
<li>Avira (Free, for Windows) and Sophos (Free, for macOS)</li>
<li>LMMS/Linux MultiMedia Studio (Free, for Windows, macOS, and Linux)</li>
<li>VirtualBox (Free, for Windows, macOS, and Linux)</li>
<li>DaVinci Resolve (Free, for Windows, and macOS)</li>
<li>Linux (FREE OS)</li>
<li>Google Drive (Free, web based)</li>
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<a href="http://lifehacker.com/top-10-free-alternatives-to-expensive-software-1791300629" target="_blank">FULL STORY</a></div>
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PC gamers are by far the most die hard of gamers, yet most deny Windows 10 for a supposed drop in performance compared to Windows 7. However now Microsoft is promising to optimize gameplay with a new "Game Mode" in its new update. Its extremely vauge on details but on a post by the Xbox team, Game Mode will optimize your Windows 10 PC for increased performance in gaming, and thats basically it.<br />
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Want to test out Game Mode when it comes out but dont have a PC? <a href="http://rentacomputer.com/" target="_blank">Rent one today.</a><br />
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<a href="http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2017/01/14/windows-10-getting-speed-boost-new-game-mode/" target="_blank">FULL STORY</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172831935077690027.post-54791817055578511892017-01-12T15:30:00.003-05:002017-01-17T15:12:31.769-05:00New Opera Made Web Browser Called Neon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242;">Does your <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/" target="_blank">Rented Computer</a> need a makeover? Well Opera released a new web browser </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242;">today called Neon that’s meant to try out a bunch of untested design ideas. Neon isn’t close to being ready to replace your main web browser it’s being called a “concept browser” — but it does have some neat ideas that are fun to try out and, in some cases, you can imagine becoming part of a major browser one day.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Neon's homepage looks far different than any other browser's. Although it still has shortcuts to bookmarks and top websites, they are displayed as floating bubbles that are on top of your desktop wallpaper. There is no obvious search engine bar either; there is just a line above all of the floating balls asking you to type something in.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: inherit;">At the point the browser is at now it is too slow and odd to actually become a main browser for most people, but Opera isn't exactly shooting for that. Its real goal is to </span><span style="color: #424242;">experiment with new ideas and test new never before seen features.</span><span style="color: #424242; font-family: inherit;"> One of the smarter ideas in Neon is built-in support for split-screen browsing. Drag one website’s bubble (its tab) over top of an already open page, and Opera will offer to split your view in two. Their sizes are adjustable, though only one side of the split-screen will respond to other tabs you want to open up — the other side remains more or less fixed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Visually it is very pleasing. The browser also does away with traditional tabs, replacing them with circular icons on the right hand side of the browser, one for every page you have open. On the left hand side of the browser are a series of browser tools; one for screenshots, another for a gallery containing those screenshots, one for downloads, and finally the most interesting button pulls out an overlay that Opera calls the player. The player collects the songs and videos available to play throughout all of your tabs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #424242; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/12/14251546/opera-neon-concept-web-browser-released" target="_blank">FULL STORY</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172831935077690027.post-90612019423212809452016-12-22T12:33:00.002-05:002017-01-17T15:10:43.609-05:00New "Pixel" OS For PC And Mac Breathes New Life Into Old Computers<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizuFVSIq19t-1C4Tr0jiYCQGvc2vcNgUniMRVISpYRbwYUF7r6oReO459nqNAqSQ4mivKV7aTlrNtqfiUU6kjcc6f-amkKjjr5rH6POTM9VVi_Wz5GtlvvWmnvGhLYroX3lSI_O-SgdJ7M/s1600/fndvugyyu1ytb1965g7q.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizuFVSIq19t-1C4Tr0jiYCQGvc2vcNgUniMRVISpYRbwYUF7r6oReO459nqNAqSQ4mivKV7aTlrNtqfiUU6kjcc6f-amkKjjr5rH6POTM9VVi_Wz5GtlvvWmnvGhLYroX3lSI_O-SgdJ7M/s320/fndvugyyu1ytb1965g7q.webp" width="320" /></a><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #3e433e; font-family: "open sans" , "helveticaneue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Pixel is a lightweight operating system with a clean desktop UI, and is now available for PC or Mac users who might want to throw old hardware into renewed service.</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #3e433e; font-family: "open sans" , "helveticaneue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The lightweight Linux-based OS now comes as a downloadable image you can either burn to a DVD or load onto a USB drive. </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #3e433e; font-family: "open sans" , "helveticaneue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">That means if you have an old laptop lying around, like an ancient ThinkPad, you could get it going again with a modern OS for basic tasks, including web browsing via Chromium which is pre-installed.It </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #3e433e; font-family: "open sans" , "helveticaneue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">really sounds like a pretty low-risk way to recycle old hardware you might have hanging around. If you experience any problems with the OS contact <a href="http://www.computerservicenow.com/" target="_blank">Computer Service Now</a> for all of your computer service and troubleshooting </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #3e433e; font-family: "open sans" , "helveticaneue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/22/raspberry-pis-pixel-for-pc-and-mac-breathes-new-life-into-old-computers/?ncid=rss" target="_blank">See full story here</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172831935077690027.post-43813940150979684662016-02-04T12:31:00.001-05:002016-02-04T12:31:20.783-05:00Windows 10 Spying Concerns: Are They Still Viable?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When Windows 10 first launched many users quick to flock to the new operating system as they were in a hurry to get away from Windows 8. However, a lot of those users became unsure of Windows 10 when reports started coming in that the operating system was practically spying on everything you did. Some of the reports were completely false while others held some truth but were completely blown out of proportion. With the operating system now available for over 8 months, it's time to take a look at all the concerns people had and whether or not those worries are still relevant today.<br />
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Read more about this topic on the <a href="http://blog.computerservicenow.com/2016/01/15/still-worried-windows-10-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank" title="Still Worried Windows 10 Is Spying On You?">ComputerServiceNow Blog</a>!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172831935077690027.post-25099245585091753242016-01-29T11:46:00.000-05:002016-01-29T11:46:09.774-05:00Ransomware Is The Newest Virus Wreaking Havoc On PC Users<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Let's face facts. If you own a computer, whether it be a laptop, desktop, or tablet, you run the risk of getting some type of virus. Computer viruses come in all types of variations and can wreak total havoc on your technology. It seems that a new type of virus or malware is popping up every day and the most recent one is a real piece of work.<br />
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The newest computer virus to plague is known as Ransomware. Ransomware is a malware that is used by underground criminals to get cash quickly from the pockets of innocent computer users. Ransomware is a virus that takes control of your entire computer, locking it down, and demanding a "ransom" from you, the user, in order to get control of your PC back. While users were quick to shell out the money when Ransomware first arrived on the scene, we now have better ways to combat it. To learn more about Ransomware and how to combat it, go <a href="http://blog.computerservicenow.com/2016/01/04/warning-your-computer-could-be-held-for-ransom/" target="_blank">here</a>!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172831935077690027.post-68104214518707354972015-12-21T13:37:00.000-05:002015-12-21T13:37:02.036-05:00Technology Rentals 101: How To Save Your Business Time And Money!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Technology rentals are a great way to save you and your business a lot of time and money. Temporary, short-term technology rentals are the perfect solutions for your short-term needs. A lot of event professionals and business professionals are constantly going to trade shows, conventions, conferences, and seminars or hosting things like corporate training events or business meetings and all of these situations have a need for short-term technology rentals. But in order to know exactly what it means to rent technology, you need to hear about it from a professional.<br />
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Rentacomputer has been in the business of computer, technology, and AV rentals for over 25 years. However, even after all those years, there are still people who don't quite understand how renting technology works and how it can save you and your business time and money. Rentacomputer provides temporary business-to-business technology, such as computer rentals, office equipment rentals, and AV rentals for business events all over the United States, Western Europe, and Australia.<br />
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If that sounds interesting, and it should, you can read more about what Rentacomputer does and how it can benefit you and your business <a href="http://blog.rentacomputer.com/2015/12/21/be-smarter-rent-smarter-lessons-from-a-puppet/" target="_blank">here</a>!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172831935077690027.post-27089158523499420662015-12-07T12:47:00.001-05:002015-12-07T12:47:33.285-05:00These Free Chrome Extensions Are Exactly What You Need<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Chrome is one of the most widely used internet browsers and users are always looking for ways to make their experience on Chrome better. One of the best things about Chrome is that it is very flexible as it allows third-party extensions to be used with ease. However, finding good extensions isn't always easy. Below you will find some Chrome hacks that will completely change the way you use Chrome. The best part about all of these extensions is that they're completely free!<br />
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<b>Sunrise Calendar</b><br />
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Google Calendar is free and very powerful, but it's a little dull in the aesthetics department and is also missing some pretty important features. The Sunrise Calendar extension fixes both of these problems. In addition to that, it also comes with a mobile companion app for <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/wireless/iphones" target="_blank" title="Nationwide iPhone Rentals for Your Business Event from Rentacomputer!">iOS</a> and <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/tablets/android" target="_blank" title="Android Tablet Rentals for Your Business Event Anywhere in the United States from Rentacomputer!">Android</a> that could be better than the actual extension.<br />
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Some Chrome extensions are complicated, but the best ones don't have to be. Calculator for Chrome is probably one of the most useful Chrome extensions out there. No longer will you have to use the calculator on your <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/wireless/smartphones" target="_blank" title="Smartphone Rentals for Your Business Event Nationwide from Rentacomputer!">smartphone</a> or open a separate calculator app on your <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/computers/desktops" target="_blank" title="Desktop Computer Rentals for Your Business Event Anywhere in the U.S. from Rentacomputer!">desktop</a> every single time you need to add up some numbers.<br />
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Netflix is the most popular video streaming service around today. You use it all the time, your mom uses it all the time, practically every single person you know uses it all the time, but there are ways to make the service even better, especially on Chrome. NEhancer is a free Chrome extension that adds a lot of key information onto Netflix's website for TV shows and movies. This information includes things like trailers, Rotten Tomato ratings, IMDb info and a lot more.<br />
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<b>WorkFlowy</b><br />
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WorkFlowy is the ultimate list extension for Chrome. WorkFlowy is, according to its creator, "simple enough for a shopping list, and powerful enough to run a company." The key features include infinitely nested lists, tag and filter list items, full offline functionality, collaboration with others with live syncing, click to edit, mark items as complete, zoom in on any sub-list, works on phones and tablets with live syncing between devices, automatic syncing between your phone, <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/tablets/microsoft-surface" target="_blank" title="Nationwide Microsoft Surface Tablet Rentals for Your Business Event from Rentacomputer!">tablet</a> and computer, add notes to any list item, quick expand and collapse lists, and instant full text search.<br />
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<b>Criptext for Gmail</b><br />
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Criptext is a very comprehensive Gmail enhancement that adds a lot of important features to your Gmail experience. Almost everyone uses Gmail these days so extensions like Criptext are pretty handy. Criptext allows users to un-send emails before or after they've been read with the click of a button. In addition to that, they can also send self-destructing emails and attachments Mission Impossible style. Moreover, Criptext allows you to attach secure files up to 100MB in size and know exactly when emails are opened and when attachments are downloaded.<br />
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These are just a few of the <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/tablets/google-nexus" target="_blank" title="Google Nexus Rentals for Your Business Event Nationwide from Rentacomputer!">Google</a> Chrome hacks that are available for your <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/wireless/internet-hotspots" target="_blank" title="Nationwide Internet Rentals for Your Business Event from Rentacomputer!">internet</a> browser. These extensions help make things easier and more manageable and add a lot of benefits to using Chrome. If you want to make what is arguably the best internet browser out there even better then take a look at some of these awesome extensions.<br />
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I bet you never thought you would live to see the day we had 10TB hard drives did you? Well, helium-filled hard drives have finally reached this point by creating the first 10TB hard drives that use conventional recording methods.<br />
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Western Digital subsidiary HGST has created the Ultrastar He10 which, interestingly enough, is not the first 10B helium drive. HGST created the first real 10TB hard drive back in the summer. However, this new drive is the only helium drive that has 10TB and uses perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR), the standard recording technology for hard drives over the last 10 years.<br />
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The first 10TB drive from HGST used shingled magnetic recording (SMR). SMR uses magnetic tracks that overlap to increase capacity. The downside here is that there is very little guard space between the tracks, which makes rewriting data much more difficult and longer as adjacent tracks may need to be rewritten as well. That is why SMR is better-suited for cold storage as opposed to routine recording.<br />
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PMR has some negatives too. The problem with PMR is that is is coming to the limits of its potential capacity. Regardless, HGST has pulled off something quite amazing by stuffing seven platters into a standard 1-inch drive. Helium drives from other companies, like Seagate, top out at 8TB. Both Seagate and HGST have been putting money into new technology known as heat-assisted magnetic recording, which allows for a much higher capacity and is better suited for everyday use though these hard drives won't start showing up until next year at the earliest.<br />
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Just like with the earlier helium drives from HGST, the Ultrastar He10 is being marketed at enterprise and <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/computers/servers" target="_blank" title="Nationwide Server Rentals for Your Business from Rentacomputer!">server</a> use and will have a price tag of around $800. Compared to air, helium isn't as dense which means that there will be less of a drag on the moving parts of the drive. This decreased friction when combined with hermetic seals that keep out contaminants and humidity allow these drives to run at cooler temperatures than a standard HDD. This will also reduce your energy costs. This makes them perfect for use in servers though the direct impact on consumers will be minimal. Regardless, the larger capacity could benefit the cloud services that we are relying on more and more.<br />
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PC World recently reported that the company is planning on shipping a "limited number of workstations" that will come equipped with the super-fast supercomputer chip in the first half of 2016. As a result PC makers will have the ability to adopt Intel's supercomputer silicon in <a title="Nationwide Desktop Computer Rentals for Your Business Event from Rentacomputer!" href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/computers/desktops" target="_blank">desktop</a> models on a greater scale, according to Intel's Charles Wuischpard. I don't know about you, but I'm not sure I can handle a chip like this being in something that is sitting in my room or my office. But then again the power is very alluring.<br />
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The main question that is going to be on everyone's mind is, of course, what kind of specs we can expect from the Knight's Landing chip. This chip differs from the ones currently in your desktop in the fact that this supercomputer processor puts all of its cores onto a single piece of silicon. Then, all of these processors are bundled up with 16GB of on-package MCDRAM memory into a PCI-E add-in card. This is very similar to the ridiculous Nvidia GPUs that are currently being installed on supercomputers around the world.<br />
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Once you have all of this packed together and installed inside your computer you are left with a piece of hardware that is capable of computing single-precision calculations at a rate of 8 teraflops, or double-precision calculations at over 3 teraflops. PC World also noted that this chip will be used by the United States Department of Energy inside of its 9,300-core Cori supercomputer and, in addition to that, Intel has also claimed that 50 different manufacturers will ship systems that use this chip in time.<br />
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In the meantime the desktop workstations, which are essentially jacked up versions of the CAD, graphics and film editing computers that are used in offices where money is as abundant as air, will be made available to researchers who are interested in using a supercomputer but are otherwise unable to gain access to one. The idea is that these individuals will be able to develop and test code on the workstation before shipping it out, error-free, to a supercomputer somewhere in the future. I highly doubt that you will be getting something like this in your iMac anytime soon, though Intel is, at the very least, attempting to put this chip into the hands of people that would otherwise have no access to such a device.<br />
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According to the Microsoft Windows Lifecycle Fact Sheet, October 31st, 2016 is marked as the "end of sales for PCs with Windows 8.1 or Windows 7 pre-installed. After October 31st, 2016 the only option for customers will be to purchase new computers with <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/press/2015/07/windows-10-systems-now-available-for-rent" title="Rent a Windows 10 System for Your Business Event Nationwide from Rentacomputer!" target="_blank">Windows 10</a> installed. The only exception to this will be businesses with license agreements that entitle them to choose which version of Windows they wish to have pre-installed.<br />
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This deadline will be putting a lot of pressure on consumers who have become quite attached to Windows 7 and may be very apprehensive to upgrading to Windows 10 if they buy a new computer. However, this is a logical and necessary step for Microsoft in its goal of having more than 1 billion Windows 10 devices powered up. This also goes along with the company's message that Windows 10 is capable of bringing together <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/computers/desktops" title="Desktop Computer Rentals for Your Business Event Anywhere in the United States from Rentacomputer!" target="_blank">desktops</a>, laptops, <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/tablets/android" target="_blank" title="Nationwide Android Tablet Rentals for Your Business Event from Rentacomputer!" target="_blank">tablets</a>, and <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/wireless/smartphones" target="_blank" title="Rent a Smartphone for Your Business Event Anywhere in the U.S. from Rentacomputer!" target="_blank">smartphones</a> with apps that can run across every platform.<br />
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What Windows 7 users don't really realize is that this is actually really good for them. Microsoft usually sets the end-of-date for each version of Windows two years after the release of a new operating system. This means that the cutoff date for Windows 7 should have been October of 2014, which was two years after the launch of Windows 8. However, the severe lack of consumer demand for Windows 8 insisted that Microsoft keep the operating system around a while longer. Windows 8, if you remember, was Microsoft's attempt at making a touch-friendly operating system, though it transitioned horribly onto non-touch devices and was highly panned by users.<br />
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If you want to continue using Windows 7 on your existing PC or <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/laptops" target="_blank" title="Laptop Rentlas Nationwide for Your Business Event from Rentacomputer!" target="_blank">laptop</a> then you don't have to worry. Microsoft has announced that extended technical support will be available until January 14, 2020, meaning that you will be able to continue receiving patches, bug fixes, and other updates. This support is also offered to Windows 8.1 users, though it is extended to January 23rd, 2023.<br />
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Despite these deadlines, Microsoft is still heavily pushing Windows 10 to users. The new operating system, which came to users at the end of July of this year, is available as a free upgrade to users of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 for the first year of its existence. Microsoft keeps sneaking in pop-ups on the regular to remind users that Windows 10 is available. Microsoft also classified Windows 10 as an "optional update" and, as early as next year, expects to change that to a "recommended update" according to Windows and Devices Group Executive Vice President terry Myerson.<br />
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I have been using Windows 10 since it launched and it's really good. It takes the best things from Windows 7 and puts them in a modern format with new features and apps that really do bring all of your devices together. In addition to that, non-touchscreen users don't feel like they've been given second billing to touchscreen users, something that Windows 8 seemed to do. If you are looking for a Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 computer or laptop, you better move quick because this time next year that won't be an option.<br />
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Western Digital recently announced that it is buying up data storage vendor SanDisk for $19 billion in cash and stocks. This merger is coming at a time when the IT industry is evolving at breakneck speeds and companies are looking for new ways to get in on trends like wearable tech, the Internet of Things, and cloud computing. As a result, there has been a wave of mergers and acquisitions along with an increase of investment activity in the data storage market.<br />
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Western Digital's acquisition of SanDisk comes right after the market's biggest acquisition ever, when <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/dell" target="_blank" title="Nationwide Dell Technology Rentals for Your Business Event from Rentacomputer!">Dell</a> purchased EMC for $67 billion. That deal hit news outlets last week and, in addition, storage semiconductor maker PMC-Sierra has also received a number of bids to take it over while Unisplendor, who is owned by China's Tsinghua, agreed to buy 15% of Western Digital for $3.78 billion. Western Digital focuses mainly on hard disk drives (HDD) though it is facing an evolution in IT that is pushing companies towards addressing a changing set of requirements for both client and enterprise end customers.<br />
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Enterprises no longer have to rely entirely on tape drives for backups and hard drives for primary data. However, the do have to deal with higher speed requirements that come with applications like online transaction processing and big data analytics. Solid-state drives (SSD) are a vital piece of multi-faceted storage infrastructures whereas flash memory devices simply sit under DRAM as top-tier storage. Western Digital and SanDisk are both based in <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/us/california/los-angeles" target="_blank" title="Computer and AV Rentals for Your Los Angeles Event from Rentacomputer!">California</a> and they are both heavily involved in different segments of the consumer data storage market. Western Digital offers desktop NAS drives while SanDisk operates as a leader in flash-based thumb drives and memory expansion cards.<br />
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Earlier in the year, SanDisk, which is also known for its SSDs for <a a="" anywhere="" business="" computer="" desktop="" event="" for="" from="" href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/computers/desktops" in="" rent="" rentacomputer="" states="" target="_blank" the="" united="" your="">desktops</a> and <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/laptops" target="_blank" title="Laptop Rentals for Your Business Event Nationwide from Rentacomputer!">laptops</a>, announced its very first lineup of pocket-sized, high-capacity external drives. This buyout of SanDisk gives Western Digital an instant position in the global, non-volatile NAND flash memory market, according to Research Vice President of IDC Jeff Janukowicz. "Additionally, the NAND industry is at an infection point as it transitions from planar to 3D technology and access to that technology was a key piece of the deal," Janukowicz stated. "Now, WD is positioned to address a much larger footprint in the storage industry."<br />
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Western Digital noted during its announcement of the deal that the combination will "enable it to vertically integrate into NAND, securing long-term access to solid state technology at lower cost." SanDisk as 27 years of experience in the NAND flash memory industry and recently announced a deal with <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/toshiba" target="_blank" title="Toshiba Rentals for Your Business Event Nationwide from Rentacomputer!">Toshiba</a> to manufacture the world's densest 3D NAND, which is a 48-layer, 32GB chip that offers twice the capacity of the next densest memory. Also during the announcement Western Digital also noted the 15-year partnership between SanDisk and Toshiba and stated that it expects that relationship to be "ongoing". According to the company, "The joint venture provides stable NAND supply at scale through a time-tested business model and extends across NVM technologies such as 3D NAND."<br />
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According to Gregory Wong, an Analyst with Forward Insights, this deal between Western Digital and SanDisk will allow WD to enter the consumer SSD and enterprise SATA SSD market. "WD wants SanDisk for the access to the flash. Their PC HDD business is declining due to the weak PC market but also because SSDs are encroaching that space," Wong added. "Without access to NAND flash at cost, it would've increasingly been difficult to compete with NAND players in the enterprise space."<br />
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In case you didn't know, Windows 10 has a lot of neat little things built-in that allow you to save your battery life for longer. Sure there is the traditional power options menu that allows you to pick how long your computer should stay awake when you're not using it, but that's boring. What's cool is the new battery saver feature that switches off things like push notifications (Yes we know, your PC operating system has push notifications because Windows 10 was designed with mobile devices in mind too, get over it). So what do you need to know about these new battery settings?<br />
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The Power & Sleep menu, which can be accessed by going to Settings > System > Power > Sleep, isn't anything new. From this menu, you can choose how long your computer can be idle before it automatically shuts off the screen or goes into Sleep Mode. In addition to that, you can also customize it to do so when your <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/computers/desktops" target="_blank" title="Desktop Computer Rentals for Your Business Event Nationwide from Rentacomputer!">computer</a> is plugged in or running solely on battery power. There are also Additional Power Settings that you can click on, which opens up the Power Options menu in the Control Panel. From here you can edit your power plans, choose what happens when you close your <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/laptops" target="_blank" title="Nationwide Laptop Rentals for Your Business Event from Rentacomputer!">laptop</a> lid, or decide whether or not you need a password to unlock your computer when it wakes up from Sleep Mode.<br />
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A new feature with <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/press/2015/07/windows-10-systems-now-available-for-rent" target="_blank" title="Rent a Windows 10 Device for Your Business Event Anywhere in the US from Rentacomputer!">Windows 10</a> is Batter Saver. This is a battery-saving power mode that has been specifically optimized for Windows 10. This means that it can do things like limit background app activity and push notifications. This mode is very similar to ones that you would find on mobile devices, like <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/wireless/smartphones" target="_blank" title="Smartphone Rentals Anywhere in the United States for Your Business Event from Rentacomputer!">smartphones</a> or <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/tablets/android" target="_blank" title="Nationwide Android Tablet Rentals for Your Business Event from Rentacomputer!">tablets</a>. In addition to this, Batter Saver will automatically turn on when your laptop drops below 20% battery life though you can turn that off manually by going to Settings > System > Battery Saver and turning it off.<br />
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You can also tinker with Battery Saver mode. By going to the Battery Saver menu, click Battery Saver Settings to bring up the settings menu. From here you can adjust the point at which Batter Saver mode automatically kicks on from a range of 5% to 100% battery life. You can also choose whether or not to allow push notifications or lower screen brightness in Battery Saver mode or add app exceptions. Apps that you want to exclude from Battery Saver mode will be able to run in the background and send push notifications at all times.<br />
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The main Battery Saver menu allows you to see how much of your battery life is being used by different apps, simply click Battery Use to see. This will help you determine which apps to disable in Battery Saver mode, which is extremely useful. You can turn off the apps that drain the most battery life and not even worry about the ones that don't use any at all.<br />
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If you find yourself always needing to be connected when you're using your laptop and you can't figure out why your Windows 10 device is using so much power, consider going into some of these settings and tinkering around with things. You might be surprised at how much more efficient your battery usage will become and how much longer your laptop will last without having to be plugged in.<br />
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<a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/hp" target="_blank" title="HP Rentals for Your Business Event Anywhere in the United States from Rentacomputer!"><b>HP</b></a> has added Intel's latest 6th-generation Skylake CPU and the screen itself is an IPS display, allowing for wide viewing angles. The screen also comes with a 3440 x 1440 resolution as well as 4.9 million pixels and a 21:9 aspect ratio. According to HP, the Envy 34's display offers 99% of the sRGB color gamut and also has Technicolor certification.<br />
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As far as CPU options are concerned, the Envy 34 comes with a Core i5 or Core i7 Skylake dual-core with integrated graphics standard. If this isn't quite good enough for you then you can always opt for the GeFOrce GTX 960A. Nvidia typically special OEM versions of its GPUs, which generally means that this version will be a bit slower than the consumer model.<br />
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In terms of RAM storage there is included 8GB or 16GB of DDR4 with storage options ranging from 128GB SSDs to as much as 2TB hard drives and hybrid drives. Naturally, the lower specs come with the base priced model of the Envy 34, which in this case will run you $1,800 USD.<br />
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If the Envy 34 seems a bit too big for you liking, the you will be happy to know that HP is also offering 27-inch and 24-inch models, known as the Envy 27 and Envy 24, respectively. Both of these versions mirror the internal hardware of the Envy 34, with the Skylake Core i5 and Core i7 chips as well as similar RAM and storage options. However, on these devices HP is giving consumers the option of AMD Radeon R7 or Radeon R9 graphics.<br />
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In addition to that, the panels on the Envy 27 and Envy 24 are flat, instead of curved. Both are Technicolor certified and have resolutions from standard 1080x1920 HD up to Ultra HD 4K. The Envy 24 starts at $1,000 with the Envy 27 starting at $1,200.<br />
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As far as <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/computers/all-in-ones" target="_blank" title="All-in-One PC Rentals for Your Business Event Anywhere in the U.S. from Rentacomputer!"><b>all-in-ones</b></a> are concerned, the Envy 34 from HP is definitely one of the best looking. What it's got underneath the hood is nothing to shake a stick at either. Solid RAM, solid storage space, solid processor, and a solid graphics card(s) are sure to make this all-in-one be at the top of many a computer lover's list.<br />
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Amazon is getting ready to host its annual AWS re:Invent tech conference next week in <a title="Business Event Rentals in Las Vegas from Rentacomputer!" href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/us/nevada/las-vegas" target="_blank">Las Vegas</a>, with plans of talking to customers about its popular Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing that the online retailer provides. However, there is one product rumored to be announced at the event and that is a new, super-fast "in-memory" database, according to Merrill Lynch's Justin Post. According to Post, "Amazon may announce new database products like in-memory databases or higher performance database services like Aurora (MySQL)."<br />
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An in-memory database runs in your computer's memory instead of using <a title="Nationwide Desktop Computer Rentals for Your Business Event from Rentacomputer!" href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/computers/desktops" target="_blank">computer</a> storage. In addition to that, it is also capable of processing unspeakable amounts of data at nearly instantaneous speeds, according to the description from Oracle chairman Larry Ellison on Oracle's version of this very same product. the in-memory option is one of the key ways that Oracle is convincing its customers to upgrade to its latest database, Oracle 12c.<br />
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Another big name in this industry is SAP. SAP is trying to slowly wean its business software customers off of Oracle's database and onto its own in-memory alternative, known as Hana. SAP has wagered its entire company on the Hana database, according to SAP's chairman. In addition to that, Amazon already offers a plethora of ways to run in-memory databases on its cloud as well as a variety of its own databases.<br />
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Amazon has stated that it is working on more databases. In a job listing for a database developer the company said, "These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast, but still at an early stage and working on ambitious new initiatives where an engineer at any level can have significant technical and business impact." Should Amazon introduce a new in-memory database, it won't be good news for either Oracle or SAP.<br />
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Databases are what an entire company's operations depend on. As a result, companies don't switch them out very often or very easily. However, database vendors are also known for some pretty wicked measures to get money out of their customers. As more and more businesses jump into cloud computing, a lot of them wouldn't mind finding less-expensive <a title="Server Rentals for Your Business Anywhere in the United States from Rentacomputer!" href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/servers" target="_blank">database</a> alternatives. What are these less-expensive alternatives? Amazon.<br />
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Amazon is constantly cutting prices and, as of July, it has cut AWS prices 49 times and just announced another price cut for its storage service. Amazon is also due for even more cost cuts as rumors are circulating that the company will announce them at the AWS re:Invent tech conference.<br />
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This race to cut costs has generated a pretty catchy name: The Race to Zero. This means that, at some point, some cloud providers will cut prices so low that they will be giving them away for free. Google, earlier this year, actually went ahead and did that with its free Photo app and even threw in free unlimited storage too.<br />
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While Amazon delves deeper into database services and continues to cut costs along the way, enterprises may be very happy to give this new database a try.<br />
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Microsoft released a statement acknowledging the downloads stating, "For those who have chosen to receive automatic updates through Windows Update, we help customers prepare their devices for <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/press/2015/07/windows-10-systems-now-available-for-rent" title="Windows 10 Rentals for Your Business Event Nationwide from Rentacomputer!">Windows 10</a> by downloading the files necessary for future installation. This results in a better upgrade experience and ensures the customer's device has the latest software. This is an industry practice that reduces the time for installation and ensures device readiness."<br />
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If a Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 user has Windows Update set to the default option, which was recommended by Microsoft, that allows the operating system to download and install security and other bug patches automatically in the background then Microsoft will push the Windows 10 upgrade files to the drive.<br />
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This upgrade can range from over 3GB to almost 6GB and is placed in the hidden "$Windows.~BT" folder. This folder has long been a destination for Windows upgrades and the Windows 10 upgrade will remain here until the user expresses an interest in installing the operating system...at least that's what we hope.<br />
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Microsoft has been pre-loading the Windows 10 upgrade on systems since the end of July, though it was believed that the practice was limited to PCs whose users had accepted Microsoft's free offer and reserved a copy of the operating system through an app the company automatically installed back in the spring and early summer on nearly every single <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/computers/desktops" title="Short-Term Desktop Rentals for Your Business Event Anywhere in the U.S. from Rentacomputer!">PC</a> running Windows 7 Home and Windows 8.1 Home, and on many PCs running Windows 7 Professional and Windows 8.1 Professional.<br />
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Once the Windows 10 upgrade was downloaded to the device, the user was notified via the app that installation was ready. But this new scheme is completely different in the fact that the bits are downloaded to the PC, regardless of the fact that the user has not asked for the upgrade whatsoever. What's not surprising is the people who noticed this first were the ones with data caps mandated by their internet service providers, especially those who relied on cellular connection to the internet.<br />
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There is a particularly long thread on Slashdot that has several commenters claiming that they had exceeded their caps because Microsoft downloaded this massive update to their devices without their approval. One comment reads, "I had to travel recently, so I took a <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/laptops" title="Nationwide Laptop Rentals for Your Business Event from Rentacomputer!">laptop</a> with clean Windows 8.1 Pro install. At my destination, I purchased a SIM (they only had 1GB data packages) and put it into the 3G/<a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/wireless/internet-hotspots" title="Wireless Internet Rentals for Your Business Event Nationwide from Rentacomputer!">Wi-Fi router</a> I carry. I powered the laptop, connected to Internet via said router, checked a few things, then went away for a few hours. When I got back to the apartment, my data package (and Internet connectivity) was killed because Microsoft idiots decided to start downloading Windows 10 even though I have explicitly closed/rejected all the offers."<br />
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Other users did not appreciate the unwanted upgrade that landed on their limited storage space. Anyone with a 128GB SSD would be very unhappy if 5% of their storage capacity was suddenly occupied without their approval. Others wondered whether Microsoft would take the next logical step by either giving users notifications telling them to apply the installed upgrade or make the move of triggering the download automatically.<br />
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If they triggered the download automatically it wouldn't be much different from what they've already done with those users who accepted the free upgrade and reserved a copy. It is also possible that a lot of users on the receiving end of the notifications would approve of the upgrade or even appreciate the fact they didn't have to wait a long time for the download to complete. However, if Microsoft downloaded the update without consent (again) then the people may very well grab their torches and pitchforks.<br />
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With significant drivers expanding the mission critical applications in the industry, it's no surprise that Linux is the fastest growing operating system in the business. Speed, agility, a unified development environment and cost are all factors to this success. In addition to that, Linux's quality has advanced in recent years with mobile driving an increased focus on this platform. IBM has a lot of eggs in this basket, pushing its z Systems platform to take advantage of this trend and provide the strongest large scale offering around. IBM is convinced that they can expand their capability by taking Linux to new heights and are doing so by announcing the expansion of their coverage. Customers have begun wanting IBM to take Linux and give it the same focus as the company's most capable systems, and that's exactly what IBM is doing.<br />
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IBM's LinuxOne Portfolio is designed to provide a selection of Linux distribution of its choosing and with the scale and support you would expect from IBM's most powerful systems, like the z System. In addition to that, there are two other offerings, both of which are named after penguins. These two systems are known as the LinuxONE Emperor and the LinuxONE Rockhopper. Emperor is the premier offering, providing the greatest flexibility and scalability along with performance and trust for business-critical Linux applications. Emperor also has the greatest capacity range and no top end, meaning it can be expanded whenever and however you need to. Rockhopper is the entry system that starts much smaller than Emperor and provides a solution for a smaller company or unit.<br />
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Both of the systems allow you to choose your distribution, hypervisor, runtime, management tools, your choice of databases, and your choice of analytics. There are other coverages on hypervisors as well, including PR/SM. z/VM, and KVM. Languages include Python, Pearl, COBOL, Java, and Node.js. On the management side, we have WAVE, IBM Cloud Manager, OpenStack, Docker, Chef, Puppet, and VMware vRealize Automation. In terms of databases, there's Oracle, DB2LUW, Maria DB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL with analytics include Hadoop, Big Insights, DB@BLU, and Spark. The range of offerings is also pretty good, including single platform, multi-platform, on premise, off premise, and multiple mixed cloud environments with a common toolset.<br />
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When it comes to pricing, things are pretty flexible. There's a Pay-Per-Use model with no upfront payment needed, a fixed monthly or quarterly payment, and variable costing that scales based on usage. A second pricing model uses a 36-month fixed lease with a 36-month usage contact and a right to return after 1 year. The final payment style is a Pre-Core rental model that allows you to order what you need when you need it, add licenses as needed, decrease licenses as needed or cancel with a 30-day notice.<br />
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Scale out and up supports up to 8 thousand virtual servers in a single system along with tens of thousands of containers, tens of thousands of concurrent users, and the ability to run test, development, and production in a single system. There is a significant focus on speed here as <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/computers/desktops/lenovo" title="Lenovo/IBM Computer Rentals for Your Business Event from Rentacomputer!">IBM</a> has included its fastest processor, biggest I/O pipe, up to 10TB of memory, and 4 levels of cache, all of which brings you a sub-second end user response time at full load. The platform is designed to run at 100% utilization and to spin containers and virtual servers in a matter of minutes, automatically provide physical resources as needed in seconds via automatic resources provisioning and reallocation.<br />
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IBM testing has shown that it can handle up to 30 billion RESTful web interactions per day with up to 350,000 database read and writes per second. This is twice the performance of competitors for any NoSQL database, along with the longest single DB node. This assists in avoiding costs, complexity, and overhead of sharding.<br />
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This is Linux without limits. The Open Mainframe Project is a key element in the effort and it is being pushed forward by the Linux foundation in order to drive capabilities and growth. IBM is showing a commitment to driving this project with a lot of funding and company resources. This includes IBM Linux Technology Centers, Open Source Community Contributions, Academic Initiative and Training Programs, and open access to Mainframe community clouds. Members of this project include CA, CompuWare, BMC, Marris College, and the University of Washington.<br />
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<a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/servers/ibm" title="Short-Term IBM Server Rentals for Your Business from Rentacomputer!">IBM</a> is pulling out all the stops here and this is definitely one of the most significant moves by the company in the past 10 years. IBM is enabling its centers worldwide to port, test, and benchmark key applications with free access to the Mainframe Community Cloud for developers and students across a plethora of top-tier universities. IBM definitely sees its future tied closely to Linux and a score of students coming from educational institutions and is focused on ever more mobile, flexible, applications.<br />
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Batteries. We need them for almost everything we use. They're in our <a title="Nationwide Laptop Rentals for Your Business Event from Rentacomputer!" href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/laptops">laptops</a>, our smartphones, our video game controllers, our remotes, and anything we use that is now wireless. But the one thing wrong with batteries in today's world is that they are finite. Eventually, they will run out of power and there's not a whole lot we can do about that. Or is there?<br />
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Researchers have recently developed a new material for a basic battery component that, according to them, will allow almost any battery indefinite power storage. This new material, known as a solid electrolyte, could increase battery life as well as battery storage capacity and safety as liquid electrolytes are the leading cause of battery fires.<br />
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The standard lithium-ion batteries that we use today use a liquid electrolyte. This liquid electrolyte is an organic solvent that has been known to overheat and cause fires in things like cars, commercial airliners and even <a title="Short-Term Smartphone Rentals for Your Business Event from Rentacomputer!" href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/smartphones">smartphones</a>. With a solid electrolyte, there is absolutely no safety problem whatsoever.<br />
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According to Gerbrand Ceder, a professor of materials science and engineering at MIT and one of the main researchers on the project, "You could throw it against the wall, drive a nail through it - there's nothing there to burn." In addition to that, a solid-state electrolyte will have virtually no degradation, which means that such batteries could last through "hundreds of thousands of cycles," Ceder continued.<br />
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Organic electrolytes also have limited electrochemical stability, which means that they lose their ability to produce an electrical charge over time. In addition to MIT, scientists from the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, the University of California at <a title="Computer and AV Rentals for Your San Diego Business Event from Rentacomputer!" href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/us/california/san-diego">San Diego</a> and the University of Maryland also conducted research on the project.<br />
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The findings were published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Materials and the researchers described the solid-state electrolytes as an improvement over the current lithium-ion batteries we are using today. Electrolytes are one of three main components in a battery along with anode and cathode terminals.<br />
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The electrolyte component of the battery separates the battery's positive cathode and negative anode terminals while allowing the flow of ions between terminals. A chemical reaction then takes place between the two terminals, producing an electric current.<br />
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Previous problems with solid electrolytes are that they were incapable of conducting ions fast enough to be efficient energy, producers. The team of researchers from MIT and Samsung say that they have overcome that problem. Another advantage of a solid-state lithium-ion battery is that it can perform under very cold temperatures with Ceder calling this breakthrough "a real game-changer" that creates an "almost perfect battery".<br />
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On Monday, Acer announced that its 23.8-inch Aspire Z3-710 Series of all-in-one desktop PCs are saving you some time by shipping with Windows 10. so you won't have to do the free upgrade from Windows 8.1.<br />
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The Z3-710-UR55 at $750 and Z3-710-UR54 at $900 will be the two models that ship with Windows 10. The Z3-710-UR55 comes with an Intell Core i3-4170T dual-core processor clocked at 3.2GHz with 3MB of cache, 6GB of DDR3L RAM, 1TB hard drive, DVD writer, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 + LE, 1080p webcam, three USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports, GbE LAN, and stereo speakers.<br />
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The Z3-710-UR53 has a Core i5-4590T quad-core processor clocked at 2GHz with 6MB of cache and 8GB of RAM. If you're just using general purpose computing chores, it might not be worth the additional $150 as you only get 2GB of additional RAM. Even with the processor being an upgrade in cores and cache, it really is a downgrade in clock speed.<br />
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When it comes to programming languages, most people probably can't name more than 2. Popular answers to this question typically include languages like C++ or JavaScript, but there is a whole host of other languages out there for people to use. And just because you've never heard of one doesn't mean that it isn't the most popular programming language on the other side of the country.<br />
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<a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/us/california">Silicon Valley</a> may be the hotbed of new and exciting tech, but most programmers and developers are working hard in other industries, like big business. A recent programmer Q&A from the site Experts Exchange delved deep into its own data to determine what exactly the most popular programming languages are in the United States.<br />
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The survey took a look at who was asking questions about which programming languages, which was one of the factors in determining which states used which programming languages. In addition to that, users who were qualified "Experts" on the site seemed to favor PHP heavily.<br />
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If you look at the data and simply go off of the number of questions asked then it's clear to see that Microsoft's .NET programming language is seeing increased use. However, most people in the business are not surprised by these results.<br />
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PHP is a script language that is pretty much the standard with web developers, despite the fact that a lot of programmers don't seem to like all that much. Going along with that, .NET is a <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/press/2015/07/windows-10-systems-now-available-for-rent">Microsoft</a> standard that isn't exactly the most talked about but it is a good entrance for coders who are just getting started with learning to build apps around Microsoft platforms, platforms which are widely used in the business world.<br />
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What this data also does is show those in the Silicon Valley that the popularity of the newest programming languages is insignificant when compared to the driving force of existing options. Some of the more trendy languages, like Ruby on Rails and Swift, don't even appear on the list.<br />
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So what are the most popular programming languages in the country? Here's the list:<br />
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<li>ASP</li>
<li>Cold Fusion</li>
<li>C++</li>
<li>C#</li>
<li>Delphi</li>
<li>Java</li>
<li>JavaJ2EE</li>
<li>JavaScript</li>
<li>.NET</li>
<li>PHP</li>
<li>Powershell</li>
<li>Python</li>
<li>Shell</li>
<li>SQL</li>
<li>VisualBasic</li>
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Just to note, <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/us/west-virginia">West Virginia</a> and <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/us/north-dakota">North Dakota</a> didn't return any significant data....coders must not exist there.<br />
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I guess the Science Fiction-esque future that Google Glass suggested in its ads is a little bit further ahead of us than Google realized. Google Glasses were all but a huge consumer flop. The general public just wasn't ready for goofy-looking, augmented reality glasses.<br />
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But that doesn't mean this product is dead, at least not yet. According to a recent FCC filing discovery, 9to5Google revealed the next version of Google Glass. This edition will be geared towards applications that are used in the enterprise space, leaving out the novelty consumer-oriented functions that were featured in the first "Explorer Edition".<br />
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The "Enterprise Edition" Google Glass is said to sport a larger prism display for a better augmented experience. This serves as an attempt to minimize eye strain many early glass users complained about.<br />
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Additionally the Enterprise Edition will drop the Texas Instruments processor for an Intel Atom processor which will be faster and have better battery life than existing Android Wear <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/wireless/apple-watch-rentals">smartwatches</a>.<br />
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While the Explorer Edition often overheated or ran out of batteries, Enterprise Edition promises to run cooler, even with the additional external battery pack Google is experimenting with.<br />
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The last thing cited in the report was a super-fast 802.11ac Wi-Fi with dual-band support for 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless channels, meaning even faster video streaming.<br />
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Google's decision to shift their Glass strategy towards enterprise customers is a huge, but intelligent shift. Yes, Google, assisting with specialized medical, law enforcement, or even business applications seems more important than letting consumers play virtual reality games.<br />
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Linux gaming is starting to catch on and build up some momentum. Following in the footsteps of Valve’s Source engine, Epic’s Unreal Engine 4, and Unity 5, Crytek's CryEngine supports Linux. This also means that it will have support for SteamOS. This also means that it will be way easier for developers who are currently making games on these engines to add support for Linux.<br />
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Even with this, developers will still have to go a little out of their way and do some work in order to add Linux support to their Steam games, so every game that comes out won't have it. So don't get your hopes up on that. But either way, there will be a lot of titles coming out in the future and the technology will become more widely adopted. It reduces the effort needed by a lot.<br />
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This might not be huge news to all of the indie game players out there. Smaller companies might not want to invest the extra time into adding support for Linux, but for the huge, new AAA games the cost of porting them to Linux goes way down, and because SteamOS is a really promising, big new platform, it's starting to look like a much better idea to these big gaming companies. When the core engine of the game already supports that platform, everything else is pretty simple because all the hard work is already done.<br />
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On top of all that, engines that already support Linux should get a huge improvement in the quality of ports. Some of the Linux games currently on Steam use a lot of Windows coding and Direct3D, which makes performance a little bit problematic for Linux users. This new change will mean that developers can do away with whatever tricks they were using to make Windows code run (badly) on top of Linux.<br />
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According to Avango Technologies, they are ready to buy out Broadcom for a whopping $37 billion. That is a huge amount of money that you could probably buy anything you ever wanted with, and Bloomberg says it is the biggest tech deal to ever be made. Avango said that after the deal is done, the combined worth of the companies will be $77 billion.<br />
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The new company is going to be called Broadcom LTd, and it will be headed by Hock Tan, the CEO of Avango. Right behind companies like Intel, Samsung, TSMC, Qualcomm, and Micron, Broadcom would be the 6th largest semiconductor company in the world.<br />
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Many people don't really know about Avango, but they started out as a division of Hewlett-Packard before they split off into their own company years later. And everyone is pretty familiar with <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/hp">HP</a>. Avango specializes in offering products for wireless communications, wired infrastructure, enterprise storage, and industrial applications. Broadcom is mainly known for their chips for communications devices and for their video solutions. They also make the chips for the popular Raspberry Pi computers.<br />
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The chip industry has already been privy to big moves like this. Just a couple of months ago NXP announced that it was planning on acquiring Freescale for just under $17 billion. It's too soon to see how the chip industry will be affected or what's to come from this new acquisition but as soon as details drop you'll find them here on A Computer Blog.<br />
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The Google I/O developers conference is what most people look forward to from Google every year. Even though that event has already come and gone, that doesn't mean there isn't anything left to look forward to from the company for the rest of the year. Google just announced that it will be holding a Ubiquitous Computing Summit this fall in San Francisco, California.<br />
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Just basing an idea off the name of the event won't get you anywhere as it isn't very descriptive. But the event will focus on the idea of making it easier to use software across a lot of different devices and form factors. The idea is that software should be universal across different things like smartphones, tablets, TVs, smartwatches, a car, etc....<br />
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On the developers end of the idea, they are trying to make all of these devices run the same universal software without having to change any of the code. A Google developer has also said that the summit will also focus on working on context-aware apps that will know which device is running them, where it is running them, how it is using them, and all kinds of other stuff. It is pretty interesting. They are now working on setting up guidelines for developing the software as well.<br />
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The idea isn't so new. Google has been talking about doing this type of thing for years now. All of the different versions of Android, like Lollipop and Jelly Bean, were all said to be steps toward unifying the Android experience across all of the different devices. Over the past year, Google has brought together all of their Android development kits for all of the different form factors. Even Microsoft is jumping on the bandwagon, and they are making Windows 10 to run not only on PCs, but on all of their smartphones and tablets, and even on the Xbox One.<br />
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The Ubiquitous Computing Summit doesn't have an exact date yet, just that the summit will be held this Fall in <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/us/california/san-francisco">San Francisco</a>. But as there is more information surfacing, you will be sure to find it here.<br />
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