Gmail has Increased its Attachment Limit to 20 MB!

Google is flying with all its colors. Earlier this week, Gmail, one of the most popular free email client has announced that it has increased its attachment limit to 20 MB from 10 MB. This means, now you can send share your favorite pictures and songs with your friends. Gmail is emerging as a leader in free email and pop3 email service providers. Earlier it was released as a private beta by invitation only, but in February this year, it has gone purely public. According to Google, they are increasing the storage capacity of Gmail with a rate of 145 MB a year and the team hopes that the storage capacity will reach a mark of 3 GB by the end of 2008, imagine then we can use gmail as our hard disk.



Gmail Drive In your Windows Explorer

Download this gmail driver to get the Gmail hard disk. . It comes as one of the drives in your windows explorer, in which you can drag and drop your files. This feature is really cool, you just need to open the gmail drive in your explorer and login to your account then start drag and drop.



The main aim of Google is to provide a rich user experience, with programming like Ajax and java scripts, Google is delivering this very efficiently. Gmail also offers spam filtering system, through which a message marked as spam will automatically get deleted after 30 days. They have recently launched a downloadable version of Gmail for mobiles.

Funny Story

Gmail was a project begun by Google developer Paul Buchheit a year before it was announced to the public. For several years, the software was available only for internal Google employees. Gmail was finally announced in 2004, this news came as a rumours. They day being an April Fool’s Day, nobody believed this news. As Google was knows for making April Fool’s jokes (such as Pigeon Rank . Then finally Rosenberg, Google’s vice-president of products was interviewed by BBC News as saying, “We are serious about Gmail”.


The major competitors of Gmail were Hotmail, Yaboo, AOL. There were many ups and downs with the storage capacity offered by all these email clients. But finally Gmail managed to get on top with the attachment doubled this year to 20 MB. But as far as storage limit is concerned, earlier this month, Yahoo has announced their un-limited storage capacity.

Global Warming A Growing Concern

I hope, every one know about Global Warming and the its increasing effects.

No, No, do not get surprised, I am not growing to write about the climatic changes of our Earth in my post, but rather I will stick to my title which is “Technology”. In this post, I will be writing about how Technology can help in reducing Global Warming and its ill causes. The WHO is organizing many campaigns to create awareness among us regarding the hazards of Global Warming.


Hardware


Dell’s Contribution




Do you remember, Last year, in the month of December, Dell has introduced its new range of servers called Energy Smart Servers to reduce power consumption. The Dell PowerEdge Energy Smart 1950 and 2950 can deliver up to 25 percent greater performance per watt while reducing power consumption by 20 percent. According to Dell, these improvements can save hundreds of dollars per server every year, which can translate to millions of dollars per year in large data center deployments. They also disclosed that the New PowerEdge Energy Smart servers combined with Dell OptiPlex desktops and Dell's industry leading-services, partnerships and sustainability programs deliver on our commitment to drive energy-efficient solutions that increase performance and reduce power consumption from the desktop to the data center. If your company uses Dell hardware, you might be aware of the recently announced OptiPlex 740 and 320 desktops joining Dell's Energy Smart technology. Especially, OptiPlex 740, which can use 70 percent less power than its predecessors. The new hardware from Dell include low-flow fans with a power speed control mechanism, higher-efficiency power supplies, low-voltage processors, and factory-integrated BIOS designed for increased efficiency and air flow


If the hardware from Dell would have come a year earlier, enough electricity could have been saved to avoid about 12.5 million tons of CO2 emissions, the equivalent of removing about 2.5 million cars from the road. The potential savings for customers about $1.6 billion in operating costs. If we consider this percentage all over the world, the cause for Global Warming will be drastically reduced. The Dell Power and Thermal Lab in Austin, Texas is a research facility dedicated to the creation and validation of industry standard solutions to today's energy efficiency challenges. By partnering with market-leading companies like Microsoft, APC, Liebert, Rittal and Sanmina SCI, Dell is working to address Data Center inefficiency end-to-end. The Dell PowerEdge Energy Smart 1950 and 2950 servers are available today worldwide. Prices start at $2,449 and $2,619, respectively.


Recent Announcements from Dell

Earlier last month, dell has introduced two AMD Opteron based servers, designed to reduce the power consumption. The actual power consumption depends on the usage, but Dell claims that this server will deliver up to 105 percent greater performance per watt over the previous generation servers and hence, Dell calls it as 9th Generation.


Hewlett-Packard

Its Not only Dell that is coming forward to reduce Global Warming, but there are other major hardware vendors as well you might be still using HP’s Blade Servers. Hewlett-Packard came up with a new technology called Dynamic Smart Cooling for datacenters in which, Heat sensors on server racks send signals to a control panel that adjusts the air-conditioning output. According to Hp, this technology will save power of up to 45 percent.

Dell PowerEdge Energy Smart servers also offer an ideal platform for consolidation and virtualization, enabling customers to balance capacity demand within the same or reduced physical space and price range.


Software


Virtualization, a Step ahead to Decrease Global Warming.


Virtualization has been in mainframe for years, there are lot of softwares like VMwar, IBM Advanced POWER Virtualization, Microsoft: Virtual PC and Virtual Server 2005, XenSource – XenOptimizer. Server virtualization means multiple server operating system running on a single hardware.


VMware has gained more importance in its life span of nearly a Decade. It offers, Data Centre products to reduce costs through more efficient use of resources. There are many such products from VMware which offers virtualization. Infact, VMware offers some Free products like VMware player using which you can start your own virtualization now.


Recent Announcements from VMware

VMware announces VMware ACE 2 Enterprise Edition, using which you can deploy or create a Virtual image for a pc or a server, infact you can edit it with your IT policies to protect the contents, package it into a virtual machine and deploy it on any managed or unmanaged licensed client. This is the only Edition of VMware using which an IT administrator can manage thousands of VMware ACE desktops and apply policies to all of them using a single console. VMware costs in between $1000 to $15,000



Believe me, Technology can do lot of things to reduce Global Warming. Both Software and Hardware vendors should look into designing such environment friendly products.



For Information Visit the Following links


Moving Beyond Server Virtualization

Microsoft’s Strategy on Virtualization

Server Virtualization

Virtualization Simplified

Rumours: Google To Buy FeedBurner For $100 M

Last Week, rumours prevailed over the Web that Google is looking ahead to buy Feedburner for $100 million, No, it's not at all a bit amount for Google. Though there is no official complements made by Google on this. I think that it should happen and if so, google will integrate this tool with Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a service offered by Google to generate the detailed reports of the visitors who visited your blog or website. It makes use of the heart of google, the webmaster using which you can keep track of your visitors and their geographical location.




Frankly speaking, as a blogger, to promote my blog, I would love to burn a feed using the service provided by same vendor on which I am blogging(Google). But it is very tiresome doing the process of signing in to FeedBurner and then burning our feed and so on. RSS market is a very rapidly evolving as far as advertising is concerned. All the funda of RSS is, Today we are reading blogs via RSS by subscribing to them in a separate windows. Like google reader or yahoo sources. But did you observed that when you are viewing those blogs view RSS, RSS is actually eliminating the use of potential Ads like Google Adsense and Ads from other sources, just try out in Google Reader if you have any doubts. This is generating a huge loss to publishers as they rely on the income generated by the people who view or click these Ads. So if Google goes ahead with buying FeedBurner, then it will be advantageous to both the companies and off course users will feel the touch of all the services under same Google platform. The Blogger, The Adsense, The FeedBurning etc…

Google has proven by buying Doubleclick that it is not going to stop. This deal will come as a new opportunity for Starters who have AdSense accounts but were excluded from the Feedburner feedavertising program because of low subscriber base. Whatever it is but this deal will definitely make $$$$ for Google and Google will Rule this Web without any competitors. I think Google should go for it...

Wikiwix Launched

Wikipedia a famous encyclopedia on internet launched its independent search engine wikiwix.com to index all is contents. Though it is not officially launched by Wikipedia, but it came as a surprise to all the Wikipedia visitors.


Wikipedia is a web based free content encyclopedia project. The main difference in this encyclopedia with Britannica or others is Wikipedia is like a Democratic encyclopedia. Most of the articles can be edited by anyone with access to internet. The English edition launched in early 2001, as a complement to Nupedia which was a same encyclopedia as Wikipedia whose articles were written by experts and licensed as free contents. It was founded by Jimmy Wales, but Nupedia lasted from mid 2000 to ending 2003.

During the free software movement in early 2001, Nupedia started Wikipedia as their side project before entering the peer review process. Over the period, Wikipedia has grown vastly and formed its own identity. Now Wikipedia is one of the 15 most visited sites on internet.

Other Major Projects from Wikipedia includes

Wiktionary, a dictionary project launched in December 2002

Wikiquote, a collection of quotations launched a week after Wikipedia was launched.

Wikibooks, a collection of collaboratively written books


From the above information, you might have got a basic idea about how vast is Wikipedia and at what rate it is expanding. Wikipedia has nearly 7.2 million articles in 251 languages, 1.7 million of which are in English. Wikipedia receives between 10,000 and 30,000 page requests per second depending on the time of the day. More than 100 Servers have been set up to handle the traffic.

Samsung- An emerging Technology

Samsung is re-inforcing its technology from day to day and every upgrading model will be thinner and lighter when compared with its predecessor. Samsung became the first company to produce a 10 mega pixel camera cell phone. This was launched last year in Korea. Earlier in 2000 Samsung became the first company to embed a cell phone in a camera, also in 2004 it again formed a record by introducing its 5 mega pixel camera phone and off-course, who can forget its 7 mega pixel camera in 2005. I will be featuring the 10 mega pixel camera phone model SCH-B600 in this post, this phone was launched in Korean market last year. It also offers the same level of picture-taking sophistication that a top-notch megapixel digital camera offers.


This camera phone is called as B600, it is 6mm thinner and 10grms lighter than its predecessor i.e.. 7 mega pixel camera phone. The B600 offers the same picture quality which a 10 mega pixel camera offers. The functions in B600 includes an MP3 player, business card reader, and 128 polyphonic sounds. It has 3X optiplex zoom and 5X digital zoom. It comes with LED auto focus feature which allows you to capture clear picture even in dark. The moving picture can be recorded in QVGA resolution at 15 to 30 frames per seconds, you can also watch TV in crisp picture through Satellite DMB function.

The price of B600 is around 900,000 won (about $ 900) in Korea.


SCH-B600 Specifications

Standard CDMA 2000 1X EVDO (800 MHz)
Camera - 10 Megapixel Camera
Display - 2.2" 240x320 16M Color TFT LCD
Features - Mobile TV (Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcasting ); Video Recording & Messaging (MPEG4 / H.264); MP3/ AAC / AAC+; Dual Speaker / Anycall Band; Bluetooth Technology / PictBridge / Voice Recognition/ Document Viewer / TV-output / BT Printing
Memory - External memory (MMCmicro)

* Specifications are subject to change without notice