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Facebook these days is doing everything in its power to imitate Google, recruiting the search giant’s sales people, poaching its senior executives and — most importantly — using infrastructure as a competitive advantage. Like Google, Facebook has figured out that the right web infrastructure is the difference between user delight and dismay. And like Google, Facebook is finding out that it isn’t cheap. I’ve been trying to get a handle on Facebook’s infrastructure for some time, but so far have been unable to get the company to open up. The last time I reached out to them, back in January, I was hearing that they had between 1,200 and 1,500 servers, along with storage and switches from EMC Corp. and Force 10 Networks respectively. As it turns out, those server numbers weren’t even close to the total servers used by them. The company is running around 10,000 servers, according to Data Center Knowledge , citing comments made by Facebook VP of technology, Jeff Rothschild, at a re...

Microsoft mengatakan akan menyelidiki laporan yang masuk ke mereka, mengenai problem di Windows 7 yang berpengaruh pada baterai di laptop konsumen. "Kami tengah melakukan penyelidikan mengenai isu ini bersama mitra hardware, termasuk masalah di firmware-nya," tulis pernyataan Microsoft, yang dinukil dari BBC, Rabu (3/2/2010). Peringatan juga dilakukan agar konsumen mengecek baterai di laptop mereka, jika ada masalah. Khususnya pengguna komputer basic input output system (BIOS). "Pasti kita memberikan informasi terbaru jika memang sudah ada temuan terbaru," tambah Microsoft.

It shocks me as a devoted Firefox user to say this, but Internet Explorer 9 could very well leapfrog the competition in the race of next-generation of web browsers in 2010 thanks to a groundbreaking platform-wide implementation of a hardware-accelerated renderer that I think is quite literally “a free upgrade for the web”. What makes IE9’s implementation of hardware-acceleration so compelling is that it has major real-world benefits and its completely transparent to both end-user and web developers. Using the new capabilities in Direct2D instead of GDI, IE9 is able to rendering all the visual elements of websites much faster and smoother using the powers of the graphics processing unit (GPU), instead of the CPU. One example of where this functionality really shines is in the Bing Maps demo where continuously panning the map is just as smooth as navigating a map in a 3D strategy game.