Microsoft to unveil IE9 beta version on September 15

Microsoft hopes IE9’s clinch the standards will help arrest IE’s dropping market share of recent years.

IE9 will be the most standards-compatible version of IE in Microsoft’s history. Thanks to HTML5. Support for HTML5 has been expanded to include HTML5 video and audio elements, 2D graphics using the highly-anticipated Canvas element, and there’s support for embedded fonts using Web Open Font Format (WOFF).

IE9 has something for building and delivering rich graphics and internet applications using web standards and fast, hardware-accelerated rendering. IE9 will also run Google’s open sourced WebM video codec plus the closed and proprietary H.264 from Microsoft, Apple, and others. IE9 also features a new script engine, Chakra that uses hardware to boost performance to within 50 milliseconds of Safari, Opera, and Chrome on Sun Spider benchmarks.

The beta version of IE9 will be finally unveiled on September 15.

Samsung India launched the world’s thinnest LED 3D television C9000 series

Samsung India has launched the world’s thinnest LED 3D television in the new C9000 series, the LED 3D television comes with a 55 inch screen size and stainless steel bezel.

Samsung India has unveiled the world’s thinnest 3D LED television with a screen as thin as 7.98 millimeters.

This new offering from Samsung has the capability to convert 2D content to 3D content live through CD chip. The other features include touch screen remote with a 3 inch LCD screen. Samsung to offer of C9000 (3D LED television) along with blue ray device and three 3D goggles at Rs. 4.3 lakhs.

The performance of 3D television is amazing in today’s market. It is estimates about 20 per cent of Hollywood movies would be available in the 3D format by 2014.

Annapurna- India’s seventh fastest supercomputer

Annapurna- India’s seventh fastest supercomputer was unveiled at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) in Chennai.

Atomic Energy Commission chairman Srikumar Banerjee unveiled the country’s seventh fastest high-performance computation cluster having 1.5 Tera Byte (TB) memory and 30 TB storage space cluster capacity.

Banerjee lauded the technical team behind the effort for creating the super computer Annapurna in a completely non-commercial domain.

Complex issues ranging from biological applications and others can be approached by using this supercomputer. This device will be used in simulations and numerical calculations in the areas of statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics.

The Annapurna cluster is the third fastest, which ranks below the IISc Bangalore and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.