Internet is outdated; this is what Larry Robert (pioneer of internet) has to say now. Reason behind it is that people are now using internet for huge downloads like streaming moving and making phone calls while internet technology is 40 year old and certainly not built for such uses.

So what I think that there are two kinds of people, one who are aware of this problem and finding a solution for it while some people are making websites even heavier with web 2.0 styled graphics, flashy sites and streaming media content. At this stage, internet needs some big overhaul or a total change.

iPhone remains in news as both hackers and Apple comes up with something new associated with it now and then. Few weeks back hackers were able to do the SIM unlock to make iPhone work on any network. Apple then released a firmware upgrade which made all hacked iPhones totally useless. Now hackers are finding a workaround to this in the form of rollback of firmware and they are successful to some extent. They successfully fixed a broken iPhone into usable state but it was still not working with any network. After some more tweaks, it may be possible to fully recover the phone to a normal state.

Compal introduced the much awaited Lid cooling technology for laptops. It’s a great step towards better laptop as today’s present method of using fan for cooling CPU is though effective but it also accumulates dust inside and also makes lots of noise. Dust is the major problem for all laptops around the world as total dust free environment is not possible and the fan inside the laptop sucks even more dust. Using fan also reduced battery backup. Lid cooling on the other hand is much better technology using heat pipe to transfer heat from CPU to the lid of the laptop. It’s like having a big heatsink. Using this technology for cooling will all manufacturers to make a completely sealed laptops which will not have any problem caused by dust and will have better battery backup.

Toshiba Corporation announced a prototype hard disk drive that uses Discrete Track Recording (DTR) technology to boost capacity to a record-breaking 120 gigabytes (GB) on a single 1.8 inch platter. This is the first drive in the world to use DTR technology, a breakthrough technology that boost the areal density of a perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) by a full 50 percent.

Toshiba’s latest 1.8-inch HDD in the market offers a single platter capacity of 80GB; application of DTR technology boosts platter capacity to 120GB, and takes the recording density to 516 megabits per square millimeter (333gigabits per square inch). A servo pattern for tracking control is also formed on the disk. Being small, these types of HDD will be good for use in notebook PCs, portable media players and digital movie cameras etc.

AMD announced further plans to innovate the x86 architecture by introducing SSE5, a new extension of the x86 instruction set that is designed to allow software developers to simplify code and achieve greater efficiency for the most performance-hungry applications. SSE5 will give developers additional capabilities to help maximize the performance of applications that have daily impact on consumers and enterprises, including high performance computing, multimedia and security applications. By making the SSE5 specification available to developers today, AMD expects to ease the adoption of the new instructions for tool providers and software vendors who develop these performance-intense applications.

Not long back cancer was considered an incurable disease and still some cases arise when it cannot be cured. Medical science recent development in the field of ultra sound technology has led to a development of a technology called HIFU (high intensity focused ultrasound) and it has been found very useful in postate cancer treatment . HIFU (sometimes also called as FUS or HIFUS) is a highly precise medical procedure using high-intensity focused ultrasound to heat and destroy pathogenic tissue rapidly. Since quite a high intensity of ultrasound waves are used and it cause heat, it can damage other healthy tissues as well, so to avoid this the whole process is computerized and made sure its done accurately and HIFU is targeted on pathogenic tissues only. These ultrasonic waves cause the rise in temperature within the tissue (65° to 85°C) destroying the diseased tissue by coagulation necrosis. Here with the help of MRI, the whole procedure is accurately performed and this is also sometimes referred as Magnetic Resonance guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS).Using this technique prostate, liver, and boner cancer is treated successfully and trials on other types of cancer are also underway. HIFU devices like ablatherm are mostly used in such treatment due to their high precision and safety. More advanced machines with 3D imaging function etc are also available for those areas where even more precision is required like in brain tumor cases.