Test results promoted by Blaze Software that purport to prove that Android is much faster at loading web pages than Apple's iOS 4.3 did so using a poorly performing custom iPhone app, rather than using Safari itself.
The results of the test, according to Bloomberg, said that an Android-based Nexus S phone performed 52 percent faster on average after loading more than 45,000 pages from 1,000 websites compared to iPhone 4.
The latest Android smartphone loaded Web pages 52% faster than iPhone 4 running iOS 4.3, according to thousands of independent field tests released today by Blaze Software.
The Web page load times were about a second apart for the two devices in a study that amassed 45,000 load tests in all. For Android 2.3 on the Google Nexus S smartphone using a version of Chrome, the median load time was 2.144 seconds, compared to 3.254 seconds for iPhone 4 on iOS 4.3 running a version of Safari, according to the study.
Facebook refuses to employ virtualisation across its infrastructure, because the technology does not scale efficiently, the director of the social networking site's labs division has said.
The social network shies away from abstracting its technology into virtual machines because at large-scale, the economics don't work out and the cost of dealing with hardware failures is too high, Gio Coglitore of Facebook Labs, said at a press event on Tuesday.
A mysterious secret technology, apparently in use by the British intelligence services in an undisclosed role, has been reinvented by a graduate student in America. Full details of the working principles are now available.
The FBI today said it's made a long-awaited switch from its Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) to an upgraded, faster one the FBI calls Advanced Fingerprint Information Technology (AFIT). The AFIT replacement prepares the way for going beyond fingerprint identification to other biometrics, including latent palm prints and facial recognition, the next step in the FBI's multiyear effort called the Next Generation Identification (NGI) system.
In the hotel business, IT people are used to having to create standardized technology services to share with parts of the company that they don't necessarily own.
Sonesta International Hotel Co., for example, is made up of 34 hotels, resorts, casinos and cruise ships worldwide -- some of which the company owns directly, while others are managed or franchisee properties.
Well before Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, IBM’s design team grappled with a different challenge – getting beaten to the punch by someone else inventing a trivia-savvy artificial mind. Final Jeopardy discusses Watson’s early development and how this Q&A juggernaut overcame the “Basement Baseline.”
In the early days of 2007, before he agreed to head up a Jeopardy project, IBM’s David Ferrucci harboured two conflicting fears. The first of his nightmare scenarios was perfectly natural: A Jeopardy computer would fail, embarrassing the company and his team.
Researchers from University of Massachusetts Amherst and Texas A&M University have succeeded in writing information to flash memory under low-voltage conditions, paving the way for a new generation of low-power gadgets that can store data. They presented the paper Feb. 16 at the USENIX File and Storage Technologies Conference in San Jose, Calif.
Scientists at Santa Barbara University have announced major advancements in the development of a large scale quantum computer, as well as a breakthrough in the quantum control of light.
The team, which included scientists from Zhejiang University in China and NEC, Japan, used a superconducting quantum integrated circuit to generate unique quantum states of light known as NOON states. These states, generated from microwave frequency photons (the quantum unit of light), were created and stored in two physically separated microwave storage cavities.
The sun has unleashed its strongest flare in four years, Nasa said, as astronomers in southern China reported disturbances to radio communications.
The massive Class X flash - the largest such category - erupted at 0156 GMT Tuesday, according to the US space agency.
