December 14th morning news, Intel said to its data center customers, they can use new technology to enhance data center heat resistance, the highest up to 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
Most of the servers and storage devices to be placed in a room cool to 64-69 degrees Fahrenheit, in order to avoid hot spots lead to equipment failure. Intel said the data center’s air-conditioning electricity costs $ 26 billion per year, accounting for 1.5% of global energy use, the number will double by 2014.
Intel marketing manager Jay Kyathsandra said that by using the latest software and hardware, they can get the details of data center temperature, where heat and where not hot, then the data center redistribute tasks to different computers to maintain cooling. Combined with the other a range of technologies sold by Intel, data center technical personnel can increase the temperature to 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Intel wants to tell their customers that their methods are safe, which relies on Intel’s server to maintain business operations.
For Intel, the new technology may be able to bring new sources of revenue, it’s contribute to maintain the loyalty of computer manufacturers. Intel’s chips produced covered more than 90% of worldwide server, due to shortage of supplying hard disk, the four-quarter of Intel’s revenue forecast decreased by $ 1 billion.
December 7th news, according to media reports, Google has released the Arabic version of voice search, hoping to expand the search services applications in the Arab region, maps, translation.
The service released in Dubai on Dec.6th. United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan and other Middle Eastern countries whose native language of Arabic to help Google developed the voice search service.
Google said it reflects the company to promote its services to Middle East. Google MENA products marketing manager Najeeb Jarrar said: “Google is trend to leasing in moving and voice recognition innovation.”
Traditionally voice search is the use of English. Voice search for Arabic is much more difficult. Affixes of words will change their own meaning of the word, even the meaning of the word will be different in the sentence changes. this is a huge challenge. The more people use voice search, the better its effectiveness. “
November 29th afternoon news, according to Britain’s Sunday telegraph reported online edition, the European Union will launch a new law in January of next year, if Facebook sell the customer information to advertisers profit, therefore, Facebook might soak by the European Union.
The European commission is planning to prevent Facebook through the “eavesdropping” users, collect the relevant of their political views, sexual orientation, religious belief and other information’s approach. Facebook use advanced software system, through the users’ activities on the web site to gather the information and then sell to advertisers.
However, because of concerns about privacy problem, the European Union is scheduled to launch a new law in the next January, the law will ban Facebook collect of personal information without users permission. Although most of the information collected by Facebook were stored in the data center in the United States, if it son’t comply with the new law, then it may face legal action or a hefty fine.
The action will have a adverse effect to Facebook listed plan in the next year, because it certainly will weaken the profitability of Facebook. The EU commission vice chairman Viviane Reding said the new law will according to the technical progress to revise the current European data protection laws, ensure the company in violation of relevant laws across the EU will be punished continuity.
