Bios, which has been booting up PCs for almost 25 years now will soon be replaced by a new technology, the BBC website has reported.

It has been said that by next year, we would have computers that will boot in seconds with the help of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).

Wellington's Weta Digital has helped New Zealand to make a heavy impact in the global measure of world's fastest computers. A data calculating discussion in Hamburg, Germany, has unveiled TOP500, which is the list of world's fastest computers. In this, New Zealand made the overall grade.

The recently installed supercomputer at National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen by China has come out to be the second fastest computing system, following the Jaguar.

It has been reported earlier that a new disk drive which is just about 3.5 inch and also with a capacity of three terabyte will be officially ready towards the close of the year from Seagate, depending on the operating system and the vendor support for RAID and BIOS motherboard.

There was much speculation which claimed that Intel was working on a dual-core Atom chip for its netbooks. It is known that netbooks are usually taken to possess low processing power.

The inventor of the Java programming language, James Gosling, has stepped down from Oracle. He made it public in his blog entry this Friday.

Enhanced powers will be given to the Information Commissioner’s Office from Tuesday, i. e., April 6, to fine organizations up to £500,000 for serious violations of the Data Protection Act. Earlier the maximum fine was a mere £5,000.

Microsoft had been keeping a secret which is that a computer can be easily upgraded from one edition of Windows 7 to another one with a feature called ‘Windows Anytime Upgrade’.

ASUSTeK Computer Inc. has launched a new range of motherboards capable of supporting the forthcoming AMD® Phenom™ II X6 processors. Joe Hsieh, General Manager of ASUS Motherboard Business, shared that the ASUS M4 motherboard series is not only capable of supporting the six-core processors, but also has the potential to deliver the top level performance with its Core Unlocker feature.

A 12-core chip was released today by advanced Micro Devices today, which doubled the number of cores in the previous generation chip in its Opteron line. By taking advantage of the performance gains delivered by a chip with a dozen cores, software licensing costs may be reduced.