Twitter hits 50 million tweets per day
Here’s some trivia – contrary to folks who claim that Twitter has leveled off in terms of users and tweets, some interesting number crunching has resulted in Twitter users sending out by 50 million tweets each day – basically translated to 600 tweets going through Twitter’s network each second. At what figure do you think [...]
Virus detection claims to be 360X faster on GPUs than on Core 2 Duo
Kapersky Lap in Russia says that its defense software is 360X faster when using an NVIDIA Tesla S1070 GPU than when using a Core 2 Duo processor from Intel. Here’s how Nvidia describes it: When the Kaspersky anti-virus software on a computer suspects that a file may be malicious, even though it may not match [...]
Samsung sells 50 million touchscreen phones
Samsung has sold its 50 millionth touchscreen cellphone that month, which just goes to show how hot the touchscreen market is at the moment. Europe is the top continent where Samsung’s touchscreen handsets are concerned at 19 million units, followed by the US, China and South Korea with sales figures of 6.3 million, 3.4 million [...]