Author: Edward Ramamoorthy

MSI has rolled out two new laptops now, its new 15-inch CX640 and CR640 models, which each boast what MSI calls a clutter free design and budget friendly prices. As for specifications, both packed with core i3-2310M Processor, 4GB of RAM and 500GB hard drive, and USB 3.0 ports. While the silver CX640 upgrades things from basic integrated Intel HD3000 graphics on the black CR640 model get NVIDIAs GeForce GT520M with Optimus technology. The price for CR640 and CX640 are $630 and $680 respectively. For more read the Press Release.

The NFC payment systems just starting rolling out in the US, Discover has just announced that it will let its card holders send money to people in 60 countries. So as long as they have either a cell phone number or email address, they can their money through them. As All Things D notes, Visa and American Express have hatched similar plans, though Discover is the first the bunch to partner with PayPal. While people sending money dont need PayPal accounts, people receiving one have do, at least they must be willing to create one. For senders the service is free and in fact, they got 0.25 percent cash back for the first $3,000 exchanged. As for Discover, a smaller player than Visa and MasterCard, it hopes some of PayPals $230 million customers will sign up for a new credit card while they are at it.

In this article we will see how to clone a Oracle database.There are There are two type of database cloning in Oracle, Cold Cloning and Hot Cloning. Here we will be looking into the how to take a Cold Physical Backup and Hot Backup in Oracle.

The Worlds Biggest Pac-man game takes over the internet. You have got two choices: One, mimic iTr3vor and toss up a You tube video of yourself dancing in an Apple Store, Second, blow your own mind with the magic of HTML5. In between two hour-long Pica-Pic sessions, it can be linked to your Facebook account for those who savvy statistics.

White House today just officially unveiled its plans for a national secure Internet id program. It has dubbed it as National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). It will be entirely voluntary and largely driven by various private sector companies, who will be responsible for verifying your ID and providing you secure credentials that you will be able to use across internet. The administration is pointing out that the system is not a national ID program or of any sort, and it is going to some length to play up the involvement of multiple credential providers. Check the video for more explanation.

Google video doodle celebrates the legend Charlie Chaplins 122nd birthday. The honour was bestowed upon John Lennon to celebrate his 70th birthday. His video was just an animation whereas Googles latest doodle dials up the frame rate to recent the lovable tramps antics in a very Google way. The video doodles only available from the Google Australia home page but we expect that to change just as soon as possible.

In this article we will see how to take a user managed backup in Oracle.There are There are two type of user managed backup in Oracle Physical Backup and Logical Backup. Here we will be looking into the Physical Backup and its sub types and how to take a physical backup in Oracle.

In this edition of the article we will see about RMAN Implementation in Oracle.

IBMs latest announcement is the firm is boasting a new version of Power7 products that includes an upgraded version of the supercomputers server. It had a BladeCenter PS703 and PS704, sporting 16 cores and 32 cores respectively. The PS704 touts a 60 percent increase in speed over its predecessors. The Power750, the same system that gave Watson the stuff to slaughter those humans on Jeopardy!, is getting an upgrade that supports as many as 32 cores and can run up to 128 simultaneous threads, while the Power755 offers high performance computing with 32 cores of its own. The cheapest version of the Power750 Express rings in at about $30,000.

Vudus movie service is already available on 300-odd set top boxes and HDTVs including PS3 and Boxee Box, but now it can add your Personal computer too. The Flash-based player will let customers watch movies they have rented or purchased like any other device, but due to licensing issues it is limited to a maximum of 480p resolution with stereo sound for now.

In this article we will see how to export full Oracle database and remove old backup log file. We will also see how mknod tool help us in taking a full backup.

As we reported yesterday, the scam is going very dangerous now; Spammers have invited over 10 million users to fake events in yet another new attempt to generate income from online survey scams according to a Sophos. The scam is in progress and several thousand unwitting Facebook users are falling to prey it.

The best effort from the online scammers and the dreams of its competitors- Facebook is not closing today reported msnbc news.The scam is currently spreading through Facebook; hitting accounts with a prophetic message that social networking giant is shutting its doors, the security firm Sophos reported. Facebook is closing all accounts today. They cant handle so many accounts, the messages reads. Most of the old accounts are not active, so they are deleting everything.

Normally DBA’s are managed several oracle database server & some application server.Every month during maintenance activity we purged the older trace files in udump,bdump,adump and application event log files. In this article we will see how to automate this activity.

YouTube, has decided to move from online video streaming site to broadcasting TV network. According to recent reports, Google wants to step into the broadcast TV model by hosting around 20 channels showcasing several hours of professionally produced original programming per week.

Like Googles search, Twitter started one single thing doing well. Its now keep on adding the subtle title enhancements along its way to become a mature internet tool. Its own simplistic search functionality has taken through the makeover booth and has emerged well. For example, if you want to search favourites like smartphones jailbrake artists, you need to search for general term and Twitter will do some actual searching for you instead of searching the query to usernames. You can step up to an advanced search where adding the 🙂 and 🙁 smileys whether you get happy or not to get well and downbeat the tweets on the topic.