Viral Marketing and the Word of Mouse

In my previous article I have discussed what viral marketing is. This time I will be talking about how the “word of mouse” works. As we learned before, viral marketing, as it name suggests, is a contagious form of product marketing that uses carriers to spread it. These carries are of course your own customers or prospective customers. These persons should be infected with viral products, prices, places and promotions. Your product, to become viral should possess quality and excellence and will guarantee costumers’ satisfaction. Your price, to be viral, should be reasonable and properly directed to the right consumers. Your placement, to be viral, should be efficiently accessible. And finally, your promotion, to be viral should be creative, innovative and extraordinary. Read more

IBM’s Roadrunner: The fastest and most powerful supercomputer in the world

If you are a computer or a technology enthusiast you should know the answer of the following question. What is the world’s fastest computer? It’s the 133-million US dollar supercomputer named Roadrunner built by IBM. The TOP500 list ranked Roadrunner as the world’s fastest supercomputer in the world as of November 2008 (the list is issued twice a year on the month of June and November). This supercomputer is funded by National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and placed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA.

The Roadrunner achieved an amazing supercomputing performance of more than a thousand trillion operations per second, or petaflof/s. A “flops” is an acronym for floating-point-operations per second. One petaflop/s is 1,000 trillion operations per second. Read more

Preparing your business for Microsoft Vista Operating System’s successor “Windows seven 7”

Microsoft has already released beta Windows 7 for test run of what will succeed to its recently released Windows Vista. If you’re still using and comfortable with Windows XP, then you are already two steps behind with the Microsoft’s evolution of Windows Operating Systems. Operating system is a vital part of your business. All your business computer programs, application and scripts are being played by your operating system. It is important to consider the rapid changes of technology in your business environment to assure that you are running with the most efficient and effective computer tools designed to attain convenience in business operation.

Windows 7 (formerly codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna) is the next issue of Microsoft’s Windows Operating System, replacing its recently release Vista Operating system. Windows 7 is intended to be an incremental upgrade to Vista, with the goal to become fully compatible with device drivers, applications, and hardware which Windows Vista is already compatible with. Microsoft’s presentations given in 2008 have focused on multi-touch support, a redesigned Windows Shell with a new taskbar, a home networking system called HomeGroup, and performance improvements. Read more