Microsoft-Yahoo Allied Against Google

Microsoft finally succeed melt Yahoo's heart to let Microsoft take control over his search engine and together muster the power to demolish the giant Google.

Of course 10-year agreement with Yahoo will give new energy injection for Microsoft to reinforce its ambition to beat Google in the search engine market.

Handful despair was hanged by both company. With Yahoo in the side, Microsoft expects more calm to drive Bing, new search engine to pursue its backwarness from Google, which control about 65 percent market share in the United States.

Meanwhile, Microsoft concentrated on the search site, Yahoo is expected to disarrange Google's concentration in ad sales on the Web.

"This agreement offers a million value come to Yahoo, our users and also the industry," said Carol Bartz, chief executive Yahoo.

Of course not less quite happy with this agreement is the CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer. "I am really excited. I have been saying this since 18 months ago. Consumers, advertisers and publishers will get a better service, and of course there will be a more challenging competition for Google if Microsoft and Yahoo team up in search engines."

Antimonopoli regulator will review the agreement the two companies to ensure that this agreement will not harm the competition.

"While Microsoft and Yahoo awaiting approval from the government about their agreement, Google will likely continue to increase its search engine performance," said Danny Sullivan, editor SearchEngineLand.

It seems the fight between the giants will be hot. Moreover, at this time Google is prepring operating system for PC, which can threaten the existence of Microsoft Windows.

As quoted from Yahoo News, Thursday (30/7/2009), Sullivan claims Google is paranoid with Microsoft. "They always guess, what kind of 'monster' that being preparing by Microsoft for the future," he said.

Businesses threatened, Russia Block Skype?

The arrival of internet phone service Skype, does not fully be met with open hands by a number of countries, including in Russia. By reason of the protection business in the country, a Russian attempt to create regulations blocking Skype.

The planning of this procurement regulations appear in meeting which was held by Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE) that present the biggest business in Russia. The business apparently is concerned the existence of Skype will undermine their business.

With internet-based services provided, Skype would benefit foreign operator, and vice versa will harm Russian telecommunications company.

"Some of the IP telephony market brands such as Skype and ICQ is owned by foreigners and that is why we need to protect domestic producers in this area," the lobby group said in a statement cited from the NYTimes, on Monday (27/7/2009).

This is not the business of play. RUIE want the government to support the action they take part. This is related to security reasons.

In addition to bringing bad impact to telecommunications company, Skype was also an impact on national security. With the conversation that can not be recorded because the encryption system that they have, Skype is often used by the criminal investigation to obscure, at least, is what happened in Italy.

Therefore, no wonder now if Russia will follow other countries that took part in trying to block the services that were born in Estonia and is now owned by eBay.

Previously, in Germany, the Netherlands and in France also tried to regulating this VoIP phone calls. They were blocked because they threaten the income that earned by phone companies.

6 September, Birth Day Intel Core I5?

There is a rumor that Intel is going to issue Core I5 processors that are named Lynfiled on 6 September. Core I5 is actually the same as the older brother which is Core i7, but carried with a few changes.

Changes in the third memory channels that have been removed, and Direct Media Interface by QuickPath Interconnect. Intel Core I5 has speed 2.66GHz with 8 MB L3 cache, which can be overclock up to 3.2GHz.

This young brother of Core i7 is using Socket LGA 1156 and has dual channel memory controller for DDR3 1333 MHz integrated. This chip will be offered with the price range of about U.S. $ 196.

Furthermore, there is also rumor that Intel wil releasing two types of quad-core processors. As quoted from techtree, Thursday (23/7/2009), two types of processors are the 2.8GHz Core i7 860 and the 2.93GHz Intel Core i7 870. Both use the socket LGA 1156. Intel claims that when in-overclock both able to achieve 3.6 GHz speed.

Up to now there is no further news from the Intel, the certainty in the release of its Core is I5.

Sargas, New Champion of AMD Sempron

Now AMD is preparing they first Sempron processors that use socket AM3 and DDR3. The processor is given the name "Sargas".

Sargas is a single-core chip that came along with the single-core Athlon property II X-2 is called "Regor". Sargas Seeing the broad 3.6 GT / s HyperTransport 3.0 system interface, 128 KB L1 and 1 MB L2 cache, dual-channel DDR2/DDR3 memory interface, and feature updates from AMD, and its instruction set, including AMD64, SSE4A, and AMD-V.

This new champion of Sempron, architecture built over the 45 nm SOI process, and have a voltage between 0.85 - 1:35 V. SKU's first 140-based Sempron X1 has a 2.70 GHz clock speed and bus multiplier 13.5x.

With speed, the Sargas has a Thermal Design Power (TDP) of 45W. Based on information from techpowerup, Tuesday (21/7/2009), this product will come to market at the end of this week. The price is estimated at about 35 euros.