There is a danger of the internet going obsolete soon. That sounds bad but if you hear of the alternative, you will be thrilled.

That option could be “the grid.” The grid is expected to be “lightning” fast. How long does it take to download a feature film now? An hour? Two hours? Grid will be capable of doing it within seconds.

It does feel like a sci-fi movie but this is a fact and is the latest spinoff from the creator of the web, Cern, the particle physics center. They could outdo their previous creation by a million times, with the creation of the Grid, which they say comes with the power needed to transmit holographic images; allows instant online gaming with thousands of players and also offers high definition video telephony for just the price of a local call.

While the web is a service that allows sharing of information over the internet; the Grid allows sharing of data storage capacity and computer power over the internet.

The speed of the Grid is said to be 10000 times faster than the internet. Researchers give an example that proves the power of the Grid when compared to the internet. It has been used to help in designing new drugs for malaria, the fatal disease that kills approximately 1m people each year. In a search for new drugs against malaria, it came up with 140m compounds – a task that would have taken an internet-linked PC 420 years. These amazing results reveal the tremendous unimaginable power of the Grid. (more…)

Today is the time when we actually breathe technology and the pace at which it is progressing seems scary at times. We identify Microsoft as a pioneer in developing operating systems and Google as a pioneer with search engines. Both amazing technological advances and both of them are equally popular amongst the masses. But bigger the names, lesser are the chances of them being ready to co-exist with another.

The battle between the two technical giants – Google and Microsoft seems never ending ever since their inception. It can be termed at a level where there is no looking back for the either of them. Some of the cases that are listed below will prove the feud existing between these two corporations.

Recently the fight has been escalating on the browser front. We all know that Google captures the larger part of the market when it comes to search engines where as Microsoft possesses only a small part as low as eleven percent of the cyberspace search engine users. To break away from Google’s monopoly, Microsoft has come up with a “search box” in an attractive location in their new operating system browser called the Vista browser. When it comes to using the browser, Microsoft rules the market with Internet explorer being the most popular browser in the world. Therefore, when the users upgrade to the advanced internet explorers, they will be presented with the search option. This search option from Microsoft can always prove to be a threat on Google’s monopoly. (more…)