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In a period of 500 days, the Internet is expected to run out of Internet Protocol (IP) – a line of unique number that helps identify all internet networked devices throughout the world.

IP addresses typically use a combination of four numbers from 0 to 255 to distinguish one computer to another computer. Currently, there are listed more than four billion combinations of numbers to IP addresses.

But the rapid growth of Internet networking devices will create a combination of four numbers will no longer sufficient to create an IP address. This is what will be a problem in the future. Thus the quoted statement from Big News Networks, Wednesday (19/05/2010).

Western Digital (WD) VelociRaptor, it can be said to be the fastest hard drive in its class. Unfortunately, some users still complaining about the relatively small capacity when compared with other hard drive.

In response, the WD soon release two new families of the VelociRaptor that is already well known for their performance. Both products are WD4500HLHX (capacity 450GB) and WD6000HLH (600GB capacity).

Although the present with a large capacity, but those products still carry the features of the VelociRaptor family, such as, read-write speeds are high because it was backed by 32MB of cache memory and the speed of rotation up to 10,000 per Minutes Rotation (RPM).

In matters of computer processors, Intel’s name undeniable brilliance. Inevitably, later in the year 2011, predicted that their desktop processors will achieve speeds of 10 GHz.

If you look at the current computing needs, a processor with a speed or high multitasking capability is absolutely necessary.

As quoted Geek, Monday (05/10/2010), Intel processors predict they’ll achieve the speed of 10 GHz later in the year 2011.

H.A.W.K is one of the fighter simulation game that success in the market. Ubisoft itself has claimed that this game has sold out to one million copies worldwide.

“With up to 1 million copies sold worldwide, making Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X one game that was very successful,” said Bogdan Bridinel, Creative Director, Ubisoft, through the written statement received detikINET, Thursday (05/06/2010).

Google adds new technology on their search engines, namely a virtual keyboard that enables users of other languages than English enter the search keyword.

The idea of presenting a virtual keyboard that is integrated with language services began from the input of Google’s users, where users of other languages besides English, such as Arabic, often difficulties in using search engines. Section, which used different letters are printed on the keyboard.

Google then presents a virtual keyboard that comes in 35 languages. The virtual keyboard allows users to input the letter of the local language eg Arabic, without requiring additional specialized software, in any kind of computer.