Although its really hard for me to wrap my head around it, TechCrunch is reporting that Google has released a white paper stating that as of September the company was processing 20,000 terabytes of data per day. I guess that's what the company has been hiding in all those new data centers it has been quietly acquiring lately.
Read the full story at TechCrunch.
Samsung seems to have brought about a gazillion new products to this year's CES, but reports have labeled the new Q1P-SSD - its next gen handheld PC as a flop already. The Q1P has seen a lot of press because it has a flash based hard drive to slash boot times. This little beauty if far from cheap, weighing in at about $2,000.
As for specs, the Q1P sports a 32GB SSD, Pentium M/Celeron M. The problem is that the Q1P is still fairly bulky and can't keep up with units being offered by Sony and OQO. The verdict, avoid the Q1P and spend your hard earned money on one of its competitors or wait till version 3.
Read a full review of the Q1P @ PCMAG
Travelodge is apparently building a prefab hotel in London. The hotels can be constructed in as little as 12 weeks and removed when an event is finished. Reuters is reporting that the units were imported from China with bathrooms already installed which no doubt has reduced construction time considerably. Verbus, the company designing the hotels hopes that the next version of the hotels could come furnished before construction as well extending the uses to student and urban housing.
Read more about the hotels here @ TreeHugger.
Aside from being one of the meanest looking buildings I have seen in a long time, Sanyo has built one of the most energy efficient green buildings out there. The building has more than 5,000 solar panels and generates over 500,000 KWh of green energy.
Read more about the building over at ecoble.
