The 32nd edition of the list of the world’s TOP500 supercomputers has been issued on Friday, November 14, with the 1.105 petaflop/s IBM supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory holding on to the top spot it first achieved in June 2008.

Intel introduced its most advanced desktop processor, the Intel Core i7 processor. The Core i7 processor is the first member of a new family of Nehalem processor designs and is the most sophisticated ever built, with new technologies that boost performance on demand and maximize data throughput.

Europe is transforming into a continent of content-craving ‘connect-aholics’, according to the findings of the AMD European Connectivity Study of over 5,000 online respondents.

Cisco and IBM announced the launch of two additional offerings for enhancing the retail banking experience that build on their Front Office Solutions for Retail Banking announced in November 2007.

Intel announced the start of Mass Animation, the first collaborative, worldwide effort to produce a computer-generated animated short film for theatrical release.

Scartel (brand Yota), Russian provider of Mobile WiMAX, and HTC announced the HTC MAX 4G, the world’s first integrated GSM/WiMAX handset. It will be available in Russia on November 26th.

Intel announced its Intel Health Guide, a care management tool designed for health care professionals who manage patients with chronic conditions. The Health Guide represents Intel’s entry into a new category of personal health systems that go beyond the simple remote patient monitoring systems available today.

Sun announced the latest version of the Solaris 10 Operating System - Solaris 10 10/08. The new version builds on the core strengths of the Solaris 10 OS to help customers maximize asset usage and systems performance, manage datacenter complexity, preserve business continuity and reduce costs.

Intel announced agreements with government and industry in Taiwan intended to extend Taiwan’s position as a leading center for developing and deploying the world’s next generation of connected devices and related technologies.

IBM and Intel will extend their collaboration in the blade server market to drive adoption of an open industry specification for blade switches.

Ericsson will collaborate with Intel to bring HSPA mobile data solutions to Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). Ericsson is thereby extending its 3G mobile broadband technology from notebooks to a range of pocketable devices with various purposes.

Intel has begun shipping its highest- performing solid-state drive (SSD), the Intel X-25E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive, aimed at server, workstation and storage systems.

A new report from WiMAX Forum projects the Indian WiMAX market including devices will be worth $13 billion in 2012. The WiMAX Forum forecasts that by 2012 the Indian market will support 27.5 million WiMAX users - representing 20% of the global WiMAX user base - or 19 million WiMAX subscribers.

ABI Research states the fledgling market for ultra-mobile devices (UMDs) – a catch-all term that includes ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs), netbooks, and mobile Internet devices (MIDs) – will become more complicated as it grows.

Catalysts of a new 4G wireless broadband era gathered in Baltimore as Sprint, Intel and their WiMAX ecosystem partners celebrated the recent launch of XOHM mobile 4G service, and announced new access devices and retail strategies at an Inner Harbor event.

Dell, Intel and Motion Computing have launched a new service to assess, design and validate the quality and coverage of wireless networks soon to become the backbone of health care information flow.

Oracle announced new mobile interoperability with Nokia devices and technology, as a result of the ongoing cooperation and co-development between the two companies. Oracle Database Lite is available on Symbian Version 9/S60 Version 3 enabling enterprises to mobilize their applications using Nokia E90 Communicator.

Nissan Motor, NTT DOCOMO, and Sharp announced that they have jointly developed the world’s first mobile phone capable of functioning as an intelligent key for automobiles. The device will incorporate Nissan’s Intelligent Key system, already a standard feature in various Nissan vehicles.

Oracle and Intel announced that they are collaborating to help accelerate enterprise readiness of cloud computing and make it more efficient and secure. The companies will also identify and drive standards to enable flexible deployment across private and public clouds.

IBM will offer remote, $99 “test drives” of Microsoft’s newly launched supercomputer operating system, Windows HPC Server 2008, via its global network of IBM Computing on Demand facilities.

Alcatel-Lucent and Thales have signed two further contracts with Shanghai Shentong Metro Co. Shanghai Shentong Group Co. awarded the contracts valued at 50 million Euros (RMB 518 million) to a consortium involving Alcatel Shanghai Bell, Alcatel-Lucent’s flagship company in China, Thales Rail Signalling Solutions and Shanghai Automation Instrumentation Co.

IBM announced the semiconductor industry’s first computationally based process for production of next generation 22nm semiconductors.

Intel has extended its lead in the high-end server segment, setting new standards in virtualization performance with the launch of seven 45nm-manufactured Intel Xeon Processor 7400 Series products.

A group of technology vendors and users have formed the IP for Smart Objects (IPSO) Alliance, whose goal is promoting the Internet Protocol (IP) as the networking technology best suited for connecting sensor- and actuator-equipped or “smart” objects and delivering information gathered by those objects.

The Alcatel-Lucent cable ship ‘Ile de Sein’ landed in Nuuk, the 2,100 km section (or trunk cable) of Tele Greenland’s submarine cable network. After completing the cable loading in Calais (France) in July, the ‘Ile de Sein’ began laying segments 1 and 2 in early August from Landeyjasandur in Iceland to Qaqortoq in Greenland.