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| + | ==[http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20100727comp_sm.htm Intel Milestone Confirms Light Beams Can Replace Electronic Signals for Future Computers]== | ||
| + | *Intel Labs has created the world's first silicon-based optical data connection with integrated lasers using Hybrid Silicon Laser technology. | ||
| + | *The experimental chip can move data at 50 billion bits per second (50Gbps). Researchers are now pressing on to demonstrate even faster speeds. | ||
| + | *The availability of low-cost, high-speed fiber-optics based on this technology could allow computer makers to completely rethink traditional system design from netbooks to supercomputers. | ||
| + | *Businesses with server farms or datacenters could eliminate performance bottlenecks while saving significant operational costs in space and energy, replacing many cables with one optical fiber. | ||
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==[http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/the-dirty-little-secret-about-google-android/38260 The dirty little secret about Google Android]== | ==[http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/the-dirty-little-secret-about-google-android/38260 The dirty little secret about Google Android]== | ||
Here’s the dirty little secret about Android: After all the work Apple did to get AT&T to relinquish device control for the iPhone and all the great efforts Google made to get the FCC and the U.S. telecoms to agree to open access rules as part of the 700 MHz auction, Android is taking all of those gains and handing the power back to the telecoms. | Here’s the dirty little secret about Android: After all the work Apple did to get AT&T to relinquish device control for the iPhone and all the great efforts Google made to get the FCC and the U.S. telecoms to agree to open access rules as part of the 700 MHz auction, Android is taking all of those gains and handing the power back to the telecoms. | ||
Revision as of 15:31, 25 August 2010
Contents
- 1 Intel Milestone Confirms Light Beams Can Replace Electronic Signals for Future Computers
- 2 The dirty little secret about Google Android
- 3 Software Router Smashes Speed Records
- 4 Google CEO Schmidt: No Anonymity Is The Future Of Web
- 5 One of my long time pet peeves is now being ruined - the textbook racket
Intel Milestone Confirms Light Beams Can Replace Electronic Signals for Future Computers
- Intel Labs has created the world's first silicon-based optical data connection with integrated lasers using Hybrid Silicon Laser technology.
- The experimental chip can move data at 50 billion bits per second (50Gbps). Researchers are now pressing on to demonstrate even faster speeds.
- The availability of low-cost, high-speed fiber-optics based on this technology could allow computer makers to completely rethink traditional system design from netbooks to supercomputers.
- Businesses with server farms or datacenters could eliminate performance bottlenecks while saving significant operational costs in space and energy, replacing many cables with one optical fiber.
The dirty little secret about Google Android
Here’s the dirty little secret about Android: After all the work Apple did to get AT&T to relinquish device control for the iPhone and all the great efforts Google made to get the FCC and the U.S. telecoms to agree to open access rules as part of the 700 MHz auction, Android is taking all of those gains and handing the power back to the telecoms.
This article was originally published on TechRepublic but I thought the reader comments on both sites are worthwhile.
Software Router Smashes Speed Records
Researchers in South Korea have built a networking router that transmits data at record speeds from components found in most high-end desktop computers. A team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology created the router, which transmits data at nearly 40 gigabits per second--many times faster than the previous record for such a device.
Google CEO Schmidt: No Anonymity Is The Future Of Web
"In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a name service for people. Governments will demand it."
- - In the future, people will demand the dismantling of privacy-invading governments and corporations. How about that?
One of my long time pet peeves is now being ruined - the textbook racket
http://www.curriki.org free, open-source curricula (it's a wiki!) NY Times
