Diving Through The Information Barrage
Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Scientific Data — Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, http://research.google.com, will soon provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets. The storage will be free to scientists and access to the data will be free for all.
Link: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/google-to…
[From Google to Host Terabytes of [...]
As the Internet grows in size and bandwidth, routers must search through larger and larger routing tables faster and faster. Not an impossible task, but probably an expensive one in the future unless we come up with a different approach to Internet routing.
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[From Internet routing shows growing pains—again]
Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2008
IPv6: coming to a root server near you
Networking technology turned out to be one of the more interesting stories in 2007. [From Get ready for a rocking '08 in networking tech]
The XO laptop I received last week as part of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project’s “Give One Get One” (G1G1) promotion is unlike any other laptop I’ve ever used, both in appearance and functionality. It’s smaller, for one thing. The XO weighs only 3.13 pounds, is 9 inches wide, and approximately an inch [...]
An MIT initiative called “OpenCourseWare” makes virtually all the school’s courses available online for free, and more than 100 universities worldwide, including Johns Hopkins, Tufts and Notre Dame, are joining MIT in a consortium of schools promoting their own open courseware.
[From Ivy League Universities Open Courses to All [...]
However, those users won’t see any difference in service from the U-Verse being delivered to VDSL users (6Mbps max speed, single HD stream), despite having all that potential capacity.
…This user in our U-Verse forum is one of those lucky (unlucky) FTTH customers in Oklahoma who decided to give the service a spin anyway, and ultimately decided it wasn’t quite ready for prime time:
Airlines around the world are gearing up to offer in-flight broadband for passengers, but overblown fears could make it less sweet than it should be. The fears, and why we don’t buy them.
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[From Airlines planning to filter, censor in-flight 'Net access]
AppScout directs your attention to a new database that’s part of a SEC effort to transparently track executive compensation. According to the database, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts takes home a $2.5 yearly million salary–but with bonuses, stock awards and other assorted perks, that number jumps to $26 million annually. Departed AT&T CEO Ed [...]
The software maker creates a single business unit, called Connected TV, to handle its Internet Protocol television, Media Center PC, and HD DVD efforts. [From Microsoft quietly combines TV efforts]
An international venture called the Universal Library Project has made more than one million books freely available in digitized format. The joint project of researchers from China, India, Egypt, and the US has the eventual aim of digitizing all published works of man, freeing the availability of information from geographic and socioeconomic boundaries, providing a [...]
The Perl community just celebrated the 20th anniversary of Perl. Here are some stories from Perl hackers around the world about problems they’ve solved and memories they’ve made with the venerable, powerful, and still vital language. [From Memories of 20 Years of Perl]
The VMware ecosystem:VMware was once a tool to improve server utilization for engineers, but now it’s an ecosystem of third-party products and services.
Introducing Python Pickling:
By Amit Kumar Saha
$2.2 Million Grant Calls for Designing Computer Software to Predict the UnpredictableUniversity of Arizona Professor Jerzy Rozenblit has received a $2.2 million grant to design computer software that will analyze volatile political and military situations.
Why EDGE versus 3G matters less than you think
The 700MHz Question:Will the Wireless Spectrum Auction Lead to Innovation or More of the Same?
The World’s Biggest SANs
One less reason to adopt IPv6?
Cisco, Microsoft promote DHCPv6 instead of autoconfiguration
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