Korean researchers have announced the development of a plastic optical fiber cable capable of transmitting 2.5Gbps while remaining flexible and easy to connect. If commercially viable, the new fiber could lead to fast home Internet connections.
The ability to create flexible, transparent electronics could lead to a host of novel applications, such as e-paper and electronic car windshields.
The Holiday comes a little early this year, as the BC team has just issued out another update. The latest backwards compatibility update is now available over Xbox Live (or will be very soon.)
Apparently anyone under the age of 18 who originally signed up for Xbox Live is STILL considered a child even after they have passed the age of 18 and pay for their own account. There are limitations, you can not view dashboard ads, featured downloads, or use MSN messenger. It has been 2 years now and Microsoft still has not fixed this issue.
You don’t need a complicated boot CD or expensive software to create a restorable system disk image for your PC: free utility DriveImage XML can save a full, working snapshot of your Windows hard drive while you work on it. With it, imaging your PC’s hard drive is a matter of a few clicks, no reboots required.
It had to drop sooner or later, and it seems that today was the lucky day for Japanese Wii owners. With little to no fan-fare, the “Everybody’s Nintendo” Wii channel has launched in Japan, offering release date information, promotional videos, and — finally — streaming DS demo downloads.
How do you get data onto a chip with 100 cores, all of which may be reading from main memory at once? Rambus doesn’t yet know the answer, but they have some ideas.
Choice developers are gaining early access to Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch software developer kit, according to sources familiar with the matter. A handful of companies are said to be getting rough versions of the tools to help code more advanced applications than would be possible with today’s web-only solution.
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The toolkit sets up an Apache Web server on the user’s machine. It also automatically configures all of the data and graphs gathered about activity on the local network to be displayed on a Web page, complete with ntop-generated graphics showing not only bandwidth usage generated by each user on the network, but also the Internet address of every W
The RIAA has targeted over 4,000 students at 160 colleges and universities with its prelitigation settlement letters. None of them attend Harvard. What gives?
Torrent.is, the largest BitTorrent site in Iceland has been taken offline due to efforts from a coalition of anti-piracy organizations. Their request to seize all computer hardware associated with the site was rejected.
