If you read my Symmetric Gigabit Fiber Access post, you already know that new “active star” fiber solutions deliver up to gigabit Ethernet bandwidth to a residence, where it splits out into several 100 Mbps Ethernets.
If you are interested in communication stocks, read the interview with Ari Bensinger of Standard & Poor’s Equity Research in Business Week Online.
IBM has published a study about “The end of TV as we know it: A future industry perspective.”
The study compares “Massive Passives” (old style TV viewers) with leading edge users (such as YOU, right?)
There’s a dirty little “fiber to the…” secret nobody is talking about. All of the major deployments to date use passive optical network technology (PON).
The folks at OpenOfficeTips posted this screen shot showing what happens if you turn on EVERY toolbar in the OpenOffice Calc spreadsheet program. It’s not pretty. (But you can do the same stunt in Excel.)
There’s a nasty USB driver bug that seriously increases the power consumption with the new Intel Core Duo. You lose an HOUR of battery run time. Ouch!
I know you are busy. We all are. But if you only have time to click a single link today, you should read The Imminent Internet Singularity. It’s a presentation by Dr. Gary Flake who is joining Microsoft Research from Yahoo!.
Yahoo! Research has a cool Mindset demo of “intent driven search.”
Thomas H. Maugh II reports in The Los Angeles Times about a new bird flu vaccine that in early trials appears to be highly effective. If further research confirms these results, this could be a breakthrough that greatly reduces the threat of a global avian flu pandemic.
A friend who attended the recent Solidworks conference mentioned this Desktop 3D scanner that will sell for only $2,000.
Telcoms Korea reports Samsung has developed new “super-reflective” display technology.
I promise to go to bed after this post. Promise. You are hereby directed, by the powers vested in me, to check out this page by Oliver Steele. [Note: corrected link...]