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'The Grid' Could Soon Make the Internet Obsolete
Apr. 7, 2008 - A new version of the Internet has been created at Cern, the particle physics centre that created the original web. It is incredibly faster than the Internet because it doesn't have speed-limiting telephone switching equipment.
- The grid has been built with dedicated fibre optic cables and modern routing centres, meaning there are no outdated components to slow the deluge of data. The 55,000 servers already installed are expected to rise to 200,000 within the next two years.
- Source: Fox
Brain control headset for gamers
Feb. 20, 2008 - Sometime this year video game enthusiasts will be able to buy a headset that will allow them to manipulate a game or virtual environment by thought alone. Tan Le, president of US/Australian firm Emotiv, explains:
- "Emotiv is a neuro-engineering company and we've created a brain computer interface that reads electrical impulses in the brain and translates them into commands that a video game can accept and control the game dynamically."
- Source: BBC
Mobile Narrows Digital Division
Feb. 7, 2008 - According to a UN report, the rapid spread of mobile phones is helping to narrow the gulf between rich and poor nations.
- Mobile phone users in developing nations now make up 58% of handset subscribers worldwide, it said.
- Source: BBC
Chips pass two billion milestone
Feb. 4, 2008 - Intel now offers a four-core microprocessor with more than two billion transistors. The new chip, known as Tukwila, operates at speeds up to 2Ghz. Intel has a faster microprocessor, their dual-core Power6, but it only has 790 million transistors.
- Source: BBC
Microsoft Proposes To Buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion
Feb. 1, 2008 - In an effort to compete with Google's dominance of the Internet, Microsoft Corporation is offering shareholders of Yahoo an attractive profit to sell their stock to them. This will be Bill Gates' last big move before stepping down from Microsoft to wage war against global poverty and disease. If the merger does take place, the two companies hope to do what they could not do alone: make a better search engine than Google, and provide a better business model.
- Source:BBC
- Update: Feb. 11, 2008 - Yahoo formally rejects Microsoft offer - Yahoo
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