US Relaxes Control Over Internet
BBC news has reported that the US government is relaxing its control over the internet. Icann, a not-for-profit private sector corporation set up by the US government, oversees the internet structure and is due to sign a new agreement with the US government on Wednesday. It is believed that the new agreement will give Icann more independence and make Icann universally accountable to the global internet community. It is interesting to learn that Icann regulates parts of the internet and stuff like the top-level domain (TLD) name system (Top level domains include .com and .uk) actually comes under its purview!
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Alcatel-Lucent Achieves New Transfer Speed Record - 400 DVDs data per second
Alcatel-Lucent has announced that it has set a new optical transmission record of more than 100 Petabits per second.kilometer or the equivalent of 400 DVDs worth of data per second over 7,000 kilometers (roughly the distance between Paris and Chicago). Read more to find out how this breakthrough was achieved and how it will impact the future of our broadband network!
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QNAP Announces NMP-1000 Network Multimedia Player
QNAP Systems, Inc has unveiled the NMP-1000 Network Multimedia Player, a new generation of home networked appliance that can be best described as a set top player with NAS server capability. The stylish player features cinema-grade home theater movie and video playback on the internal harddisk, advanced NAS features for storage and file sharing and supports high performance file transfer through eSATA or USB. Users looking to manage and centralize storage of their digital content and wants to play them on their home entertainment systems should include the NMP-1000 Network Multimedia Player in their shopping list this Christmas!
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[Rumour] Nvidia GT300 Architecture Details revealed
Rys over at Beyond3D has not leaked outright, but teased, a blurred architecture diagram of what appears to be Nvidia's next-gen GPU. Interestingly, the codename is GF100, which is the third codename we have heard following the popular GT300 and the recently revealed Fermi. We are not sure which of them is the most appropriate, but for this article, we will refer to Nvidia's next-gen GPU as GF100.
The GT in GT200 stood for "Geforce Tesla". GF in GF100 could possibly mean "Geforce Fermi".
While the diagram itself is strongly blurred, a close look reveals significant details, nevertheless.
More details next page.
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Panasonic Announces S8 and N8 Lets Note Series
Specs are pretty impressive for its streamline design.
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BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone to be available in Singapore from end October
Research in Motion (RIM) has introduced the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone which would be available in Singapore end of October. It touts itself as the first BlackBerry smartphone to feature dedicated media keys and touch-sensitive trackpad for great ease of use.
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Google adds school-friendly features to Google Doc
Google has added more features to the Google Doc such as an equation editor, superscripts and subscripts and even translation that would be of use for users, especially students.
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