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Technology

Millipede Prototype Shown at CeBIT

March 13, 2005

IBM has for the first time shown a prototype of its Millipede nanomechanical data storage device at the CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany. Using nanotechnology, scientists at IBM Zurich Reserach Laboratory have achieved data storage densities of more than one terabit per square inch, equivalent to storing the content of 25 DVDs on an [...]

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Intel Unveils Proposed 802.11s Mesh Networking Standard

March 6, 2005

I have long believed that mesh networking will eventually be one of the key components in the future converged networks that will shake up the telecommunications world. One of the challenges has been that there are a number of different approaches and technologies that have been slowly pushed into the marketplace. One of the keys [...]

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Notebook Evolution

March 3, 2005

I was reading somewhere about some of Intel’s future architecture plans for notebook computing, and their was a pointer to this article about Intel’s Extended Mobile Architecture (EMA). EMA entails adding a secondary screen on the outside of the notebook so that while the notebook computer is in the sleep state, users can monitor their [...]

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Grid Computing Interview

February 21, 2005

BetaNews has a good interview with Dr. Ian Foster and Steve Tuecke about the future of grid computing.
A couple of interesting points: First, they don’t seem to be thinking that much about the vast space of P2P approaches and applications, although they see the relevance and relationship:
So, there is a whole class of interesting things [...]

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RFID Adoption and the Open Source Economy

February 6, 2005

Now, here is a great example of the dilemma that many companies feel they are facing as they struggle to adopt new collaborative technologies. ComputerWeekly.com reports that many early adopters of RFID are reluctant to share information about their deployment experience, potentially holding back the development and adoption by others that will be so necessary [...]

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Incompatible Tech Still Confuses Consumers

January 7, 2005

You would think they would have learned by now, but the consumer electronics giants and their clueless big media comrades continue to confound consumers with incompatible technology standards and needless complexity. The annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is once again occasion for reporters and analysts to write about the continuing mess that is [...]

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BenQ P50 Teaser

March 21, 2004

CeBIT is underway in Hannover, Germany, right now, and that means lots of cool new gadgets – especially mobile phones. I do hope BenQ’s new P50 smartphone finds its way to the U.S. market in the not-to-distant future. It’s packed with features, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and an integrated 1.3 megapixel camera. Of course, according to [...]

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