According to an article on BBC News, scientists have managed to push a DVD over the fledgling Internet2 network in just about 30 seconds, yielding a throughput of 923mbps over a 10,000 kilometer distance (from Sunnyvale, CA to Amsterdam). Although these speeds are commonplace these days for short-haul connections …

An interesting article on CBS Markecensoredch discusses the potential plight of technology companies that cut their R&D investments in bad times, likening it to the auto industry decline in the 1970's. The article is a bit alarmist, but it's a good thing to keep in mind.

Dell Computer is now releasing the Inspiron 8500 complete with the display I want to see on a future Mac laptop, a 1920x1200 pixel wide-aspect 15.4" display. Lots of pixels! Of course, it's a PC, so I won't have any of it, but some of you folks may find …

So, I understand from this article that Free Space Optics (FSO) have been around for a while, but this is the first that I'd heard of it, and the technology is cool. Basically, PowerBeat International provides high speed data (400Mbps+) over visible light spectrum. That's right, no licenses to procure …

"Actually, sir. There's a server in your fly," says the waiter. Somebody with clearly too much time on their hands has decided it would be a good time to take advantage of the existence of web server-capable chips smaller than the size of a standard housefly. To that end, he …

So far, so good, for the new Department of Homeland Security (despite the fact that I, personally, still hate the name). According to an article on CNet, they have been credited with doing a good job responding to the recent Sendmail vulnerability, including detection and coordination with private organizations to …

According to an article in Wired, Sony will be making the blue laser DVD recorders available (including built-in tuner) on April 10th in Japan. The recorder will be able to store two hours of HD video, giving it a substantial increase in capacity over the current red-laser DVDs. Any of …

Not that this is a surprise, but Microsoft is abandoning its seat on the OpenGL Architecture Review Board(ARB). Also not surprisingly, they are doing so as to "focus our energies on improving and evolving our own Windows graphics platform." In other words, they've learned enough from the standard and …

Presumedly because of the coverage of the new G3 announcement earlier today, O2 (who have implemented G3 on the Isle of Man) got some press from the BBC about a project that provides internet access to some 20-odd Macintoshes installed in a school bus via a single G3 mobile phone …

In an amusing twist, the folks at Lindows have asked for hundreds of boxes of evidence from Microsoft which that company had used to extricate itself from a nasty copyright dispute with Apple. Apparently, the hope is that the evidence, which was compelling enough to keep Microsoft from having to …

In the first announcement in the UK, Hutchison 3 has announced that their network is live and that they expect to begin providing service by March 15, according to an article on BBC News. 3G is the next generation of wireless telephone technology that provides true high-speed communications (at speeds …

Intel, the huge microprocessor manufacturer, has released a paper about the Open Runtime Platform, a new execution environment. The trick here is that it is designed to be a high-performance platform for running other transportable platforms, like Java's JVM and Microsoft .Net's CLI, on multiple platforms (Intel-based, of course), including …

According to an article from Mainichi Interactive, domestic Air Traffic Control in Japan delayed many flights for a period of 54 minutes while a computer "glitch" that caused flight information to disappear from ATC screens. The planes themselves didn't disappear, so there was little concern over safety, but as a …

In what has got to be the most amusing use of technology that I've seen so far this year, an article on Wired describes a piece of software that allows you to play old phonograph records on a high-resolution flat-bed scanner. The process involves scanning the "discs" (which usually requires …

Despite the fact that I registered for Seti@Home in May of 1999 and stopped using it in November of 1999, I still churned out more work units than 94+% of the people to sign up. According to my log on their site, I managed to generate 1.275 years …

Microsoft today announced its new Rights Management software for Windows 2000 Server. The press release is here, and an article from CNet is here. The basic structure is to provide Windows programs with access (via a programming API to be available later this year) to documents with user- specific, time-specific …

In yet another round of fun Napster-related lawsuits, CNet is reporting in this article that Napster investor Bertelsmann is being sued by a group of music producers for, in effect, causing more piracy by prolonging the life of the now-failed music-swapping service.

Just because you don't have enough opportunity to update your venerable web log from your computer, an article in Wired describes a new and growing set of software aimed at bloggers who want to take the show on the road.

According to an article in the Wall Street journal, a number of companies (including Motorola, Samsung, etc.) are working on portable devices that will compute and provide phone communication over WiFi and cellular networks. The article shows one-such device already available in South Korea.

An article on Geek.com is reporting that IBM is going to build their new PPC PDA using the QTopia OS. Basically, it's the same OS as the Sharp Zaurus, and is a Linux with a QT UI. QT is a cross-platform development toolkit from the Norwegian company, Trolltech. It …