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Scientists at the University of Sydney claim to have found a technology that would possibly allow the internet to become up to hundred times faster than current networks. After four years of development they have created a switch that’s “only” 60 times faster than current networks. With little extra work the scientists are confident that they can reach the 100 times faster speed rates. “This is a critical building block and a fundamental advance on what is already out there. We are talking about networks that are potentially up to 100 times faster without costing the consumer any more,” says Federation Fellow Professor Ben Eggleton, Director of CUDOS which is based within the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. The switch is created using a small scratch on a piece of glass. This scratched glass is actually a photonic integrated circuit that has the capacity to increase the slow rate of information carried by optical fibres. Using photonic technology that has terabit per second speed, the circuit uses the scratch as a guide or a switching path for information. Similar to when trains are switched from one track to another, this switch takes only one picosecond to change tracks. Therefore in one second the switch is turning on and off about one million times. Additional information on the new scratch switches can be obtained at the University of Sydney’s website here.

Taking your wifi network wherever you go used to be science fiction, but it is now science fact. Not only is it possible these days but it is pretty affordable, especially for small business.

There are a couple of ways to connect to the internet while you’re on the go, and one of them is the ubiquitous 3G infrastructure that cell companies have built over the years. Generally you can pay around 60-100 dollars a month for an internet connection that relies on cell towers, which have made their way into most inhabited sections of the country.

Once you get one of these data plans from Sprint or Verizon, you can get a mobile broadband router. This will take the air card that your cell provider gave you and create an 802.11 wifi hotspot that your colleagues can access and share.

Another way to move around with a portable wifi signal would be through the Windy31. This USB wireless router works only when you already have an internet connection, whether it’s wired or wireless, or even with a 3G air card. The Windy31 works like a USB wifi adapter, picking up any available wifi signal, and then it also works like a wireless router, creating a robust wifi halo wherever you go.

First talked about at Computex 2008, the newest entry to the ASUS ‘Eee family’ is the Eee Monitor. This product aims to give you everything you would expect a monitor to provide alongside display. The monitor in the pictures looks to be 19 to 20 inch, has a fixed web-cam, a 4-port USB hub, but what looks rather strange is that this ‘monitor’ doesn’t looks like it has a D-Sub or DVI connector leading us to believe it’s a self-contained PC a-là Apple Mac. The connectors behind show an ethernet port, a phone jack, standard sound jacks (line-in, line-out, mic), and the usual power-input. If it’s meant to serve as a monitor, it must also double as a docking station, because otherwise there’s no reason to have Ethernet and audio ports. The product also features integrated speakers made by Denon. It also features integrated data-card readers.

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First-tier makers NVIDIA and AMD are dissatisfied with Intel’s ownership of the USB 3.0 specification, CNET reported yesterday. The next-generation high-speed USB 3.0 specification is aiming to become standard in 2009. It will be 10 times faster than USB 2.0 and at the same time as widespread as the current USB 2.0. The USB 3.0 will also retain full compatibility with USB 2.0 and presumably USB 1.0. The main investitors behind the USB 3.0 specs include Intel as well as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, NEC, and NXP Semiconductors. “The challenge is that Intel is not…giving the specification to anybody that competes with CPUs and chipsets,” said a source close to AMD who is familiar with the dispute. As a result AMD, NVIDIA, VIA Technologies and probably others could be driven to create their own USB 3.0 specification that may lead to a lot of frustration and money lost on development. “We are going to be forced to create a secondary specification … new open host controller standard for USB 3.0.” the AMD source added. “They could spend the time, engineers and money developing their own host controller spec,” an Intel source said. “In the past they have chosen to let us do the work and then benefit from the fruit of our labor.

Seagate CEO Bill Watkins, outlined yesterday that his company won’t release any solid state drives until next year. “SSDs are not price-competitive yet,” Watkins said. First Seagate SSDs will start to appear as late as next year, and target only enterprise market. Seagate has no plans to release SSD drives for consumers because of the high prices and other problems that still part solid state drives from conventional hard disks. “If the cost per gigabyte comes down to 10 cents, maybe,” Seagate will focus on SSD storage for consumers, Watkins said. But “It will take three to four years for SSDs to come to parity with hard drives,” he thinks. In related news, Bill Watkins also announced plans to introduce 2TB conventional hard drive next year. The exact release date and price information for the 2TB hard drive is still distant though.

AMD announced the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3800, tripling top-of-the line graphics performance in comparison to the previous generation ATI Mobility Radeon GPUs. Joining the previously announced ATI Mobility Radeon 3000 family, the new ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3800 series offers notebook manufacturers the ability to deliver fast graphics performance, energy-efficient 55nm graphics processor technology, amazing video playback, and, for the first time ever, ATI CrossFireX technology for a mobile graphics solution.

If you’re a Netflix subscriber you may have noticed that in the last year or so the company has rolled out a Watch Now option that lets you instantly watch some of the movies and TV shows in the Netflix library on your Windows PC with a broadband connection.

More recently, in upgrading its digital offerings, Netflix has taken things a step further by separating out the Instant Queue from your DVD Queue.

While the all-you-can-eat streaming video option is a nice perk for users (it’s available to any subscriber on the $8.95 per month plan or better), the real dream for many people is that instead of watching movies on your PC’s monitor, you cut out the computer completely and go right to your TV.

Well, with the Netflix Player by Roku ($100) that has become a reality.

South Korean SSD manufacturer Mtronstorage Technology announced today that it has completed the development of a new 1.8-inch ZIF-type SSD (Solid State Drive) for laptops. Mtron’s new SSD with Single Level Cell (SLC) Flash memory supports PATA (ZIF-type) interface and has a maximum reading speed of 120MB/s and writing speed of 100MB/s, which is more than 6 times faster than the current 1.8-inch HDDs. Mtron expects to ship the new SSD in capacity of up to 128GB. Worldwide premiere for these drives is set for April this year.

In order to meet growing consumer demand for large capacity portable storage solutions, Transcend Information, Inc. (Transcend), a leading manufacturer of flash memory products, today introduced its latest high-capacity USB flash drive – the 32GB JetFlash V60. About the size of an AA battery (61mm x 18.6mm x 9.8mm), the versatile JetFalsh V60 is small and light enough to be taken anywhere. With its enormous 32GB memory capacity, you can easily store all of your personal files, music, digital photos, and even full-length HDTV movies and still have space left for work or school documents. Already known for its eye-catching colors and surprisingly affordable price, Transcend’s JetFalsh V60 is now more attractive than ever.