March 2009

VDSL2 ups the ante on DSL technology – 500Mbps possible

Ericsson has shown that they can achieve 500Mbps speeds over copper lines, using a next-gen DSL technology called VDSL2 (Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Line 2). Just one caveat – the 500Mbps rate was only over 500m, and it degrades as the distance gets longer. However, even at 1km, you may still get 50Mbps which [...]

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How to integrate Twitter results into Google

Twitter is all the rage these days, so much so that even politicians are tweeting. There are more people searching Twitter for ‘news’ events, granted that those stories are 140 characters max, and not backed up with any sources, etc. The bottom line is that Twitter is growing as an info source. If you’re a [...]

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Sci Fi channel changing its name to SyFy

This has been blogged about ad-infinitum, so I’m not going to add to the chorus of cries from geekdom about the horrible new name. But it did occur to me that this could be the start of something worse – the Sci Fi channel drifting away from its roots, Science Fiction and related material. Yes, [...]

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GfG Article Recap – Week of Mar 20 2009

Here is last week’s featured gadgets and news items at Gizmos for Geeks: To start off the week, we took a look at Legacy Locker – a rather needed innovation that allows you to pass down important account details for your online ‘assets’ in the case of your death. We found two interesting pieces of [...]

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SkyNet Research Needs You!

Heard the news? SkyNet has just gone public with their new advanced robotic systems that they’ve been working on for many years, and are now open to the general public’s viewing for feedback! Check it out! Okay, sorry, it’s not true; it’s actually a promotion for Terminator Salvation due to be released this year – [...]

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PopSci Genius Guide – a brand new online-only interactive magazine

Popular Science has launched a brand new online-only magazine called PopSci Genius Guide. Meant to be interactive, with embedded video and more, it simply can’t come to your doorstep in print form. Almost every page has interactive spots that you can click on for more information, and those clicks typically result in the page re-orienting [...]

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Netgear Network Storage Device – 500GB/1TB external hard drive

Wireless networks between computers and devices around the home, and office have become very popular recently, and this is a must-have addition to anyone’s network: the Netgear Network Storage Device. Featuring either 500GB or 1TB of hard disk space (depending on which one you go for), you have plenty of room to store high quality [...]

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Vopium launches their mobile VoIP service in the US

Vopium launched their mobile VoIP service in the US recently, offering a lower cost option for international calls from cell phones. Vopium consists of a free software app for your mobile handset that routes your int’l calls over their network. Vopium is available for over 500 GSM handsets from over 20 hardware vendors and they [...]

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Sony eBook Store gets a 500k title boost from Google

Sony announced today that they have, with Google’s contribution, added over half a million (500,000) free public domain books to their library for their eReaders. This collection consist of books whose copyright has expired, so most of these titles will have been published prior to 1932. This brings the total number of titles in the [...]

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IBM may buy Sun Microsystems

IBM may buy Sun Microsystems in what may be a $7 billion deal. Apparently, IBM is offering $10/share which at the time the news came out was more than twice Sun’s then stock price. IBM would be purchasing a fellow hardware and software vendor, and there is a decent amount of discussion and speculation as [...]

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