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Switch on a chip to boost internet speed

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:53:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What a great improvement. Telstra is among the worst in the world, old equipment, just for starters. The comparison will show that this will make us as fast as the rest of the world.

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

A new ultrafast optical switch on a chip could help speed up the internet in Australia by more than 6,000 per cent, say researchers.

Professor Benjamin Eggleton from the University of Sydney and colleagues will present their research at the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference in Sydney today.

"This is a switch that's 64 times faster than anything that's happening in Telstra's networks," says Professor Eggleton, who is director of the Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems.

Professor Eggleton and colleagues say they have developed an optical switch that can eliminate of one of the bottlenecks in Australia's internet infrastructure.

It replaces electrical switches that are used to convert optical signals to a spread of electrical signals that are then redirected to various destinations.

"We can create switches that are instantaneous, essentially," says Professor Eggleton.

"You just can't switch that fast with electronics."

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Travel back in time...

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:41:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Part of the blurb that goes with WayBack page search You can go to all the sites through web.archive.org.

Clip Source: web.archive.org

Yahoo!
www.yahoo.com

"Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" was started in 1994 by a couple of computer geeks in a trailer on the Stanford campus. Seven years and one name change later, we have the phenomenally successful Yahoo! Do you uh...
Go Wayback to Yahoo! on December 20, 1996 | See all dates

Trojan Room Coffee Machine
www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html

National Center for Supercomputer Applications

The Internet Movie Database
www.imdb.com

Created in 1989, and first arriving on the web in 1993, the Internet Movie Database has been dispensing movie trivia since the time when Brooke Shields starred in Brenda Starr.
Go Wayback to IMDb on November 19, 1996 | See all dates

Ultimate Band List
www.ubl.com

Started in the Summer of 1994 at Caltech U., UBL, originally known as the Web Wide World of Music, or WWWOM, quickly grew into a large and wildly popular directory of music links.
Go Wayback to UBL on December 27, 1996 | See all dates

Amazon.com

The White House

The Well

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Morally you are Pygmies, Yahoo told

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:56:55 GMT

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Clip Source: www.theage.com.au

Yahoo's chief executive was verbally lashed by US lawmakers on Tuesday over the internet company's role in helping identify a Chinese dissident who was later imprisoned by the government.

"While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are Pygmies," Representative Tom Lantos, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told CEO Jerry Yang and Yahoo's general counsel, Michael Callahan, at the three-hour hearing.

Yang and Callahan were battered with criticism from both Democrats and Republicans over the case of Shi Tao, a reporter accused by Chinese authorities of leaking state secrets abroad and sentenced last April to 10 years in prison.

Shi's crime was to forward to foreign human rights groups an email from Chinese government authorities that directed journalists to avoid coverage of the 15th anniversary of the Chinese army killings of pro-democracy protesters near Tiananmen Square in 1989, said Lantos, a California Democrat.

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40 Unusual Websites you should Bookmark

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:03:10 GMT

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Clip Source: www.makeuseof.com

If you’re a long time makeuseof reader, at one point or another you may have seen several of these websites before. We have covered lots of lists and round-ups but this one is quite different: it lists undiscovered webservices that are original, rather unique, unusual, useful, free, and must-be bookmarked type. You won’t find any collaboration, storage or ToDo service here. Enjoy!

1. BugMeNot - instantly get disposable login details for any popular website that forces you to register.

2. DailyLit - read your favorite books by email (on your PC, mobile, etc.).

3. FranceRadio - neat MP3 Search Engine that lets you Find, Play and Download favorite MP3s for FREE.

4. Google SMS - provides mobile users with a quick access (via SMS) to a wide range of practical information and tools (i.e. business listings (pizzerias, shops, etc.), weather, movie listings, driving directions, currency converter and lots more.

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ACCC targets Google in US

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:48:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Will be interesting to follow.

Clip Source: www.smh.com.au

The competition regulator has dropped its misleading conduct case against Google's Australian and Irish subsidiaries.

In Federal Court this morning, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said it would now only target Google's US parent company and Trading Post.

The judge hearing the case, James Allsop, instructed the ACCC to file a further statement of claim against those two entities by November 8. The hearing will resume on November 16, but it is unlikely the case will go to trial before next year.

The ACCC launched legal action against Google Australia, US-based Google Inc., Google Ireland and the Sensis subsidiary Trading Post in July, alleging misleading and deceptive conduct over search results.

ACCC spokeswoman Lin Enright denied claims the regulator was confused when it filed its original application, saying the case against the subsidiaries was dropped because Google Inc. had "indicated it was responsible for all representations made on the Google.com.au site''.

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Hooked on the web, no time for nookies

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:46:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Mmmmmmmm

Clip Source: www.smh.com.au

Surfing the net has become an obsession for many Americans with the majority of US adults feeling they cannot go for a week without going online and one in three giving up friends and sex for the web.

A survey asked 1,011 American adults how long they would feel OK without going on the web, to which 15 per cent said a just a day or less, 21 per cent said a couple of days and another 19 per cent said a few days.

Only a fifth of those who took part in an online survey conducted by advertising agency JWT between September 7 and 11 said they could go for a week.

"People told us how anxious, isolated and bored they felt when they are forced off line," said Ann Mack, director of trend spotting at JWT, which conducted the survey to see how technology was changing people's behaviour.

"They felt disconnected from the world, from their friends and family," she told Reuters.

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