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A sound visionaryDigital entrepreneur Jeff Price is helping musicians bypass the big record labels, writes Terry Smyth.
TheAge.com.au Sunday, August 16, 2009Always in styleFor students with the means, a laptop is as much a fashion statement as it is a tool to bang out essays or enjoy some downtime
The Globe and Mail Sunday, August 16, 2009Sensitive to the touchPerfect for the student note-taker or youngster who’s yet to learn to type, touchscreen tablets satisfy niche programs
The Globe and Mail Sunday, August 16, 2009Facebook's Purchase Is Bid to Own Social MediaFacebook just bought the rights to nearly everything you do online. And it cost them only $47.5 million.
Washington Post Sunday, August 16, 2009Blogger's Case May Test Limits of Political SpeechCHICAGO -- Internet radio host Hal Turner disliked how three federal judges rejected the National Rifle Association's attempt to overturn a pair of handgun bans.
Washington Post Sunday, August 16, 2009Under All the Right Conditions, Latest Windows Upgrade Could Be a BreezeTwo months from now, Windows users will have a chance to fix what's broken or break what's working. But they may not know which path they chose until after they've installed Windows 7.
Washington Post Sunday, August 16, 2009Help File: Using MobileMe Mail With Your Own Domain Name; A Missing Verizon DVR FeatureQ: Can I use my own domain name with my MobileMe e-mail account?
Washington Post Sunday, August 16, 2009TomTom Finds Its Way to the iPhoneGPS vendor TomTom has released its long-awaited GPS application for the
iphone. Priced at $99, it works with the
iphone 3G and iPhone 3GS. However, TomTom isn't the first to offer such an item through the App Store. AT&T and Navigon have both already released iPhone turn-by-turn GPS iPhone apps.
TechNewsWorld Sunday, August 16, 2009World's Only Diesel-Electric Honda InsightJake Staub writes "Just replaced the gasoline engine in a Honda Insight with a Diesel engine. On a 3,000 mile cross-country shakedown journey the car averaged 92mpg over 1,800 miles. Around a very hilly town in Northwest Washington, the car is averaging 78mpg. These mileage averages are without the electric side of the vehicle fully functional. With a bit more tinkering on the electric side and through a slight gearing change through tire size, it is anticipated that the car will likely average 100mpg. The build for the car has been documented on the web site and is as close to open source as my time allows. The car was built by two guys in a garage in Southern Maryland. If we can do it I don't see any reason why major auto manufacturers can't do it since we used their parts."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Slashdot Sunday, August 16, 2009How To Build a 100,000-Port Ethernet SwitchBobB-nw writes "University of California at San Diego researchers Tuesday are presenting a paper (PDF) describing software that they say could make data center networks massively scalable. The researchers say their PortLand software will enable Layer 2 data center
network fabrics scalable to 100,000 ports and beyond; they have a prototype running at the school's Department of
computer Science and Engineering's Jacobs School of Engineering. 'With PortLand, we came up with a set of algorithms and protocols that combine the best of layer 2 and layer 3 network fabrics,' said Amin Vahdat, a computer science professor at UC San Diego. 'Today, the largest data centers contain over 100,000 servers. Ideally, we would like to have the flexibility to run any application on any server while minimizing the amount of required network configuration and state... We are working toward a network that administrators can think of as one massive 100,000-port switch seamlessly serving over one million virtu
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