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Chicken_dinner writes 'Engineers at Battelle have come up with a way to send data through the air at 10 Gigabits per second using point-to-point millimeter-wave technology. They used standard optical networking equipment and essentially combined two lower bandwidth signals to produce a 10Gb signal from the interference. They say the technology could replace fiber optics around large campuses or companies or even deliver high bandwidth streaming within the home.' of this story at Slashdot.

The U.S. House approves the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act rewritten the by U.S. Senate that includes a two-year extension of the Research and Development Tax Credit. The incentives added to lure House members who voted against the Wall Street bailout bill Sept. 29 tacks another $108 billion to the $700 billion tabbed for the financial markets rescue. Since the December expiration of the R D tax credit, U.S. businesses have been unable to assume the credit in their 2008 financial reporting results or to forecast project costs. - The U.S. House approved the Senate Wall Street bailout bill Oct. 3 and, in the process, finally bumped the expired research and development tax credit to the White House. Strongly supported by the technology sector, the two-year, $14 billion tax credit was part of a package of sweeteners added b...

Iddo Genuth writes to tell us that a researcher from Tel Aviv University is exploring the possibility that humans may be able to 'see' via their skin. Professor Leonid Yaroslavsky hopes to utilize this possible technology to find solutions for the blind in addition to new types of image capture that might be able to work where conventional lenses fail. Unfortunately he has a long uphill battle ahead to convince others that his theories are possible. 'The lenses currently used for optics-based imaging have many problems. They only work within a limited range of electromagnetic radiation. Relatively, these are still costly devices greatly limited by weight and field of view. The imaging Professor Yaroslavsky has in mind has no lenses and he believes the devices can be adapted to any kind of radiation and wavelength. They could essentially work with a 360-degree field of view and their imaging capability will only be determined by computer power rather than the laws of light diffraction.'

The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, in its latest bid to use Internet Age technology to trounce Republican rival John McCain and connect with supporters, has released free software that turns Apple iPhones into political rallying tools.

AP - The economic slowdown has started to squeeze the technology sector. So far this has not led to wide-scale job cuts, but a slowing demand for computers and other electronics may already be weighing on some payrolls.

The updated operating system offers touch-screen support, advanced sensor technology, and expanded support for open source.