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Submission + - Does the internet need a major capacity upgrade?

Submitted by wiggles on Friday February 23, 2007 @05:27PM

wiggles writes: According to the Chicago Tribune, the recent surge of video sites such as youtube and Google video are pushing the limits of the internet's bandwidth, or soon will be. Pieter Poll, chief technology officer at Qwest Communications, says that traffic volumes are growing faster than computing power, meaning that engineers can no longer count on newer, faster computers to keep ahead of their capacity demands. Further, a recent report from Deloitte Consulting raised the possibility that 2007 would see Internet demand exceed capacity. Admittedly, this seems sensationalistic, but are we headed for a massive slowdown of the whole internet?

Feed On the Road: Airlines Sharpen Sites for Web-Savvy Traveler (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @12:12AM

With the growth of small-business and independent employee travel, booking sites are scrambling to serve this market.

Feed Europe’s Plan to Track Phone and Net Use (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @12:12AM

A proposed law would require companies to keep detailed data about people’s Internet and phone use.

Possible Cure For Autism 431

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 19, 2007 @11:53PM from the umbrella-for-the-rainman dept.

Henry V .009 writes "Scientists in New Jersey are claiming that children with autism are unable to metabolize key fatty acids that fight brain-damaging inflammations. They have already developed urine/blood tests to identify at-risk children. A preventive cure to autism may be as simple as a 'therapeutic cocktail' of fatty acids. Human trials could start later this year."

Submission + - 12 crackpot deas that could transform tech

Submitted by

InfoWorldMike

on Monday February 19, 2007 @11:40PM

InfoWorldMike writes: "Technologies that push the envelope of the plausible capture our curiosity almost as quickly as the could-be crackpots who dare to concoct them become targets of our derision. Here are a dozen, from the harebrained to the practical, that have a history of raising eyebrows and just might have a hand in transforming the future of the technology landscape: Superconducting computing, solid-state drives, autonomic computing, DC power, holographic and phase-change storage, artificial intelligence, e-books, desktop web apps, Project Blackbox, quantum computing/cryptography, and the semantic Web. Check out InfoWorld's slideshow of these top crackpot contenders and nominate your favs here."

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