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Silicon chips for optical quantum computing

UK researchers at Bristol University have shown that it is possible to control single photons on a silicon chip. The team developed 'the world's smallest optical controlled-NOT gate -- the building block of a quantum computer.' As said the lead researcher, 'This is a crucial step towards a future optical...

Tags: Optics, Abstract, Silicon Chip, Computing, Quantum Corp., Chip, Quantum Computing, Quantum Computer, Quantum Technology, Quantum Circuit, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-30

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Internet continues to lose its founding network partners

I would like to see...I would like to see more competition on the hardware side. I completely understand that costs are a huge factor limiting competition but companies that own monopolies on the actual network infrastructure have little incentive to upgrade or enhance user experience with out major competition. Ideally...

Tags: network, Internet, Net2, satellite, network partner, government

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Future ERP

Brian Sommer's provocative post that juxtaposes SAP's technology thinking around the 'old' and 'new' worlds provides insights into something SAP was talking about last year - the two speed world of ERP. At the back end there is still plenty to do, hardening applications, winkling out recurring bugs...

Tags: Innovation, Salesforce.com Inc., Financial, SAP AG, ERP, Brian Sommer, Brian, S-curve, Cloud Infrastructure, BRP, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Computers have speed limit as unbreakable as speed of light, say physicists

Yeah, they have been saying this same thing for years....and everytime, they find a way to make computers even faster. I don't think that they will EVER reach a limit for computer power. Not ever.FacinatingI always knew there would be a wall somewhere, but what will be needed with that...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Snapz Pro X 2.2.1 (Mac)

Snapz Pro X allows you to effortlessly record anything on your screen, saving it as a QuickTime movie or screenshot that can be e-mailed, put up on the web, or passed around however you want. Snapz Pro X is a quantum leap in video capture technology, adroitly capturing full motion...

Tags: Video Capture, Apple Macintosh, Archiving, Video, Ambrosia Software, Snapz Pro X, Corporate Communications, Business Intelligence, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-10-15

73% of residential VOIP subscribers to use wireless VOIP phones by 2009

COIP Cellular Over Internet Protocol is Bandwidth Hog Answer to VOIPInteresting,Having been an advocate of VOIP since beginning, and seeing the improvements in technology eliminating the early poor quality call clarity. Cellular Over Internet Protocol, or COIP, as in VOIP, has broken new ground with the first dial tone on...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP phone, phone, wireless, VoIP, CoIP

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

HP Software CTO: Virtualization and cloud sourcing sprawl likely

IT and Cloud/Virtualization SecurityRemember Ronald Reagan?"Trust, but Verify."Losing productivity for the sake of security spells trouble, since any blanked, high-level security protocols unnecessarily inhibit the 99% of regular access needed for day-to-day activity which doesn't involve a security risk at a high level.Too many security hurdles, and Users find "shortcuts"...

Tags: sourcing, software, Hewlett-Packard Co., virtualization, security, Quantum Crypto

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Reformulating Murphy's law

Reformulating Murphy's lawInteresting thoughtsIt's saddening that thought is such a rare thing among us humans.Imagine how different the world might have been.[i]"The applications to IT are less obvious but equally compelling. If you believe, for example, in the achievability of wintel security, you?ll spend lots of money setting your employer...

Tags: Operating systems, Wintel, Unix

Discussion threads 2009-08-01

Tenenbaum defense relies on hot air, not facts

Wacky Harvard Prof. Charles Nesson crumbled a styrofoam box and displayed a "Necker Cube" optical illusion in his opening statement in the Joel Tenenbaum filesharing trial, Ben Sheffner reports from Boston for Ars Technica. That proved apparently that the Internet transformed the quantum of music from...

Tags: Witness, Music, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Juniper, NYSE Euronext partner on efficient data center design

Juniper Networks and NYSE Euronext are teaming up on an effort to consolidate and enhance the data center networks that power billions of transactions every day. Statement NYSE Euronext's two new data centers will be a key part of the work being done to consolidate the number...

Tags: NYSE Euronext, Data Center, Juniper Networks Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-24

New version of Oracle PLM tool helps IT streamline product development

In this economy, IT and engineering departments are not only lean, but many of them naturally become more risk-averse. That's bad for business because successful companies and IT groups use technology as an innovative and competitive advantage and in order to do that you have to take some healthy risks....

Tags: Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Supplier, Agile Software, Tool, Product Development, Product Marketing, Channel Management, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-06-22

RIAA's $1.92 million victory: more about message, less about money

RIAA's $1.92 million victory: more about message, less about moneyRIAA is a dangerous criminal organizationThere is only one victim here, that poor woman, they destroyed her life, and for what?Of course she lied that her kids were the one, that she hadn't known etc. She was trying to get away...

Tags: CD, RIAA

Discussion threads 2009-06-19

Snapz Pro X 2.1.5 (Mac)

Snapz Pro X allows you to effortlessly record anything on your screen, saving it as a QuickTime movie or screenshot that can be e-mailed, put up on the web, or passed around however you want. Snapz Pro X is a quantum leap in video capture technology, adroitly capturing full motion...

Tags: Video Capture, Apple Macintosh, Archiving, Video, Ambrosia Software, Snapz Pro X, Corporate Communications, Business Intelligence, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-04-29

Nanowires, nanoribbons and 'graphane' among materials that'll revolutionize computers

Architects of the next generation of computers are developing a variety of nanostructures to meet the demand for increasingly smaller features for semiconductors, microprocessors, and other components. These tiny building blocks are quite extraordinary-some even self-assemble. And they'll help overcome many of the limitations of today's microelectronics...

Tags: Nanotube, Carbon Nanotube, Computer, Chip, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-24

New atomic clock loses only a second every 300 million years

The quest to create the perfect scientific timepiece has led to the development of an atomic clock that researchers from JILA claim to be fifty percent more accurate than results reported last year. JILA, is a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST...

Tags: Clock, Atom, NIST, JILA, Team Management, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-16

Moody's Bottom Rung list includes AMD, Clearwire, Palm, Unisys; Media default Armageddon

Moody's has released its "Bottom Rung" list of companies that have a high risk of default and weak liquidity and there are a few technology and telecom household names on the list including AMD, Clearwire, Palm and Unisys. Media companies are the biggest chunk of companies on the verge of...

Tags: Unisys Corp., Palm Inc., Media, Clearwire Corp., Moody's Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Telephony, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Telecommunications, Strategy, Networking, Marketing, Finance, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-10

Google

GoogleThe future is hybrid."For several years, I?d been hearing the folks at Google talk about life in the cloud, about how a computer that wasn?t connected to the Internet was a computer that wasn?t really working."Which frankly is a terrible attitude IMHO.We'll never have 100% always up internet. Sorry. Hasn't...

Tags: Google Inc., Internet, network

Discussion threads 2009-02-18

Hologram technology: the sub-atomic future of storage?

I was recently talking to some folks at Google about storage, specifically the amount of data that's being stored on the cloud as users upload things like photos and YouTube video clips. Gigabytes. Terabytes. Petabytes. I couldn't help but wonder, as we talked about all of this...

Tags: Hologram, Stanford, Beam, Storage, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-04

Clouds, history, and unmitigated drivel

Clouds, history, and unmitigated drivelHere come the flames!Regardless of the accurracy/inaccuracy of your vision, I can see the flames coming already.I personally don't see anything overtly incorrect in what you state, but my interpretation differs slightly.In my opinion, until they can find a way to capitalize on the creation of...

Tags: NETWORKING, New Network Architecture, network, monoculture

Discussion threads 2009-01-29

Windows 7 (Build 6965) (Windows 7 (Build 6965): opened up to the world)

Windows 7 (Build 6965) (Windows 7 (Build 6965): opened up to the world)Just like OS X. [nt][nt]"just like OS X"... andMac OS 7 (7.5?)... mid 1990s, 8, 9 up to OS X....RE: Windows 7 (Build 6965) (Windows 7 (Build 6965): opened up to the world)How does the look and...

Tags: Operating systems, Build 6965, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-12-15