Archive for March 29th, 2007
“The first trailer to one of the most anticipated titles of 2007 hits the web…Having been kept under a veil of secrecy since it was first announced for Xbox 360 and PlayStation3 in May 2006, Rockstar Games has today begun to peel away some of the earliest details of Grand Theft Auto IV with the release of a teaser trailer. It hasn’t given too much away but one thing’s for sure, it seems every pixel has been poured over to ensure no specific details are released..” (Read full article here)
March 29th, 2007
“Computer giant Dell will start to sell PCs preinstalled with open source Linux operating systems, the firm has said. The second largest computer maker in the world said it had chosen to offer Linux in response to customer demand. Earlier this year, 100,000 people took part in a Dell survey. More than 70% of respondents said they would use Linux. Dell has not released details of which versions of Linux it will use or which computers it will run on, but promised an update in the coming weeks…” (Read full article here)
March 29th, 2007
“Photobucket has 38 million members, but unless you use MySpace or Facebook, you might not know them. Fortune’s David Kirkpatrick provides a snapshot of the Web’s hottest photo site. Photobucket is the most important site on the Internet that hardly anybody understands. Unpretentiously, it has built an essential service that didn’t need to shout out for attention, the way MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, or other related sites have. Yet it’s built an audience of 38 million members, a figure now growing more than 80,000 per day. That’s up from just 50,000 members at the end of 2003…” (Read full article here)
March 29th, 2007
“The US has lost its position as the world’s primary engine of technology innovation, according to a report by the World Economic Forum. The US is now ranked seventh in the body’s league table measuring the impact of technology on the development of nations. A deterioration of the political and regulatory environment in the US prompted the fall, the report said. The top spot went for the first time to Denmark, followed by Sweden…” (Read full article here)
March 29th, 2007
“Alcatel-Lucent today announced in a post deadline paper accepted at the OFC/NFOEC conference in Anaheim, California, that combined research teams from the United States and France successfully transmitted a world record 25.6 Terabits per second (Tb/s) of optical data over a single fiber strand, using 160 Wavelength-Division Multiplexed (WDM) channels - enough bandwidth to transmit the data from more 600 DVDs per second. These results far surpass the previous transmission record of 14 Tb/s, established in September 2006…” (Read full article here)
March 29th, 2007
