Thursday, July 12, 2007

speed World's Fastest Broadband Connection — 40 Gbps. paulraps writes "A 75-year-old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been given a scorching 40 Gbps internet connection — the fastest residential connection anywhere in the world. Sigbritt Löthberg is the mother of Swedish internet guru Peter Löthberg, who is using his mother to prove that fiber networks can deliver a cost-effective, ultra-fast connection. Sigbritt, who has never owned a computer before, can now watch 1,500 HDTV channels simultaneously or download a whole high definition DVD in two seconds. Apparently 'the hardest part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt's PC.'" An article in Press Esc notes an analyst study of the increasing demand for fiber-to-the-home in Europe.Read more of this story at [Slashdot] 12:13:13 PM    comment [] WiFi Nokia Offers Skype on N800 Internet Tablet (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - The day seems to be approaching when free phone service over the Internet will be available on mobile devices everywhere. On Wednesday, mobile phone giant Nokia took a step closer to that day by making Skype's Internet phone service available on its N800 Internet tablet. [Yahoo! News: Technology News] 12:11:59 PM    comment [] WiFi Work-Around Puts Skype on the iPhone (PC World). PC World - A complex remote-control work around has achieved what every geek wants: running Skype on an iPhone. [Yahoo! News: Technology News] 8:44:58 AM    comment [] AI Democratizing Robot Design. A new standardized robotics platform called Qwerk, developed at Carnegie Mellon University, is designed so that almost anyone can use it to build his or her own custom Internet-enabled robot in a few hours with off-the-shelf parts.Qwerk was comme... [KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News] 7:49:53 AM    comment []

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