Silicon nanophotonics replaces some of the wires on a chip with pulses of light on tiny optical fibers for quicker and more power-efficient data transfers between cores
Amazon's recently released Elastic Compute Cloud (which it calls EC2 and is still in beta) for the first time brings to the masses the ability to buy server power in the same way you now buy electricity or water. In essence, you pay 10 cents per virtual server per hour, plus bandwidth costs, and you do with that power whatever you want.
One of the computing world's newest networking standards, USB 2.0, will be battling for the attention of visitors at the upcoming Comdex Fall show with IEEE1394, an already established format that is spreading its wings to encompass a greater number of uses and a soon-to-come speed upgrade.
Vietnam is to build a US$230-million CDMA (code division multiple access) mobile phone network with data transfer capacity of 144K bps (bits per second), the country's telecommunications regulator said Thursday.