The BBC placed an article on their news website yesterday (2 September 2013). This said that Vodafone sells Verizon stake for $130bn. This equates to £84bn. Shareholders will get £54bn…
The Great British Internet Filter – how to protect children from the “bad” parts of the Internet
Yesterday David Cameron, Prime Minister, made a speech about making the internet safer for children by cracking down on online pornography. Let's look at what he said about an Internet…
STD to become mandatory in the UK?
In the UK for a long time we used to think of STDs not as something untoward in our health, but as a way of communicating over longer distances. Changes…
IBM adds SoftLayer to Cloud Services
IBM has finalised its deal with SoftLayer, announced last month. This grows IBM's capability to deliver cloud-based solutions considerably. SoftLayer adds new datacenters, an existing portfolio of customers, and a…
RIP: Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the mouse
They're starting to become rarer, but for many of us, the thing next to our keyboard is still a major part of our lives in front of a computer. I'm…
IBM manipulates atoms for stop motion movie
What do you do when you have a scanning tunnelling electron microscope (STM) and a lot of time? You borrow from the skills and techniques of Ray Harryhausen and create the…
RFC6921: Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Communication
Recent research in to fibers that reduce latency to near the speed of light in a vacuum are leading moves to plan for networks that transmit at speeds greater than…
ExtremeTech: Researchers create fiber network that operates at 99.7% speed of light, smashes speed and latency records
ExtremeTech reports that researchers at the University of Southampton have achieved a breakthrough in reducing latency of data transmissions. The new fiber has a number of other benefits as well.…