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…
Brocade purchase Vyatta – now has NFV/SDN capability
So Brocade has splashed some cash and will acquire Vyatta. The announcement on the Brocade web site indicates that the deal will close by the end of the year. Vyatta…
Vodafone and O2 create Cornerstone for shared infrastructure
Vodafone and Telefonica's O2 have done the deed and started the process of merging their mobile telecoms infrastructure, in a similar fashion to the merged EE and Three infrastructure deal…
LEO is 60 years old
The LEO Computers Society celebrated today with a lunch of at the Science Museum. The first regular business application used within the world was used 60 years ago today. This…
Prediction proved: SSDs now cheaper than hard disks
In my previous post Will the Thailand floods prompt a move to SSDs?, I posited that the floods in Thailand would increase the price of traditional spinning media so that…
Bufferbloat – or why you need intelligent edge control of flows
As part of an investigation into several other things, my Internet research dredged up some work by Jim Gettys on Bufferbloat, which was related closely enough to my intended target…