Mobile broadband connections are expected to reach 40 million worldwide by the end of 2008, according to figures released Thursday by Wireless Intelligence.
By 2010, WCDMA HSDPA is expected to represent around 45 percent of total WCDMA cellular connections, exceeding GSM connections by the end of this decade.
Personally, I'm still mildly impressed with the storage of 25GB for a single layer high-def disc, let alone 50GB on a dual-layer disc. But that's not pushing limits anywhere near as far as they can go - one university team has packed in 500GB onto a single disc.
Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council is rolling out a virtualisation strategy to reduce the council's power bills and deliver applications quicker.
The council has created up to 45 virtual machines, with around 50 traditional servers still running, and is half way through its five-year strategy, which combines server and storage virtualisation.
The first generation of VoIP services -- Vonage, Skype and others -- used computer and Internet technologies to make voice communications cheaper (and often free). Now a second generation of services is integrating VoIP with mobile and POTS handsets and services as they try to find ways to compete with their more established big brothers.
When it comes to computer technology, hard drives have advanced the slowest over the years are far as speed is concerned. We've seen dramatic increases in processing speed and graphics power, but HDDs have long been the bottleneck in modern systems.
Many are looking to solid state disks (SSDs) to give a boost in speed. In addition, SSDs have the advantage of lighter weight, more efficient packaging, silent operation, durability and power efficiency.
Mobile device users will have to wait at least another five years before they can hope to cut the electricity power cord and have their laptops or mobile phones charged wirelessly, says an IDC analyst.
Early this month, a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US unveiled a new way of sending power to devices via magnetic induction remotely. The method uses a charging device dubbed "WiTricity", which eliminates the need for wires.
The European Commission has drafted a document recommending the adoption of Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld (DVB-H) as a pan-European, mobile-broadcasting standard to avoid "market fragmentation".
Virtualization is a technology in flux. Even though it has roots dating back to the 1960s mainframe, today, the term is practically synonymous with VMware ESX. Look out a few years, however, and VMware will no longer be the (practically) sole proprietor of the virtualization fiefdom, said Chris Wolf, Burton Group senior analyst, who's speaking at the Burton Group Catalyst Conference this week about "Server Virtualization: What the vendors aren't telling you."
Researchers hope newly developed robots will give them their first look at a mysterious ridge located between Greenland and Siberia.
The Gakkel Ridge, encased under the frozen Arctic Ocean, is steep and rocky, and scientists suspect its remote location hosts an array of undiscovered life.
Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod plan to begin a 40-day expedition of the ridge on July 1. They plan to use the robots to navigate and map its terrain and sample any life found near a series of underwater hot springs.
Blockbuster Inc. will rent high-definition DVDs only in the Blu-ray format in 1,450 stores when it expands its high-def offerings next month, dealing a major blow to the rival HD DVD format.
The move, announced Monday, could be the first step in resolving a format war that has kept confused consumers from rushing to buy new DVD players until they can determine which format will dominate the market.
