Research firm says planned internet capacity upgrades will fall 60% short by 2010
Posted Nov 20th 2007 9:23PM by
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A new study published by the Nemertes Research Group indicates that demand for bandwidth will outstrip capacity by 2010 — and that planned infrastructure upgrades will fall some 60-70 percent short of making up the difference.
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The 80GB Zune might be to come by, but the rest of the family is doing just fine — and Zune.net user halfcirclepunch is here to unbox his fancy-pants 8GB for your viewing pleasure. The device is obviously identical internally to the standard 8GB Zune, but the box contains a fullsize poster of the custom-engraved artwork, and a nice soft carrying case — and the deep red Zune looks way better in these pics than we’ve ever seen it before. (Read content ‘Unboxing the 8GB Zune Original’…)
We suppose this is exactly what happened the first time Ive fired up Photoshop to mock up the third-gen — or what happens when spend a little too much time watching pandas at the zoo. Plays the usual goofy MTV format on its 2.4-inch screen, as well as MP3 and WMA, but honestly, you wouldn’t be caught dead with this thing, would you?
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We’ve seen our fair share of diminutive power generators, but rather than worrying with or , Millennium Cell and Horizon Fuel Cell have teamed up to deliver an iteration that’s water-activated. The pair has been working together on this technology for some time now, and apparently, it’s readying a beta that will be demonstrated at next year’s CES. (Read content ‘Water-activated portable power generator on the horizon’…)
The EU just lashed Sony, Fuji, and Maxell with fines totaling €75 million ($110 million) on grounds of . The 3-way Japanese cartel controlling 85% of the professional videotape market was found guilty of artificially controlling prices on Betacam SP and Digital Betacam — the two most popular professional videotape formats in use between 1999 and 2002. (Read content ‘Sony, Fuji, and Maxell fined $110M for videotape cartel’…)
Hot on the heels of Gamerator’s stupendous and AOTS “” comes a DIY project that gives both of the aforementioned products a run for their money. The aptly-titled IKEA MAME Dinner Table cleverly crams a MAME machine into a standard dinner table, which we’re absolutely sure any warm-blooded mother (and / or gamer) could appreciate. (Read content ‘DIY’er stuffs MAME machine into dinner table’…)
We apologize in advance if any of what follows hits a little too close to home, but unless you’re camped out in South Korea, you don’t have to worry about being ripped from your computer and sent to the Jump Up Internet Rescue School. Much like seen earlier this year in China, this compound attempts to rehabilitate citizens from their dependence on the intarweb by forcing coaxing them into less digital activities such as pottery and drumming (, anyone?). (Read content ‘Korea’s internet addict camp breaks dependance with crafts, drumming’…)
Although it’d be easy to take one of our reader’s for it, Sound and Vision Magazine set out to see if Samsung’s sleek LN-T4681F really was the best home theater display on the market. The 46-inch LED-backlit display is a proud member of Sammy’s , and while the glossy motif sure boosted the sexiness, reviewers did note that a “fair amount of reflected light pooled up on the screen during daytime viewing.” The crew didn’t have much trouble tweaking the settings to get the image just right, but it did exhibit a few problems deinterlacing film-sourced 1080i-format programs. (Read content ‘Samsung’s LED-backlit LN-T4681F LCD HDTV gets reviewed’…)
Samsung’s camcorder is now on sale. No, not in North America or Europe, but S.Korea-only at the moment. ₩799,000 (about $870) nabs this 720p recorder with 2.7-inch LCD and 4GB of internal flash storage for all your H.264 recordings (SD expansion for more) in a 310-gram barrel. With any luck these will go global on the quick.
