Tokyo (Japan) – A group of researchers in the Internet2 consortium has set a new record for sending data through the Internet at more than nine gigabits per second. The team broke the old record of 7.67 Gbps, which was set last December. Using modified protocols, they were able to send data across a 20,000 mile path at a constant rate of 9.08 Gbps. At this speed, a high definition version of a movie could be downloaded in just a few seconds, instead of over 40 hours on a typical broadband connection.[Link]
Internet2 is a non-profit consortium made up of a few hundred universities, corporations, and government agencies. The goal is to design a faster version of the internet capable of handing extremely high bandwidth.
As of 2007, BSNL, an Indian phone company, is planning to boost speeds of their DSL offering to 2 megabits per second from 256 kbps.
On top of that, it charge people for downloads, which defeats the purpose of signing up for broadband.
Sigh.. We are far behind west or for that matter, from Southeast Asia.
Guess who got inspired by The Truman Show. Forget blogging, forget video blogging. New buzz in town is LifeBlogging. Justin is sharing every moment of his life with the world. Justin went beyond a simple web camera to broadcast his life on the web 24/7 using a camera on his head. Justin wears the camera 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Even in the bathroom. Even on a date. I don’t know who are the intended audience but I guess there are lot of people out there who have lot of free time in their hand. So if you are one of them, go and watch Justin going through his life. After all, he has promised to wear the headgear till his death.
There are already hundreds of online shopping sites and seriously only couple of them are trustworthy and big enough to satiate everyone’s need.
However, I found a new shopping website BrowseGoods using Stumbleupon which has a pretty different outlay. It is in nascent stage so do not have many things but try their shoes section. Interesting way to show goods. They call their service Visual Shopping Experience.
The site let you see hundreds of products all at once. When you want to see a product more closely you just zoom in to see a larger picture of that product and adjacent products.
Its like going to a mall, go to a particular department, then particular aisle, and then in particular shelf.
P.S. – I have been immensely enjoying Stumbleupon button on my Firefox Browser. Give it a shot, if you have not already done so.
Seriously tell me, how many accounts do you have on internet. 100, 200 or 500. Can you lay down a list of atleast 20 websites where you have account. In today’s web 2.0 world, there are hundreds of startup sites, all of which claims itself to be coolest. So when we hear that there is a new player in town, what we do, we rush up and create a account on the site. We log onto the site, do couple of things for couple of days or weeks and then forget that we ever had an account on www.xyz.com.
I guess the main reason is you’re addicted to signing up to account-requiring websites the moment they’re released just so no one else takes your usual username.
So just for fun, there is a website called UselessAccount, the sole purpose of which is to create a new account. This is a joke on ‘n’ number of websites popping up everyday requiring registration. Hmmm interesting. So go ahead and get expert in creating an account. Do unlimited editing and change passwords. If nothing, go and read the FAQ. It’s hilarious.
As all us know now that Cingular is now AT&T. But wait, didn’t Cingular bought wireless division from AT&T. Does this mean that AT&T bought Cingular.
It’s not that simple but this video from “The Colbert Report” makes us believe once again that Telecommunications begin and end with AT&T. That day is not far when Internet will begin and end with Google.
