http://www.speedguide.net/ SpeedGuide.net - Everything Broadband. en-us Copyright 1998-2009 Speed Guide, Inc. All rights reserved. webmaster@speedguide.net http://www.speedguide.net/read_news.php?id=3103 Chrome OS is a natural evolution of the work thats been done on the Chrome browser, Sundar Pichai, VP of product management, and Chrome OS engineering director Matthew Papakipos said when they unveiled it at Googles Mountain View campus on Thursday. The operating system is designed to imbue web applications with the "full functionality of desktop applications." As for the reasons behind the development of the new platform, they pointed to rapid growth in the netbook market — where Chrome OS is ... News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:24:52 EST http://www.speedguide.net/read_news.php?id=3102 Broadband penetration has continued to rise in the European Union this year, according to a new report from the European Commission, which finds that 24% of the EU population had a broadband access line subscription in July 2009, up from 21.6% one year previously. The report also found that mobile broadband is gaining momentum in Europe, having posted a 54% increase since January and now having a penetration rate of 4.2% per 100 citizens. Broadband Internet connections are also found to be increasingly ... News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:19:43 EST http://www.speedguide.net/read_news.php?id=3101 Microsoft has once again denied rumours that it built a backdoor into Windows 7. Long standing conspiracy theories that Redmond outfits Windows with a covert entry point for law enforcement resurfaced after a senior National Security Agency (NSA) official told Congress it had worked with Redmond on the operating system. Richard Schaeffer, the NSA's information assurance director, told a Senate homeland security sub-committee on Tuesday that the agency had worked with developers on Windows 7's operating ... News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:16:57 EST http://www.speedguide.net/read_news.php?id=3100 Mobile broadband is continuing to grow at a fast pace due to the ever increasing introduction of new technologies, new networks, new devices and competitive innovation in the market. In July, the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) announced that 7.2 Mbps had become the new baseline for mobile broadband globally, since at that time half of the HSPA networks in commercial service globally were capable of supporting a peak downlink data speed of 7.2 Mbps or higher, supported by almost 600 user devices ... News Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:46:51 EST http://www.speedguide.net/read_news.php?id=3099 Ars Technica has allowed the cable industry lobbyists' top lawyer to explain why the cable industry supports breaking your DVR in a misguided effort to add more windows to movie releases. Not surprisingly, he simply repeats the MPAA's flat out lies and misrepresentations on this particular issue. For example, he claims that the movie studios need this or they won't get content out to the industry early enough. But that's wrong. There is nothing stopping the movie studios from releasing content whenever ... News Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:40:48 EST http://www.speedguide.net/read_news.php?id=3098 Fast becoming the IBM of the Internet browser world, Microsoft has been trying to show that its next version of Internet explorer will be more exciting than Scarlet Johansen knocking on your door wearing only a coat and carrying a bottle of chocolate sauce. Yesterday the Vole was showing off its early work on Internet Exploder 9, which it says will go like the clappers and have new features and new standards. Stephen Sinofsky, president of the newly renamed Windows and Windows Live division, said he was ... News Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:38:11 EST http://www.speedguide.net/read_news.php?id=3097 Computers capable of mimicking the human brain's power and efficiency could be just 10 years off, according to a leading researcher at IBM. According to the researcher, Dharmendra Modha, the manager of IBM's cognitive computing initiative, scientists from his company and some of the world's most prestigious universities have already managed to simulate the computing complexity of the feline cortex, a feat that could augur a day not too far off when it will be possible to ramp up to what the human brain ... News Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:00:31 EST http://www.speedguide.net/read_news.php?id=3096 Federal regulators plan to propose a way to get inexpensive broadband to every person in the U.S. According to several media sources, The Federal Communications Commission will offer a program for the federal government to take an activist role in expanding broadband, and may add a tax to phone bills to help fund it. Two months ago, the Berkman Center at Harvard laid out a plan for universal U.S. broadband. It said that building the necessary infrastructure of the program could cost as much as $$350 ... News Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:50:54 EST http://www.speedguide.net/read_news.php?id=3095 At least for the moment, the world's fastest supercomputer is devoted to solving scientific questions that may save the planet — climate change, renewable energy, new medicines — rather than advances in nuclear weapons that might blow it up. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory's high-performance Jaguar XT5 computer, built by Seattle-based Cray Inc., was named Monday as the fastest on the planet in the latest semiannual TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. After a $$19.9 million ... News Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:24:59 EST http://www.speedguide.net/read_news.php?id=3094 The Motorola Droid is doing more than just bashing the iPhone - it's also smashing the ceiling when it comes to mainstream Android appeal. A full 250,000 people snatched up Droids during the phone's first week in stores, some newly released data suggests. That's four times the number of launch-week sales estimated for the myTouch 3G, which had previously been considered the fastest-selling Android device. The new Droid sales numbers come from Flurry, an analytics firm specializing in mobile ... News Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:19:07 EST http://www.speedguide.net/read_news.php?id=3093 Trojan attacks are likely in the wake of the Windows 7 product activation system cracks developed last week, less than a month after the release of Microsoft's latest operating system. The RemoveWAT (and the similar ChewWGA) utility allow a prospective Windows 7 user to bypass the Windows Genuine Advantage registration procedure. Both hacks circumvent product activation without the need to have OEM keys, unlike earlier hacks on pre-release code. Security firm Sunbelt Software warns that Trojans posing ... News Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:10:42 EST http://www.speedguide.net/read_news.php?id=3092 Looking at the semi-annual Top 500 list of supercomputers, you would never know the world was battling recession. Supercomputer centers keep chucking out old tech and rolling in new tech at the same feverish pace. The fall edition of the list was announced this morning at the SC09 supercomputing trade show in Portland, Oregon. The single biggest transition in the list is the move to quad-core - and in some notable cases, six-core - processors inside supercomputing systems. And most of the machines on the ... News Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:58:18 EST http://www.speedguide.net/read_news.php?id=3091 Hulu is starting to show signs of why it's not easy to run a joint venture between competitors. Recently, the popular video site's various parents have sent mixed messages about Hulus future business model—and whether or not it will erect some sort of paid subscription wall. Now, reports are bubbling up about an increasing level of discord between Hulu's own ad sales staff and the staffs of each of the sites broadcast partners: ABC, NBC and Fox. Observers predict that the already complicated ... News Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:55:50 EST http://www.speedguide.net/read_news.php?id=3090 Huawei has announced the deployment of the world's first TD-LTE/SAE trial network for China Mobile. This new network has a download speed of up to 29Mb/s and will be used for 2010 Shanghai World Expo. Wang Jianzhou, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of China Mobile, said: "This state-of-the-art network covers the whole site of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, which will fully demonstrate the capability of TD-LTE technology." Huawei deployed the TD-LTE radio access network and SAE core ... News Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:44:12 EST http://www.speedguide.net/read_news.php?id=3089 Verizon Communications customers who pirate music files may soon receive an unwelcome letter from the company. Verizon, the second-largest phone company in the United States, is expected to begin issuing "copyright notices" on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America to those accused of illegally downloading songs from the Web, according to sources with knowledge of the agreement. The sources, who asked for anonymity, said Verizon's letter campaign is part of a test, which is ... News Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:46:47 EST http://www.speedguide.net/read_news.php?id=3088 Google has acquired VoIP startup Gizmo5, intending to roll the company's engineers into the team that develops the telephony application/controversy magnet known as Google Voice. Whereas Gizmo5 offers Skype-like software for calling people over the interwebs, Google Voice is a special telephony thingy that lets you use a single phone number for multiple phones - and turn your voice mails into emails. "While we don't have any specific features to announce right now, Gizmo5's engineers will be ... News Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:43:58 EST http://www.speedguide.net/read_news.php?id=3087 Mobile chip shop Qualcomm has started providing wireless chipsets that combine 3G and 4G wireless technology. The cunning plan is to help carriers transition to the next generation of wireless technology. While many carriers around the world plan to upgrade their networks to 4G using LTE, 4G signals will not be available everywhere and punters will need to roam on 3G networks. Huawei Technologies, LG Electronics Novatel Wireless, Sierra Wireless, and ZTE have been named as testing the new chips, which ... News Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:41:04 EST http://www.speedguide.net/read_news.php?id=3086 Intel, the computer-chip giant accused of abusing its market power, will pay Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), $$1.25 billion (£755 million) to settle all long-standing disputes over competitive and licensing issues. Intel, which makes 80 per cent of the central processing units at the heart of all personal computers, was accused in 2005 by AMD, its smaller rival, of offering financial incentives to computer makers and retailers to buy its microprocessors. Under the terms of the settlement, AMD said ... News Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:20:32 EST http://www.speedguide.net/read_news.php?id=3085 Microsoft has rebutted Microsoft statements that it based the look and feel of Windows 7 on the Apple Mac OS. Yesterday, a Microsoft manager said that what his company had tried to do with Windows 7 was "create a Mac look and feel in terms of graphics". But that was followed by another statement from Microsoft comms manager Brandon LeBlanc, who laid into Simon Aldous from Microsoft. LeBlanc said that Aldous' comments were "inaccurate and uninformed". Windows 7 doesn't look ... News Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:12:25 EST http://www.speedguide.net/read_news.php?id=3084 The GSMA recently announced that the rate of growth of HSPA Mobile Broadband connections has increased by nearly two thirds in the last year, according to figures released by Wireless Intelligence. There are now more than 9 million new HSPA connections being added globally every month, compared to 5.5 million a year ago. Europe and Asia Pacific each account for an estimated 3 million of these new connections, with North America contributing 1.3 million. The rise in demand for Mobile Broadband will ... News Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:57:10 EST