Isn’t Italy a place of contrast? After the country’s judiciary slammed Google for failing to keep a tight enough leash on user-uploaded content, we’re now hearing that its local version of Wired magazine is putting forward the internet as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of its contributions to “helping advance dialogue, debate and consensus.” Right then. Just in case you think this is all a bit silly — and you should — we’re also hearing Nicholas Negroponte and 2003 Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi are both in support of the idea, which has been described as “a Nobel for each and every one of us” by Internet for Peace, an organization set up specifically to promote the web’s candidacy
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The internet earns a nomination for 2010 Nobel Prize
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Remember those network investments that AT&T was talking up just days before Time Warner slipped over an offer for help? Looks as if the firm wasn’t kidding around, but there’s still nothing here that should get you excited about more available bandwidth in the coming days. Utilizing that fancy new Cisco router, the carrier recently completed a live network environmental trial of 100-Gigabit backbone network technology (far more hasty than that 40-Gigabit stuff that’s around today), but we’re told that the tech isn’t expected to be ready for “commercial deployment” until the “next few years.” ‘Course, we suspect we should be struck by the notion that the internet may actually have the proper infrastructure to keep on keepin’ on once Hulu really does take over the world, but for now, we’ll just have to extract a bit more joy from those vague “little things” in life
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AT&T completes 100-Gigabit Ethernet field trial using new Cisco gear, proves it does care
The mad scientists at Google Labs have unleashed their latest concoction: Google Reader Play , a new way to look at your feeds one Google-suggested site at a time. It’s actually pretty neat! And would be perfect for the iPad. More »
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Google Prettifies RSS With Tablet-Ready Google Reader Play [Google]
OnLive has announced that its cloud-based game streaming service will launch in the 48 contiguous US states on June 17, 2010. The service will initially be available to PC and Mac owners for a monthly service fee of $14.95. Each game purchase and rental will carry a charge on top of the base subscription
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OnLive launching June 17 for PC and Mac, $15 per month service fee
Tired of the limited legroom, bad food, and worse movies you have to put up with during a flight? Well, it’s time to bust out your company credit card and get yourself a Martin Jetpack , which has just become the first commercially available jetpack
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Martin Jetpack priced at $86,000, mere mortals will soon be able to buy one too
Cisco promised us a significant announcement this morning, one that would “forever change the Internet and its impact on consumers, businesses and governments,” so we had to tune in to the company’s webcast to find out what it was all about. We were instantly bowled over with the shocking news that video is the killer app of the future internet, before getting it drilled into our heads that we really need, like and want more bandwidth. No kidding — so what, Cisco, what is your revolutionary next step
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Cisco promises the ‘next generation internet,’ delivers markedly less
The small, irradiated pool of Fallout: New Vegas knowledge is about to get bigger. Bethesda has announced that the April issue of Official Xbox Magazine — set to hit newsstands next week — will devote its cover story to the game. Readers can expect an eight-page spread on New Vegas and, as a bonus, the included DVD will also feature some exclusive gamer pics (what, no Avatar items?).
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April OXM features Fallout: New Vegas, Halo: Reach
Microsoft has had its run-ins with the cloud before, but if CEO Steve Ballmer is being serious (and we’re guessing he is ), the company is about to get even more connected. Speaking with computer science students this week at the University of Washington, Ballmer was quoted as saying that “a year from now… 90 percent [of Microsoft employees would be working in the cloud].” He went on to say that the cloud base “is the bet, if you will, for our company,” and he noted that it’ll “create opportunities for all the folks in [the] room to do important research and build important projects.” It’s not like any of this is an epiphany, though; we’ve already seen a shift to Google Documents given the ability to access it from any web-connected computer, and with the proliferation of broadband on the up and up, it’s only a matter of time before it’s more convenient to open a web app than to wait for your taskbar to stop bouncing
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Steve Ballmer emphasizes importance of the cloud, Google pretty much does likewise
You know, Tux always seemed so harmless… little did we know that he is actually a Che Guevara-type figure who’s been traveling around the world, fighting the good fight on any number of fronts. First, Cuba announces its national Linux variant, Nova , and now?
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North Korea’s Red Star OS takes the ‘open’ out of ‘open source’
