Consuming Issues: New handsets take a bite out of Apple's iPhone
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:10:34 -0700
Several years ago, a phone company boss proudly showed me Britain's first mobile phone with internet access. I was surprised by just how bad it was: a tiny screen, incredibly slow downloads and an inferior, stripped-down version of a web page. When Apple's chief executive, Steve Jobs, stood up at the Macworld exhibition in the US in 2007 to launch the iPhone with pizzazz, mobile communications ...
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'Hyperbolic map' of the internet will save it from COLLAPSE
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:49:46 -0700
Ark boffins say 'black hole' net events already common International computer boffins are warning that the internet may "collapse" at some point within the next decade. They propose the use of a new routing method based on hyperbolic geometry, and have devised what they call a "hyperbolic atlas" of the entire net to aid in this plan.…
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