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Time Warner Cable to Test Tiered Bandwidth Caps 591

Posted by samzenpus from the take-only-what-you-need dept.
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "According to a leaked internal memo, Time Warner Cable is testing out tiered bandwidth caps in their Beaumont, TX division as a way to fairly balance the needs of heavy users against the limited amount of shared bandwidth cable can provide. The plan is to offer various service tiers with bandwidth fees for overuse, as well as a bandwidth meter customers can use to help them stay within their allotment. If it works out, they will consider a nation-wide rollout. Interestingly, the memo also claims that 5% of subscribers use over 50% of the total network bandwidth."
Announcements

Submission + - Geneticists Discover a Way to Extend Lifespans (io9.com)

Submitted by DirectedImpact
DirectedImpact writes: In an amazing development, scientists at the University of Southern California have announced that they've extended the lifespan of yeast bacteria tenfold — and the recipe they used to do it might easily translate into humans. It involves tinkering with two genes, and cutting down your calorie intake. Tests have already started on people in Ecuador.
Biotech

Researchers Create Beating Heart In Lab 258

Posted by kdawson from the keeps-on-ticking dept.
Sunday Scientist writes "Minnesota researchers have created a beating heart in the laboratory. In a process called whole organ decellularization, they grew functioning heart tissue by using dead rat and pig hearts as a sort of flesh matrix, and reseeding them with a mixture of live cells. The goal is to grow replacement parts, using their own stem cells, for people born with defective tickers or experiencing heart failure."
Announcements

Submission + - Hauppauge To Release Hi-def Hardware Encoder Card (newsticker.welt.de)

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Nathan F
Nathan F writes: "Today brings great news for those of us with home built HTPC systems such as those running MythTV. Hauppauge will be releasing a high definition hardware based encoding card, capable of converting component video at 1080i to H.264 video with digital audio passthrough. Previously, MythTV users and the like have had to rely on the benevolence of cable companies' encryption schemes in order to record non-downscaled HD content. This card, in combination with a set top box from the cable company, will allow the reliable recording of HD content with negligible quality loss. The card is expected to sell for $250 USD."
Networking

Submission + - Linux-based home monitoring system? 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: We joked about the stray bullet hole in our windshield one morning, but after a brand new tire got two knife slashes in it I decided to take one of my old Linux systems and set up a video monitoring device for our home. Get a few cameras, network them together, hopefully pretty inexpensively without sacrificing the ability to give police a decent picture if our house or car gets robbed. I'm loathe to sink more money into it than I have to so I'd love to hear what's worked and what doesn't (hardware and software, even which distro's the best), and also to know if I'm required to post signs notifying that our section of the street is now being filmed. Surely a few of you out there have a pimped out Linux box that's watching your stuff when you're not there: any tips for someone just starting out...with a vengeance?
Microsoft

No Dual-Boot XO Laptop, According to Microsoft 160

Posted by Soulskill from the bringing-bsods-to-the-third-world dept.
Yesterday, we discussed reports of Microsoft and the OLPC project working towards a dual-boot version of the XO laptop. Now, BetaNews tells us that Microsoft has issued statements denying such plans. The software giant has also reaffirmed their intention to develop a Windows-only version of the laptop. Microsoft's statement to BetaNews had this to say: "While we have investigated the possibility in the past, Microsoft is not developing dual-boot Windows XP support for the One Laptop Per Child's XO laptop. As we announced in December, Microsoft plans to publish formal design guidelines early this year that will assist flash-based device manufacturers in designing machines that enable a high-quality Windows experience. Our current goal remains to provide a high-quality Windows experience on the XO device."
The Internet

Submission + - The Future Of the Internet According to Intel

Submitted by
AndGodSed
AndGodSed writes: "The BBC has a story on Intel's take on the future of Mobile Computing.

From the article:

Mobile devices will deliver a more personal internet within five years, using chips with the power of today's desktop PCs...an internet that is proactive, predictive and context-aware."

Explaining that devices would be location-aware, and would access the internet over Wimax wireless connections, he said: "Instead of going to the internet, the internet comes to us."
Television

Submission + - Is the HD DVD Format Dead?

Submitted by
Reservoir Hill
Reservoir Hill writes: "Warner Brothers announced that it will release high-definition DVDs exclusively in Sony's Blu-ray format, dealing a big blow to Toshiba's rival HD DVD technology. Warner Brothers is Hollywood's biggest seller of DVDs, representing about 18 to 20 percent of sales in the United States and was one of the few studios backing both formats. "A two-format landscape has led to consumer confusion and indifference toward high definition, which has kept the technology from reaching mass adoption and becoming the important revenue stream that it can be for the industry," said Kevin Tsujihara, President of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group. Saul Hansell at the NY Times says he wouldn't spend money on an HD DVD player until this all sorts out and expects many consumers to return their Christmas HD DVD players and exchange them for Blu-ray devices."

Feed Engadget: HD DVD group cancels CES press conference in wake of Warner announcement: daaaaa (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed

Filed under: CES, HDTV

We just got an email which stated that the HD DVD group is canceling its CES press conference; tail severely between legs over today's explosive news that Warner -- the last "undecided" studio -- was going to the other side and doing Blu-ray discs exclusively. We're not sure if that's because the HD DVD group was in 11th hour negotiations with Warner or what, but the mood at that camp has to be beyond somber right now, so it's pretty hard to thump the tub when you've just been dealt a hard losing hand.

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Television

Submission + - Did Warner Brothers Just Kill HD DVD? (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The NY Times reports: In addition to Apple, Warner Brothers is now going to throw its weight behind the Blu-ray format for high-definition disks. Warner has been the only major studio to publish its movies in both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats. Today, the studio announced that from now on, it would only issue movies in Blu-ray. Richard Greenfield, the media analyst with Pali Research, wrote that this marks the end of the format wars: "We expect HD DVD to 'die' a quick death."
Upgrades

Submission + - IPv6: coming to a root server near you (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by BlueMerle
BlueMerle writes: Ready or not, here comes IPv6!!

Just before year's end, ICANN/IANA sent out a short message saying that "on 4 February 2008, IANA will add AAAA records for the IPv6 addresses of the four root servers whose operators have requested it."
Are you ready? http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080102-icann-to-add-ipv6-addresses-for-root-dns-servers.html

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