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Submission + - Harvard Physicists Bring Light to a Complete Halt

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tetrikphimvin

on Thursday February 08, 2007 @02:31AM

tetrikphimvin writes: "In a quantum mechanical sleight of hand, Harvard physicists have shown that they can not only bring a pulse of light, the fleetest of nature's particles, to a complete halt, but also resuscitate the light at a different location and let it continue on its way.
"It's been a wonderful problem to try to wrap your brain around," said Lene Vestergaard Hau, a professor of physics at Harvard and senior author of a paper describing the experiment that appears today in the journal Nature. "There are so many doors that open up." This is also noted in Harvard's Gazette here, which includes video links."

Submission + - Google Warns: Internet cannot handle TV Broadcasts

Submitted by OakLEE on Thursday February 08, 2007 @02:24AM

OakLEE writes: Google and European Cable Companies are concerned about the growing trend toward putting broadcast quality television shows on the internet. From the article:

"The Web infrastructure, and even Google's (infrastructure) doesn't scale. It's not going to offer the quality of service that consumers expect," Vincent Dureau, Google's head of TV technology, said at the Cable Europe Congress.
. . .
"Most of the IP (Internet protocol or data) traffic is peer-to-peer (file swapping), and most of that is video. Every year we have to invest substantially just to maintain the user experience. In fact it has actually decreased," said Spanish cable operator ONO Chief Executive Richard Alden.

Reuters is carrying the full article here.

Submission + - Windows 98/ME Daylight Saving patch released

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 08, 2007 @02:07AM

An anonymous reader writes: IntelliAdmin, The creators of the unofficial Windows 2000 daylight saving patch Have now released a similar patch for Windows 98 and ME — Both of them include source. You would think this is totally unnecessary, but it sounds like they have been getting a flood of email with requests to create a 98 patch.

Submission + - Neverwinter Nights Put To Educational Use

Submitted by whitefox on Thursday February 08, 2007 @01:16AM

whitefox writes: As reported by the BBC, computer science teachers at West Nottinghamshire College have created an education module for Neverwinter Nights that encourages disaffected or unmotivated students who play to increase their literacy, numeracy and problem solving skills through game interaction.

Submission + - Craigslist censors MS Commentary

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Jacques Surveyer

on Wednesday February 07, 2007 @11:27PM

Jacques Surveyer writes: "For some strange reason Craigslist is censoring the following promotion of my weblog: How People Ready is Office 2007 ? My blog looks at and lists 5 major reviewers And finds they agree on one thing — Office 2007 has a significant learning curve. The promo points to the article Anti-People Ready What makes this especially strange is that another promo for the same blog which does the same type of review for Windows Vista — How Good Is Microsoft's new Vista OS gets through with no problems. I am not sure what Craigslist is up to or why the first is rejected(including several variations in wording) and the second is not. Craigslist should not care one whit that my blog says reviewers find Office 2007 hard to use."

Submission + - EMC announces VMware IPO

Submitted by VirtualizationDork on Wednesday February 07, 2007 @09:25PM

VirtualizationDork writes: EMC announced that it plans to spin out approximately 10% of its share of VMware — one of virtualization's leading vendors — in an initial public offering (IPO) that should close this summer.

From the article:

"Speaking from VMware's headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., Joe Tucci, EMC Chairman and CEO, said that "VMware's growth has been phenomenal," and that the IPO move was an attempt to "expose this value to EMC shareholders."

EMC purchased VMware in 2004 for $625 million. VMware reported revenues of $709 million in $2006, with Q4 revenue jumping 101% year-over-year. VMware is currently on a $900 million run rate."

Alex Barrett has the story at SearchServerVirtualization.com

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