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+ - TMobile, Verizon, AT&T team to create ISIS-> 0

Submitted by sunbane on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @04:51PM

sunbane writes "This has the potential to directly affect us all — obsoleting our old smart phones, and obsoleting the wallet. We've been seeing hints that new androids and iphones will have NFC built in... looks like the carriers are banding together to power it and work with merchants."
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Comment: Capital? Hardly... (Score 1) 162

by sunbane on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @07:11PM (#33818284) Attached to: The New Data Center Capital of America

1 data center gets built and they are calling themselves the data center capital of the country? Well, Salt Lake just opened EBAY last summer and has Oracle, Twitter, and a 1.3 Billion dollar data center for the NSA under construction and we don't feel qualified to make that statement. You don't see NC claiming that because of the apple one... with the tax rate of New York I hardly see that many businesses moving there!

Comment: Re:"Extreme Ultraviolet" (Score 4, Informative) 362

by sunbane on Friday August 13, 2010 @02:17PM (#33243508) Attached to: How Much Smaller Can Chips Go?

Because X-rays are .01 - 10 nm light and EUV is 13.5nm light... so nothing to do with the word, as much as engineers like to label things correctly.