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Monday, January 4, 2010



Weekly Ten (1-04-2010)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 12:14 AM PST

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:


1. Complex Integrated Circuits Made of Carbon Nanotubes
The first three-dimensional carbon nanotube circuits, made by researchers at Stanford University, could be an important step in making nanotube computers that could be faster and use less power than today's silicon chips.
More @ TechnologyReview

2. Impact of 'iSlate' Could Rival iPhone
You don't need a crystal ball, seer stone, scrying pool or any other spooky stuff to guess what one of the most talked-about design projects of 2010 will be. The tech blogs have been buzzing about it for months. It's the iSlate, iTablet, iProd, Magic Slate, or whatever else Apple finally decides to call its new tablet computer.
More @ NYTimes

3. Abusing Copyrights to Silence Critics, Control Customers, and Crush Competition
Hardly a day goes by without yet another news story about creative uses of copyright, the DMCA, and generic attack lawyers to stifle free speech, criticism, and competition. It seems that money can buy all kinds of creative "justice."
More @ LinuxToday

4. FPGA keyboard synthesizer

More @ HackaDay

5. Tiny 'capsule' hotels house the homeless in Japan
For Atsushi Nakanishi, jobless since Christmas, home is a cubicle barely bigger than a coffin, one of dozens of berths stacked two units high in one of central Tokyo's decrepit "capsule" hotels.
More @ SeattleTimes

6. A decade's worth of IPv4 addresses
During the first decade of the 21st century we went through over 1.3 billion IPv4 addresses. eighty-one percent of the usable IPv4 addresses are now gone, leaving us with just a couple years' supply left.
More @ ArsTechnica

7. 2009: A breakthrough year for mobile Linux
In 2009, mobile consumer devices including netbooks, e-readers, tablets, MIDs, PMPs, and mobile phones were increasingly dominated by embedded Linux or the Linux-based Android.
More @ LinuxforDevices

8. Google Nexus One hands-on, video, and first impressions

More @ Engadget

9. MySQL creator launches campaign to 'save' database
The creator of MySQL has launched a Web-based campaign to "save" the open-source database from the "clutches" of Oracle, which is attempting to purchase its current owner, Sun Microsystems.
More @ Networkworld

10. Top 10 Defining Moments of the 2000s
Having reached the end of the first decade of the new millennium, it's time to look back at all the things that helped shape the cultural heritage of our ever globalizing society. It seems amazing that it was nearly ten years ago when the entire world rang inthe new millennium with style.
More @ Listverse

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