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Bold Rwanda takes broadband leap
Rory Cellan-Jones climbs aboard the bus bringing internet to Rwandan communities Landlocked Rwanda is weeks away from completing a link to a new fibre-optic network promising high-speed internet for East Africa, officials say. Engineers expect the capital, Kigali, to... (Continue reading)
US proposes net neutrality rules
The US has proposed new rules that would require internet firms to respect the principle of “network neutrality”. The head of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) said that “all web traffic should be treated equally”. The new rules are intended to prevent... (Continue reading)
eBay reaches deal to sell Skype
Written on 7 Sep, 2009 at 1:11 in COMMUNICATION, COMPANIES, FEATURED, WEB TECHNOLOGY | viewed 274 times | 1 Comment
Online auction site eBay has agreed to sell the majority of internet phone company Skype for about $2bn (£1.2bn). Skype is to be majority-owned by a group of private investors, including Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen and private equity firms. EBay will keep... (Continue reading)
Engineer error knocks out Gmail
Google has issued an apology after a “miscalculation” caused a blackout of its Gmail service, affecting the “majority” of its 150 million users. The firm described Tuesday’s two-hour outage as a “big deal” and said it was investigating ways to ensure... (Continue reading)
Quantum computer slips onto chips
Written on 6 Sep, 2009 at 15:36 in COMPANIES | viewed 152 times | 0 Comments
Researchers have devised a penny-sized silicon chip that uses photons to run Shor’s algorithm - a well-known quantum approach - to solve a maths problem. The algorithm computes the two numbers that multiply together to form a given figure, and has... (Continue reading)
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