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Well I am stuck at home with an icky cold, so I decided to do some news to take my mind off it :).
Google are doing an interesting collaborative video product showcasing a Gmail envelope traveling around the world, see if you can submit one which showcases something Australian. Help us imagine how an email message travels around the world. Take a look at the collaborative video we started, and then film what happens next. We'll rotate a selection of the clips we receive on this page, and add the best ones to the video. The final video will be featured on the Gmail homepage and seen by users worldwide. All it takes is a video camera, the Gmail M-velope, and some creativity. Submit your clip by August 13th, 2007 to be considered for the final collaborative video.
40Gbps and 100Gbps ethernet are set to become standards after the IEEE working group have backed it's project authorization, thanks Craig. The IEEE 802.3 working group has backed project authorisation requests (PAR) from the Higher Speed Study Group (HSSG) for a single project encompassing a 40 gigabit ethernet (40GbE) rate for server and storage applications and a 100 gigabit ethernet (100GbE) rate for network aggregation.
HardwareSecrets have taken a look at the AMD/ATI partnership, one year on. It’s been one year since AMD announced that it would acquire ATI and we decided to make an in-depth analysis from both the technical side and the financial side of this operation one year later. We found out some concerning figures. Read on.
EA is set to use Microsoft's in game advertising tool in some of their sporting games, thanks Fester2001. Electronic Arts, going wide and deep with in-game advertising, announced Wednesday that it will use Microsoft's Massive in-game advertising division to put ads in its sports titles. The titles include the Xbox 360 and/or PC versions of the biggest sports video games coming in the fall, including "Madden NFL 08," "NASCAR 08," "NHL 08," "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08" and "Skate."
PCPer have posted some information from AMD's analyst day including information about future developments of the company. TechReport also covered this announcement. This CrossFire slide could be easily overlooked, but enthusiasts should pay attention! There are four GPUs in the middle there for a reason; quad-GPU configurations are coming, either for graphics, physics or GPGPU computing. AMD even took the time to mention the RD790 chipset as well as the upcoming system utility for the platform to enable overclocking and tweaking.
PeterCR sent in some news about an alternative Google page for those concerned with energy consumption. It is called Blackle and has the same functions as the regular white Google page but claims to require less power consumption from your monitor. I wonder if the power savings work the same for all types of monitors including LCD and Plasma? Treehugger have an article about this. Did you know that a cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor uses about 74 watts to display an all white web page, but only uses 59 watts to display an all black page? Yes, there all still plenty of these still in use, particularly in China and Latin America. Worldwide, about 25 percent of the monitors currently in use are cathode ray tubes, which means that they waste energy displaying white backgrounds. This can add up for sites with a global audience.
The Australian government has squashed speculation of a premature end to porn filtering plans, thanks Fester2001. Communications Minister Helen Coonan yesterday made that announcement, despite statements by the Family First senator Steve Fielding that the three-month trial, scheduled to have been carried out in Tasmania, had "been quietly scrapped". Family First has been campaigning for mandatory filtering at ISP level to prevent children getting access to pornography online and announced on Tuesday the government had ditched the filtering trial after both Telstra and Optus would not participate.
He also directed me to the Simpsons movie website which is pretty slick based around flash. It has some games and other funny little activities so it can be considered todays timewaster.
And finally, Joanna spotted this interesting video of a really young pro drummer.
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