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Australians Promised Ultra-Fast Broadband

Australians Promised Ultra-Fast Broadband

The Australian government, led by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, has announced a new project to bring ultra-fast broadband to 90% of the country’s population, fulfilling a promise from his 2007 electoral campaign.

Instead of putting the project out to private tender, the government is going to invest A$43 billion (US$30 billion) to create the infrastructure that will make 100 megabits per second connections available to 90% of Australia’s population.

Rudd has played the project up as "the single largest nation-building infrastructure project in Australia’s history."

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Distributed Computing Helps Energy Project

Distributed Computing Helps Energy Project

Most of the time we’re only using a fraction of the capacity of our computers. Instead of playing Spider Solitaire, they can perform billions of calculations a second. That’s why the World Community Grid exists, harnessing the power of people volunteering the capacity of their home computers to crunch numbers. Now it’s being used in a joint project between IBM and Harvard University to help discover new solar and energy storage materials, the BBC reports.

The Clean Energy Project is seeking new organic photovoltaics that can make cheap solar cells, then looking for polymers that would be good membranes in the cells. To be commercially viable, solar cells organic molecules need an efficiency of 15%, but are currently around 5%.

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Net TV Testers Wanted

The P2P Next Project is investigating what might prove to be the future of television. It’s testing software, the SwarmPlayer, that can stream programs across the Net by using BitTorrent technology, and the EU is putting millions of dollars into this to create what will be a Europe-wide standard for broadcasters, according to the BBC.

Now they’re looking for thousands of volunteers across Europe to try out the technology and see how well it works with a large number of users. It’s currently available to Windows and Linux users, with a Mac version just around the corner.  Read more...

eBay to Open Site to Developers

eBay to Open Site to Developers

At its annual developers conference in Chicago this week, online auction giant eBay plans to announce Project Echo, a new platform that will enable developers to embed applications where more than 700,000 eBay sellers can subscribe to them. Project Echo will also include APIs that provide developers with information on buyer demographics and habits, along with inventory management tools.

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Sony Ericsson Unites Java, Flash in Phones

Sony Ericsson is hoping to jump-start a new generation of mobile phone applications with a new mobile phone development environment called Project Capuchin, which enables Java ME applications to use Adobe Flash Lite for animation or as a front-end to the application itself.

Most mobile phones that support Flash do so with a “playback only” methodology: thy can display and run the Flash content, but the Flash project cannot pass information back and forth to a mobile application, or access properties of the phone, like local storage, mobile services, information available on the phone, and more. Under Project Capuchin, Flash content is embedded in a Java JAR file, and Java applications can feed information to Flash content and receive information back from it, making Flash a viable tool for creating unified front-ends to Java-based mobile applications.  Read more...

Coming in 2008: OLPC America

Coming in 2008: OLPC America

When it was launched a few years ago at MIT, the One Laptop Per Child project came under some criticism from domestic groups who argued it was disingenuous for the project to focus on the needs of educational systems in developing nations when there were plenty of needful, under-served children and students right in the OLPC organization’s backyard in the United States.

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Mobile Metrix Counts The Uncounted

No one really knows how many people live in shanty towns in countries around the globe. They don’t show up on censuses, and their lives are lived under all official radar.   But a newproject from Stanford University, called Mobile Metrix, aims to count the inhabitants and detail their lives.  The idea is that the gathered data will be given to governments and aid groups so they can focus their projects in the areas.   "We count the uncounted," said Melanie Edwards,head of the project. "It’s critical because how do you serve that population if you do not know who they are?"   The project will use local teens, known as MobileAgents, who will betrained to go from house to house and ask people about their lives and families from a 100-question survey which will be loaded and recorded on handheld computers. The teens will be paid more thanthey’d earn as couriers for drug dealers.   So far a trial project has run in Brazil, but others are planned in the near future for Kenya and India.

Peru Orders 260,000 OLPC Laptops

Despite years of skepticism, higher-than-expected costs, and competition from commercial endeavors like the Intel Classmate PC, the One Laptop Per Child project continues to gain momentum, with the government of Peru signing a deal to purchase 280,000 of the systems. Thew news comes just as the first non-pilot deployment of OLPC notebooks gets underway in Uruguay, and Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has purchased 50,000 of the systems for distribution to Mexican children.  Read more...

OLPC Notebook Begins Production

OLPC Notebook Begins Production

Mass production on the OLPC XO low-cost notebook computer has begun at Quanta Computer’s factory in Changshu, China, only a couple weeks after the project admitted a production delay. The start of production actually came sooner than the OLPC effort anticipated: the new schedule called for production to begin November 12. Children should start receiving machines this month; last month, the OLPC project confirmed its first official order for 100,000 notebooks from Uruguay.

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Toshiba Helps Pump Japanese Culture Abroad

Toshiba Helps Pump Japanese Culture Abroad

Toshiba has apparently found time not only to build consumer electronics and computers, but also to support a bizarre pet project: a Web site that aims to spread Japanese comic books worldwide through translation. Manganovel.com will allow multilingual comic book readers to share their own translations of Japanese graphic novels, in return for a slice of the revenue from its sales.

Members can buy the original comics for $4 to $5, then translate them to other languages. When they e-mail their translations to Managanovel, they have the option of freely distributing them, or charging 2 percent of the original comic price. When other members buy the translation and original comic together, translating members get 50 percent of the sale price as a royalty.

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