Researchers Transmit Optical Data at 16.4 Tbps Over 1,500mi.

FiOS, you ain't got nothing on this: Alcatel-Lucent researchers in France have successfully transmitted optical data at an absolutely blazing sped of 16.4 Tbps over a distance of over 1,500 miles.

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What Does the Internet Look Like? [map]

Why China has as many IP addresses as an American university, which ISP should be called "Spamalot," and more.

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A Sit-Down with Warren Buffett - Thoughts on Business

Noted from a Q & A at Emory's Goizueta Business School with (according to Forbes) the world's second richest man, Warren Buffet.

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Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

Once a marketing gimmick, free has emerged as a full-fledged economy. Offering free music proved successful for Radiohead & Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. The fastest-growing parts of the gaming industry are ad-supported casual games online and free-to-try massively multiplayer online games. Virtually everything Google does is free to consumers..

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Ubuntu Brainstorm Launched!

Ubuntu now has its own Brainstorm website where people can add their ideas and vote for their favorites.

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NASA uses Fedora - a lot!

Jack Aboutboul, Red Hat Community Engineer, had the chance to visit NASA and take a look around. While there he discovered that they use Fedora a lot, from live video distribution to Houston to data analysis of the Columbia crash. Read on for more details and lots of pictures!

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NASA Plans To Crash Moon

NASA is gearing up to crash two probes into the moon's South Pole on purpose to look for hidden water. I bet they can pull off this one.

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Free copies of Vista and Office 2007

Microsoft is so keen to get Vista and Office 2007 into the hands of early adopters, it is giving copies away. If you can handle sitting through three videos on each of Vista and Office 2007 explaining their new features, Microsoft will reward you with a free copy of Vista Business and/or Office Professional 2007.

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Engadget Finally Tests the Optimus Maximus

It's the damndest thing: years after seeing the renders we're actually finally writing this post on our very own Optimus Maximus. We've had ours for a few weeks for testing, but we weren't able to do a whole lot with it until we got some later firmware updates. Here's the preliminary report:

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Firefox hits 500,000,000 downloads

The Mozilla community is celebrating 500 million Firefox downloads by earning 500 million grains of donated rice, enough to feed 25,000 people.

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Microsoft jumps on the open bandwagon

According to a wordy press release issued by the company, the Redmond giant will begin embracing an open attitude by publishing documentation for all of its "high-volume product" APIs free of charge, will detail patents it holds and applications that cover its protocols...

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Drastically Speed up your Linux System with Preload

Preload is an "adaptive readahead daemon" that runs in the background of your system and observes what programs you use most often, caching them in order to speed up application load time. By using Preload, you can put unused RAM to good work, and improve the overall performance of your desktop system. Best of all, it's easy to install and use!

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Seamlessly Run Linux Apps on Your Windows Desktop

Wouldn't it be great if you could run those great Linux apps side-by-side with your Windows apps—like Linux users can do with WINE or OS X can do with Parallels or VMWare? You can, and today I'll show you how to seamlessly run your favorite Linux applications directly in Windows with a free software called andLinux

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Red Hat not impressed with Microsoft's interoperability plan

Red Hat has voiced skepticism of Microsoft's latest interoperability initiative and says that if the company really wants to demonstrate support for interoperability it should adopt ODF and offer patent grants for its protocols under terms that are conducive to open source distribution models.

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From Windows to Linux - and back again

Seven years ago, Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School, which is situated in a suburb of Melbourne, took a step that made it stand out from other educational institutions.he school decided to adopt Linux on the desktop on a fairly large scale, with about 350 workstations being installed with the free operating system.

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Steal Encrypted Data with Liquid Nitrogen

A group led by a Princeton University computer security researcher has developed a simple method to steal encrypted information stored on computer hard disks.

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14 Best Ways to Use Your Computer’s Spare Time

Between YouTube videos, your processor can search for a cure for AIDS.

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Top 10 PC Games We'd Like to See Remastered

Playing through Tomb Raider Anniversary got me to wonder, what other games would I like to see get this treatment? I sifted through the crevices of my fondest gaming memories and came up with this list of personal favorites that I think would be great candidates for remakes.

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