Europe and Japan Aiming to Build 100Gbps Fibre Optic Internet.

The European Commission (EC) and Japan have announced the launch of six joint research projects, supported by £15.3m+ (€18m) in funding, that aim to build networks which are “5000 times faster than today’s average European broadband ISP speed (100Gbps compared to 19.7Mbps)“. Europe and Japan are both planning to deploy 100 Gigabit per second Internet … Read more

Macbook air security is lacking.

http://blakeyrat.com/2010/11/macbook-air-security-wtfs/ According to the posting linked above, the Macbook Air has quite limited security by default, very worrying when the firewall is turned off by default, but that can be rectified after booting up, but why would you have auto-login enabled when this will reduce security? After the tragic earthquake and resulting tsunami that has … Read more