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Thursday 15 December 2011

Researchers Claim New Data transfer Record: 186 Gbps [ 15-12-2011 15:29 ]

Author: Oleg Kononosov Source: BBC Translation by: Paul Smith

Researchers are claiming a new record in data transfer rates with data being moved across the U.S.-Canadian border at 186 Gbps. That sort of throughput is enough to transfer the contents of 100,000 Blu-ray discs in just one day. The 186 Gbps rate was a two way affair and the fastest transfer rate in a single direction, between the University of Victoria in British Columbia and the Washington State Convention Centre in Seattle, was 98 Gbps.

Most fibre optic networks are currently able to support data rates of around 1 Gbps with the ability to push those speeds a bit higher still. Whilst the much faster rates achieved in this experiment are probably not going to be commercially available next week, the demonstration does pave the way for better commercial data transfer systems. Progress in the field is probably more pertinent to science projects like the LHC in the more immediate future as the volume of data generated by such experiments is growing rapidly. Even so the 186 Gbps rate achieved here still pales in comparison to that achieved by using a single laser setup, which managed to to reach the dizzying heights of 26 Tbps. That's fast enough to transfer 1,000 HD-DVDs in 1 second.

Even if the practical application of these efforts is still some time off for end users liek you and I, they do offer a tantalising glimpse of what the future has in store and makes the current crop of broadband networks look positively primitive.

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Windows Gains Market Share, Everyone Else Drops [ 15-12-2011 15:16 ]

Author: Oleg Kononosov Source: Chikita Translation by: Paul Smith

Windows continues to be the big papa of the desktop OS space with research firm Chikita showing that Microsoft's OS was the only one to gain market share during October and November. Windows grabbed an extra 1.4% for a total share of 76.45%. This compares with second placed Apple with 9.33%. Apple actually saw a slight decrease in their Mac OS market share, dropping 0.35%. Linux slid to 2.93%, which represents a loss of 0.5%.

What is perhaps more interesting though is the state of of the mobile platforms. For the first time in several months Android saw its market share dropping, not by much mind you, but nevertheless still a drop. It lost 0.58% to finish with 3.93% of the total operating system market. iOS too saw a slight decline, just 0.04%, to finish on 6.76%. If you are wondering why iOS' share is higher than Android's remember that these figures are for the operating system market as a whole and as such will take into account devices other than just phones.

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iMessage Continues To Receieve Messages On Stolen Phones After Being Wiped [ 15-12-2011 10:08 ]

Author: Serge Novikov Source: via Gizmodo Translation by: Paul Smith

Yesterday it was Windows Phone messenger suffering from a security flaw in its messaging system. Today it's the turn of iOS 5. As security flaws go this is a pretty serious one for one main reason: there is nothing you can do about it at the moment. The flaw itself is pretty simple, a stolen iPhone will continue to receive messages sent through iMessage even after you have deactivated and remote wiped the device. For the moment there is no solution from Apple. Some users on the Apple support forums have suggested that deleting your Apple ID and creating a new one will solve the problem, but that's hardly an ideal answer for most people. Hopefully Apple gets something sorted on this soon.

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