Japonezii vor fi conectati de fibra optica cu o viteza de 30TB/s

via Realitatea .NET - IT & Stiinta by Realitatea.NET on 7/29/09

Laboratorul KDDI R&D a colaborat cu Institutul National de Tehnologie a Informatiei si Comunicatiilor din Japonia pentru dezvoltarea celui mai avansat cablu de fibra optica din lume.

Cablul va fi capabil sa transporte date la o viteza fara precedent, de aproape 10 ori mai rapid dec�t tehnologia actuala, la peste 30 de terabits pe secunda, fata de trei terabits c�t este �n prezent.

Viteza atinsa de noua tehnologie este echivalentul a 720 de DVD-uri transmise �ntr-o secunda. KDDI spera sa comercializeze noile fibre optice si sa poata conecta toate marile orase Japoneze, la pretul de 210 milioane de dolari.

Wi-Fi MicroSD Card

via Gizmodo by John Herrman on 7/23/09

Japanese phone king KDDI is showing off a MicroSD card with built-in Wi-Fi, sorta like those photo-uploading Eye-Fi cards everyone loves so much. Actually, they're exactlylike that, except, well, much smaller.

There's not much of a space for a product like this now, since cellphones account for most of the devices with MicroSD storage, and they generally have some kind of data connection anyway. But it's easy to imagine a (near) future where traditional SD cards are considered too bulky for smaller point-and-shoot cameras and camcorders, and a wireless MicroSD card would make sense.