Movie Points

According Chris Armstrong, Porto Media is setting up kiosks so that consumers can download movies to a flash card or portable hard drive. Porto Media has a high speed flash card that DVD movies can be downloaded from Movie Point kiosk less than 15 seconds. Kiosks are independent stand from which merchandise is sold. You may see them in the common area of shopping centers. Kiosks have a hard drive that holds over 5,000 titles. Kiosk software is used to manage a touch screen which allows users to touch the monitor screen and make their own selections. Using kiosks, you would be able to rent or buy standard-definition movies. Armstrong quotes, “Movies from Porto Media can be watched on TV or PCs. I transferred Spiderman from a portable hard drive to an iPod Touch and it took six seconds.”

http://www.portomedia.com
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-190446.html

New Memory Chip

According to the article Racetrack Memory, IBM fellow Stuart Parkin is using nanowires to create a memory chip that stores more memory. Since IBM has sold their hard drive business, Parkin has developed a new way to store information. This memory chip has a huge storage capacity, the durability of an electronic flash memory, and the speed of both. Combining the two, Parkin has come up with the new technology “racetrack memory”. Parkin says that their ideas are totally different from other memory because it’s three dimensional. It is a U-shaped magnetic nanowire, arranged vertically like trees (in a forest). The nanowires have regions with different magnetic polarities. The boundaries between the regions represent 1s and 0s. The base of the U encounters a pair of devices that reads and writes the data. Parkin hopes to reach 10 bits along the wire because racetrack memory would be competitive with flash storage. If Parkin’s team can manage 100 bits, racetrack memory could replace hard drives. If this design is successful, racetrack could replace all forms of memory.

http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?ch=specialsections&sc=tr10&id=22115

OpenFlow

According to this article “Software-Defined Networking”, computer scientist Nick McKeown, along with the other Stanford colleagues, has come up with a way to improve networks speed, security, and more.
This standard is called OpenFlow. It opens up the Internet and allow researcher to define data flow using, “software-defined networking”. Installing a piece of OpenFlow allow engineers to access flow tables and rules that tell switches and routers how to direct network traffic. With OpenFlow installed, researchers can use software from their computer and tap into flow tables and control a networks layout and traffic flow with a simple mouse click. This software based access is an inexpensive way of testing a new switch and router protocols.
OpenFlow is also use to improve cellular networks. Mobile service providers expanded their network using commodity hardware built for the Internet. If you are having mobility problem, OpenFlow offers service providers a new way to fix the solutions.
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?ch=specialsections&sc=tr10&id=22120
http://www.openflowswitch.org/wp/learnmore/

Apple New Public Beta

iWork is a new public beta, web-based service from Apple. It lets you share your iWork 09’ spreadsheets, documents, and presentations in a way that easier for you. iWork 09’ is a new way to share your projects online to anyone using a current web browser. With this web browser, you don’t need to know what your friends or colleagues use (Mac or a PC). Mac OS X Mail sends each invited reviewer a unique URL to view publish work. iWork makes it possible for reviewers to view documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other online projects just as you designed it, with the complete layout, color, photos, fonts, and graphics. If you like sharing your pages documents, keynote presentation, or your number spreadsheets, iWork is truly for you because during the publish process, iWork uploads web versions, and versions in iWork, MS Office and PDF formats. If your reviewers need to look at your work offline, they can do that with a simple download. Any documents, presentations, and spreadsheet that you no longer need to share can easily be removed. Access and manage your download trial version of iWork 09’ or buy it today at your local Apple retail store.
http://tinyurl.com/7bxocq
http://www.apple.com/iwork/
http://www.apple.com/iwork/iwork-dot-com/

Apple LED Cinema

Introducing the 24 inch LED Cinema LED Display for MacBook, MacBook Pro, or MacBook Air. The LED Cinema Display connects to your MacBook with the ultra compact Mini Display Port connector. It comes with three self-powered USB ports that you can connect a camera, printer, iPod, or iPhone. It includes a Magsafe connector that powers and chargers your MacBook. LED is a solid light source that light up very quickly so you want had to wait for your display. With the smooth motion of the LED, you can take pictures anywhere from any negative to positive degree. The LED Cinema Display also has a built-in iSight camera, microphone, and speakers so that you can engage in music and videos on your desktop. The 24 inch glossy widescreen display a resolution of 1290x1200 and gives you full screen brightness instantly.

http://tinyurl.com/4udq75
http://tinyurl.com/b2tlnc