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By Stephen Shankland CNET News
Posted on ZDNet News: Oct 30, 2009 5:23:55 AM

In September, Intel introduced its idea of tiny ‘microservers’. Now the company wants to make the design into a standard others can use, too.

The chipmaker will offer its design specification to the Server System Infrastructure Forum by the end of the year, said Jason Waxman, general manager of Intel’s high-density computing group. If the group’s board votes its approval for the specification, group members may use the designs royalty-free, he said in a meeting with reporters in San Francisco on Thursday.

The computer industry is in constant tension between proprietary designs and standards that anyone may use. The former can mean tidy profits for companies, as long as the technology is widely adopted, but the latter can spur broader adoption. Intel’s primary business, selling processors, benefits more from the latter when it comes to cultivating a new server market segment.

It could be the Year of the iPhone in China, as Apple officially started selling its iconic smartphone in the world’s largest mobile market Friday night.

While China saw nothing near the frenzy of the first iPhone launch day here in the U.S., crowds there did honor the tradition of lining up for the phone many hours in advance at several locations. A few hundred people queued up in the rain and cold outside The Place shopping center in Beijing, for example. There, Zhi Xianzhong became the first person to get the iPhone from Apple partner China Unicom after waiting 7 hours and 40 minutes, according to China Daily.

As expected, China Unicom, the country’s second largest telecom operator after China Mobile, is selling two versions of the iPhone in China under a three-year deal with Apple. But cost could prove to be a deterrent. Prices range from 4,999 yuan (about $732) for the 8GB 3G model to 6,999 yuan (about $1,025) for the 32GB 3GS phone (sans contract).

Consumers can get cheaper, cracked, gray-market iPhone models at local electronics stores or bring them in from other markets. But price isn’t the only potential obstacle here. In accordance with Chinese government regulations, the handsets also lack a key feature–Wi-Fi capability, though reports say China Unicom hopes to offer Wi-Fi-enabled iPhones within a few months.

China Unicom is starting off by selling the iPhone in 285 cities. The carrier hopes to sell 5 million devices in three years, according to Chinese news reports, but the company wouldn’t confirm that figure.

HELSINKI (Reuters) – Global mobile data traffic continued to surge in September, Internet browser firm Opera said on Tuesday.

Data traffic through Opera’s mobile browser — which packages up to 90 percent of the data to save network bandwidth — rose 8.7 percent in September from August, Opera said.

The mobile Internet market has boomed since 2007 introduction of Apple’s iPhone, which has increased all handset makers’ focus on Internet usage on the phones.

Wireless operators are keen on raising revenue from Internet browsing and the social networking boom as revenue from traditional voice calls is declining, but they are facing increasingly congested networks.

This is helping browsers like Opera, which package data and send only a small amount through wireless networks.

Opera, the most popular mobile browser, said in its monthly mobile Internet report that packaging of data enables mobile Internet users in total to save $8.1 billion a year in top 10 countries alone.

Data traffic on mobile operators‘ networks rose on average 4.7 times last year, with some operators seeing traffic surge more than 10 times, boosted by the uptake of wireless data cards in laptops, according to telecoms equipment firm Nokia Siemens.

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This Is the First USB 3.0 Motherboard
Intel might be dicking around on USB 3.0, but Asus ain’t. The Xtreme Design P7P55D-E is apparently the very first USB 3.0 motherboard. It’s an Intel P55-based mobo that uses a third-party USB 3.0 controller for a pair of ports.

It has 10 USB 2.0 orifices too. Personally, I’d just wait for a full USB 3.0 board, where every port’s USB 3.0. Otherwise, you’re just gonna feel cramped and then dumb, when you have to buy another board. If you must have the 3.0 now this slab supports CrossFire and SLI with a pair of PCIe x 16 slots, a pair of Gigabit ethernet ports, and eSATA. Of course, there’s no price or date for this thing yet, which makes it a little less exciting, perhaps. As exciting as gimped USB 3.0 motherboards can get, anyway.

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A global regulatory body Friday approved a new multilingual address system which it said would open up the Internet to millions more people worldwide.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced an end to the exclusive use of Latin characters for website addresses.

In future it will be possible to write an entire website address in any of the world’s language scripts.

With the introduction of “internationalised” domain names (IDNs), scripts such as Chinese, Korean or Arabic will eventually be usable in the last part of an address name — the part after the dot, as in .com and .org.

At present, technological restrictions mean all domain names end in letters from the Latin alphabet.

“This is only the first step but it is an incredibly big one and a historic move toward the internationalisation of the Internet,” said Rod Beckstrom, ICANN’s president and CEO, in a statement following a six-day conference in Seoul.

“We just made the Internet much more accessible to millions of people in regions such as Asia, the Middle East and Russia.”

At first, IDNs will only be allowed on a limited basis involving country codes such as .kr for Korea. Eventually, their use will be hugely expanded to all types of Internet address names.

ICANN chairman Peter Dengate Thrush said the introduction of IDNs follows years of work and study. “To see this finally start to unfold is to see the beginning of a historic change in the Internet and who uses it.”

Beckstrom said the change signifies that the Internet belongs to everyone, no matter what language they speak.

“The Internet is about bringing the world together and this will facilitate that effort.”

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US boots up new unified cybersecurity center
AFP Global Edition
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18 hours ago US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano cut the ribbon on Friday on a state-of-the-art unified command center for government cybersecurity efforts.

The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) brings together various government organizations responsible for protecting cyber networks and infrastructure and private sector partners.

“This will be a 24/7, 365-day-a-year facility to improve our national efforts to prepare and respond to threats and incidents affecting critical information technology and communications infrastructure,” Napolitano said.

She said the NCCIC will serve as the “central repository” for the cyber protection efforts of the civilian side of the federal government and its private sector partners.

Attending the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the NCCIC was the head of the US military’s “cyber command,” Lieutenant General Keith Alexander, director of the super-secret National Security Agency (NSA).

The high-security new NCCIC facility is located in an Arlington, Virginia, office building and includes a long narrow room dominated by giant wall-mounted video screens displaying maps and threat data. Facing the screens are dozens of computer work stations with multiple screens.

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