According to Lumish and his CTO, Pilot founder Frank Smyth, these products, available from October, are needed in the development of optical transport systems beyond 100Gbit/s. The lasers enable a lot more data to be sent down a fiber by cutting down the space between the wavelengths so that more can be packed into the space currently taken up by a single wavelength. Smyth points out that the spacing is fixed between the multiple wavelengths emitted by Pilot’s optical comb sources and this allows the channels effectively to be transmitted right up against each other.
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Europe’s Most Powerful Supercomputer Inaugurated
The SuperMUC, ranked fourth in the June TOP500 supercomputing listing, contains 147,456 cores using Intel Xeon 2.7-GHz, 8-core E5-2680 chips. IBM, which built the supercomputer, stated in a recent press release that the supercomputer actually includes more than 155,000 processor cores. It is located at the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre) in Garching, Germany, near Munich.
Telefonica Shows Off Firefox OS Prototype, Reveals Plans
Telefonica has shown a prototype phone using Firefox OS, the new open HTML5-based operating system from Mozilla, and explained its reasons for adopting a fledgling OS in the face of huge competition from iPhone and Android.
Firefox OS will let the operator balance its “strategic dependence on Android” and allow for the creation of cheaper devices that offer the same user experience, claimed Telefonica Digital chairman and CEO Matthew Key, at an event in London.
via Telefonica Shows Off Firefox OS Prototype, Reveals Plans | TechWeekEurope UK.
Telecoms get behind Firefox smartphone platform
Mozilla said Monday that mobile network operators Deutsche Telekom, Sprint, Smart, Telecom Italia, Telenor and Etisalat are backing the Firefox platform.
via Telecoms get behind Firefox smartphone platform – chicagotribune.com.
Badoo set to help facilitate hookups across the U.S.
Essentially, as its Russian founder has explained before, Badoo is a “nightclub on your phone,” where people, “as adults, are looking to do adult things.” The site first was launched in Spain, where it soon expanded to neighboring Portugal, France, and then, hopped the pond to Brazil and Mexico and now, claims users in 180 countries.
via Badoo set to help facilitate hookups across the U.S..
Last fall, The Economist proclaimed it as having “a shot at becoming one of Europe’s leading internet firms.” But now, says GigaOm, the site appears poised to grow rapidly in the United States,particularly after its official American launch just last month.
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Samsung takes big hit in battle against Apple as EU probes patents, Germany blocks tablets
Samsung Electronics and Apple Inc. are engaged in a strategic war over patents in many countries across the world as they try to draw market share away from each other.