Warpia Easy Dock Provides A Universal Docking Station For Existing Notebooks

Docking stations are great; they allow notebooks to become entirely more functional at one's main work desk, and they allow them to become connected with an array of already-place peripherals (printers, mice, monitors, etc.)

The only problem that is few notebooks are designed with docking stations that match perfectly, and those that are are generally just normal business notebooks with lacklustre specifications and boring designs. If you've been wishing that a docking station were made for your notebook, the Easy Dock may be it.

Source R&D has just introduced the Warpia Easy Dock, which essentially is a wireless docking station for any notebook...

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Not all welcome at Perth anti-filter rally

Opponents of the Federal Government's internet filter plan faced unexpected controversy in Perth on Saturday, when an anti-immigration group joined the 'National Day of Action'.

Events were organised in Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane by the Stop the Filter group, which hoped to raise public awareness of ISP-level internet censorship.

An estimated 300 people attended the protest in Forrest Place, Perth, organisers said. The event kicked off at noon and wound down at around 2pm...

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Beijing working with Google to resolve dispute

China is in consultations with technology giant Google to resolve its dispute with the company, which has threatened to abandon the Chinese market over hacking and censorship concerns, said a Chinese official on Friday.

The comment came from Li Yizhong, minister of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), speaking on the sidelines of China's annual parliament.

A Google spokesman was not immediately available for comment...

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ISP offers all-you-can-eat Google traffic

ISP Cinenet, has begun offering its business customers all-you-can-eat Google traffic for a flat fee after signing a peering agreement with Pipe Networks.

Traffic from Google services accounts for up to 25 percent of the internet traffic of Cinenet's screen industry customers, according to Cinenet managing director Tony Clark, particularly because their interest in video leads them to consume a lot of YouTube content.

Rather than have this traffic levied on a consumption basis, Cinenet is offering a deal whereby customers get all-you-can-eat access for a flat fee.

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Cities Go Crazy In Order To Get Google's Attention For 1Gbps Internet

Last month, Google shook up the ISP landscape in a big way, and all with the stroke of the (digital) pen. The company announced that they would soon begin testing a 1Gbps home fibre network, which could provide home Internet speeds that could only be realised in one's imagination before.

First, we heard that the city of Seattle was pushing hard to be Google's first test market. Their reasoning was sound: Seattle is a "techy" city, it's close to Google's Northern California headquarters and there are tons and tons of potential customers. But that wasn't enough. We later heard that Topeka, Kansas was renaming itself "Google, Kansas" for the month of March...

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IBM Engineers Use Light To Speed Up Chip Communications

Every so often, an idea comes along that really strikes us as amazing. This is definitely one of those. IBM has a team of scientists with IQs that we can't even fathom, and those very people have created an ultra-fast device that can use light for communication between chips.

The goal here? It's to find a way to replace electrical signals that communicate via copper wires between computer chips with tiny silicon circuits that communicate using pulses of light. Even more importantly, this creation could advance the way computer chips talk to each other, and if new efficiencies are discovered, we can obviously expect even faster PCs in our future.

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Microsoft Warns Windows XP Users To Avoid F1 Key In Internet Explorer

2010 has not been kind to Microsoft's security team. In under a month's time, we've seen Microsoft address a bug that was supposed to fix an ancient exploit but instead caused more headaches, all while having to encourage consumers not to be duped by a fake security site parading around as something useful. As if those software savvy folks up in Washington didn't have enough on their plates, the company has today issued yet another startling advisory, and this is easily one of the more bizarre ones that we've seen.

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