Smaller Computer Chips Built Using DNA as Template

Smaller Computer Chips Built Using DNA as Template

In an advance that might provide a practical method for making molecular-size circuits, the smallest possible, scientists in Israel used strands of DNA, the computer code of life, to create tiny transistors that can literally build themselves.

SBC offers businesses new VoIP service

Yahoo! News – SBC offers businesses new VoIP service

Well, at least one big provider is gambling on VoIP. SBC is the biggest provider of local service out here in the West.

They have the need for speed

IBM has built the first module for Blue Gene, a supercomputer under construction that, by 2006, will crank at 1 petaflops (1 quadrillion operations/sec.). It’s job: figuring out protein folding. IBM Life Science is also developing new algorithms (programs) to do this massive data crunching.

More on VOIP

Maybe ACS should follow IBM’s timetable.

Big Blue created quite a stir on Nov. 7 when a top exec told a tech conference in Atlanta that it hopes to move 80% of its 300,000 employees to voice-over-IP phone systems by 2008.