By Peter Svensson Sep 30, 2008
New York regulators have raised the possibility of banning Verizon Communications Inc. from installing its fiber-optic FiOS service in New York City until the company makes sure it's doing enough to provide electrical grounding for its equipment in homes. Poorly grounded equipment or cables could give electrical shocks or start fires, but there have been no reports of FiOS equipment causing harm to people or property, Verizon said. The New York State Public Service Commission, which regulates telecommunications, has been dogging Verizon on the electrical issue since 2006, and the staff concluded in a report to the commission last week that the company's remedies don't go far enough. New York is the only state to have raised these concerns, but Verizon is installing FiOS in 15 others. Fiber-optic cable itself isn't electrically conductive, but in most of the homes Verizon connects to the service, it wall-mounts a box that sprouts a coaxial video cable. The New York regulators are concerned that the coaxial cable could inadvertently carry a high voltage.
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Toshiba unveils new battery prototype
10 minute recharge
By Aharon Etengoff: Wednesday, 01 October 2008
JAPANESE GIANT TOSHIBA has unveiled a battery prototype that offers a 90 percent charge capacity in just 10 minutes. The Super Charge Ion Battery (SCIB) is capable of handling 5,000 to 6,000 recharge cycles, compared to the typical 500 offered by standard lithium-ion batteries. The new battery is composed of a durable material that offers a high level of thermal stability and prevents overheating. In addition, the unit will not explode when crushed. According to Toshiharu Watanabe of Toshiba, the "excellent performance of the SCIB will assure its successful application in industrial systems and in the electronic vehicles markets as a new energy solution".
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By Aharon Etengoff: Wednesday, 01 October 2008
JAPANESE GIANT TOSHIBA has unveiled a battery prototype that offers a 90 percent charge capacity in just 10 minutes. The Super Charge Ion Battery (SCIB) is capable of handling 5,000 to 6,000 recharge cycles, compared to the typical 500 offered by standard lithium-ion batteries. The new battery is composed of a durable material that offers a high level of thermal stability and prevents overheating. In addition, the unit will not explode when crushed. According to Toshiharu Watanabe of Toshiba, the "excellent performance of the SCIB will assure its successful application in industrial systems and in the electronic vehicles markets as a new energy solution".
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New AMD Chip Pushes Graphics Cards Under $40
By Mark Hachman September 30, 2008
Here's a thought for you lonely gamers: for less than the price of a dinner out with a blind date, you can buy yourself a graphics card. On Tuesday, AMD announced the ATI Radeon HD 4550 and HD 4350, both graphics cards that offer DirectX 10.1 compatibility at bargain-basement prices. The Radeon HD 4350 is priced at just $39 for a 256-Mbyte configuration, while the Radeon HD 4550 is priced at about $55 for a 512-Mbyte configuration. Board partners backing the new GPUs include Partners include Asus, Diamond, Gigabyte, Jetway, Sapphire and Visiontek, among others. Both cards are based upon the Radeon HD 4000 family of products; a slightly-higher performing card, the Radeon HD 4670, fared reasonably well in recent ExtremeTech tests. The most compelling argument for buying a higher-priced card instead of the HD 4670, the review argued, was the more expensive card's expected longevity before a replacement made it obsolete.
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Here's a thought for you lonely gamers: for less than the price of a dinner out with a blind date, you can buy yourself a graphics card. On Tuesday, AMD announced the ATI Radeon HD 4550 and HD 4350, both graphics cards that offer DirectX 10.1 compatibility at bargain-basement prices. The Radeon HD 4350 is priced at just $39 for a 256-Mbyte configuration, while the Radeon HD 4550 is priced at about $55 for a 512-Mbyte configuration. Board partners backing the new GPUs include Partners include Asus, Diamond, Gigabyte, Jetway, Sapphire and Visiontek, among others. Both cards are based upon the Radeon HD 4000 family of products; a slightly-higher performing card, the Radeon HD 4670, fared reasonably well in recent ExtremeTech tests. The most compelling argument for buying a higher-priced card instead of the HD 4670, the review argued, was the more expensive card's expected longevity before a replacement made it obsolete.
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