The proposed 802.11n standard provides a huge speed boost for wireless networks, with actual throughput speeds of 100 megabits per second - roughly four times as fast as current wireless networks. The EWC said in a statement, that the draft proposal will support throughput of up to 600 mbps. The standard also facilitates bandwidth intensive services such as voice over IP and streaming video.

According to Bill McFarland, chief technology officer, Atheros Communications, once the proposal is formatted according to IEEE rules, it will go out to a group of engineers across the 802.11 working group who will point out problems - if any, post which the draft will be modified and put to further voting. Finally, an even broader group of IEEE members will vote on final ratification. Industry analysts and 11n task group members say that the process will take about a year, with products hitting the market shortly thereafter.

Apparently Broadcom has already announced the availability of a family of chip sets, which it claims are the first to comply with the draft. The chip sets, called Intensi-fi, include the ones that can be used in routers, notebook PCs, and add-in PC Cards. These are immediately available to manufacturers, in sample quantities.

Well, you might want to make some change to your lifestyle to reduce coronary artery disease. It seems Google is trying to help Googler geting resolutions for well-being. Dr. Taraneh Razavi, a staff doctor, posted a blog about at . As a result, for notable reductions in coronary artery disease and mortality, we should make these changes:

Anand Parthasarathy wrote Get set for the enterprise grid and gave an overview of five generations of distributed computing as follows.

1. Host-based Computing
2. Remote Access Computing

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced it has agreed to acquire dMarc Broadcasting, Inc., a Newport Beach, Calif.-based digital solutions provider for the radio broadcast industry.

dMarc connects advertisers directly to radio stations through its automated advertising platform. The platform simplifies the sales process, scheduling, delivery and reporting of radio advertising, enabling advertisers to more efficiently purchase and track their campaigns. For broadcasters, dMarc"s technology automatically schedules and places advertising, helping to increase revenue and decrease the costs associated with processing advertisements.

With the Stardust sample return capsule safely on the ground, NASA and researchers at the University of California at Berkeley are launching a new SETI-like Grid for analyzing the flotsam and jetsam retrieved from the farthest reaches of our solar system and beyond.
Grid Meter | InfoWorld | More extraterrestrial Grid efforts under

Google has just announced for Google Talk. So what the open federation is? Follow me for short. As you might notice, you can send e-mails from your account (university, company or gmail) to whoever you want in this world identified by an e-mail address. For IM, you don"t have this capability at all. If you are on MSN, you can"t chat with Yahoo IM. Open federation lets us talk to other parties across IM service provider. Oops! IM is going to be a general service like e-mail.

Don"t expect too much! Open federation might help anyone in this world to talk using their own IM address served a service provider near them but it is totally based on XMPP innovated by Jabber Community. If you are mainly on MSN, you might need to ask your IM provider to enable MSN service on Jabber service.

Anyway, someday IM service provider might come to this world. There will be no more MSN, Yahoo, AIM, or etc separately.. Hopefully, Google Talk supports sending file soon.