High-Speed DVD Burner Roundup

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Rural, remote high-speed Internet back
on front burner

Rural, remote high-speed Internet back
on front burner 04/04/2005 04:33 AM
Globe and Mail Apr 4 2005 8:18AM GMT

HP doubles DVD burner speed

HP doubles DVD burner speed 11/05/2003 01:23 PM
ZDNet Nov 5 2003 10:59AM ET

Pioneer DVD Burner Ups Dual-Layer Speed

Pioneer DVD Burner Ups Dual-Layer Speed 07/13/2004 03:09 AM
Pioneer Electronics USA has introduced a new 16X DVD burner that has begun the ramp toward faster dual-layer burning speeds.

Son of the USB 2.0 Hi-speed Flash drive
roundup

Son of the USB 2.0 Hi-speed Flash drive
roundup 04/13/2005 04:36 AM

USB flash drives have become more common, due both to their utility and decreasing prices. They are a great tool for transporting files around, especially when the network is down. They are supported on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux right out of the box. And best of all, prices have come down considerably since our review last year.

In this edition, we pit ten drives against one another, testing them for durability, style, construction, bundled software, and read/write speed. And once again, the flash drive RAID array makes an appearance. So if you are looking to get your first flash drive, or are thinking about replacing your small and aging USB 1.1 flash drive, you've come to the right place.

Kids Give High Marks To High Speed
Internet - Considered Crucial For
Educational Success.

Kids Give High Marks To High Speed
Internet - Considered Crucial For
Educational Success. 08/17/2004 07:45 AM
Hispanicad.com - Tue Aug 17, 09:41 am GMT

NEC Electronics Introduces 3G Mobile
Phone Chip; Enables High-Speed Serial
Data Transmission and Rotating High

NEC Electronics Introduces 3G Mobile
Phone Chip; Enables High-Speed Serial
Data Transmission and Rotating High 07/15/2004 10:14 PM
JCNN Jul 16 2004 0:38AM GMT

National Survey Finds Kids Give High
Marks to High Speed; Internet Considered
Crucial for Educational Success

National Survey Finds Kids Give High
Marks to High Speed; Internet Considered
Crucial for Educational Success 08/13/2004 10:44 AM
Hispanic PR Wire Aug 13 2004 2:17PM GMT

MSN TV Broadband: High Speed Web TV

MSN TV Broadband: High Speed Web TV 07/27/2004 01:12 PM

It's not 1998, I promise, despite this announcement from Microsoft and Thomson to release an updated MSN-branded set-top box for browsing the web and streaming media from other household PCs. To launch in October, the $200 broadband-enabled box will come with a wireless keyboard and remote and will not have much in the way of built-in storage to "prevent vulnerability to virus attacks" (and to keep things cheap). MSN TV (formerly Web TV) has a small, if anachronistically loyal following, but is there really a need for a second generation, even if it does support broadband? Especially if it supports broadband?

The current-generation device is pictured; we'll get you pictures of the new device as soon as we can.

Read - Broadband MSN TV Device Slated [Twice]

High-speed hopes for AT&T

High-speed hopes for AT&T 07/23/2004 11:10 AM
The company's slow road back into the residential phone market will be tied to broadband's march across the United States.

"High Speed Internet"

"High Speed Internet" 09/24/2004 04:07 PM

Cingular's high-speed 3G network

Cingular's high-speed 3G network 05/27/2004 03:20 AM
Engadget May 27 2004 6:07AM GMT

Update: Mobile High Speed 3.2

Update: Mobile High Speed 3.2 02/17/2004 11:51 AM
The GPRS/EDGE and HSCSD/GSM mobile phone connection manager adds support for the SonyEricsson GC82 EDGE/GPRS and Sierra Wireless AC750, an improved interface, and other changes.

2 in 5 Web Users Have High-Speed at Home
(AP)

2 in 5 Web Users Have High-Speed at Home
(AP) 04/19/2004 06:58 AM
AP - Two in five Internet users in the United States now have high-speed access at home as telephone companies slash prices to better compete with cable broadband services, a study says.

FCC: High-speed connections up in 2004

FCC: High-speed connections up in 2004 01/04/2005 05:25 PM
Homes and businesses with speedy connections increased from 28.2 million to 32.5 million lines during six-month period ending in June 2004, report says.

Bluetooth Kicking into High Speed

Bluetooth Kicking into High Speed 06/09/2004 03:36 PM
BrightHand Jun 9 2004 7:20PM GMT

2 in 5 Web Users Have High-Speed at Home

2 in 5 Web Users Have High-Speed at Home 04/19/2004 09:37 AM
AP via Daily Press Apr 19 2004 1:57PM GMT

US FCC: High Speed Internet and
television

US FCC: High Speed Internet and
television 09/16/2004 01:04 PM
Digital Lifestyles Sep 16 2004 4:51PM GMT

High Speed Steam Powered Car

High Speed Steam Powered Car 12/28/2004 12:49 PM

Free High-Speed Internet...May Not Be

Free High-Speed Internet...May Not Be 12/24/2004 12:57 PM

Something to look out for when you travel: hotels advertising "Free High-Speed Internet" may be fudging the terms just a little bit.

I stayed in a hotel in New Jersey once that advertised this. I was all excited to get my laptop hooked up and check my email when I discovered what it really meant —

They had some kind of Web TV thing. You got high-speed service to about 15 sites on the television: CNN, the New York Times, and a few others. To get "Free and Unrestricted High-Speed Internet," you had to pay $14.95 a day. And even then, you were still hampered by this crappier-than-WebTV interface that my Web mail refused to work for.

Needless to say, I was a little irritated. Now I never take "Free High-Speed Internet" at face value again. I always ask at the front desk. Not all hotels are this way (this one, in particular, was great), but has anyway else encountered this same problem?

Update: Mobile High Speed 3G 4.10

Update: Mobile High Speed 3G 4.10 12/17/2004 06:26 PM
The 3G, EDGE, and GPRS mobile phone connection manager adds support for recently-released mobile phones from Nokia, Motorola, and SonyEricsson.

Handhelds tap in to high-speed delivery

Handhelds tap in to high-speed delivery 06/02/2004 10:52 PM
Sympatico Jun 3 2004 3:37AM GMT

High-speed Net prices plunge

High-speed Net prices plunge 11/14/2003 02:22 AM
USA Today Nov 14 2003 1:34AM ET

New Outlet for High-Speed Access

New Outlet for High-Speed Access 02/18/2004 07:51 AM
Services offering broadband over power networks are still far from prevalent or profitable. But with advances in transmission capability, along with greater attention from regulators, the technology is gaining momentum. By Joanna Glasner.

More regions get high speed internet

More regions get high speed internet 11/14/2003 10:21 AM
ONE News Nov 14 2003 9:01AM ET

High-speed access to Net booming

High-speed access to Net booming 07/08/2004 05:31 PM
globetechnology.com Jul 8 2004 9:48PM GMT

4.4 M Cdn households have high-speed
internet

4.4 M Cdn households have high-speed
internet 07/08/2004 02:05 PM
CTV.ca Jul 8 2004 6:50PM GMT

High-speed US net 'pirates' sued

High-speed US net 'pirates' sued 04/13/2005 12:04 PM
US record companies and movie studios sue students they say have shared files over a high-speed network.

KTF Tries Out High-Speed Portable
Internet

KTF Tries Out High-Speed Portable
Internet 09/16/2004 03:37 AM
Yonhap News Sep 16 2004 7:34AM GMT

High-Speed Love Connection

High-Speed Love Connection 06/24/2004 04:46 AM
Have an Internet hookup? Sexual gratification is a mouseclick away, thanks to remote-control, scriptable sex toys. By Xeni Jardin.

US high-speed connections surge

US high-speed connections surge 12/24/2003 07:40 AM
ZDNet UK Dec 24 2003 6:42AM ET

High Speed XML Parsing is Not Intuitive

High Speed XML Parsing is Not Intuitive 02/11/2004 03:58 AM
For a PHP weblog, there haven't been many PHP articles or links recently. This is because I feel most recent PHP articles I read have nothing fresh to say, repeating material I linked to 2 or 3 years ago. Perhaps I'm getting jaded. So to keep things fresh, here's a new article, mostly original, and hopefully of some interest to everyone!

Last year, Tim Bray, one of the co-authors of the XML spec, mentioned that he used Perl regular expressions to parse XML.

Now here's the dirty secret; most of it is machine-generated XML, and in most cases, I use the perl regexp engine to read and process it.

I was struck by this because I would have thought XPath or SAX would provide better performance as they are APIs tuned specifically for XML.

I decided to do some benchmarks to determine which techniques were better. I also wanted a realistic test, so I benchmarked parsing the RSS feed of this web-site, searching for the contents of all title tags, and returning the contents as an array. The RSS file is from Nov 2003 (yes i did this benchmark that long ago), and is about 20K and has 12 title tags, so the returned array will have 12 title strings.

The techniques used were:

1. Regular expression: preg_match_all('/<title>([^<]*)/',$rss,$titles_arr))

2. Explode('<title>', $rss) then strip the matching </title> tag using strpos() and substr().

3. XPath, using $title_nodes = $ctx->xpath_eval("//title");

4. SAX, wrote an element handler function that matched and processed the title tag.

5. DOM, using $titles = $dom->get_elements_by_tagname('title'). Intuitively, this should have been the slowest, as the whole tree is generated.

Results

Here are the timings for processing the RSS file 1000 times. Faster is better.

            seconds       Relative 
                          to REGEX
REGEX       0.1080          1.00
EXPLODE     0.1696          1.57
DOM         6.3212         58.53
XPATH       8.3417         77.24
SAX        10.0851         93.38

Conclusion

Intutively, I would have thought that XPath would be the fastest as XPath expressions can be compiled and tuned for XML. But the best performance was achieved using regular expressions, which is what Tim is using.

It appears that the DOM, SAX and XPath libraries remain immature (compared to the Perl-compatible regex library) and are not highly optimized. Strangely enough, DOM performance is better than XPath and SAX! Perhaps someone else can explain why.

If anyone is interested, i can post the source.

Test platform: Windows 2000, PHP 4.3.3. I also tested on Linux, PHP 4.3.2, with similar results.

2GB Memory Stick PRO Duo (High-Speed)

2GB Memory Stick PRO Duo (High-Speed) 03/30/2005 03:59 AM

Sony is finally getting around to releasing their 2GB Memory Stick Pro Duo (High-Speed) cards. They announced these things back in September of 2004, and have kicked the release date back twice. The "(High-Speed)" in the name indicates the cards have a transfer rate of 80Mbps (10MB/sec), which is far more than you'll ever need for anything practical. Sony really needs to do something about this Memory Stick naming scheme, because it's getting to be like Street Fighter games. I needn't remind you this stick is PSP compatible.

Press Release [Sony]

America: Still the High-Speed Laggard

America: Still the High-Speed Laggard 04/08/2005 06:18 PM
“Compared to South Korea, Japan, even Canada, broadband adoption in the U.S. is falling behind. For 20% of Americans, it’s not even an option In the early 1990s, Taylor Reynolds spent time as an exchange student in South Korea — a good deal of it hunting for a computer on which to write his term papers. “I finally found someone whose sister worked in a preschool, and it had a computer,” he remembers. “I had…

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Other nations zip by USA in high-speed
Net race

Other nations zip by USA in high-speed
Net race 01/22/2004 02:10 AM

SBC to offer high-speed Internet for $15

SBC to offer high-speed Internet for $15 06/06/2005 12:07 AM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Wed Jun 1, 09:39 pm GMT

Toronto skyline at high speed

Toronto skyline at high speed 12/06/2003 09:48 AM
This is a breathtaking 24h time-lapse film of the Toronto skyline. The sunrise, in particular, is spectacular. 5.07M B Quicktime Link (Thanks, homerj!)

Motorola bets on high speed with Sprint

Motorola bets on high speed with Sprint 12/24/2004 01:00 PM
ZDNet Dec 23 2004 5:30PM GMT

Cingular lags in high-speed wireless

Cingular lags in high-speed wireless 05/28/2004 09:24 AM
ZDNet May 28 2004 2:01PM GMT

High-speed Internet growth picks up in
US: FCC (AFP)

High-speed Internet growth picks up in
US: FCC (AFP) 06/08/2004 06:33 PM
AFP - High-speed Internet service gathered pace in the last six months of 2003, with phone companies making headway against their cable rivals, a government report showed.
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