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NICTA shows off 5Gbps wireless chip at CeBIT

NICTA gave ZDNet.com.au a closer look at its 5Gbps wireless chip at CeBIT Australia 2008. Read more »

Australia's $10 'GiFi' chip promises wireless 5Gbps

Australian researchers from National ICT Australia (NICTA) have developed a lower power, short range chip for wireless communications that can achieve up to 5Gbps -- allowing them to transfer a complete DVD in a matter of seconds. Read more »

FireWire standard accelerates to 3.2Gbps

The speed of FireWire is set to quadruple next year after the group behind it announced a new specification for the networking interface. Read more »

Support for 40Gb Ethernet standard stalls 100Gb plans

Global standards body the IEEE cannot decide whether the next Ethernet standard will be 40Gb or 100Gb because it's members, which include rival networking vendors such as Cisco and Nortel, are fighting amongst themselves. Read more »

100Gbps Ethernet is coming

Technical experts have started to develop a new standard for Ethernet which will run at 100Gbps. Read more »

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    This week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »

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    In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

    -- posted by Chris Duckett

  • Staff Google launches Apps Marketplace

    Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

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