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Massive quantum network unveiled

The world's largest quantum-encrypted network has been unveiled in Vienna, providing a glimpse of how data could be transmitted securely in the future. Read more »

Sydney Uni "hero" chip breaks light speed record

A team of Australian scientists have demonstrated a photonic chip that boosts the data rate of fibre-optic connections by more than 64 times to 640Gbps, promising faster, cheaper internet for all. Read more »

IBM breaks petaflop barrier with PS3 and AMD chips

Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop — 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second — twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, IBM's Blue Gene. Read more »

AARNet: Aussie innovation demands bandwidth

Without more investment in high-speed fibre broadband, Australia's competitiveness will suffer, according to academic Internet service provider Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet). Read more »

100Gbps Ethernet is coming

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

Google wants 'dark fibre'

Is Google planning to build a global fibre optic network from scratch? And, if so, why? Read more »

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The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasher

Enough information to fill multiple CDs every second is flowing across the world on a network one thousand times faster than home broadband. 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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