Inside an NBN fibre access node

Today iTnews reveals the innards of Australia’s future communications exchange – with the industry’s first look inside an NBN Co fibre access node.

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Samsung Caught in Apple's war on Android

Samsung is caught in the cross fire of Apple’s “all-out war” on “anything Android”, according to an intellectual property lawyer.

Samsung, a key iPad and iPhone components supplier, has confirmed it will fight Apple's accusation that Samsung copied the iPad and iPhone to build its Galaxy and Nexus S, which run on Google’s Gingerbread Android operating system.

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Researches show off DLC projector screen viewable in bright light.

One of the knocks against projectors has always been that they're not able to perform to their fullest unless the room is completely dark, but that may finally change if some researchers from Japan's Tohoku University have their way. They've developed a projector screen based on Diffused Light Control (or DLC), which allows only the light from the projector to be diffused towards those looking at the screen, while all other ambient light is either absorbed or reflected away.

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Broadband Enthusiasts keep the NBN faith

The majority of Australia’s broadband enthusiasts remain buoyant on the Federal Government’s National Broadband Network project, according to a survey released overnight.

Over half of the 23,500 web users surveyed by Australian broadband forum Whirlpool expressed positive sentiments about the project, with a further one in five preferring to remain ‘neutral’.

Only 18.9 percent of respondents were disappointed with the project to date.

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Whole of APAC put in IPv4 rations

The Asia Pacific's regional internet registry APNIC has placed its members on stringent IPv4 address rations, conceding it was now unable to meet IPv4 demands in the region.

Director General Paul Wilson said today that "unprecedented fixed and mobile network growth" in the region meant that today "effectively represents IPv4 exhaustion for many of the current operators in the Asia Pacific".

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Windows 7 Ousts XP for Top Spot in the U.S.

With the warm reception following the release of Windows 7, however, XP users had to think long and hard about whether to stick with their legacy OS or forgive Microsoft for Vista and make the jump to its latest and greatest.

Many have chosen the latter. According to analytics firm StatCounter, Windows XP is no longer the most used desktop OS in the U.S. For the first time, that distinction belongs to Windows 7.

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Acer Iconia Touchbook Dual-Screen Tablet Presales Begin

Starting today, you'll be able to preorder Acer's highly anticipated Iconia dual-touchscreen 6120 Touchbook. As the world's first and only tablet to feature two touch-enabled 14-inch high-definition widescreen LED backlit displays, the Iconia Touchbook gives you a whole new way to interact with digital content. Each LCD is a full touchscreen that can be customized to your liking and used for navigation

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Lenovo LePad Goes on Sale in China, Elsewhere In June

The LePad is an Android-based tablet that was launched on Monday in an exclusive Chinese media-only event, and while no one is publicly saying that this is Lenovo's attack on the iPad, it's pretty clear that the company doesn't want to lose out on the tablet bandwagon.

The company is still planning to sell the LePad outside of China by June, but specifics weren't given.

The LePad launch is significant in a lot of ways. For one, it's a crazy new product design, but also, it's the first product to be launched by this particular segment of the company

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Carbon nanotubes used to more easily detect cancer cells, HIV

Cancer'snot slowing its march to ruining as many lives as it possibly can, so it's always pleasing to hear of any new developments that act as hurdles. The latest in the world of disease-prevention comes from Harvard University, where researches have created a dime-sized carbon-nanotube forest that can be used to trap cancer cells when blood passes through.

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NBN Co chief promises no volume discounts

NBN Co chief Mike Quigley has today promised the Government-owned telco has no intention of offering volume discounts to Telstra or any other service provider connected to the national broadband network.

Several service providers had raised concerns over the potential for NBN Co to grant volume discounts to large players in return for an "efficiency gain".

That possibility had been struck out of the NBN bills in the Senate last week.

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Record Labels Claim Limewire Liable for $75 Trillion in Damages

It's been nearly a decade since the music industry declared war against file sharers via its controversial policy of suing individuals supposedly identified via their IP addresses. After all this time one would expect the various companies to present a consistent, united front. As a recent court filing against Limewire shows this is absolutely not the case.

Limewire, the plaintiffs allege, owes them between $400 billion and 75 trillion. The latter, written out, comes to 75,000,000,000,000.

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