Monday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on January 18, 2005 at 4:44:49 AM
Making XML faster and leaner.
Tivo struggling, deals fall through.
Think Secret author gets sued by Apple.
Comcast goes to 4Mbits soon. Awesome, faster downloads for me.
Largest plane ever. Smallest manhood ever.
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Here's the problem: Right now, the XML standard calls for information to be stored as text. That means that an XML document, such as a purchase order or a Web page, can be easily viewed by a person or "read" by a machine, either through widely available text editors or XML parsers. But performance problems result from XML's tendency to create very large files. That's in part because XML formatting calls for each element within a document to be tagged with labels written out as text. What's more, XML-based protocols, called Web services, also generate a great deal of XML traffic.
Tivo struggling, deals fall through.
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His plan--called Tahiti--involves several technological innovations intended to let TiVo thrive without the cooperation of cable companies. Devices will be able to send recorded programs to personal computers and to download programs from the Internet as well, taking advantage of a standard mandated by the government that, in theory, would allow TiVo to directly connect to cable systems. Also, he said TiVo would move beyond video recorders to a broader product line involved in the convergence between computers and television, including software that would allow a home computer to record television programs. This would put TiVo into direct competition with other companies, like Sony, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft.
Think Secret author gets sued by Apple.
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Kurt Opsahl, an attorney for civil liberties group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has claimed that in addition to the ThinkSecret site being subpoenaed for sources, Ciarelli is being directly sued for trade secret misappropriation.
Comcast goes to 4Mbits soon. Awesome, faster downloads for me.
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As previously reported, the nation's largest cable and broadband provider's current download speed of up to 3mbps (megabits per second) will jump to 4mbps. Upload rates of 256kbps (kilobits per second) will reach 384kbps, the company said. Customers of Comcast's more expensive 4mbps service will see a 50 percent increase to 6mbps downstream and 768kbps upstream.
Largest plane ever. Smallest manhood ever.
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Airbus last month forecast that it will win as many as 700 contracts for the A380 in the next 20 years, out of a total market for 1,250 planes seating at least 400 passengers and 398 freighter versions. The planemaker expects the A380 will break even with 250 orders. Boeing's industrywide estimate for larger airliners, by contrast, is only one-third of Airbus's.