Google: King of the interweb

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We are looking at the potential for all those dots to become markets for Google's fiber optic network. Google over the last few months has petitioned local governments if they are interested in their brand spanking new fiber optic network that they plan to implement over the next few years. Google is forecasting that with their new network they will be able to provide internet services at the rate of 1Gbps. Its amazing that it seems like Google is going to, again, swoop in and crush the competition. If what Google is claiming can be done we could be seeing them once again ahead in a new business (not that Google doesn't have the assets to throw at this).

The RFI (request for information) for this service has long since expired and so far we have seen the Kansas City, Missouri has been chosen as the test market for this service, and it should be up for full service by Q1 2012. Google is also excited to be able to offer (potentially) TV and phone service over those 1Gbps pipes. Can't wait to see how this one pans out, as Google has always been a behemoth to be reckoned with.

Super Computer madness: K Supercomputer of the future

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For those of us who love all things geek, Fujitsu has updated us on what they've been working on in the land of the rising sun. The “K” Supercomputer just put out a benchmark of around 10 Petaflops adding at least 2 more petaflops since June of this year. On a technical note; a petaflop is equal to 10 quadrillion calculations per second, speeds that would take about 200,000 personal computers to achieve. This is no off the couch fighter, this thing is made up of about 864 server racks, with a total of 88,128 processors. Probably can get through a round or two of Crysis.

What Fujitsu is trying to accomplish by sometime in 2012 is all these processors threaded to work as a single unit creating even better performance. This technology is contended to be implemented as a means to predict climate change and early geological events, and even better targeting of medicine to attack cancer cells. My favorite part is going to be what implications this will have on the Aerospace community. The folks at Fujitsu also plan to use this technology to design better plane and space crafts, there are also plans for a new probe to be landed on Mars in 2020. Loved to be an admin in that room, but then again I can be masochist when I wanna be.

Rezounding applause for the Rezound

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Verizon has announced the HTC Rezound heading straight for big red on November the 14^th. This sexy little powerhouse packs the vicious MSM8660 dual core processor clocking in at 1.5GHz. We also see this guy sporting a 1GB of RAM with 16GB of built in memory, accompanied by a 32GB memory card to back it up. It will ship with the not as bright and beautiful as AMOLED SLCD screen, would have loved to see the former on this puppy. Given the less than perfect technology it still will spot 720x1280 Pixels packed into a 4.3 inch screen.

The camera is the sexy piece of this puzzle. The sensor is packing 1920x1080 pixels capable of HD video and 8MP still images. We also see in the back of this guy dual LED bulbs which is a touch I always appreciate in my camera phones. In addition to that we also see a pretty hefty 2MP camera up front. This little guy won't see any Ice Cream Sandwich love from Google, but will ship with Gingerbread 2.3.4. We will also see some LTE awesomeness when this guy hits, love the new trends that the manufacturers are doing now (Dual core sexiness mixed with 700MHz awesomeness; WINNING!).

Final verdict: pretty pumped for HTC right now. This is an awesome phone, and this is coming with Beats audio, both in the speakers and headphones I'm told. Verizon, has a lineup of different phones that are coming this season and this seems to be measuring up to be one of there bigger contenders and I'm all for it, good Ole HTC strikes again!

UPDATE: We just got confirmation that Ice Cream Sandwich will be shipping with our friend above! MORE WINNING!

Apple catches up with the rest of us

Apple has finally decided to let their customers join 2011. The dedicated gmail app for iOS devices has finally landed. The app gives iOS users the ability to manage their Gmail account within their phone or other assorted wireless devices (iPad, iPod touch). As with most iOS announcements, this long awaited and long anticipated moment leaves many of us under whelmed. The app allows for basic sending and receiving of emails, with a handy black sidebar listing the contents of your inbox. Sending attachments along with your messages is as expected a breeze consisting of a couple of touches to the screen. Other features include notification tags, threaded conversations, and a pretty cool comprehensive email search. Beyond the obvious changes we see nothing else to differentiate the HTML5 app that we are all used to. We often times see this with companies with this kind of ego, attempts at wooing their worshipers with less than satisfactory results.

Update:

The other side to this proverbial coin is that Google doesn't seem to want to play nice with iOS code either. Since its inception the Gmail app has plagued devices with errors with notifications forcing Google to pull their app from the app store. Sorry everyone, looks like no one likes to play nice these days.