Netflix rates ISPs for their streaming speeds

Netflix now provides on-line info about how well ISPs perform with streaming media - organized by country, check it out.

Java 7 vulnerability

Here's the U.S. DHS advisory concerning the Java 7 security issue, along with the steps to take to address it. Interestingly, this basic information has been missing from most of the media reporting I've seen.

On-line privacy - what's left of it

Here's an interesting article on how determine which sites you visit are harvesting your Facebook info and, if that concerns you, some things you can do about it.

TANMS - research with serious potential

Check out this short UCLA Engineering article highlighting research into TANMS technology - pretty amazing stuff!

I'll take some crackers with my gluon soup, please!

We live in amazing times! If you think that's an overly optimistic statement, then check out this fun list of recent discoveries.

Amazing stuff: The quantum frontier

Congrats to the team at the CERN LHC on observing a particle consistent with the Higgs Boson postulate. What a breakthrough, once this discovery is validated and proves to be repeatable. Quantum fireworks on July 4th, WOW!

OLEDs - make way for LCDs!

A really interesting article about how Quantum Dot technology stands to revolutionize LCD capabilities, likely at the expense of OLEDs, which as discussed earlier probably won't scale economically anyway. So this is good news!

Fascinating Digital Media Ecoscapes

I recently saw the display advertising map from Luma Partners and was dumbfounded by what I already knew was a complex environment.

Here's a link to the complete set, which is even more mind boggling.

And you thought a display advertising budget was your biggest headache!

Great April Fool's joke!

TigerDirect has a real sense of humor. Sending out one of their normal advertising emails for the Kube X16 on April 1st; here's the details (ha ha!)

Making parts from scratch

When I first heard of 3D printers, I thought it was vaporspeak. I'd read about such devices in some good Sci Fi stories, but they seemed at least 50 years off, not something that would occur anytime soon.

Well, step aside and embrace the future! Now, you can fabricate small prototype parts and items (just plastic so far) at home if you want to pony up to do it.

The idea of direct CAD  to Fab is an amazing jump, even if it's just for plastic parts so far. Expect to see some noticeable advances in various industries from the application of this technology.

Some companies producing these machines:

• 3D Systems Corp.
• Hewlett Packard (the HP DesignJet 3D)