would you wear this?

clipped from news.yahoo.com A model wears a creation by Japanese fashion designer Junya Watanabe for his Fall-Winter 2008-2009 ready-to-wear collection presented in Paris, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008.

Google partners with telcos to lay undersea transpacific cable

clipped from www.informationweek.com On Tuesday, Google said it would join with five other telecom companies -- Bharti Airtel, Global Transit, KDDI, Pacnet, and SingTel -- to invest $300 million in the construction of a 10,000 km submarine cable. The high-speed fiber optic trans-Pacific cable, called Unity, will have a capacity of up to 7.68 Tbps and will run between the United States and Japan, about 6,200 miles. It is planned to accommodate demand for trans-Pacific bandwidth, which has grown at a rate of 63.7% annually between 2002 and 2007 and is expected to double biannually from 2008 through 2013, according to TeleGeography, a telecommunications consultancy. When construction of Unity is complete in 2010, Google projects a 20% increase in the amount of available trans-Pacific bandwidth. NEC and Tyco Telecommunications will be handling the construction.

new gold rush?

gold prices are climbing up and probably we'll evidence some gold rush episodes in the coming years, as this NYT piece suggests.

clipped from www.nytimes.com Mexico is one of the most attractive countries in the world for mining — the 14th-largest producer of gold, up from 18th place in 2006.

French gendarmerie switches to Linux (Ubuntu)

clipped from afp.google.com The gendarmerie with its 100,000 employees is the biggest administration to shift to open sourcing for its operating system, but it is not the first in France. That honour belongs to the National Assembly which adopted Ubuntu for its 1,200 PCs in 2007.