The Underground Web: How The Internet Makes Any Illegal Activity More Accessible Than Ever ... Coincidentally or not, the Cover Story of the last issue BusinessWeek talks about the same "dangers." But I had to wait until today for the story to be available online for free. First, the introduction....
Apple Still Dominates Smartphone Software Market With 2 Billion App Downloads ... Will the 2 billionth downloader receive the same boon? The Apple press release on the achievement mentions nothing on the subject, so it's doubtful. Maybe for the 1 billionth (with its two-week promotional campaign leading up to it) Apple thought it needed the extra push to get those apps downloaded...
One Billion Smartphone Devices By 2013 ... It is estimated that only around a quarter of the world's population has access to the Internet, which would peg it at over 1.6 billion users...
An Artificial Brain With 20 Billion Neurons ... Here is a picture of the CCortex Linux cluster which has 500 nodes for 1,000 processors, 1 terabyte of RAM, and 200 terabytes of storage (Credit: Artificial Development). The company says that "CCortex is up to 10,000 times larger than any previous attempt to replicate, partially or completely, primary characteristics of human intelligence." Here is the status of the project....
What Will Google Do With $4 Billion? ... Google is planning on floating another $4 billion in shares. The question then becomes, with reserves of over $2 billion, what does the company want with the extra cash? This article provides my own speculation and insight and it might surprise you...
Make That 3 Billion ... MAKE THAT 3 BILLION My previous article I wrote called "One Point Two Billion" attracted quite some attention, the downloads through all the article syndication services has been astronomical compared to any other articles I wrote which are still with them....