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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- March 8, 2012

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Holy Semiconductors! IBM Reveals 1Tbps Holey Optical Chip
Solar Belch Could Stink Up Energy and Communications Networks
Diving Into GIS: A Starter Guide
New iPad: Giant Leap for Power Users, Small Step for Everyone Else
OpenSUSE, Linus' Daughter, and a Question of Security
iPad Emerges With Sharper Image and Zippier Chips

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Today's Story Highlights

Holy Semiconductors! IBM Reveals 1Tbps Holey Optical Chip
IBM on Thursday introduced a prototype chip dubbed the "Holey Optochip,"
a wedding of traditional computer chip technology with the use of
optical pathways. Able to transmit 1 terabit of data per second, the
prototype chipset could eventually result in faster downloads of
information like apps and streaming video.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74594.html

Solar Belch Could Stink Up Energy and Communications Networks
Solar flares -- clouds of charged particles and plasma from the sun --
have hit Earth, according to the National Weather Service. The solar
flares have been making their way toward the planet since Sunday. The
storms can seriously disrupt GPS signals, radio communications and the
power grid.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74593.html

Diving Into GIS: A Starter Guide
If you were looking at television weather maps during last week's U.S.
tornado activity, you were looking at a GIS, or Geographic Information
System. Those red and purple splotches racing across the screen
represented intensity levels of rotating storm cells. The map itself,
the county lines, and the splotches were all data layer elements making
up the map.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74589.html

New iPad: Giant Leap for Power Users, Small Step for Everyone Else
Apple handily increased its lead in the tablet and HDTV set-top box
space when it revealed its new iPad and new Apple TV at its media event
Wednesday. Why huge? The raw specs on the new iPad give awesome Retina
HD screen capabilities, and the A5X chip is a dual-core bad boy with
quad-core graphics capabilities.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74591.html

OpenSUSE, Linus' Daughter, and a Question of Security
There's nothing like a rant to get the conversational ball rolling here
in the Linux blogosphere, and if it can be a rant from Linus Torvalds
himself, well, it doesn't get much better than that. That, in fact, is
just what last week afforded in the form of a Google+ post from the
father of Linux on the topic of openSUSE security. "I don't think I can
talk about 'security' people without cursing, so you might want to avert
your eyes now," Torvalds began.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74588.html

iPad Emerges With Sharper Image and Zippier Chips
Apple on Wednesday introduced the world to the latest version of its
iPad, equipped with 4G LTE technology, a quad-core processor and a
Retina display. Apple also unveiled an updated Apple TV product. It will
support 1080p viewing and sport a new interface. It will be tied into
iCloud so that users can also access their music library or other
content.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74585.html

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