Italy – The city of Venice wants to merge science and culture. This initiative on the Internet is only the start of a huge project.
Venice has just launched the public wireless Internet facility, largest in Europe. Thousands of kilometers of cables were laid.  Wi-Fi is now available in some areas across the city.
The authorities have spent about 11 million for the construction of the whole network. It is provides a speed of around 20 to 100 megabits per second. It is free for residents but tourists should pay a few …

The quantum computer is a dream but it is not at all obvious that the current prototypes exceed one day the stage of mere curiosity and can compete with conventional computers. A group of researchers from Yale University has made a new element in building a real quantum processor.
The concept of quantum computer and, more generally, information and quantum computing, arose during the 1980s through the thinking of researchers like Richard Feynman and David Deutsch. It was then gradually realized that some calculations with classical computers could be done more …

Japan – The next project of Sony would be to combine Sony PSP with Ericsson terminals. The Japanese giant will benefits from a new expanding market.
The mobile Video game is soon to come. Major publishers like Electronic Arts multiply the initiatives in this field, the emergence of the iPhone does nothing but accentuate this phenomenon.
For Sony, the stakes are critical. Dominated the markets for video games and mobile, the firm needs to bounce back with the console industry. Thus, in July, a team should work on the development of this …

Google has announced the launch of a new and ambitious project: to make the web faster. And it is involving all stakeholders in the web giant Mountain View intends to achieve this goal.
“Optimizing the speed of web applications and also make navigation quicker than leafing a magazine reader” is the new target announced by Google on a page dedicated to accelerating the Internet.
The Mountain View giant is not going to achieve it alone. They have turned to the expertise and developers as a community, to address major challenges that slow …

United States – admob advertising agency conducted a study on applications of the iPhone. The main conclusion of the investigation makes it possible to suggest that only a few multifunction applications of the iphone reach a wide audience.
There are Tens of thousands of applications available on the iPhone. But according to a study in the month of May, only 5% have been used by over 100,000 people. On average, users of the iPhone use four functions a day. In February, a study undertaken by Pinch Media found that less than …