Developernomics

Interesting article describing why in this economy, one of the smartest things businesses can do is "throw money at developers" to build new possibilities of future revenue, more details here in:
Forbes Article

Something old and something New!

This article describing how draft horses are being used in Vermont to pull miles of remote fiber optic cable was a fun read:
Original article provides interesting details of this "anachronistic vehicle for broadband installation in remote areas". If Washington's own Grant county can run fiber to homes without use of horses there should be a real possibility that other areas could also follow suit and connect more homes and businesses to fiber :)

P.S. Ferrets have also been used to run fiber optic cabling. They might really be on to something here !

40% more power from new top supercomputer!

The Chinese government has announced ownership of what is now the world's most powerful supercomputer, touted as 40% more powerful than the U.S. government's supercomputer now bumped to second place. More information available here: via singularity hub

First Pulitzer prize awarded to 'online' news source

Traditional newspapers have seen some big challenges in the last few years. This Pulitzer prize may be the start of a new trend which makes the business of printing news on paper an even more challenging business model.
Details available here:
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2010/04/13/online-newsroom-earns-pulitzer-post-trumps-times

Remember PKZip?

Even if you haven't been around computers long enough to remember the zip file-unzipping freeware named PKZip, there's a chance you'll enjoy reading this whitepaper describing the basics behind file compression:http://www.pkware.com/documents/resources/whitepapers/ROI.pdf

The author of PKZip also has a tragic, but interesting bio available from wikipedia.
Another link in case you want to learn more about the author (with the initials PK :), Phil Katz.

Hijacked botnet challenges ethics

An interesting story here regarding theft of something already stolen:
http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=689&doc_id=176330

The author gives interesting background on the origin of the word "vigilante", and raises some interesting ethical questions and concerns regarding law enforcement online.

Windows 7 to scale to 256 processors | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com

Microsoft is reporting Windows 7 to support 256 processor cores!