Samsung have announced they are going to ship SSD drives with 256gb capacity.

In today’s market you are lucky if you get either 32gb or 64gb.

So the one thing holding the technology back is the overall capacity. The next thing is the cost premium you pay for SSD.

SSD drives are unique in that they don’t have moving parts and are fast and run cool. Ideal for laptops.

Interested in SSD? Check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

Ars Technica published a great easy to read three page article on securing your wireless network.

Wireless security is a nightmare of different competing encryption standards. The Ars article published yesterday is up to date with all the different flavours of Wireless and has some great tips and suggestions.

It also contains a handy table that lists out some of the more common wireless consumer devices and what Wireless encryption they support.

Link: http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/wireless-security.ars/1

I had never heard of Udi Manber before. He is the chap in charge of “Search Quality” over at Google.

He gave Popular Mechanics a recent interview in the form of a Question and Answer session over 20 questions.

Some tidbits:

“Last year we made over 450 improvements to the algorithm”

“At Google we do not manually change results. For example, if we find for a particular query that result No. 4 should be result No. 1, we do not have the capability to manually change it.”

This makes for fascinating reading for anyone with a passing interest in Google and search.

Also covered: Privacy, user expectations and Social Networking and search.

Link: http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/technology_news/4259137.html

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They have in excess of 2 million images organised into categories.

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I heard about this offer on this podcast: http://www.twit.tv/128

Fibre to the kerb is the future for consumer Internet access Its the only way to get super high speed at a low cost.

BT are starting the first consumer trial in the UK.

Fast forward 10 years, this this will be a typical connection speed. 

I do a lot of remote backups and I would love a high bandwidth connection to speed things up.

Link: http://news.google.co.uk/nwshp?tab=wn&ned=uk&ncl=1126140969&hl=en&topic=t