Lasers are awesome. The laser was once the stuff of fiction and today we use lasers for all sorts of cool things. We can burn things with them, the military is using them for weapons, and some researchers are using the laser to transfer data much faster than wires can. The world record for shooting data down a path with lasers is 101.7 terabits per second. That record setting system used a whopping 370 separate lasers making it expensive and impractical with today’s laser tech.

Professor Wolfgang Freude and his colleagues have announced a new world record for transmitting data with a single laser. The team was able to hit 26 terabits per second with the one laser. Each pulse of the laser used in the demonstration has about 325 different colors of light and each light color can carry a bit of data. The team was able to shoo the data down a length of optical fiber 50km long and then extract the different colors using a fast Fourier transform at the opposite end ...

Rumors for the Motorola DROID 3 have been swirling about since March, but now we may have more confirmed details on this still mysterious device. This successor to the DROID 2 ...

Google is always innovating with new research and breakthroughs of its own. The company is also sitting on a giant bankroll that allows it to buy up companies and patents that are for tech that it thinks would be good for its offerings too. You might recall that Modu that had an interesting modular mobile phone. The core mobile phone part of the Modu system could be removed from its sleeve and placed in another one to suit the need and style of the user at any given time.

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We are going to file this in the rumor section until there is more confirmation, but this is an interesting rumor. HTC is more an Android smartphone maker in my mind, but over the years, the company has held close ties to Windows Mobile operating systems as well. It would be no surprise to see HTC offering up more Windows Phone 7.5 handsets once the Mango update lands. A new rumor that popped up claims just that.

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Earlier this month Fujitsu debuted the interesting slider tablet called the TH40/D. That tablet will run Windows 7 and be more of a netbook that a tablet like we see with Android from other providers. That isn’t the only tablet that Fujitsu has up its sleeve though. The company will also be offering another tablet come Q3 2011 and that tablet will be packing one of the latest versions of Android available when it lands.

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When we think about tablets or slate computers generally, the iPad and Android offerings come to mind. There are a number of other slates out there though that looks sort of like the tablets we are all familiar with but pack in hardware that is more like a netbook ...

HP has added several new notebooks to its line of consumer and business offerings today. Among the new machines are the HP ProBook 5330m and the EliteBook 2560p and 2570p, as well as the HP Mini 210. The 5330m is an ultraportable aimed at the business pro with a profile under an inch thick ...

We all know that in the tech world Apple is one of the most popular and profitable businesses out there. Apple has one of the most popular smartphones, one of the most popular smartphones and the most popular tablet on the market. The MacBook line of notebooks are also popular with computer users that aren’t Windows fans. With all the successful gear it may come as no surprise that Apple is one of the most valuable brands on the market today.

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Sony had promised a phased return of their PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, with portions of the systems back online by last week. But, after their Sony Online Entertainment portal also got hacked along with newly discovered security issues and a threat of another possible attack this past weekend, all their networks remain offline as of today.

The company has revealed very little information about the issues they’ve discovered and have stayed mum on a more concrete timeline. However, today, Sony’s spokesperson in Tokyo, Shigenori Yoshida, confirmed that their company is still uncertain of when their services would return but plans to completely reboot the services by May 31st. If services do not return until the end of May, it would certainly make this the longest outage, if not already the biggest cyber attack of all time ...

Samsung has bet big on Smart TVs as a way to lure in more customers to buy its wares. I’m not sure how well that bet is paying off right now with sales of TVs slumping this year so far. Samsung has pulled out a new TV with a gigantic screen that would be great for watching your favorite movies and streaming content ...

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