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Sweedish woman has fastest residential internet connection

“75-year-old Sibritt Löthberg from Karlstad Sweden just got her first computer, but it didn’t take her long to download all the necessary patches.

Swedish news site The Local reports that Löthberg’s home has been tricked-out with a record-breaking 40 Gb/s connection - the first time a private residence has tapped into the internet at such high speeds.

The blazing-fast connection comes courtesy her son, Peter Löthberg, a Swedish optical internet guru working at Cisco.

Ma Löthberg’s house was converted into a broadband dog-and-pony act in an effort to promote high-speed fibre connections as a commercially viable platform.

“I want to show that there are other methods than the old fashioned ways such as copper wires and radio, which lack the possibilities that fibre has,” said Peter Löthberg.

According to The Local, the secret sauce behind the connection is a new modulation technique that allows data to be transfered directly between two routers up to 2,000 km apart - with no intermediary transponders. This allows information to travel over huge distances without data loss.”

From
http://www.theregister.com/2007/07/12/swedish_woman_has_fastest_internet_connection/?fark

Guy writes 384 page sci-fi novel  on his  cell phone

“Talk about some serious work, and forget shooting video and photos from
your phone. This Italian guy wrote a 384-page science fiction novel on
his mobile phone while commuting back and forth to work over 17 weeks.
Robert Bernocco wrote it in short paragraphs on his Nokia 6630, using
T9 of course, and saved them on the phone. Then he downloaded the text
to his computer to proofread and edit. It’s just proof of what you can
do when you use your time wisely. His book is called Compagni di Viaggo (or Fellow Travelers *how appropriate* in English), and is now self-published on Lulu.com.”

From
http://www.ministryoftech.com/2007/07/11/guy-writes-384-page-sci-fi-novel-on-mobile-phone/