News Roundup
2009/02/26 21:34The Korean video sharing site Pandora.TV is looking to find a new revenue channel for their service by allowing users to pay to download videos from their site:
Content created by ordinary users has been available for free, but Pandora.TV took a step toward paid-for content in a bid to create a new revenue stream. Video files cost 100 won each for normal resolution and 200 won for high resolution.
Downloadable files will be limited to only those that have been author-approved for downloading. The move will allow viewers to access videos offline, particularly on portable devices without Internet access.
Researchers from Korea and the United States published a paper in Science on a possible breakthrough that could be used for data storage or circuit design:
The team of Park Soo-jin (35), a professor of nano-biochemical engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, and Thomas Russell, a professor at the University of Massachusetts, in a paper published in the Thursday issue of Science said by adopting a self-assembly method by which molecules take certain forms by themselves, they succeeded in increasing the capacity of storage media more than 10,000 times.
Berkeley Labs: How Ten Trillion Bits Per Square Inch Assemble Themselves Perfectly
Samsung announced the development of a new wireless USB chipset:
The new chip requires a minute to transmit 700 megabytes of data, equivalent to one full-length film, to any digital device, according to the company.
Samsung says this is the fastest among comparable chips, adding that its previous wireless USB chip product took two minutes to transfer the same amount of data to a digital device.
EE Times: Samsung to demo Wireless-USB SoC at MWC
