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Warner Bros. backs new game console

SAN DIEGO — Warner Bros. is among the financial backers of a new gaming venture, OnLive, that promises to leverage cloud computing and broadband connectivity to provide high-end play of the latest video games on PC, Mac or TV.
To be unveiled Tuesday at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, OnLive is the brainchild of [...]

New life for twisted-pair? 500Mbps over copper wiring

Telecom equipment maker Ericsson says the unthinkable is now the possible: 500Mbps transmission speeds over ordinary copper wiring. Looking at the details, though, it’s not clear that the news will give Verizon any reason to rethink its hugely expensive fiber-to-the-home strategy… or that such speeds will be coming to a DSL line near you anytime [...]