Scientists from the University of Rochester say they’ve encoded an entire image’s worth of data into a single photon. They were able to store and then retrieved the image intact. The ability to squeeze that much information into so small a space and retrieve it intact opens the door to optical buffering — the ability to store information as light.

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Merlin, the new agency representing the world’s independent music sector, agrees on a deal with digital music company Snocap which will allow its labels’ music to be sold from Web sites such as MySpace.

Source: Independent Record Labels Sign MySpace Deal

The Free Standards Group (FSG) and Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), two of the major non-profit corporations dedicated to promoting open source software, are merging to form a new organization called The Linux Foundation. The new organization..

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Emerging trends in software applications used by the Department of Defense and civilian federal agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security most notably the need to accurately manage, secure and control network traffic at wire speeds present these agencies with new network infrastructure development, deployment and integration challenges. These trends, particularly when executed down to the packet level, are driving the need for a new class of network infrastructure device network appliance platforms with new features and capabilities that can support policy-centric applications.

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