In a world full of wireless services and products, ethernet almost seems like a product of a bygone era. And honestly, why use it? In actuality, there are still plenty of reasons to use wire-based networking solutions such as ethernet. For one, there is at many times, less latency. Not to mention, there is far less risk of interference or hijacking of precious data. Finally, depending on the surroundings and other previously mentioned factors, ethernet tends to be...

USB 3 and eSATA may be the king and queen when it comes to external speed, but no technology is more promising than Intel’s Light Peak. While USB 3.0 was a marginal, linear progression from USB 2.0 and 1.0 before it, Light Peak is exponentially faster. For example, USB 3.0 has a theoretical top speed of 5.0Gbps. Though real-world speeds tend to hover around 100-130MB/s. Still, that’s a helluva lot better than their previous technologies. Light Peak on the...

Image: AmadeusPhotography I try as hard as I can to make my carbon footprint as little as possible. Though I’m not some living with the animals, wearing loincloths type of extreme. Still, every little bit counts. Along that same path, an all electric bike would be a pretty neat way to traverse our little blue marble floating in space and time wouldn’t it? If I had to pick my all electric ride, I’d pick the MotoCzysz E1 without hesitation. Why? Oh,...

BlackBerry users will want to take a minute or two out of their hectic schedule today in order to fulfill one app update that’s worth grabbing. The popular Bolt Browser has been updated to 2.1. With it comes enhanced Facebook integration as well as an updated webkit engine. The latter of which is always considered a good thing as such updates usually beget speed. And we all know how much rendering speed means in the mobile sphere. But speed isn’t...

Scientific number munchers look elsewhere, this is not your Google-sourced, bar chart type of benchmark. It’s nothing more than a dude from Android Police running a benchmark using LinPack. But that benchmark is quite telling. At stock speeds and non-rooted, the Nexus One averages 6-7MFLOPS. Alright, decent showing. But, flash Android 2.2 (Froyo) on that beast and the ‘putin is kicked up several notches to an average of 37MFLOPS! Talk about a speed...