Around the voice: Bike power; YouTube crashed; Verizon wiring NYC; Google acquires Neven

Bikes power computers, telephones in developing world [Voice of America] “It’s a bicycle that is connected to a generator that powers a battery and the system runs off the battery. For about 15 minutes of pedaling time you get one hour of computing time.”

YouTube crashes, still down [Lost Remote] “YouTube has been down for most of the day, and it has changed the message on the home page to read, ‘OK. We admit it. We’re fixing stuff, but we’ll be up soon’.”

Verizon is rewiring New York, block by block, in a race for survival [NY Times] “Building a whole new state-of-the-art network is a laborious and expensive process that Verizon says it must undertake to fend off rivals like Comcast and Vonage, which are moving fast into the phone business.”

A better way to organize photos? [Google blog] “Luckily we’ve found some people who share this goal, and are excited that the Neven Vision team is now part of Google.”

Aug 15, 2006 | By Nuno

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