Networking: Four ways to reinvent the Internet : Nature News

The Internet is struggling to keep up with the ever-increasing demands placed on it. Katharine Gammon looks at ways to fix it.

In Nature

Manifesto for government data

The inventor of the WWW (Tim Berners-Lee) and Professor Nigel Shadbolt explain why they decided to create data.gov.uk, here in The Guardian.

Some nice reads from Comms magazine...

...on the history of the simplest medium access protocol, Aloha: AlohaNet - Surfing for Wireless Data;

...on the future of IPTV;

...and two nice surveys, one on opportunistic routing and the other on wireless body area networks.

3DTV is coming soon

In a surprising endorsement for 3D display technology,Sony Corp. of America, Discovery Communications andIMAX Corp. have announced plans to form a U.S. televisionnetwork entirely devoted to 3D programming.

The three parties have signed a letter of intent to form the unnamed venture, which is scheduled to launch in 2012.

USA Today also reported Monday that ESPN plans its own 3D network, potentially testing the waters for an ABC/Disney 3D network of its own down the line. ESPN 3D will show 80 or so events in 2010, including the World Cup and some NBA and college basketball and football, the paper reported.

in PCMAG.COM