Apple 1 Surfaced In Auction

The first ever Apple computer has its processor works 1,000 times slower than the Apple iPad.

The Apple I had only 200 such models ever made – introduced in 1976, it was the only personal computer to come with a fully assembled motherboard, making it ready to use straight from the box — provided the user a keyboard, power supply, and display, sold for $666.66 and its availability was discontinued in 1977.

But last month, one of it was auctioned for 425 times the price – 133,250 pounds (about $210,000) to Italian private collector who loves computers, Marco Boglione, who made his offer over the phone.

The Apple I computer came with its original packaging and a signed sales letter from Steve Jobs, one of Apple Computer’s co-founders and the current CEO of Apple Inc.

Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak, was present at the technology auction of technological greats.

He agreed to add an autographed letter to the lot, saying the the auction was a historic moment for his work, as his heart went out to see things auctioned off like the writings of British mathematician Alan Turing, considered one of the founders of modern computing, and Enigma, the German code-making machine, and the Apple I.

The Future High-Speed Wi-Fi

Two years of intensive research and development, had led  A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics (IME) team to develop critical building blocks for receivers and transmitters, that will enable millimetre-wave chips to be produced cost-effectively.

Straits Times reported the A*Star team exploited high radio frequencies to enable three 25GB Blu-ray movies to be wirelessly downloaded in a minute, which the research team hope would open up a myriad consumer applications’ for home entertainment, mobile electronics and can potentially ‘eradicate’ messy cables for transferring data between devices.

The new series of high-speed wireless communication chips uses silicon-based materials to communicate data at a rate of 10Gbps on a 135 GHz band.

Data that can be communicated 100 times faster than present-day Wi-Fi.

200,000 World SMSes Per Second

The popularity of SMSes had the number of messages sent,  jumped to 6.1 trillion, from a total of 1.8 trillion SMSes sent in 2007.

35% of all text messages sent in 2009 were from Philippines and the United States it translates to revenues of US$14,000 US dollars every second and US$812,000 US dollars every minute

‘Black Box’ Inventor Passed Away

AP reported that an Australian scientist, David Warren, born in 1925 in a remote part of north-east Australia, has died on Monday at the age of 85.

Warren is survived by his wife Ruth, four children and seven grandchildren.

The scientist Warren invented the ‘black box’ flight data recorder.

He came up with the idea for the cockpit voice recorder after investigating the crash of the world’s first commercial jet airliner, the Comet, in 1953 and thought it would be helpful for airline accident investigators to have a recording of voices in the cockpit.
He designed and constructed a black box prototype in 1956, but it took several years before officials understood just how valuable the device could be and began installing them in commercial airlines worldwide.

The defence department said in a statement that Dr Warren’s flight data recorder has made an invaluable contribution to safety in world aviation.

Warren’s father was killed in a plane crash in Australia in 1934.

He became the principal research scientist at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation’s Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne from 1952 to 1983.

In 2002, Warren was awarded the Order of Australia – among the nation’s highest civilian honours – for his work.