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PCI-SIG proposes external PCIe cable standard

The PCI Special Interest Group has revealed plans to develop an external version of PCI Express to rival the likes of eSATA, USB 3.0, and Intel?s new Thunderbolt interconnect. The standard would be based on PCIe 3.0 technology, which will offer potential transfer speeds of up to 32Gbps, a significant boost from the PCIe 2.1 spec that's widely used today in PCs (internally) for connecting graphics cards, sound cards, and even solid-state drives.

Thunderbolt currently offers 10Gbps transfers, but Intel says it can scale up to 100Gbps in the future. With those speeds, USB 3.0 is already looking outdated, but then again it's the only standard gaining some traction.

Previously known as Light Peak, Thunderbolt was launched back in February using copper cabling instead of fiber optics as initially planned, and so far only Apple has adopted it for its latest MacBook Pro and iMac refreshes. Meanwhile, eSATA has seen a mild adoption in notebooks but its use is more limited compared both Thunderbolt and USB.

The initial proposal for external PCI Express 3.0 suggests using copper wires, with a maximum transfer distance of 3 meters, and the ability to support up to 20W of power delivery. That's double the 10W of power provided by Thunderbolt, and would be enough for external hard drives and other devices to run without the need for a separate power source -- though external graphics cards would certainly need one.

PCIe cables will be faster, cheaper, and thinner than Thunderbolt, but less functional, since the latter can be daisy-chained and carry DisplayPort data while external PCI Express cannot. The proposed standard is still in its early stages and won't be commercialized until at least mid-2013, so there's plenty of time for USB and Thunderbolt to battle it out.

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Turntable.fm blocks access to everyone outside the US

Wow, just two hours ago here we were talking about just how amazing Turntable.fm is, now it seems that the party?s over for everyone outside the USA.

?The most most exciting social service of the year?, as we put it, has locked down to be US only. A note on the site now reads:

We?re very sorry, but while we would love to let you in and rock out with us, we need to currently restrict turntable access to only the United States due to licensing constraints.

We are working very hard to try and and get you in as soon as possible.

If you believe this is a mistake and you are located in the United States, please e-mail help [at sign] turntable dot fm

Again, sorry, and we hope to see you soon.

Billy Chasen
CEO

It appears as if the startup could be getting jittery about licensing. Turntable.fm is currently licensed in the same way as Pandora ? as a ?non-interactive? online radio service. ?Non-interactive? is certainly a stretched way of describing it, and it appears that such a license didn?t cover it for an international audience anyway.

There?s no indication when the service may open back up to the rest of the music-loving world, but a tweet from Turntable.fm notes: ?To all our international friends, we?re sorry you can?t use turntable right now due to licensing constraints. Trying to get you back in asap.?

It looks like it?s down to our US team to look after our The Next Web room now, my DJing career is over. *sob*

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House Spurns Obama on Libya, but Does Not Cut Funds

The result, coming after weeks of tension between Congress and the White House over authorization of American military aid for the NATO mission in Libya, was a mixed message to the Obama administration, with Republicans and Democrats forming alliances that splintered customary party lines.

The resolution to support the mission failed 295 to 123, with 70 Democrats joining Republicans in a rebuff to Mr. Obama.

The resolution was based on a Senate bill written by Senators John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, and John McCain, Republican of Arizona,  to blunt criticism that the president has failed to seek Congressional approval for his actions in Libya.

?We are disappointed by that vote,? said Jay Carney, a White House spokesman. ?We think now is not the time to send the kind of mixed message that it sends when we are working with our allies to achieve the goals that we believe that are widely shared in Congress.?

He said that these goals included ?protecting civilians in Libya, enforcing a no-fly zone, enforcing an arms embargo and further putting pressure? on Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, Libya?s leader.

A second bill, which had the strong support of Speaker John A. Boehner, would have prohibited money for military operations outside of support activities like search and rescue, aerial refueling, operational planning, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. It was intended to essentially end direct American combat activity like missile strikes while remaining supportive of NATO?s efforts.

That measure failed 238 to 180, with 89 Republicans deserting their party and only 36 Democrats voting in favor.

The resolution refusing to authorize the Libyan operations has no real effect because the Senate is unlikely to take it up.

But the votes on Friday were an expression of the House?s frustration with the White House, drawing together some odd bedfellows: left-leaning antiwar Democrats and hard-right Republicans, Obama loyalists and hawks who did not want to abandon NATO, as well as members of both parties who objected to the administration?s argument that it did not need Congressional approval for the Libyan operations.

?Politics is to Congress like wet is to water,? said Representative Stephen F. Lynch, a Democrat from Massachusetts.

?But this issue is really one of substance,? said Mr. Lynch, who voted against authorizing the Libyan operations and favored taking away funding for most of them. ?I think we should allow our international neighbors to pick up this load.?

Democrats, though, were mostly loath to desert President Obama, and refused to back the bill limiting financing. But a small group of antiwar Democrats and scores of Republicans concluded that the bill, while permitting such things as search and rescue, was actually just another form of authorization for American involvement in the conflict.

?It didn?t go far enough,? said Representative Jason Chaffetz, a Republican from Utah, in an interview after the vote. ?Under that resolution, the president is still going to be engaged in the war.? He added: ?We?ve been inept and irrelevant on the war actions. We have not lived up to our constitutional duty.?

A bipartisan group of representatives plan to offer an amendment to a Pentagon appropriations bill after the Fourth of July, when the House returns from a week?s recess, which would further cut funding for intelligence and operational support in Libya, and end all activities there by October.

The prospects for that amendment seem far from clear. On the one hand, the more limited measure to restrict funding failed to pass. But on the other, the amendment attached to the appropriations bill could be more popular among those members who felt the financing resolution amounted to back-door authorization.

As the Libyan conflict has dragged on, there has been increasing hostility toward the Obama administration in the House among Democrats who oppose the war and many Republicans who cite constitutional issues over authorization for the military operations. Those lawmakers argue that such authorization is required by the 1973 War Powers Resolution.

Under that law, presidents must end unauthorized deployments 60 days after notifying Congress that they have begun. If what the United States military is doing in Libya constitutes ?hostilities? ? the administration argues that it does not ? then that deadline passed on May 20.

The United States has handed the leadership of the air war in Libya over to NATO, and has largely played a supporting role, offering things like aerial refueling, surveillance, and signal jamming. But it has also conducted about 90 missile strikes from piloted aircraft and remotely operated drones, aimed at Libyan air defenses and ground forces, and United States aircraft have flown more than a quarter of the total sorties.

The total cost of United States operations is expected to top $1 billion by the end of September.

In an effort to avert a vote that would embarrass the administration, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with scores of House Democrats on Thursday afternoon to urge them to vote against the resolution limiting funds, insisting that the collective effort in Libya was close to ousting Colonel  Qaddafi.

The votes on Friday followed two hours of fascinating and sometimes fierce debate that was unlike any other in this 112th Congress.

?We don?t have enough wars going on?? asked Representative Dennis J. Kucinich, Democrat of Ohio, on the House floor. ?We have to wage war against another nation which did not attack us??

Mr. Kucinich?s remarks were echoed in part by Representative Dan Burton of Indiana, a Republican member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, who said, ?We?re adding to the debt by going into a war we shouldn?t be in.?

He added: ?My big concern is not just Libya. My big concern is this president, unless we send a very strong message to him, may take us into Syria. There are a lot of wars of opportunity.?

But Democrats and some Republicans also chastised members for deserting a NATO-led mission right in the middle of operations. ?Now is the time to stand together against a murderous dictator,? said Representative James P. Moran, a liberal Democrat from Virginia.

Agreeing with him was Representative Adam Kinzinger, a freshman Republican from Illinois, an Iraq war veteran and supporter of American involvement in Libya. ?The vote we have on the House today will have implications far beyond our shores and far into the future,? he said.

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Taiwan fights for longer app trials; Apple complies, Google doesn?t

Google could face a fine of at least NT$300,000 (S$12810) from the Taipei City Government after failing to set up a revised refund policy that would allow Android users in the city to claim money back on Android app downloads.

Smartphone users in the city had complained that they were unable to claim a refund when they deemed an app download as unsatisfactory. Taipei?s Law and Regulation Commission informed Google Taiwan, as well as Apple Asia, of the complaints in a formal letter, demanding an explanation and an outline of improvements by a June 23 deadline.

Apple Asia responded before the deadline and amended its refund policy to comply with Taiwan?s by extending its trial period from 15 minutes to a full seven days. Google did not reply.

Google hasn?t received complaints about its refund policy but will be forced to make improvements in the country, according to the Taipei LRC, which is considering fining Google but has yet to make a final decision.

Consumers in Taiwan have complained of confusing app returns systems and language barriers, by offering short trial periods both Google and Apple have been violating the country?s consumer laws.

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Cheaper High-Efficiency Solar Panels

Chinese solar-panel manufacturer Suntech Power has developed a new process for making silicon wafers for solar cells that could cut the cost of solar power by 10 to 20 percent.

The most efficient silicon solar cells use wafers consisting of a single crystal of silicon. When made by the new process, these high-quality "monocrystalline" wafers cost about the same as  lower-quality multicrystalline wafers, or potentially half as much as monocrystalline wafers made by conventional processes. (Wafer cost is only part of the cost of solar power, which is why a process that may cost half as much only reduces the overall cost by 10 to 20 percent.)

The idea underlying the process was patented more than 20 years ago but never commercially developed by the patent owners. The patents expired about three years ago, and several companies?JA Solar, LDK Solar, and Renesola, in addition to Suntech?recently announced that they had succeeded in making the process work.

Stuart Wenham, Suntech's CTO, described the advance at a solar conference this week in Seattle, and said the company has already started selling solar panels made using the process.

This news may spell trouble for businesses in the United States and elsewhere hoping to commercialize new thin-film solar technologies. In theory, thin-film technology is cheaper per watt than silicon technology. But its makers have found it hard to compete with Chinese makers of conventional silicon solar panels, which have steadily cut costs in part by improving manufacturing techniques and in part because government support has allowed them to scale up production quickly.

Making high-quality monocrystalline wafers ordinarily involves heating silicon to over 1,400 ° C (higher than its melting point), and then dipping a seed crystal into the melt. An ingot from which the wafers will be cut is formed by gradually pulling the seed up as the silicon crystallizes around it. This happens over the course of one to two days, during which time the pool of silicon must be kept hot?which takes a lot of energy. Both the energy consumption and the slow rate of production make the process expensive. Making multicrystalline ingots is faster and less energy-intensive?the silicon is melted and then cooled. There is no need to keep the silicon hot, saving energy, but cells made from these materials are much less efficient.

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Weekend Open Forum: What's your ideal laptop size?

When shopping for a new laptop one of the main factors to consider is size. Whether you want a gaming powerhouse that will only move from your desk occasionally, something that hits the sweet spot between performance and portability, or simply the thinnest and lightest you can find regardless of the compromise in power and disk space.

Your preference will likely vary depending if it's going to be your primary machine or not. For example, a 11-inch netbook might be all you need for occasionally going online and taking on short trips, knowing that a powerful desktop and large monitor await at your desk when it's time for more serious computing tasks. For me 13-inch has turned out to be the sweet spot, as it gives me enough screen real estate to get some work done but it's still easy to carry around.

What about you: What's the ideal laptop size? You can cast your vote on the poll below but we'd also like to read your thoughts in the comments. Is portability more important than power for you when it comes to laptops? By the way, that monster up there is the Maingear Titan 17 we're currently testing next to the ThinkPad X1 we reviewed last month.

What's the ideal laptop size?online survey

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Political Memo: Boehner Must Navigate Rocky Road to a Budget

?We?ll be working that out over the next couple of months,? Mr. Boehner said in a comment that understated just how difficult that job was going to be.

Six months after becoming speaker and six weeks before the government runs out of borrowing power, Mr. Boehner will now be one of the people ?working that out? directly with President Obama and his fellow Congressional leaders. Bipartisan budget talks imploded on Thursday when Representative Eric Cantor, the majority leader, took a walk.

The speaker faces quite a predicament. He has to navigate his own party?s internal politics, cut a deal with his cagey counterparts in the Senate and Mr. Obama, and steer any agreement through the House where many Republicans are sure to oppose it ? all while trying not to sink the entire economy in the process.

The challenges might explain why Mr. Cantor, after a contentious negotiating session on Wednesday, evidently decided the job was above his pay grade and passed the debt-limit baton to Mr. Boehner.

Trying to get the negotiations back on track on Friday, Mr. Obama invited Senators Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat and majority leader, and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, to the White House on Monday for separate sessions to talk about the debt limit.

Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, said the meetings would be an effort to ?find common ground on a balanced approach to deficit reduction.?

The crucial phrase there is the reference to a balanced approach. On Friday, Democrats emphasized anew that they could not accept any compromise tied to a debt-limit increase that relied solely on spending cuts and that did not provide some new federal revenue from taxes on businesses and the most affluent Americans.

?The simple message that Republicans sent yesterday by walking out of the talks was that unless we take their lopsided approach to reducing the deficit, they are prepared to tank the economy,? said Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the top Democrat on the Budget Committee and a participant in the negotiations. Mr. Van Hollen said Mr. Cantor and Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, the other Republican who had been in on the negotiations, refused to consider such revenue sources as eliminating a tax benefit for owners of corporate jets.

Mr. Cantor cited persistent Democratic insistence on raising tax revenues as the main reason for his decision to abandon the talks. Mr. Boehner and Mr. McConnell have been equally crystal clear that they are opposed to including anything that even resembles a tax increase in a budget compromise. So it remains to be seen how Mr. Obama clears that hurdle after Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who was leading the first round of talks, was unable to do.

Other factors contributed to the abrupt end of the Biden negotiations as well. Democrats and some Republicans viewed Mr. Cantor?s departure as a reaction to his learning that Mr. Boehner, with whom he has a sometimes competitive relationship, was at the White House on Wednesday for a meeting with Mr. Obama that had not been publicly announced. Their thinking was that Mr. Cantor was miffed that the speaker, without informing him, was already engaged in sidebar negotiations with the White House.

A Cantor aide dismissed such reasoning as silly and said the talks were always going to move to the presidential-speaker-Senate leader level.

?The bottom line is that the proposals pushed by Democrats would increase taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars on individuals, small businesses, and employers at a time when we need to focus on job growth,? said Brad Dayspring, a spokesman for Mr. Cantor.

Officials said that in what turned out to be a final negotiating session on Wednesday, Mr. Cantor was pushing for more reductions in annual federal spending while refusing to consider cuts in the Pentagon budget ? a sore point with Democrats. The impasse over the spending total ? and the gulf between Democrats and Republicans on any new tax revenues ? scuttled the talks for now.

But participants and aides said the Biden sessions did produce a lot of budget material that will be useful in the meetings between Congressional leaders and the White House.

White House officials started laying out their argument for new revenues on Friday by trying to define the choices to the administration?s advantage. They described the tax increases as closing loopholes for ?millionaires and billionaires,? while saying the deep spending cuts that the Republicans? approach would force would hamper essential government services while driving up health costs for Medicare recipients.

Speaking at a fund-raiser in New York on Thursday night, Mr. Obama offered his view of the standoff, saying: ?This is not just a budget question, this is a values question.?

White House officials say the ideal balance in a package to reduce the deficit by about $2 trillion over a decade would be $1 of new tax revenues for every $3 in spending reductions, including lower interest on the debt that would be automatic if projected deficits are reduced.

The next phase of the talks promises to be difficult. But the spending agreement negotiated earlier this year showed that the president, Mr. Boehner and Mr. Reid can seal a deal. Still, Mr. Boehner made clear on Friday that he would not be part of an agreement that raised taxes or did not enact budget overhauls and cut spending by at least as much as the debt ceiling was raised.

?If the president and his allies want the debt limit increased,? he said, ?it is only going to happen via a measure that meets these tests.?

Jackie Calmes contributed reporting.

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House Spurns Obama on Libya, but Does Not Cut Funds

The result, coming after weeks of tension between Congress and the White House over authorization of American military aid for the NATO mission in Libya, was a mixed message to the Obama administration, with Republicans and Democrats forming alliances that splintered customary party lines.

The resolution to support the mission failed 295 to 123, with 70 Democrats joining Republicans in a rebuff to Mr. Obama.

The resolution was based on a Senate bill written by Senators John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, and John McCain, Republican of Arizona,  to blunt criticism that the president has failed to seek Congressional approval for his actions in Libya.

?We are disappointed by that vote,? said Jay Carney, a White House spokesman. ?We think now is not the time to send the kind of mixed message that it sends when we are working with our allies to achieve the goals that we believe that are widely shared in Congress.?

He said that these goals included ?protecting civilians in Libya, enforcing a no-fly zone, enforcing an arms embargo and further putting pressure? on Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, Libya?s leader.

A second bill, which had the strong support of Speaker John A. Boehner, would have prohibited money for military operations outside of support activities like search and rescue, aerial refueling, operational planning, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. It was intended to essentially end direct American combat activity like missile strikes while remaining supportive of NATO?s efforts.

That measure failed 238 to 180, with 89 Republicans deserting their party and only 36 Democrats voting in favor.

The resolution refusing to authorize the Libyan operations has no real effect; the Senate is expected to pass the Kerry-McCain proposal, giving official Congressional authorization for the mission, in the coming weeks.

But the votes on Friday were an expression of the House?s frustration with the White House, drawing together some odd bedfellows: left-leaning antiwar Democrats and hard-right Republicans, Obama loyalists and hawks who did not want to abandon NATO, as well as members of both parties who objected to the administration?s argument that it did not need Congressional approval for the Libyan operations.

?Politics is to Congress like wet is to water,? said Representative Stephen F. Lynch, a Democrat from Massachusetts.

?But this issue is really one of substance,? said Mr. Lynch, who voted against authorizing the Libyan operations and favored taking away funding for most of them. ?I think we should allow our international neighbors to pick up this load.?

Democrats, though, were mostly loath to desert President Obama, and refused to back the bill limiting financing. But a small group of antiwar Democrats and scores of Republicans concluded that the bill, while permitting such things as search and rescue, was actually just another form of authorization for American involvement in the conflict.

?It didn?t go far enough,? said Representative Jason Chaffetz, a Republican from Utah, in an interview after the vote. ?Under that resolution, the president is still going to be engaged in the war.? He added: ?We?ve been inept and irrelevant on the war actions. We have not lived up to our constitutional duty.?

A bipartisan group of representatives plan to offer an amendment to a Pentagon appropriations bill after the Fourth of July, when the House returns from a week?s recess, which would further cut funding for intelligence and operational support in Libya, and end all activities there by October.

The prospects for that amendment seem far from clear. On the one hand, the more limited measure to restrict funding failed to pass. But on the other, the amendment attached to the appropriations bill could be more popular among those members who felt the financing resolution amounted to back-door authorization.

As the Libyan conflict has dragged on, there has been increasing hostility toward the Obama administration in the House among Democrats who oppose the war and many Republicans who cite constitutional issues over authorization for the military operations. Those lawmakers argue that such authorization is required by the 1973 War Powers Resolution.

Under that law, presidents must end unauthorized deployments 60 days after notifying Congress that they have begun. If what the United States military is doing in Libya constitutes ?hostilities? ? the administration argues that it does not ? then that deadline passed on May 20.

The United States has handed the leadership of the air war in Libya over to NATO, and has largely played a supporting role, offering things like aerial refueling, surveillance, and signal jamming. But it has also conducted about 90 missile strikes from piloted aircraft and remotely operated drones, aimed at Libyan air defenses and ground forces, and United States aircraft have flown more than a quarter of the total sorties.

The total cost of United States operations is expected to top $1 billion by the end of September.

In an effort to avert a vote that would embarrass the administration, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with scores of House Democrats on Thursday afternoon to urge them to vote against the resolution limiting funds, insisting that the collective effort in Libya was close to ousting Colonel  Qaddafi.

The votes on Friday followed two hours of fascinating and sometimes fierce debate that was unlike any other in this 112th Congress.

?We don?t have enough wars going on?? asked Representative Dennis J. Kucinich, Democrat of Ohio, on the House floor. ?We have to wage war against another nation which did not attack us??

Mr. Kucinich?s remarks were echoed in part by Representative Dan Burton of Indiana, a Republican member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, who said, ?We?re adding to the debt by going into a war we shouldn?t be in.?

He added: ?My big concern is not just Libya. My big concern is this president, unless we send a very strong message to him, may take us into Syria. There are a lot of wars of opportunity.?

But Democrats and some Republicans also chastised members for deserting a NATO-led mission right in the middle of operations. ?Now is the time to stand together against a murderous dictator,? said Representative James P. Moran, a liberal Democrat from Virginia.

Agreeing with him was Representative Adam Kinzinger, a freshman Republican from Illinois, an Iraq war veteran and supporter of American involvement in Libya. ?The vote we have on the House today will have implications far beyond our shores and far into the future,? he said.

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