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The IEEE 802.11n standard, which is not expected to be ratified before the first half of 2008, will give users far greater performance and range than current Wi-Fi technology. The technology will someday scale to 600Mbps, according to Bill McFarland, a member of the IEEE committee, with a range 50 percent greater than available with Wi-Fi now.

Although the news caused barely a ripple of reaction in the audience of software and hardware engineers, there are industry analysts who have already warned large buyers of wireless technology to resist the temptation to deploy high speed IEEE 802.11n devices until the standard is ratified.

This is the advice of Gartner's Ken Dulaney, among others, who said that a pre-standard version might be fine for the home where the technology exists as a closed loop, but in an enterprise with a heterogeneous wireless environment it could lead to interoperability problems down the road.

Continuing on a theme of emerging technologies, Crouch also touted the benefits of UWB (Ultra Wideband), a short range, three meters, wireless technology, which he said will start to gain recognition in ‘07.

UWB is sometimes called Wireless USB but with better performance. In addition, Crouch said the Bluetooth standards body will adopt UWB technology as a future version of Bluetooth.

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Silencing the genes that produce prion proteins can dramatically slow the progression of mad cow disease, suggests a new study in mice.

Researchers say that the approach might one day work to treat human prion illnesses, such as variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (vCJD).

People can contract vCJD after eating meat contaminated with mad cow disease. Though the illness is extremely rare, it can lead to schizophrenia-like psychosis and typically causes death within a year of diagnosis.

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VeriSign gained control of the .com registry in 1999, when it was awarded a no-bid contract by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. VeriSign also has control over the .net TLD, having renewed its contract in 2005 after a round of competitive bidding. The relationship between ICANN and VeriSign has not been all wine and roses, however. In 2003, VeriSign implemented SiteFinder, a new "feature" that redirected users to a VeriSign search page when they mistyped a URL. ICANN told VeriSign to drop SiteFinder and then threatened the company with sanctions for violating its contract when it refused to comply. VeriSign eventually gave in, but later filed an antitrust lawsuit against ICANN over its order to deactivate SiteFinder. In October 2005, VeriSign and ICANN settled the lawsuit as part of the agreement approved last week.

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