Japanese Mobile System reaches 250M bps

In trials of a future 3G cellular technology, a download speed of 250M bps (bits per second) has been achieved by NTT DoComo, Japan’s biggest mobile service provider. The speed was attained in outdoor tests near the carrier’s research and development laboratory in Yokosuka, Japan. The new system is named “Super 3G” and expected to be launched commercially in the next decade. DoCoMo’s network in Japan currently offers download speeds up to 3.6M bps.

Squirrels Network without Facebook

A new study on a colony of 65 ground squirrels revealed that Squirrels are connected, on average, by three degrees of separation, meaning any two squirrels could be connected by three intermediate animals. Most of the connections were between mating squirrels and their families. But friendship, too, exists in the squirrel world. The study was conducted by Theodore Manno, a biologist at Auburn University in Alabama. It is notable that Human social network is separated by six degrees.