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Japanese scientists at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Japan have discovered a way to bypass an optical-electricity bottleneck that slows down communications systems. According to an article in NewScientist, “Japanese scientists say their ‘optical transistor’ could eventually lead to all-optical networks that will dramatically improve the speed of Internet connections.

Adaptec has posted driver update for their 2906 SCSI card. VersionTracker notes that Adaptec 2906 1.3 offers “added support for PowerManagement on the Power Macintosh G4s with 133 MHz system bus and 466, 533, 677, 733 MHz or faster G4 Processor. These systems can now go into ‘Deep Sleep’ mode when put to sleep and will awaken properly.”

Iomega has pulled IomegaWare 3.0 from their servers — which was just released last week — reverting back to version 2.8. A MacMinute reader forwarded us a note sent by Iomega regarding the issue, which in part reads:

Europe’s rollout of high-speed Internet access has had many delays, but analysts feel the industry will generate £10billion in revenue by 2005. In order to achieve this telcos, regulators and service providers must work together, says ZDNet UK.

Apple released CarbonLib 1.4a1 SDK for devleopers at WWDC today. The latest pre-release version of the CarbonLib SDK for Mac OS is now available to all ADC Members. This SDK provides all the files needed to begin Carbon development. CarbonLib 1.4 supports Mac OS 8.6 and greater.