Wednesday, March 07, 2007 2:49 PM EST
Google helps eggheads with data dumps
Google is developing a program to help eggheads exchange huge amounts of data. The search giant's open source team is working on ways to physically transfer huge data sets up to 120 terabytes in size. Good thing, too: Recent research from IDC suggests that the world generated 161 billion gigabytes -- 161 exabytes -- of digital information last year. That's 3 million times the information in all the books ever written.
