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Mountain View-based Internet giant Google is reportedly gearing up for the release of a “next generation personal communication device,” the latest reports out there suggest. The said device was already spotted at the FCC and was confirmed to arrive on the market with WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity capab... |
11 February 2012
01:57 GMT |
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Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 will pack enhancements related to the connectivity options that users can benefit of, including easier management of 3G, 4G and WiFi network connections. Windows 8 was designed to fit the needs of mobile users, and the new connectivity capabilities it features were aimed specifica... |
21 January 2012
07:09 GMT |
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Currently, IPv4 is the Internet protocol used by most of the world, but the situation won't last much longer, according to the Internet Society.
Internet Protocol Version 6 is the next incarnation of the technology used to link computers, and, by extension, people, from all around the world.
Currently, IPv4 i... |
18 January 2012
09:39 GMT |
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We suppose it was just a matter of time before even servers and data centers started using wireless broadband.
It so happens that Microsoft and the University of Washington tested wireless networks on servers.
Since data centers sometimes get overloaded during peak times, administrators usually require them for ext... |
16 January 2012
11:08 GMT |
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VIA showed a surprising level of interest in the Universal Serial Bus interface at the 2012 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show, even inventing a new cabling solution.
VIA has officially announced the VIA Labs VO510 5Gb Optical Transceiver, a USB 3.0 Active Optical Cable (AOC) solutions.
It can send multimedi... |
13 January 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Sharkoon is continuing its string of USB product releases with a new adapter for desktops.What it is now releasing is quite different from the A, B and C 3.5-inch front panels from last week.One thing easily noticeable is that the newcomer is much more tiny.Basically, this is an internal adapter that converts one, st... |
30 December 2011
11:41 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer and video game publisher Nintendo has released a new trailer for the 3DS handheld which showcases the Letter Box application, also known as Swapnote.The app can be downloaded from the eShop store and it allows those who use the device to use both the StreetPass and the SpotPass connectiv... |
28 December 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Intel has recently notified its hardware partners that the company will “fully release” its 10Gbps Thunderbolt technology in April of 2012, several PC players already preparing to launch motherboards, notebooks and desktop systems supporting this interconnect.The date announced by Intel seems to match clo... |
27 December 2011
03:26 GMT |
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TRENDnet continues to expand its portfolio of Powerline adapters with new models on almost a regular basis, and recently the company has announced the introduction of two new such adapters that operate at speeds up to 200Mbps.The two solutions that have become available today are the TPL-306E, 200Mbps Compact Powerli... |
22 December 2011
08:57 GMT |
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Galaxy Nexus, the first smartphone in the world to land on shelves with the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich platform, has been allegedly hit by a series of issues affecting the strength of its network signal. Its turns out that there is no issue with the signal strength, but that the problem resides in the manner in w... |
22 December 2011
05:41 GMT |
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It was only a matter of time before the HDMI interface caught on for real and, sure enough, here it is just about ready to reach a major sales milestone in just a few years.It appears that, having already secured its place on the digital television segment, the HDMI interface is growing in adoption in every other ma... |
15 December 2011
11:17 GMT |
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Wireless carrier Verizon has just made the Galaxy Nexus (the first Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone in the world) available for purchase on its airwaves, apparently with a little treat for those who will grab it, namely an upgrade to Android 4.0.2.
Soon after activation, the smartphone will be upgraded to the new platf... |
15 December 2011
04:51 GMT |
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Buffalo Technology has just announced the introduction of a new Wireless N compatible USB adapter that promises to deliver some impressive transfer speeds as well as improved range when connected to 802.11n compatible networks.Small enough to fit inside your pocket, Buffalo’s USB dongle can reach, at least in t... |
9 December 2011
05:37 GMT |
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IOGEAR launched several things this week, one of them being a USB 3.0 device that promises to transfer data between a computer and up to four USB 3.0 devices.
That's right, this is one of those hub controllers, one that can switch between the devices linked to it on the fly.
That includes cameras, HDDs, other ... |
6 December 2011
04:02 GMT |
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Logitech already has loads of products on sale and, in order to provide them with higher interoperability and expanded usability, the company joined Avaya's DevConnect program.
The Avaya DevConnect program is one which many companies are a part of, thousands of hardware and software makers to be more precise.
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1 November 2011
09:37 GMT |
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T-mobile is the only major wireless carrier in the United States who did not receive the Apple iPhone, though it seems that the company did want it for its customers.
It turns out that the Apple iconic device did not come to the market with support for the fast network that the wireless carrier operates at the mome... |
21 October 2011
08:11 GMT |
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Future LTE devices are expected to be far more advanced than the currently existing ones, Tommy Ljunggren, senior vicepPresident of Swedish wireless operator TeliaSonera stated recently.
Speaking to Telecoms.com, he noted that Apple's iPhone 5 will require LTE capabilities to ensure that the company remains co... |
20 October 2011
15:41 GMT |
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Storage solutions are all well and good but, in the end, they are nothing if the data center they are part of doesn't have good enough connectivity technologies, an area that Emulex went out of its way to push forward.
Emulex did not hold back at all when it created the new Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) spoken of... |
10 October 2011
10:22 GMT |
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Nokia N9 is the first and only MeeGo-powered handset that the Finnish mobile phone maker has brought to the market.
The smartphone has already started to arrive on shelves in various countries around the world, and should hit even more of them soon.
The handset comes with a brand new operating system on board,... |
10 October 2011
06:51 GMT |
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During the IDF conference which took place earlier this month, Intel revealed that is working on introducing two new Thunderbolt controllers in 2012, but it now turns out that the Santa Clara chip maker will actually release a third such IC, which is specially designed for low-cost Thunderbolt devices.Intel is curren... |
29 September 2011
03:21 GMT |
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The current rage of Mac computers to feature support for the high-speed Thunderbolt interconnect will also be compatible with the next-generation of optical cables designed for this interface, confirmed Intel recently to the press.This new technology will enable Thunderbolt cables to span larger distances than before... |
27 September 2011
10:08 GMT |
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Cloud storage is getting more and more popular nowadays, and SDSC decided to establish one that, rather than aiming for wide support, is actually intended for just one branch of the IT industry, albeit a fairly large one.
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) just announced that it had established a new cloud... |
26 September 2011
08:58 GMT |
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Even though the first add-on cards to support the third version of the PCI Express standard have yet to arrive to market, PCI SIG, the group behind the development of this technology, is confident the premier devices to use the fourth iteration of PCIe will arrive in about four years from now.
The statement was ma... |
17 September 2011
09:51 GMT |
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Intel's Thunderbolt high-speed interconnect has seen limited adoption this year, but this hasn't stopped the Santa Clara chip giant from developing two new such controller that will be released together with Ivy Bridge in 2012.Currently, Intel is offering two Thunderbolt controllers to its clients, known as... |
14 September 2011
06:05 GMT |
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The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 has already gained speed, but it may gain even more of an advantage once the USB 3.0 Promoter Group finishes their latest pet project.SuperSpeed USB 3.0 is the most recent iteration of the Universal Serial Bus standard and has a theoretical maximum transfer rate of 5 Gbps (4.8 Gbps).It has alr... |
30 August 2011
10:57 GMT |
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Motorola and Verizon are about to kick off the upgrades to 4G LTE for all of the Motorola XOOM tablet PCs available on the wireless carrier's network, some of the latest reports on the matter suggest.
No official release date has been made available for the time being, but it seems that the carrier is geari... |
25 August 2011
05:41 GMT |
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Chip giant Intel recently announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Fulcrum Microsystems, a fabless semiconductor company that designs Ethernet switch silicon for data center network providers.
The company was founded in 1999 and it specializes in designing integrated, standards-based 10GbE and 40 Giga... |
20 July 2011
03:27 GMT |
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The IT market is no stranger to odd quarrels but, even so, the recent stance that HDMI Org has taken in regards to DisplayPort to HDMI adapters could be seen as fairly unusual, to say the least.HDMI, as consumers no doubt know, is a display connectivity standard that has more or less made its way into every sort of ... |
11 July 2011
05:08 GMT |
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Mobile handheld devices may not have access to the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard yet, but Cypress definitely wouldn't have that, hence its latest invention, the West Bridge Benicia (CYWB0263) peripheral controller.The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface standard has reached the point where it is replacing the USB 2.0 te... |
5 July 2011
09:58 GMT |
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After talking about their plans to introduce an external version of PCI Express that is set to rival Intel's Thunderbolt high-speed interconnect, PCI SIG has started working on a new standard, namely PCI Express 4.0, that will increase the bandwidth available to the add-on cards using it.
The announcement was... |
30 June 2011
08:03 GMT |
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Technology standards often have a consortium of companies backing them, and it looks like the one behind wireless connectivity has just made a step forward by releasing the 1.1 version of the WiGig Bus Extension Specification for I/O Applications.Wireless connectivity has become something of a necessity in today... |
30 June 2011
05:10 GMT |
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Finding the best and fastest fiber optic cable route is a process that, at times, can take days, but a team of researchers from the North Carolina State University came up with a way to speed things up by 10,000 times.Phone calls, website visits and any other sort of online access relies on data being sent in the fo... |
29 June 2011
09:14 GMT |
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Since summer is a time when certain companies on the IT market conduct experiments, Fujitsu figured it was time to kick off the “Summer of Speed” program, hence the attention granted to the XG2600 10GbE Ethernet switch.As end-users know by now, Fujitsu deals in a wide variety of products, and this includ... |
18 June 2011
03:40 GMT |
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Even though the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard has come a long way over the past 12 months, the fact is that it is not really overly widespread yet, something that Sharkoon seeks to remedy and reap profits out of at the same time.One thing that will soon come to exist on all current and next-generation PCs, as well as ... |
17 June 2011
10:32 GMT |
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Those 5.25-inch drive bays may usually be used for holding optical disk drives, but there are some other things that can be placed inside them, like a certain device that Scythe just unleashed.
When buying any desktop case, one might start to wonder what all those 5.25-inch ODD bays are really for if most everyo... |
28 May 2011
04:53 GMT |
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Intel Capital is the global investment organization of Intel and it seems like it chose the latest project, or in this case sets of projects, to fund, in order to promote the image it would like to see outpictured by the computing market.Intel might be best known for its large collection of central processing units,... |
24 May 2011
04:49 GMT |
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Since its introduction at the beginning of this year, Intel's Thunderbolt technology has been slow to gain market acceptance and Lenovo believes that it will still take some time until this interconnect reaches mainstream, at least as far as notebooks are concerned.
Until this happens, USB 3.0 remains the mai... |
20 May 2011
08:08 GMT |
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Rumors regarding the availability of an iPhone model that would include support for Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks have been floating around since the first carriers announced adoption of this technology, yet it seems that enthusiasts would have to wait for a bit more for them to prove real. Cupertino-based Appl... |
18 May 2011
05:09 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless has just started to roll-out a software update for its HTC ThunderBolt smartphone, delivering a series of fixes and enhancements to those who already purchased the handset.The software update is the same firmware that Verizon started to deliver to its users about two weeks ago, ... |
13 May 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Wireless connectivity is something that has become quite common on both the consumer and enterprise markets, and D-Link figured it was time for its newest product of this sort to finally make it to market.Routers are network devices whose main purpose is to distribute available bandwidth between multiple computers.W... |
2 May 2011
03:06 GMT |
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As authorities are gearing up to start construction of no less than 11 major dams on the Mekong River, the WWF is arguing that the total amount of energy these structures would produce can also be obtained by constructing them on the river's tributaries, rather than its main course. In a new report, the environm... |
18 April 2011
03:10 GMT |
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Enabling the sharing content across all sorts of consumer electronics is a goal that the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is constantly striving towards, and it seems it got some new help on the part of CableLabs. CableLabs is a non-profit consortium whose activities revolve around the research and developmen... |
5 April 2011
02:23 GMT |
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It really seems that there are plenty of iPhone or iPad users out there who're quite keen on adding USB and HDMI connectivity options to their iOS devices, and in order to cater to the needs of this particular user category, the Japanese company Hanwa has recently released their UMA-iOSHDMI adapter.
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28 March 2011
07:16 GMT |
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Without a doubt, USB hubs really do come in all shapes and sizes nowadays, and one of the most interesting example of such a product we've come across lately belongs to Japanese company GreenHouse.Without a doubt, one of the main selling points these new USB hubs have in store is represented by their very unusua... |
22 March 2011
08:26 GMT |
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The idea of turning a normal, everyday PC into a server with multiple workstations via USB seems to be crazy enough, but the truth of the matter is that it's actually quite viable, at least when making use of the new Plugable DC-125 USB 2.0 Docking Client.So, what really makes this DisplayLink-enabled solution s... |
9 March 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Whenever a company manages to create a product that is the first in the world to accomplish a certain feat, one can be sure that a suitably praise-filled press release will be made, and this is exactly what Ralink Technology Corporation did, not long ago.Ralink announced that it created the RT65168 VDSL2/ADSL2+ proc... |
7 March 2011
10:07 GMT |
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The idea of being able to view the content stored onto one's iPad, iPhone or iPod onto a widescreen HDTV is quite an exciting one, and that's also probably the reason why Japanese company Princeton came up with the PIP-HDU1 HDMI Video Converter.As its name clearly indicates, the device from Princeton has be... |
4 March 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Since the number of DisplayPort-enabled PC monitors out there is increasing (slowly, but steadily), Gefen has decided to come up with a solution that will help out those users who wish to view DVI dual link video via the Mini DisplayPort interface.The GefenTV Dual Link DVI to Mini DP Converter can also prove to be qu... |
3 March 2011
06:51 GMT |
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After a few years in which we hardly heard anything about Bigfoot Networks, the company seems set to make a comeback into the market as, after it managed to push its Ethernet solutions into a wide series of gaming oriented motherboards, Bigfoot has announced the introduction of its first wireless N networking cards.
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2 March 2011
02:10 GMT |
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KVM extenders have managed to prove their worth time and time again, given the fact that they enable users to control multiple computers from a distance, and that's pretty much the case as well with the latest such product from Matrox, the Extio F2208.[ADMRK=1]So, what we're talking about here is a KVM exte... |
1 March 2011
05:20 GMT |
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