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People might not know it, but broadband in the US, especially in university campuses, works at an average 5 Mbps.
In order to make broadband run faster, Gigabit Squared, a broadband development startup, and university coalition Gig. U have set up a plan.
Called Gigabit Neighborhood Gateway Program, it involves a $2... |
24 May 2012
10:06 GMT |
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Powerline adapters might not be suited for everyone, but there is no question as to whether or not it is very convenient to set up a home network just by plugging a couple of adapters (or more) in wall power sockets.
TP-Link's new powerline network product is called AV500 Gigabit Powerline Adapter and can stre... |
22 May 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Intel is famous for its CPUs, but it dabbles in other technologies, like network modems, and it is precisely one such product that we are writing about now.
During the Cable Show, the Santa Clara, California-based IT giant revealed a DOCSIS 3.0 gateway, or cable modem as the term goes.
It is codenamed Puma 6, like... |
22 May 2012
03:54 GMT |
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We wrote about the deal that Iomega made with McAfee, for installing VSEL on all StorCenter PX network storage products, and now we get to cover the newest member of that line.
Called StorCenter px12-450r multi-protocol network storage array, it is intended for VDI, database, storage-based and dedupe applications.
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17 May 2012
10:28 GMT |
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LaCie likes to launch network-attached storage devices from time to time, for consumers or businesses of various sizes, and this is one of those times.
LeCie isn't really big on intricate designs and aesthetic embellishments, nor does it ever put too much effort into making its devices small and easy to hide. ... |
16 May 2012
15:01 GMT |
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ConnMan, a project that provides a daemon for managing Internet connections within embedded devices running the Linux operating system and which is designed to be slim and use as few resources as possible, is finally at version 1.0. ConnMan has been forever in development and it's nice to finally arrive at a s... |
11 May 2012
10:53 GMT |
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Nowadays, the world is trying to bring Internet access more or less everywhere, but there are remote locations where broadband doesn't work that well, or at all.
The means for bringing wireless network signals to mountains and such are called “multi-hop networks” and have a tight limit on how much ... |
23 April 2012
07:32 GMT |
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Solid State Drives already have a high performance advantage over HDDs, but where their price and lower capacity mostly counterbalanced that, a new hardware engine developed by Toshiba could totally change the face of this competition, on the server market anyway.
Long story short, Toshiba has created a hardware en... |
9 April 2012
02:49 GMT |
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As Intel prepares to formally launch its Ivy Bridge CPUs (on April 23), the company is also offering the services of its manufacturing plants to other companies, like Netronome.
According to the latter's latest press release, Intel has agreed to produce its next-generation flow processors, the first ones to us... |
6 April 2012
16:41 GMT |
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This week will mark the arrival of the Aterm WL450NU-AG, the Aterm WR9500N and Aterm WR9300N in stores, in Japan at least.
Resulting from a collaboration between NEC and Access Technica, the three devices are meant to enable wireless connectivity at the speed of 450 Mbps.
The Aterm WL450NU-AG is an 802.11n USB netw... |
5 April 2012
08:00 GMT |
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Financial markets can be a bit tricky to participate in over the web, due to latency and how delays can cost millions, so AdvancedIO decided to try and do something about it. What the company created is a new and improved 10GE network card with four optical ports, advanced memory configurations and a scalable Strat... |
26 March 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Nowadays, most homes have wired networks already in place, so Planex decided to do something for those people who want less cable clutter.
Out comes the MZK-KR150N, a WiFi b/g/n router that plugs into a wall socket.
More precisely, it runs on AC power and links to the worldwide web through and Ethernet cable.
The ... |
26 March 2012
11:04 GMT |
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It appears that the current speed of the Internet is not looked upon with kind eyes by Japan and the United kingdom, so the two countries have decided to do something about it. Currently, it takes about 230 milliseconds for a data packet to get from London to Tokyo, a speed owed mostly to the roundabout manner in w... |
21 March 2012
04:29 GMT |
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If your house doesn't have an Ethernet network and you don't want to waste time with special cables and routers, you may want to consider turning your power grid into something of the sort. TRENDnet is the company that most recently finished making one of those handy but not exactly widespread Powerline A... |
16 March 2012
04:33 GMT |
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Famed Hollywood actor and director Clint Eastwood and his family are now the latest reality stars coming from E!, the same network that also made the Kardashians into international superstars. “Mrs. Eastwood & Company” will premiere this May.
Talk of a reality show with the Eastwoods has been around for... |
15 March 2012
04:35 GMT |
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“Mad Men” returns to the small screen this month with a brand new season, its fifth so far. To promote it, AMC has put up billboards all over New York of the now-iconic falling man and, in doing so, has stirred up controversy because many believe the image mocks the events of 9/11. The photo attached to t... |
2 March 2012
05:55 GMT |
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FX Network is taking a giant leap of faith with its newest star, Charlie Sheen, announcing a release date for his “Anger Management” series when shooting hasn't even started.
The new show, which will be a loose take on the Jack Nicholson-starring film of the same name, will premiere on the network ... |
1 March 2012
03:12 GMT |
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Samsung recently got into a fairly tight spot with KT over how the latter had blocked Internet access to the apps on about 250,000 of its Smart TVs. This went to show that web access is a major asset that makes a Smart TV, well, smart. It turns out, though, that it doesn't take a disgruntled Internet provide... |
22 February 2012
10:09 GMT |
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Fans feeling disappointed in the “new” “Two and a Half Men,” with Ashton Kutcher instead of Charlie Sheen, know that you are not alone: Charlie Sheen feels the same way you do. The show is very bad.
Though he recently said that he'd made his peace (of sorts) with series creator Chuck Lo... |
16 February 2012
08:44 GMT |
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One of the most hyped videos aired during the Super Bowl this year was not, as one might expect, a movie trailer, but a preview for NBC's upcoming series “Awake.” Above is an extended, 7-minute preview. “Awake” tells the story of a man leading a double life, one real and the other one a d... |
16 February 2012
06:53 GMT |
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For many months, there has been a lot of speculation on whether the medical drama “House M.D.” on Fox would make it past its 8th season, especially as ratings continue to decline. As it turns out, it won't, says an official announcement from Hugh Laurie and the creators. As we also noted on several p... |
9 February 2012
06:02 GMT |
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LevelOne has announced the arrival of a networking product that plays a three-pronged role, being the sort of hybrid that doesn't often get released.
LevelOne has launched a product that can most accurately be described as a merger between an Ethernet switch, a Powerline adapter and a Wi-Fi access point.
For... |
2 February 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware developer Nintendo has long been accused of being unable to understand the Internet, and the Wii has suffered because it lacked a service that could directly compete with the PlayStation Network from Sony and the Xbox Live service from Microsoft. But now Nintendo is ready to launch ... |
30 January 2012
02:55 GMT |
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It has been known for some time that it is possible to use a home's power outlets to install a local area network, but the first electrical socket with Integrated LAN has only now been introduced.
The HomePlug AV standard for Powerline networking is not exactly new, but the “PE Socket” from Power E... |
27 January 2012
10:40 GMT |
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It appears that, soon enough, there may be a whole new wireless connectivity solution ready to serve, even though it is really just a variation of what exists already.
The first “Super Wi-Fi” network, running on the bare “white space”, has finally been deployed, in Wilmington, North Carolina... |
27 January 2012
07:52 GMT |
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Intel bought many companies over the years, but the latest acquisition may not exactly be easy to guess, since it is not about central processing units.Intel has officially announced that it has reached an agreement with QLogic for the acquirement of all product lines and certain assets related to the InfiniBand bus... |
23 January 2012
11:23 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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There are few Ethernet to Wi-Fi bridges out there, but ASUS wants its EA-N66 to be noteworthy for more than just that one reason.
What the company did was give it a very special look, one that will make owners want to put it on display instead of hiding.
For those who want the specs, it supports dual band 450Mbps 8... |
13 January 2012
11:08 GMT |
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Redo Backup and Recovery, a recovery solution that provides bare metal restore, is now at version 1.0.2. Bare metal restore means that even if your hard drive melts or gets completely erased by a virus, you can have a completely functional system back up and running in as little as 10 minutes.Redo Backup and Recovery... |
5 January 2012
05:35 GMT |
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Netflix is taking a very smart tip from HBO and is going into producing and distributing original content as well. “Lilyhammer” is the network's first series – and a trailer for it has just been released. “Lilyhammer” tells the story of a mobster who rats on his own boss and goes in... |
4 January 2012
07:02 GMT |
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Various motherboards, especially recent ones, have two LAN ports, but for those who don't, StarTech has invented the ST1000SPEXD2 Low Profile Dual Port PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Network Card.
This is useful for when a host system needs to be linked to two networks at the same time.
The low-profile form factor make... |
22 December 2011
09:49 GMT |
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A new ABC sitcom is generating a very intense debate even though it's not out yet. GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign are taking offense with the way “Work It” presents transgender people to the viewers at home.
“Work It” is based on an idea that's been done and over-done in fea... |
19 December 2011
05:10 GMT |
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The Kardashian are a very easy target these days: it's almost as if Kim's divorce from Kris Humphries has suddenly given everybody the courage to speak against them from a public platform. The latest celebrity to do so is actor Jonah Hill. In a new interview cited by the Daily Mail, the “Moneyball&rdq... |
15 December 2011
12:49 GMT |
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Continuing in the same line of TV programming of the type “in the life of the rich and famous,” E! has just picked up another reality show, one that will document the life of Clint Eastwood's family, it has emerged. Considering the success of all the Kardashian reality series, it's no wonder the... |
15 December 2011
12:12 GMT |
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Homes and businesses in Washington D.C. will soon get to communicate over the network at speeds they could never have reached before and at an affordable cost too.
DC-CAN is a 100 Gbps network that delivers affordable “middle-mile” services to government entities and private-sector Internet Service Prov... |
9 December 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Ryan Seacrest is one of the busiest and, as it happens, richest figures on television right now. Most of the time behind the camera, Ryan sits atop of a media empire he's build with his own hands. And he's just getting started, says a new report. For several months now, there's been some rumblings abou... |
9 December 2011
07:51 GMT |
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There's a new reality show on the block. Called “Virgin Diaries” and telling the story of various people who choose to abstain from making love until they're married, it's already the talk of the town – for all the wrong reasons. The latest promo put TLC, the network behind the new ... |
1 December 2011
11:43 GMT |
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What with the ongoing Kim Kardashian media frenzy, here's a video to remind us all that nothing we see on TV is real, even if it's marketed as “reality programming.” This video is from an older BBC show. Editing is everything in television is crucial, Charlie Brooker explains. Editing can turn a... |
1 December 2011
10:56 GMT |
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If you thought your home's power wiring wasn't going to do anything else, think again, because TRENDnet just announced the 200Mbps Powerline AV Adapter with Bonus Plug, model TPL-307E. Two of these make up a 200Mbps Powerline AV Adapter Kit with Bonus Plug, model TPL-307E2K. Basically, these are supposed ... |
30 November 2011
18:31 GMT |
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TLC, which ironically stands for The Learning Channel, has a new reality series in the works. It's called “Virgin Diaries” and will tell the stories of adults who have never kissed or had relations. It also has the funniest promo ever to air on television, by public consensus.“Virgin Diaries ta... |
29 November 2011
11:16 GMT |
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Come Sunday, CBS will air a full interview with Angelina Jolie on 60 Minutes in which she'll talk about love, family, directing movies and her wild youth. A preview has been released, promising the most revealing interview to date with the A-lister. It's no secret that Jolie had a wild youth. Back in the ... |
24 November 2011
08:48 GMT |
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Supercomputers are all well and good, but it can be tricky to actually get data in need of research to them, so a team from Indiana University set about to make it possible.
Several universities got to test out, during the SC11 conference, particularly the SCinet Research Sandbox (SRS), a network that operated at 1... |
23 November 2011
09:41 GMT |
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With millions of Americans – and not only – keeping a very close eye on Casey Anthony's trial just to see her acquitted of the murder of her 2-year-old daughter, interest in a movie about the trial is peaking. Not only is it peaking but it will actually turn to fruition, Variety reports. Lifetime is ... |
17 November 2011
11:20 GMT |
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Even the most convenient technologies have their limitations and, apparently, one of the ones DLNA had to wrestle with has been overcome.
The Digital Living Network Alliance announced that it had added Wi-Fi Direct to its interoperability guidelines.
The name of the certification should be enough to suggest what i... |
17 November 2011
03:23 GMT |
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Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's personal physician, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter just days ago, but he's this close to becoming a celebrity thanks to NBC. The network plans to air a documentary shot right after the singer's death in 2009. The other day, word got out that Murray had... |
10 November 2011
08:48 GMT |
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The Sheenius is winning again – or getting ready to. After some negotiations with at least three major networks, Charlie Sheen has finally found a home for his new comedy show in FX Network, it has emerged. Sheen was fired from CBS' “Two and a Half Men” after getting into a very nasty verbal di... |
28 October 2011
08:45 GMT |
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The wireless router market really is expanding, what with so many companies launching one or more such things at once, like Belkin just did.
Belkin introduced the N750 DB, N600 DB, N300 and N150 routers, which can perform data backup automatically (via an app), though their main asset is the wireless speed of 150 M... |
28 October 2011
05:10 GMT |
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ZyXEL released routers before, but none were as small and yet still so versatile as the new MWR102, whose product photos definitely don't really suggest it is as small as they say. New tech devices usually try to be small or wireless, with both these traits sometimes combined. ZyXEL may have just set a new st... |
26 October 2011
08:45 GMT |
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Even before she was acquitted of the murder of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, there was a lot of talk about how much money Casey Anthony would stand to make from her first interview. NBC is said to be helping her score as much as possible. Earlier this year, word got out that NBC and two other major networks were w... |
25 October 2011
05:11 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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