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- Images: NASA uncovers secret of the Northern Lights
- NASA's fleet of THEMIS satellites reveal that explosion of magnetic energy a third of the way to the moon causes the aurora borealis. by CNET News.com
- Tags: NASA, Network Technology, Networking, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-07-25
- 323 mln broadband users in 2007, 499 mln by 2012
- Worldwide consumer broadband connections will grow from 323 mln connections in 2007 to 499 mln in 2012, according to Gartner. Worldwide consumer broadband connections penetrated 18% of households in 2007, and by 2012, households with a broadband connection will reach 25%. Five countries exceeded 60% broadband penetration into the home...
- Tags: Broadband, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, AM
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- 253 mln Chinese Internet users, 214 mln of them use broadband
- There were 253 mln Chinese Internet users in June 2008, China Internet Network Information Centre reported. Internet penetration in China is still at 19.1%. 214 mln, or 84.7% of all users, are connecting via broadband. by AM
- Tags: Broadband, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Internet, Telecommunications, Networking, AM
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Intel launches new chip for consumer electronics
- In its latest bid to expand beyond PCs and servers into industrial and consumer electronics applications, Intel has announced a new family of embedded processors. These chips are not based on the Atom processor already used in netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices MIDs--those versions won't arrive until...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Intel Corp., Chip, Atom, SoCs, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Gallery: Broadband in a sewer
- The coverage is good but the location stinks. A sewer built in London during the reign of Queen Victoria is now hosting a business broadband network. by Andy Smith
- Tags: Sewer, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Network Technology, Networking, Andy Smith, broadband, wireless, network. UK
- Image galleries 2008-07-23
- ArenaXcape (zip)
- ArenaXcape is a multiplayer arena shooter game based on AlienXcape. In ArenaXcape you can battle with three of your friends over a LAN or the Internet. ArenaXcape is designed for the high-end graphics possible with Windows Vista and DirectX 10. In this three story level, you can pick up multiple...
- Tags: OTS Software, ArenaXcape, Internet, Microsoft Windows, LANs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Games, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Network Technology, Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2008-07-22
- 600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddance!
- Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! As the great Obi-Wan Kenobi once said "I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced." Click on the "Read the rest of this entry" link below...
- Tags: Coffee, Starbucks Corp., Modems, Retail, Wireless LANs, DSL, E-mail, Network Technology, Hardware, Components, Wireless, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Can XM-Sirius merger stand up to Washington politics?
- After well over a year of scrutiny, the proposed merger between the country's two satellite radio providers - XM and Sirius - is finally on the home stretch, set for an approval vote as early as Aug. 1. But wait. This week, one of the FCC commissioners proposed even more...
- Tags: Merger, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Satellite, Sirius, Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, Satellite Radio, Advertising & Promotion, Mergers & Acquisitions, Digital Music, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- NebuAd: Galileo or pariah?
- So, it would seem we have found the outer limits of user tracking and ad-serving. At a House hearing yesterday, NebuAd ran into universal condemnation for its plans to monitor broadband customers' web visits and deliver targeting advertising, reports News.com's Declan McCullagh. Contemptible. Goes against everything...
- Tags: Web, Advertisement, Cable Company, Internet Service Provider, Notice, NebuAd, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cable, Channel Management, Network Technology, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Crypto Manager (exe)
- The Crypto Manager program is intended for fast encrypting of any users files. For this purpose, RC4, a high-speed on-the-fly algorithm of encrypting, is used in the program. The program allows to encrypt any taken file and to pass it safely to the other person, using the common ways (portable...
- Tags: Program, Actual Software Lab, Crypto Manager Program, E-mail, LANs, Engineering, Networking, Network Technology, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-07-18
- Podcast: Diary of a dial-up user (part 4 - final)
- This is the final installment of this soap-style, badly written diary of my broadband woes, fights and mishaps. It's been nearly two weeks without broadband at my new house, battling my way online through the means of dial-up Internet. It still hasn't been fully resolved as of...
- Tags: Diary, Podcasts, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Internet, Networking, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- My Favorite Cheney, now on radio
- The revolution here is that devices other than pacemakers can use Zarlink chips, and thus deliver daily reports on their actions, rather than the quarterly reports patients must now rely upon. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Patient, Radio, Chip, Zarlink, Advertising & Promotion, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Marketing, Hardware, Networking, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- DISH Network launches satellite, promises more HD channels
- In order to offer more HD channels, satellite providers apparently need more satellites. So if you're a satellite subscriber who thrives on HD, now's your time to cheer. (And not because you think they're going to launch comedian and spokesman Frank Caliendo, at right, into space.) ...
- Tags: Network, Dish Network, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- WinCAM (exe)
- WinCAM is a 32-bit Windows version of the CAM archiver which allows you to create, manage, and control archive files. Creation of self-extracting archives also multivolume using SFX modules; Large file support: WinCAM supports the 64-bit CAM file format, which eliminates all practical restrictions on the size of CAM files...
- Tags: Size, UrsaLab Software, WinCAM, 64-Bit, Microsoft Windows, Network Technology, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Software, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-07-16
- NASA tests fiber optic wing shape sensors
- The Ikhana unmanned aircraft system has been used by NASA last year to fight wildfires from the sky and this month to provide images of current Californian wildfires to authorities. But Ikhana is also used to evaluate advanced sensing technology installed on its wings to improve its efficiency. The new...
- Tags: NASA, Sensor, Aircraft, Fiber-optics, Ikhana, Fiber Optics, Aerospace & Defense, Optical Networking, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Wandering IPs (exe)
- Wandering IPs is geolocation software. Once launched it monitors TCP connections made to or from your PC, identifies remote IP adresses and then tries to determine their geographic locations. Results are displayed on textured. Illuminated accordingly to time zone you're currently in, 3D globe. Apart from locating endpoints, it can...
- Tags: IP, Marek Jablonski, Wandering IP, Results, Network Technology, Networking, Tcp/Ip
- Software downloads 2008-07-15
- Moving house: diary of a dial-up user (part 3)
- I'm continuing my diary of the troubles I'm having with getting broadband into my new house. I never thought it would be this difficult, but indeed these posts prove it really can be. Monday 14th July 2008 - Today The morning post came with something for...
- Tags: Diary, Broadband, Professional Development, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Career, Networking, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Accessing Internet at 640 Gb/s?
- University of Sydney physicists have developed an optical chip that could potentially improve 'Internet speeds to up to 100 times faster than current Australia's networks.' According to the Sydney Morning Herald, these chalcogenide glass photonic chips will be very cheap to produce as they're based on plain glass. As said...
- Tags: Glass, Network, Signal Processing, Chip, CUDOS, Internet, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-12
- Moving house: diary of a dial-up user (part 2)
- As you know from my previous post, it has been an absolute battle to try and get broadband connectivity to my new house in Canterbury. All the other seemingly complicated "hardware based" products like electricity, gas and water supplies have been easy to set up and continue flowing. So why...
- Tags: Broadband, Broadband Internet, Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- IISIP (zip)
- IISIP keeps attackers out of IIS by easily blocking known bad IP addresses, and optionally IP addresses and China and Korea. The lists are automatically downloaded so the latest versions are always available. A simple but effective way to block unwanted attacks. This version is the first release on CNET...
- Tags: IP, IP Address, HD Greetings, IISIP, Network Technology, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-07-11
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