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As economy plummets, cable, satellite TV bills are on the rise

When the country fell into a severe recession in the second half of 2008, prices dropped nearly across the board in response to consumers becoming reluctant to spend money on anything beyond basic necessities. But according to a new study conducted by research firm Centris, the cable/satellite TV industry was...

Tags: Megabit, TV, Satellite, Satellite Television, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-04-20

ADSL at 250 megabits per second?

ADSL at 250 megabits per second?Hi-speed ADSL & Broadband over power lines?And how would this work with relation to broadband over POWER lines? The same technique should be able to work, and those lines are needed worldwide, regardless of fiber optic lines. Sounds like another area his company should look...

Tags: Broadband over power line, DSL, Network technology, Broadband Internet, ADSL

Discussion threads 2007-11-12

What would you do with 100 megabits to the home?

What would you do with 100 megabits to the home?100 megabits won't be enoughThis sounds like the guy that sold me my first computer in 1995. It had a 120MB hard drive. He told me that IN NO WAY could I ever in my lifetime imagine filling that up. Not...

Tags: INTERNET, megabit

Discussion threads 2007-04-17

What would you do with 100 megabits to the home?

Om Malik highlights the FTTH Council, a group that is pushing the U.S. government to adopt a 100 Megabit Nation policy by 2015. The proposal by the group notes that: There...

Tags: Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Verizon, Telecommunications, General, Broadband

Blog posts 2007-04-17

IBM's wireless superchip

IBM's chip can deliver 600 megabits per second of data, allowing it to deliver fat files over short distances.

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, megabit, IBM Corp., chip, wireless

Image galleries 2006-02-05

IBM's wireless superchip

IBM's chip can deliver 600 megabits per second of data, allowing it to deliver fat files over short distances.

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, megabit, IBM Corp., chip, wireless

Image galleries 2006-02-05

Why is no one suing the Wireless LAN industry?

In yesterday's news, two major victories for the consumers were handed down by the court system. First, Apple was forced to settle with owners of iPods which only had 50% of the battery life in actual run time compared to what was advertised. Second, Gillette was ruled to...

Tags: battery, George Ou, Gillette Co., megabit, wireless, WLAN

Blog posts 2005-06-03

High definition video conferencing is here

Last week at Interop 2005, there was a lot of buzz on HD video conferencing from multiple vendors. Polycom was suppose to be doing some limited HD demonstrations in their booth, but I didn't actually see any HD demos while visiting their booth. Going over to the next...

Tags: Lifesize, megabit

Blog posts 2005-05-10

Spectrum hog leads the race for 802.11n ratification

The 802.11n task grouplast weeknarrowed the number of candidates for the new wireless Ethernet standard 802.11n to just two. The significance of this is that the clear leader of the two remaining candidates, TgnSync, is unfortunately a spectrum hog. The trailing candidate WWiSE ironically stands for "World-Wide Spectrum Efficiency."There are...

Tags: megabit, Belkin Corp., Airgo Networks

Blog posts 2005-01-27

Will utility grid computing really make MIPS a commodity?

When people start referring to MIPS Million Instructions Per Second being turned into a commodity due to utility and grid computing, it sounds like the best thing since sliced bread. But if you really start to think about it, the idea becomes more and more ludicrous. We're somehow supposed to...

Tags: MIPS

Blog posts 2004-12-10

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OTOY's Jules Urbach: Cloud computing 'threatens' game consoles, Blu-ray, PCs [interview]

Cloud computing can't possibly handle streaming a Blu-ray movie or Adobe Photoshop, can it? Jules Urbach says it's not only possible, but scalable as a business. Urbach, founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based OTOY, is working with AMD to pair that company's supercomputers with...

Tags: Cloud Computing, Console, PC, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Game Console, Blu-ray, OTOY, Jules Urbach, Games, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-11

The Cost of the Free Internet

The outpouring of interest in and passionate argument about IAC chairman Barry Diller’s declaration last week that the delivery of content over the Internet ‘absolutely’ will become a ‘paid system’ was instructive. First, it shows the power of the “free” Internet, as it is currently constructed. A...

Tags: Payment, Video, Cable, Programming, Internet, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Comcast rolls out Ultra service, keeps cut-off ceiling

Yesterday, in the lapse of about an hour, I got 1) an email from Comcast flak Charlie Douglas on the rollout of the cable giant's Extreme and Ultra Internet service to Boston and Philly and plans to extend to 10 major markets and 2) a call from Comcast inviting me...

Tags: Comcast Corp., Internet, E-mail, Cable, Network Technology, Online Communications, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Richard Koman, Speed, Mbps, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Blog posts 2008-10-23

A great reason to jailbreak: tethering

A great reason to jailbreak: tetheringNokia: No Jailbreaking Required[url=http://www.opentoanything.com/]Open to Anything.[/url]So much so, in fact Nokia has put Symbian into open source.What kind of smartphone doesn't allow you to tether?If you ask me, that's just dumb.Here's a [url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2008/09/nokia-n95n96-still-the-best-smartphone-of-all.html]link[/url] to one of my articles listing some of the things you can...

Tags: 3G, INTERNET, Engineering, Cellular phones, WIRELESS, great reason, Nokia Corp., Apple iPhone, battery

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Canon Vixia HF11

Creating a product line where once there was but one, Canon follows up its flash-based, high-definition Vixia HF10 AVCHD camcorder with a slightly more powerful model, the HF11. Like its sibling, the HF11 is a sleek black compact model with a well-rounded feature set, great video, and excellent performance, and...

Tags: Corporate communications, Flash memory, HF11, camcorder, video, Canon Inc.

Product reviews 2008-08-07

2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."

July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...

Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Vox BlackBox (1TB)

The Vox BlackBox offers 1TB of storage and can be found online from roughly $310 to $340. Aside from its low cost per gigabyte, there's unfortunately little to recommend about this dual-drive Network Attached Storage NAS device. From the desktop application to the Web-based interface, the device is consistently confusing....

Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage, NETWORKING, BlackBox, VoX

Product reviews 2008-07-11

Private School Installs D-Link Switches and Access Points, Passing on Complex, Costly Competitive Equipment

The Weber School needed an integrated, centrally managed network to support growing wireless and fixed switching demands. Their previous network consisted of various 10 and 100 Megabit switches, and a variety of consumer-grade wireless access points. The school wanted a high performance solution with robust security, centralized RADIUS authentication (which...

Tags: D-Link Systems, High-performance, Access Point, Wireless, Home Networking, Leadership, Wireless And Mobility, Networking, Personal Technology, Management

Case studies 2008-05-29

Air Filtration Firm Propels Server Performance by 200%

Company decision-makers quickly spotted the need for an equipment update when the three physical and two virtual servers were not offering adequately fast and reliable remote access to their 70 employees. The off-site staff needed access to the data from headquarters; everyone needed daily access to and from the five...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Server Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Remote Access, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Case studies 2008-05-12

Sony Handycam HDR-SR11

I used to think that hard drive models would take over the camcorder market as miniDV slowly faded into the horizon. I've since changed my tune after using flash-based models, especially those that include some onboard memory. However, if you shoot a lot of video--or just don't bother to back...

Tags: camcorder, Sony Corp., AVCHD, hard drive

Product reviews 2008-04-10