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Microsoft's 'multipoint' tech for emerging markets

To bring technology to emerging markets, Microsoft has an ongoing project called Unlimited Potential. CNET News.com's Ina Fried sat down with Microsoft VP Will Poole to discuss what the project's new "multipoint" technology is doing to help address the problems of having just one computer for a large classroom.

Tags: Microsoft Corp., News.com, Marketing Research, Financial Services, microsoft, will poole, unlimited potential, multipoint, emerging markets, emerging segments, third world, cell, mobile, cellular, phone, computer, pc, Emerging Market, Marketing

Videos 2007-10-10

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Plantronics Voyager 835

Plantronics has long been known for its quality Bluetooth headsets, not only because of fit and feel, but also because of its patented AudioIQ technology that helps reduce background noise. However, with more advanced headsets such as the BlueAnt V1 in the market, it needs to amp up its...

Tags: ear tip, volume button, Voyager 835, Voyager, headset, microphone, Plantronics

Product reviews 2008-09-18

Hey, Dad, did you hear the world was going to end this week?

Hey, Dad, did you hear the world was going to end this week?I was disappointed.I was counting on not having to go to work. :-)The destructive fantasy of Freedom*Stultify* has no intransitive sense; Dr. Hawking appears not to know what the word means. Although this could be considered niggling, it...

Tags: fantasy, Hawking

Discussion threads 2008-09-11

BlueAnt V1

We've grown to be pretty big fans of BlueAnt headsets over the past year, especially with the BlueAnt Z9 and the BlueAnt Z9i. Both Bluetooth headsets impressed us with excellent sound quality, while the Z9i improved upon the original with extra features like better audio and the addition of multipoint...

Tags: earpiece, BlueAnt, headset, BlueAnt Z9

Product reviews 2008-09-05

EasyMule (exe)

EasyMule is a free and open-source P2P software to share resources. With the EasyMule, you can use all the world's computers and servers integrated into a huge resource-sharing network. Users can search to the resources in this huge network, and download files by multipoint transfers for the best speeds. EasyMule...

Tags: Network, Shanghai Source Networking Technology, EasyMule, Open Source

Software downloads 2008-08-05

BlueAnt Z9i (black)

One of BlueAnt's most popular Bluetooth headsets last year was the BlueAnt Z9, which we rated highly as having excellent sound quality, and many of you agreed. But BlueAnt wasn't happy just resting on its laurels; indeed, it has come up with an upgrade to the Z9, and the headset...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, BlueAnt Z9i, BlueAnt Z9, BlueAnt, phone

Product reviews 2008-07-02

Key Application - Shared Outbound (Point-to-Multipoint): Using the Vocality Multiplexer/Router Over Point-to-Multipoint Networks Efficiently Using Large Outbound/Small Inbound Architecture

This white paper provides an overview of a system configuration achievable through a combination of hardware from Vocality and traditional SCPC satellite modems. Satellite users such as welfare deployments or Satellite News Gathering truck operators will see immediate benefit from the flexible nature of the system design, allowing easy to...

Tags: Router, Satellite, Network Technology, Routers & Switches, Networking

White papers 2008-06-12

D-Link introduces ethernet-to-coax kit that uses your home's existing wiring

Using the existing wiring of your home is a hot topic here on this blog, and it seems like D-Link's new product might make it a bit easier. This morning, networking company D-Link introduced a Coax Ethernet Adapter Kit that taps into existing coaxial wiring throughout the...

Tags: D-Link Systems, Network, Adapter, Coax Ethernet Adapter Kit, Home Networking, Networking, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-05-28

QuantWindow Calculator (zip)

QuantWindow doubles the speed of urgent quantification by using ready calibration methods from user library. It stores the data both for external and internal standard methods with single point or multipoint calibration. It is useful for fast quantification by using different chromatography - spectrometry analytical techniques like LC/MS, GC/MS, ICP/MS,...

Tags: Calibration, Slavko Cusic, Productivity, Network Security, Networking

Software downloads 2008-04-28

Plantronics Discovery 925 - black

Save for a few exceptions, Bluetooth headset designs haven't changed much over the past few years. Most of them just look progressively smaller and blockier. There are some standouts though, like the Aliph Jawbone with its perforated shell, and the Callpod Dragon with its circular disc shape. This year, Plantronics...

Tags: eartip, bonus feature, Discovery 925, headset, Plantronics

Product reviews 2008-04-01

Do 1:1 solutions really need to be portable?

News.com is carrying a story on efforts in one Brazilian city to forgo emerging trends towards OLPC-style laptops for kids and bring computing directly to kids' desks. While the Brazilian government is being courted by both OLPC and Intel to place their respective low-cost laptops into classrooms around the...

Tags: Desk, Classroom, Tablets, Productivity, Notebooks, Desktops, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-03-13

Integrated Easy VPN and Dynamic Multipoint VPN

The Dynamic Multipoint VPN DMVPN feature allows users to better scale large and small IP Security IPsec Virtual Private Networks VPNs by combining generic routing encapsulation GRE tunnels, IPsec encryption, and Next Hop Resolution Protocol NHRP. This paper describes how Easy VPN can be combined with DMVPN for the deployment...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., ECT, IPSec, VPNs, Network Security, Networking, Security

White papers 2008-03-11

Jabra BT8040

Jabra is a significant brand name in the Bluetooth headset business, but that doesn't mean Jabra is resting on its laurels. The company has recently introduced the Jabra BT8040, which promises to blow other Bluetooth headsets out of the water with its simple, yet elegant design along with its impressive...

Tags: LED indicator, Jabra BT8040, headset, Jabra, A2DP

Product reviews 2008-02-15

Motorola Case Study: New Mexico Dairy

A dairy in New Mexico, which needed to build a communication link between their office and a new warehouse complex to track their multiple fluid milk product lines, was soured on the costs to trench and bury conventional communication cables beneath railroad tracks and paved lots. For help, the dairy...

Tags: Dairy, Motorola Inc., Wireless, Broadband Internet, Cable, Advertising & Promotion, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing

Case studies 2008-02-13

Microsoft's $235 million PIL is not so bitter

Microsoft's Partners in Learning PIL program is one of those intiatives that only the hardest hearted cynics would disparage. Advancing the quality of education? Helping train teachers? Providing students in developing nations with access to technological tools? What's not to like? Some Microsoft observers -- including a...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Unlimited Potential, Linux, Investment, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-01-22

CCIE Routing and Switching Mock Labs Boot Camp

View Available Dates and LocationsThis intensive, lab-based course is the second in our curriculum designed specifically to prepare you for the CCIE Routing and Switching Lab Exam. The course consists of five complete CCIE Routing and Switching mock labs, written and supported by our CCIE-certified instructors and...

Tags: IPv4, IPv6, Lab, BGP, Networking

Training 2008-01-01

SNRS - Securing Networks with Cisco Routers and Switches

View Available Dates and Locations In this recently updated, lab-intensive course, you'll get the knowledge and skills needed to secure Cisco IOS router and switch networks. Get in-depth training on IOS-based VPN configurations, including traditional IPSec Site-to-Site VPN, PKI/Digital Certificates for authentication, and Cisco Easy ...

Tags: VPN, Firewall, Cisco IOS, Pod, Cisco Router, Router, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Access Control, Authentication, WebVPN, Routers & Switches, Networking, Security

Training 2008-01-01

When a Hurricane Prevented Travel, Executive Meetings Continued Using Multipoint IP Videoconferencing

In late October 2005, disastrous weather in the southeastern United States prevented Cisco marketing executives from traveling to a conference in Florida. And yet, the executives already in Florida were able to meet with their counterparts in San Jose, California and Milan, Italy via an IP videoconference - and conducted...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Florida

Case studies 2007-12-18

Google does not need a carrier partner

Google does not need a carrier partner...well...Perhaps Google doesn't "need" a carrier partner from a perspective of operations, but they do "need" a carrier partner from a perspective of the bid. In other words, if Google bids 4.6 billion dollars for the spectrum, Verizon will bid 5 billion. ...

Tags: Business structures, Google Inc., carrier partner, spectrum

Discussion threads 2007-11-19

LifeSize rocks the HD conferencing world with affordable 720p solutions

LifeSize Communications was the first company to release an HD conferencing solution which I covered at Interop Las Vegas spring 2005.  Now at Interop fall 2007 in New York, it appears that LifeSize has again rocked the video conferencing world by releasing 720p HD products at half the price of...

Tags: Solution, Microphone, Video Conferencing, Furniture, Video, HD, LifeSize Express, Corporate Communications, Marketing, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-10-22