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D-Link DCS-1100 and DCS-1130 IP webcam promise simple setup

By Chris Davies on Monday, Jun 15th 2009 No Comments

d link dcs 1100 network webcam D-Link have announced two new network webcams which promise plug-and-play remote viewing using the company’s online streaming portal. The D-Link Network Camera DCS-1100 launches today, while the DCS-1130 – with WiFi draft-n – arrives later in the month.

Both cameras can be accessed from any browser by going to D-Link’s mydlink.com portal. However they can also be used to stream live video to cellphones, with sound from the integrated microphone and remote control of 16x digital zoom and motion detection.

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HDMI 1.4 adds ethernet, bi-directional audio, 1080p 3D

By Chris Davies on Thursday, May 28th 2009 No Comments

hdmi 1 4 Internet-connected TVs and other home media devices could soon see a boost, as the new HDMI 1.4 standard bundles not only video and audio support but data capabilities too. HDMI 1.4 can support data rates of up to 100MB/s, effectively replacing a standard 10/100 ethernet cable, as well as introducing bi-directional audio (aka “upstream audio”) and HD support up to 4096 x 2160.

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D-Link add CAPTCHA anti-trojan security to routers

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, May 12th 2009 No Comments

D-Link have announced new CAPTCHA security for selected models in their router range, promising more resilience against DNS-altering malware and spyware. The new firmware – which is also available to upgrade on existing models – adds the familiar distorted letters and numbers to common router settings pages.

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LaCie upgrades NAS RAID devices; 10TB capacity now possible

By Brenda Stokes on Monday, May 11th 2009 No Comments

LaCie gave their NAS RAID product line up a significant overhaul today by upgrading their LaCie 2big Network and 5big Network. With this upgrade, you can expect a performance boost, additional features, backup support and a serious expansion of capacity.

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WiGig Alliance forms for 60GHz connections

By Brenda Stokes on Wednesday, May 6th 2009 No Comments

wigig 480x208 Well, the wireless world is just all over the place right now, isn’t it? In an effort to ramp up super high-speed connection options, an organization formed today called the WiGig Alliance who has made it its aim to come up with a common standard for 60GHz wireless connections.

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LevelOne MobilSpot Portable Wireless Hotspot debuts

By Brenda Stokes on Wednesday, Apr 29th 2009 No Comments

CP Technologies announced their latest product, the LevelOne MobilSpot Portable Wireless Hotspot today, which is a 3G router that makes it easy to connect your broadband network to Wi-Fi.

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Bigfoot Xeno Killer Pro & Ultra gaming NICs

By Chris Davies on Monday, Mar 23rd 2009 No Comments

It’s been a long time since Bigfoot’s first-gen Killer K1 network card first tried to persuade us that $150 is a reasonable price for a NIC, and now the company is back with two new products. As with their predecessor, the Killer Xeno Ultra and Killer Xeno Pro promise reduced pings, but they now add voice chat offloading.

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Hitachi’s InfiniGreen InfiniBand cables, more bandwidth, less power consumption

By Daniel Lim on Monday, Mar 16th 2009 No Comments

Consumers are seeking out more green and power-saving products, and frankly, there aren’t any different in IT industry. Hitachi new optical active cables solution, promised to cut cost by reducing power consumption while increase productivity, is the exactly what the IT, data communication and telecommunication industries are looking for right now.

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AT&T Mobility Network Disaster Recovery : SlashGear Exclusive

By Daniel Lim and Chris Davies on Friday, Mar 13th 2009 No Comments

When your broadband drops, or your local cell tower decides it wants a nap, it’s frustrating. What if you’re responsible not just for one broadband connection but a copper, fiber and wireless network that stretches across the US? That’s the responsibility of the AT&T Network Disaster Recovery (NDR) team, the group responsible for swooping in after natural disasters and significant network failures and bringing AT&T back online. SlashGear was invited to one of their quarterly disaster simulations recently took place at Houston, Texas to see what’s involved.

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D-link ships DSN-1100, compact 5-Bay SAN storage solution for SMB

By Daniel Lim on Wednesday, Mar 11th 2009 No Comments

D-Link now shipping its new DSN-1100, a 5-Bay iSCSI Network Area Network (SAN) Array enclosure, offering up to a total of 7.5 Terabytes storage capacity for SMB Budget.

The DSN-1100 is housed in a compact desktop chassis, built on the same System-on-a-Chip technology from company’s DSN-3000 family SAN arrays. It implements 4 one-gigabit ports and supports IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Groups (LAG) for full offload capability; all four ports can be grouped together, totaling up to 425MB/s bandwidth, to increase throughput and redundancy. The unit supports SATA-II drive and a host of Raid configuration from 0,1,1+0 and 5.

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