Category: Network

SingTel picks up social start-up Pixable for US$26.5m

SingTel has proclaimed this morning that it’ll acquire New York-based picture sharing company Pixable for US$26.5 million as a part of the company’s Digital Life division.

The picture aggregation service, that appears like a cross between Instagram and Pinterest, was launched in 2009 by 2 former Microsoft staff, and currently boasts quite four million users accessing the service through iOS and automaton apps and thru its web site.
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Telstra’s disconnect with mum and pa investors

When your company has endowed near a billion greenbacks in cloud computing, and an area of shareholders goes silent after you raise what cloud computing is, it would be the time to panic. however the mum and pa Telstra investors appear to position plenty of trust in business executive David Thodey.

Thodey and corporate executive Andy Penn met with alittle variety of retail shareholders in Sydney yesterday, for an off-the-cuff meeting earlier than the Annual General Meeting (AGM) next month. the gang of no quite a hundred individuals, largely senior retirees, were greeted by young, energetic-looking workers dressed rather dapperly within the new material Telstra retail outfits on the second floor of the Hilton yesterday afternoon. when edge through the gang, Thodey and Penn took to the stage to deliver short speeches on wherever the corporate was at, before turning to queries for ninety minutes. Continue reading “Telstra’s disconnect with mum and pa investors”

Cisco Flip UltraHD (2-hour/8GB)

Cisco recently declared the discontinuance of its Flip pocket camcorders, however the present generation of Flip camcorders continues to be accessible through the company’s web site whereas provides last. you’ll be able to browse Cisco’s official announcement relating to product support here.

If you are looking for a direct pocket tv camera, Cisco’s latest (and last) version of the Flip UltraHD is little and straightforward enough to justify its $180 (as of Apr fifteen, 2011) tag.

What the new 2-hour Flip UltraHD lacks in options, it makes up for in pure, elegant simplicity. The tv camera offers some slight enhancements over its predecessor: It’s diluent and fewer bulky–with a thickness of zero.88 in. versus the recent Flip UltraHD’s one.16 inches–but still alittle too chunky to slide well into any however the largest of pockets. Continue reading “Cisco Flip UltraHD (2-hour/8GB)”

Network Cameras Go HD

Webcams are good for holding video chats. They’re also appropriate for snapping a few shots when they detect motion, and then emailing the photos to you. For more-thorough monitoring and protection, however, you should turn to another class of cameras, called IP (Internet Protocol) video cameras.

IP video cameras can monitor your home or office in real time and alert you to suspicious activities. They also can record events, producing valuable evidence that you can turn over to law enforcement officials in the wake of vandalism, a robbery, or some other crime. You can even incorporate some cameras into home automation and alarm systems. Continue reading “Network Cameras Go HD”

FCoE or iSCSI which way are you choose?

Software based FCOE is the natural model to adopt for a commodity LAN vendor who is converging on storage. Here the goal may be to inter-network with legacy FC equipment by running a FC protocol stack on top of a regular Ethernet driver in a commodity host operating system. The Ethernet controller looks just like a regular Ethernet controller, except that it is able to partake in the new Ethernet congestion avoidance protocols currently being defined in the IEEE. The FCOE driver is handed an FCOE frame and needs to perform FC protocol.

Performance is likely to be worse than a hardware based solution because software is now doing FC protocol which would previously have been done by the FC controller and also because FC data integrity is now being done in software. (As an aside, data-integrity performance is becoming less of an issue with this architecture due to protocol neutral CRC support which is increasingly being found in hardware.) Also end customer acceptance is likely to be slow on the uptake because the software FC stack is immature and the FC community is rightly very conservative regarding system reliability and cross-vendor compatibility. However, software based FCOE has the promise of highly integrated commodity silicon (for the server at least). Continue reading “FCoE or iSCSI which way are you choose?”