DigiTimes today reported that declining market share in North America over the past year has prompted Linksys to launch plans to pursue other markets and bring North America revenue contribution to “below 50%”. Full Article.
Hawking Technologies announced today that it has begun shipping a draft 802.11n USB networking adapter with upgradeable antennas and a USB print server designed for use with multifunction printers.
Berkeley Varitronics Systems today announced its latest Yellowjacket B/A/N/G 802.11b/a/n/g Wi-Fi analyzer. The B/A/N/G is a Yellowjacket 802.11 “BAG” Wi-Fi analyzer with upgrades for draft 802.11n and signal-to-noise ratio measurements. OlderYellowjacket models can be upgraded free of charge. The Yellowjacket-B/A/N/G is available now. Pricing was not announced.
In a follow-up to our earlier article, we find that WPS can work, if you know how to negotiate the not-so-obvious traps.
I’ve seen posts in the Comments of a few RAID NAS reviews that complain of failed recoveries. In some cases, the RAID array suddenly becomes available, but there is no drive failure and the array needs to be rebuilt, destroying all data. In other cases, there is an actual drive failure, but the array becomes … Read more
eFileCabinet today announced its new service offering, Concentsus Online Backup. The Concentsus solution is based on EMC’s Fortress suite of online backup services. It performs automatic backups from Windows computers and servers via a secure SSL-based connection to eFileCabinet’s offsite servers.
With all the component and configuration options for constructing and managing a small network, it is important to numerically evaluate network performance. Performance measurements provide facts and statistics about the amount of data on your network and identify opportunities for improvement. Without measuring performance, the only indications of functionality are simple up and down states, as well as subjective statements based on user experience.
Updated 3/28/2008
The Ethernet Alliance today announced that the IEEE P802.3at task force has created IEEE P802.3at/Draft 3.0 and has submitted it to the IEEE 802.3 working group ballot for technical review of the draft standard. This task force expects to complete standard ratification by 2009.
Updated 3/30/2008 La Cie’s 2big Network is the company’s first real dual-drive RAID 1 NAS. Compared to its competition, the 2big’s feature set is bare-bones with no media or print serving supported.
If you have access to an SSH daemon, you can surf safely no matter where you are connected.
Microsoft today announced a Digital Home Makeover Contest.
The $10,000 prize package will include a new PC with Windows Media Center, Extenders for Windows Media Center, flat screen television and "video-capable" wireless home networking.
I’ve been meaning to review backup software, but never seem to get around to it. So I’m turning to you all for ideas. So what application do you use for backup? What do you like about it and what do you think could be improved? Just post a comment below. No registration is required. Thanks!