D-Link's 8-port gigabit switch (D-Link DGS-1008G 8-Port Gigabit Desktop Switch) is a great product. It's a breeze to install - just plug in power and your ethernet cables and you now have a gigabit-capable network that works with gigabit or slower devices with no need to configure anything. This worked great to give me faster access to files shared over the network and my NAS … [Read more...]
Fire Sale on HP’s WebOS-driven TouchPad! 16GB For $100, 32GB for $150
HP is one of the largest tech companies in the world and this week may go down in history as the week a large, stable company began to crumble for self-imposed reasons. On Thursday, HP gave their third quarter 2011 results which showed a minor loss in revenue when adjusted for currency effects. However, also in that financial statement came three other bits of news: HP … [Read more...]
Google Gives Android A Shot In The Arm With Acquisition of Motorola Mobility
Google's CEO Larry Page announced a very big acquisition deal this morning - They are in agreement to acquire Motorola Mobility, the handset division of Motorola that was spun-off at the beginning of 2011, for $12.5 billion. In a joint press release coming from Mountain View, California and Libertyville, Illinois, the two companies listed details of the acquisition. Google Inc. … [Read more...]
New Optical Discs Promise Much Greater Durability
Blu-ray discs might have thought it had won the format wars when HD-DVD conceded the fight in 2008 but little did it know that was only a battle in a larger war for the survival of optical discs. Optical media's less obvious opponent? Streaming. The durability of optical media has often been criticized - prone to scratches and breaking, the media can also lose data in extreme … [Read more...]
IBM Drains Itself Out of University of Illinois ‘Blue Waters’ Supercomputer
I had the pleasure of touring the NCSA's 'Blue Waters', a national petascale supercomputing facility, on the University of Illinois' Urbana-Champaign campus so it is with some sadness that I read that the project has suffered a setback as IBM removes itself from the partnership. … [Read more...]