Shaw now offering 25Mb/s cable internet

Shaw now offering 25Mb/s cable internet

Author JoeDigital | 01.05.2009 | Category Networking

Dubbed as “high speed Warp” Shaw is now offering the fastest residential internet service in Canada. This new product from shaw offers a whopping 25Mb/s download speed and 2Mb/s upload speeds and at this rate it is faster then most business internet services you can get from telus or any other DSL/Cable provider. Imagine downloading full length movies in less then 10 minuites or mp3’s in seconds. Here is what you get for about a hundred dollars a month:

• Up to 25 Mbps download speed
• Up to 2 Mbps upload speed
• 150 GB/month data transfer
• 10 personal email accounts
• 8 No-Cost Extras
• Up to two IP addresses (*2)
• 24/7/365 technical assistance
• Modem included

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Sanyo Home Network Viewer

Author JoeDigital | 13.03.2009 | Category Networking, Technology

This portable mini-screen is more than what it seems. Sanyo’s ALBO HNV-M70 Home Network Viewer can be used for visual functions for a variety of reasons and purposes – those that we are all aware that we need and avail of every day.

This digital frame can show photos which you can load into the device through memory card. But the rest of its great features not only allow it to additionally synchronize it with Picasa online to upload even more photos, but the Viewer also lets you check your email, display attachments, and view RSS feeds from the internet right through its screen.

At US $619, Sanyo’s ALBO HNV-M70 Home Network Viewer is one really reliable portable screen, especially if you know you use the features mentioned above a lot. The entire set comes with all the nitty-gritty specifications and can be bought either as black or apple green, together with a base.

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Femtocell for better mobile signal

Author JoeDigital | 25.02.2009 | Category Innovation, Networking

Got problems with low or bad signal on your mobile phone when you’re in places that have faulty mobile signal? Well, homeowners who just can’t find signal in their own homes or workers who are employed in certain establishments with bad reception can think of getting a Femtocell.

Femtocells are basically small devices that look like the routers we use to wirelessly connect to the internet that actually help improve indoor reception. They basically achieve this by making use of your existing broadband connection to repeat it and boost the average signal you receive at home.

And it looks like companies like AT&T and Verizon are making their own branded models for this signal amplifier. This means, as it actually did happen, exclusive costs for consumers who avail of this product from either company. You need to be signed up for this and that and pay this much in order to enjoy the service.

But if getting good signal in your own home is really a necessity, why not?

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Considering The Google Gdrive

Author JoeDigital | 20.02.2009 | Category Computers, Innovation, Networking, Technology Viewpoint

If you stepped off the bus earlier this afternoon, and walked directly into a high tech corporate office, you’d be presented with such exciting terms as “cloud computing”, “wi-fi”, and “remote access.” Someone might even have mentioned the still vaporware Google Gdrive.

Gdrive is hyped as unlimited, unhampered data storage. It can be used to store all of your files, including images, video, and music, and can be accessed from any computer, anywhere, anytime. Wow. That is quite an attractive boast, considering that only new part of the concept is the addition of making it perfect for “cloud computing” applications. Online storage has been around for more than 10 years, long before the mobile computing boom we are seeing today was even dreamed of.

And let us take a moment and consider this new phrase “cloud computing.” I distinctly recall, in 1996, watching the innermost working of a network reduced to a set of hubs and spokes on a whiteboard. And then other networks, also in the shape of spoked wheels, were drawn. And then a big fluffy cloud was sketched in around the whole thing, and the word INTERNET was boldy written underneath.

The Internet is the cloud of cloud computing. The first cloud computing tools put into widespread use were web browsers, and by the year 2000, countless applications from file storage to online calculators and utilities were being used by people all over the world. This was cloud computing, and it hasn’t changed in many ways, even today. It has become better able to process data for you, reducing CPU intensive applications, or completely eliminating the need to install a program on your computer, because it can be opearted just as efficiently, and across a greater number of computer platforms, by keeping the program based on an Internet server.

The Google Gdrive is likely to be a fantastic addition to Google’s suite of productivity applications based in the cloud, but it is simply an old idea being presented in a new way. It is far less impressive than the productivity suite of Google Docs, but is likely to receive great acclaim becuase it is managed by the increasingly powerful folks at Google.

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Debian Founder Murdock Now Sun’s Cloud Strategist

Author JoeDigital | 07.02.2009 | Category Networking, Technology Viewpoint

The founder of Debian Linux, and former chief at OpenSolaris, Ian Murdock, is moving to a new office, but sticking to the same crowd of work associates. Murdock is moving into the role of chief strategist for cloud computing at Sun Microsystems.

“Obviously I have a deep background in Linux distributions,” he said, referencing the work he had put into the origins of Linux
since 1993. “I think this is going to be a pretty big part of Sun’s
contribution to cloud computing.”

As netbooks become more basic, and web 2.0 applications become more powerful, many innovative companies, Sun Microsystems included, foresee a convergence in cloud computing technology, where data and program information as accessed in the “cloud” of the internet.And while the cloud may be a new term to Internet users today, it is also a long-time analogy for the internet itself, which has no central location, but exists as a series of “free-floating” nodes that connect to one another.

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Security Flaw In MD5 Algorithm

Author JoeDigital | 06.01.2009 | Category IT Security, Networking, World Wide Web

Independent researcher in both California and the Netherlands have discovered a weakness the Internet digital certificate infrastructure, which poses a threat of hackers impersonating site identifications trusted by most web browsers. In essence, hackers could make your browser believe it is on a secure website or email server while virtually undetectable phishing of your system is in progress.

The problem arises from one of several algorithms used to establish a secure https connection, known as MD5. This is not the first weakness discovered in MD5, either. A team of Chinese researchers presented the first one at a 2004 cryptology conference. In that case, they wee able to create a “collision attack, and generate two messages with the same digital signature.

The new discovery makes use of the collision method, but allows the hacker almost complete freedom in creating a rogue certification authority (CA) that will be verified by most commonly used web browsers, including both Microsoft and Mozilla. The team hopes to draw attention to this security weakness, and drive the industry to use stronger encryption methods.

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Sony Losing The Plot

Author JoeDigital | 13.12.2008 | Category Consumer Electronics, Networking, Video Games

The PS3 is a home electronics center, with Hi-Def video, Blue-Ray, DVD, Wireless, and Video Games all rolled up into one device.

As a gaming enthusiast and a fan of the PS2 I think that Sony has completely lost the plot when it comes to the PS3. Dollar for dollar it is the most complete solution on the market, the only problem is, the market doesn’t seem to know it.

Retailing at about $600 the PS3 if seen from a gaming point of view is nothing special given the current market scenario, but that is not what Sony intended to market it as. The PS3 was intended to be marketed as a complete home theater system and from that point of view it is an amazing buy.

It’s amazing how Sony step by step and in a truly methodical fashion destroyed the enormous lead it had over other gaming platforms a late release, unimpressive lineup at its launch, more expensive than its competitors and a lot harder to make games for. On the home entertainment front even though it won the format war with HD-DVD it did a terrible job of enlightening consumers about it. Many continue to buy Hd-DVd players because they think it’s the future and a lot don’t know that a blu ray player will upscale standard definition DVD’s to Blu ray quality.

At the same time competitors at circling overhead to capture the yet untapped market of the blu ray home theater player. Samsung has released a player that can stream videos of net flix, Xbox took note and now offers the same services plus a cheaper core system at $!99 and Sony’s reply to all this was to release a player that is another $100 more expensive.

Oh will the woes never end!

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D-Link Unveils The RangeBooster N Dual-Band Wireless Router

Author JoeDigital | 23.06.2008 | Category Computers, Consumer Electronics, Networking

D-Link has been a big player in the wireless networking business for years, and they’ve just secured their status with the newly unveiled 802.11n wireless router, simply named the RangeBooster N Dual Band Router. For starters, it operates at either 5GHz or the more conventional 2.4GHz, and after that it just keeps getting better.

It can stream HD video for media players, consoles or, for those old-school geeks among us, computers. Using the soon-to-be finalized wireless N protocol, this device offers up to 100Mbps, which is nearly twice as fast as today’s wireless G, and users of 802.11g will still be able to connect, albeit not at the high speed.

Perhaps the most encouraging part of the package is the price. With an initial retail value of just over $100, Best Buy will be turning it loose at the bargain price of $79. Married men won’t miss another night of football, even if they are sent to the doghouse, because another feature of 802.11n is a far greater broadcast range.

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Eye-fi, Wireless upload for your digital camera

Author JoeDigital | 30.01.2008 | Category Computers, Consumer Electronics, Gadgets, Networking, Technology, cameras

I was browsing the net and came across a really cool product, the eye-fi. The Eye-Fi is an SD memory card that has wireless capabilities on top of the memory storage. All you do is make a few simple configurations and you’re set to begin automatically uploading pictures. So, when you’re out and about taking fancy shots of downtown the card acts as a regular SD memory card and stores the files as it normally would. As soon as you return home, simply turn on your camera and it automatically begins to upload the images to your computer.

Check out the site, Eye-Fi

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Cheap Wireless for your XBOX 360

Author JoeDigital | 18.01.2008 | Category Computers, Consumer Electronics, Gadgets, Networking, Video Games

If you have an XBOX 360 you’ve probably already spent many nights crying over the fact that it doesn’t come with built-in wireless access like the Wii and Playstation 3. On top of that, if you wanted to have wireless access for the 360 you’re going to have to lay down about $100. So many of you have probably ended up running that 25 foot Ethernet cable through your house meandering this way and that through the many obstacles and into your Xbox 360.

Cry no more my friends because for as less as $30 you can make your own wireless access for your Xbox 360. All you need is:
1.Three Feet or more of Cat 5e Cable (Ethernet Cable)
2.Wireless Router
3.DD-WRT firmware

Your guide to freedom

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