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BUSINESS COMPUTING Editorial Editor Pedro Gonzalez pg@businesscomputingmagazine.com Assistant Editor Mark Warnack mw@businesscomputingmagazine.com departments [07] Business BUSINESS COMPUTING MAGAZINE wireless vpn & voip [15] Broadband [73]Apple's AirPort [20] e Commerce [33] Zultys MX250 is easy to use and setup VOIP phone system. There are also great phones to go with it.
Go to Contents Business Microsoft Corporate Treasury Connects to Its Banks Via SWIFTNet Today at Sibos 2005 Copenhagen, Microsoft Corp announced that its corporate treas ury department will link with its banking partners over SWIFTNet, SWIFT's more reliable, security enhanced messaging platform.
Go to Contents Business "Citigroup offers a wide array of advanced application choices and connectivity solutions to address inte gration of ERP and treasury systems for our diverse and global client base," said Gary Greenwald, managing direc tor of Information Products at Global Transaction Services, a division of Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking.
Go to Contents Business FairPoint Completes Bentleyville Communicatio ns Acquisition FairPoint Communications, Inc. announced today that it has completed a merger with Bentleyville Communications Corporation, by which Bentleyville becomes a subsidiary of FairPoint. The net cost of this merger to FairPoint is $9.3 million. Bentleyville, in operation for more than 90 years, provides telecommunications, cable and Internet services to rural areas of south western Pennsylvania.
Go to Contents Business The Sun StorageTek combination: * Creates a global leader in network computing and data management with combined revenues of $13.
Go to Contents Business ment software areas are where prod uct collaboration can be achieved and Sun expects to do this within the next two months. Industry Analysts, Partners and Customers Praise Combination: "Sun's acquisition of StorageTek creates a new player in the storage industry.
Go to Contents Business excellent complement to our current products and software, and significantly expands our presence in these fast growing market segments. Leitch has a veteran management team with strong domain knowledge and has launched important new prod ucts to meet the changing needs of the digital mar ketplace. Our combined products and systems serve every segment of the increasingly complex supply chain that brings digital audio, video, and data content to consumers.
Go to Contents Business FrontBridge managed mes saging services provide value to customers by requiring no upfront capital investment, minimizing IT management overhead, and enabling com panies to concentrate their IT resources on areas that most directly impact their business, such as driving innovation, building organizational effi ciencies, and increasing cus tomer satisfaction.
Go to Contents Broadband Lack of Affordable Broadband Hindering Small Business 88% in the EU. The UK and the North of Ireland have 100% broadband access. ISME, the Independent Business Organisation, has outlined that the small business sector is being sabo taged due to a lack of broadband, at a reasonable cost, in many parts of the Country.
Go to Contents Data bits Public Wi Fi Hotspot Security Tips Why Your Data Isn't Secure and What You Can Do About It As more and more people acquire wireless notebooks and logon to the Internet at their favorite public Wi Fi hotspot, hackers lie in wait, anxious to exploit the vast security vulnerabilities inherent in Wi Fi. The following article discusses four tips that you can use to fortify your defenses while continuing to enjoy the benefits of public Wi Fi.
Deluxe Computer Hard Menu Drives Have a has been 100 Percent Failure Rate released! Go to Contents Data bits Computer users trust too much that a new hard drive will give them years of trouble free service. Lulled into a sense of security and ignoring the good advice to backup their data, they find themselves with a computer that has stopped functioning and in need of professional data recovery services. The data recovery service techni cians at http://DataICU.
E commerce Go to Contents webMethods Debuts Comprehensive Solution for Optimizing Payments Processing at SIBOS 2005 webMethods Inc., a leading business integration and optimiza tion software company, today debuted webMethods Payments Monitoring(TM), a new solution designed to help wholesale banks and other financial institutions transform their corporate payments operations into more predictable, customer centric and profitable business units.
E commerce ing adherence to important cus tomer specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The predictive analytics built into the solution can even be used to proactively alert users to potential issues through the use of patent pending "finger printing" technology that dynami cally compares current service level trends with previously incurred violations.
E commerce Go to Contents Global Payments' Subsidiary, MUZO, Opens Office in Moscow The Fast Charge Payment Gateway™ Offers Enhanced Free Recurring Billing Services Global Payments Inc., a world leader in electronic payment processing, today announced that MUZO, a.s., Global Payments' Prague based, majority owned subsidiary, recently opened a new office in Moscow to increase and expand Global Payments' activities in the developing Russian financial market.
Go to Contents FEAT URES Wireless Broadband Arrives in North Carolina: Raleigh/Durham Region to Receive Verizon Wireless' BroadbandAccess Wireless Internet Service and V Cast Consumer Multimedia Service Building on its successful strategy to provide customers superior wireless services in the United States, Verizon Wireless Region President Jerry Fountain today announced the launch of two award winning services in the Raleigh/Durham metropolitan area, one developed primarily for business customers, the ot
Go to Contents FEAT URES nology is backward compatible – a dis tinct advantage to the company's CDMA technology – customers who travel outside a BroadbandAccess coverage area with an EV DO device will seamlessly switch to Verizon Wireless' existing NationalAccess service, which runs on the company's 1xRTT network.
Go to Contents FEAT URES CAST content. Customers can also download, stream or watch premium short video content, available at addition al cost, which includes video such as music videos, select sports clips and mobisodes. Verizon Wireless V CAST customers also receive monthly access and unlimited browsing on Verizon Wireless' Mobile Web 2.0(SM) news and information service. For a limited time, customers who sign up for V CAST receive one month of service free.
Go to Contents Hosting & Domains Peer 1 Network Announces Acquisition of Interland's Dedicated Server Assets Peer 1 Network Enterprises, Inc., a provider of high performance Internet infrastructure, announced today that it has purchased the dedicated server assets of Interland, Inc., a leading provider of Web sites and online servic es for small and medium sized busi nesses for a purchase price of US$14 million.
Go to Contents Hosting & Domains StartLogic Reaches New Milestone of 40,000 Web sites Hosted StartLogic, Inc., a leading web hosting provider, announces it has reached the milestone of current ly hosting 40,000 active Web sites. Since opening its doors less than two years ago, StartLogic has experienced a rapid increase in customer growth.
Go to Contents International Rusbiz.com Launches Unique Online Services To Promote B2B E Commerce The program is planned to be introduced in three stages. This will allow members of the portal to get accustomed to key features of e business solutions gradually and educate them how to integrate these fea tures seamlessly in their existing business practice.
Go to Contents International Telabria Launches WiMAX Class Broadband Service for Data + Voice Telabria, the award winning UK regional network operator, has launched its wide area wireless broadband network after six months of intensive trials in Kent, South East England. Targeted at both residential and business markets, the Skylink service offers customers symmetric broadband speeds up to 10Mbps, as well as voice over IP (VoIP) tele phone service.
Go to Contents International networks," said Baker. " With Skylink not only is Telabria offering unified broadband and voice on a single bill, but at speeds that outclass the com petition and at prices that will save our customers a great deal of money over landline equivalents.
Go to Contents International Nexus Telecom Installs GPRS Monitoring System at T Mobile Austria T Mobile Austria selected Nexus Telecom to install the NexusNETVIEW solution suite to effectively monitor the entire GPRS/UMTS packet switched traffic. With the versatile multi technol ogy NexusNETVIEW platform, T Mobile Austria selected the state of the art service monitoring solution to fulfill best their challenging require ments for best service quality and highest customer satisfaction.
Marketing Go to Contents Asian Brand Drama: Who Needs Desperate Housewives? Who Will Win the High Stakes Branding Battle Between eBay & Yahoo! in China? And will Google be the Spoiler? According to Nick Wreden, CEO of a well known international brand con sultancy and the author of a new branding book, the upcoming fight to win the hearts, minds and wallets of an estimated 200 million Chinese Internet users by 2007 will shape the worldwide fortune and brands of eBay, Yahoo! and Google.
Marketing EBay has initially come on strong in China, capturing an estimated 61 mil lion Chinese users and about 55% 65% of the market. But the ultimate outcome is still in doubt, despite Whitman's hope that China becomes eBay's biggest market in 5 10 years. Internationally, eBay failed so miser ably in Japan it was forced to exit the market in 2002. (Its track record is much better in other international mar kets.
Marketing question, joining its mailing list and saving the "mini site" to their favorites. Go to Contents TrafficWave.net LLC is Helping MyVoucher.com also offers businesses the ability to have a customer relationship man agement tool at their finger tips so they can build ongoing business relationships. Features such as an opt in customer mailing list builder, which targets local customers, give the businesses more thrust from their current advertising budget.
Marketing Go to Contents Precision Links are Set to Revolutionize Text Link Advertising A new text link advertising solution provides advertisers with an unprecedented level of control over the placement of their ads on any given site. Flexible, economical and scalable, Precision Links™ promises to deliver pre cisely targeted audiences to advertisers. Perth, Western Australia – Precision Links™ is the latest text link advertising solution on offer at http://www.paidtextlinks.com.
Go to Contents People Search Engine Marketing Agency Announces Additions to Management Team Elixir Systems, a privately held company in the search engine market ing industry, announced today that it has appointed a new Director of Marketing and Director of Search to address high levels of growth.
Product News HP Extends Client Management Software Portfolio with Simplified, Entry priced Offering PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 29, 2005 HP today introduced entry-priced software that provides customers who have limited IT budgets with an easy-touse and quick-to-deploy enterprise management solution.
Product News About HP HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended July 31, 2005, HP revenue totaled $85.2 billion. More information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com. more life-like color re-production making it ideal for video games and products with a large amount of graphics.
Product News to 1280 x 800 pixels and Intel® 915GM integrated 3D graphics featuring an Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900 and 64MB dynamically allocated video memory. The TravelMate 4020 notebooks come with Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional pre-installed (with Recovery CD) in addition to a complete selection of useful utilities. These utilities include Acer eManager (ePresentation, eSetting, ePowerManagement and eRecovery) and Acer GridVista.
Product News swivel. "The MultiSync 70 Series of desktop LCD displays are the center pieces of our enterprise product offering," said Scott Hoaglund, product manager for NEC Display Solutions. "By delivering the features, functions and value our business customers require today, while including future-ready components for their needs of tomorrow, these new displays promise to be a big hit with today's ROI-driven IT professionals." bility with today's and tomorrow's PCs.
Product News voltage and the low power consumption requirements for mobile phones. The new MMC plus devices , which run on 3.3V and are up to three times faster than SD ™ Memory Cards, are well-suited for digital cameras, which require fast response times for manipulating advanced features. The new gigabyte cards add to Samsung's original line-up of 64MByte, 128MByte, 256MByte and 512MByte MMC cards.
Product News • 144 g • About DVB-H The B250 also supports external memory of 256MB, IrDA, and mobile banking capabilities for user convenience. The phone is available in Korea at around USD 700 .
Product News In the week ending August 20, the most recent week for which data is available, NPD Group/NPD Techworld reports that Panasonic Plasma TV sales accounted for an unprecedented 44% of the market, based on its weekly point-of-sales data. About Panasonic Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company is the digital electronics arm of Panasonic Corporation of North America, the principal U.S. subsidiary of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (NYSE: MC).
Product News documents folders. Setting up the Maxtor Shared Storage Plus drive on a home or small office/home office (SOHO) network is simple. The drive plugs into a network router via a 10/100 Ethernet port, and installs quickly with the help of the drive's automatic network configuration.
Product News 6.0-Megapixel Image Sensor for Large-Format Prints The 6.0-megapixel CCD image sensor delivers super high-quality images that are consistently sharp and vivid even in large-format prints. High Quality Elements Olympus capture information from all 6.0 million pixels with pixel "micro-smoothing" that delivers clearer and more color-accurate photos, even at lower resolutions.
Product News Video cable, Li-12B Li-Ion Rechargeable Battery and Charger, Quick Start Guide, Basic Instruction Manual, Warranty Card, CD-ROM with OLYMPUS Master Software, and Camera Advanced manual. U.S. Pricing Stylus 600 Estimated Street Price: $ 299 .99 (U.S.) For more information, review units, product specifications and high-resolution images of the Stylus 600, contact Heather Snow, Mullen Public Relations, 9 7 8 - 4 6 8 - 8 9 3 4 , heather.snow@mullen.
Product News FE-110 Estimated Street Price: $199.99 (U.S.) FE-120 Estimated Street Price: $2 2 9.99 (U.S.) Superior Picture Quality with No Effort The 2.8x optical zoom lens of the FE-100 and FE-110 cameras is a 6.2 17.4mm (38 - 106mm equivalent in 35mm photography) that combines with a 4x digital zoom to deliver a total 11x zoom, so virtually no photo opportunity is out of reach.
Product News and expansive enough to grow as users develop their talent. "With the new SP-series digital cameras, Olympus offers a selection of cameras that are specifically designed for users with a variety of needs and photography skills," said John McGuire, product manager, Olympus Imaging America Inc. "The SP-310 and SP-350 each offer users the versatility of an advanced fully-featured camera and an easy-to-use point-and-shoot in one compact unit.
Olympus' exclusive TruePic TURBO™ Image Processor enhances image quality and delivers faster overall processing speeds for rapid startup, shutter release and playback. TruePic TURBO TM enable the cameras to capture information with pixel "microsmoothing" that delivers clearer and more color-accurate photos, even at lower resolutions. The fast startup of less than one second and nearly instant shutter release time ensures a highspeed response so you are always ready to take great pictures.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Cameras Cameras MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES An 8-megapixel digital SLR camera that produces high quality images. Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT Camera OTHER INFO The camera is compatible with more than 50 EF, EX and EF-S lenses. PRICE $720 www.canon.com BCM VERDICT + - Produces some of the most detailed images we've seen. This Canon digital camera is a keeper.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Cameras Cameras MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES Kodak's 4.3-megapixel digital camera that includes a Schneider-Kreuznach C-Variogon 2.8X optical lens. OTHER INFO In the burst mode we were able take 6 shots in two seconds. PRICE $250 www.kodak.com Kodak EasyShare LS743 If you're in the market for a nice 4.3megapixel digital camera for under $250, the Kodak EasyShare LS743 is a perfect match.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Cameras Cameras MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES The 4-megapixel camera with a 10x optical zoom that produces great 4x6 and 8x10's. Pentax Optio MX4 Sony CyberShot DSC-P200 Camera OTHER INFO Has a maximum resolution of 640x480 for video and has a frame rate of either 15 or 30 frames per second. Sony marks the fifth anniversary of its top selling CyberShot P-Series line with DSC-P200 camera. Photographers will be in love with this 7.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Desktops Cameras MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES Resolutions of the camera run between 2 megapixel for video and 3 megapixel photography. Sony DCR-HC90 MiniDV Handycam OTHER INFO Also includes Carl Zeiss designed Vario Tessar 3x optical zoom lens. PRICE $900 www.sonystyle.com BCM VERDICT + - The Sony DCR-HC90 Handycam is one of Sony's latest video camera releases and from what we can tell works extremely well and captures vivid images even in low lighting.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Desktops Desktops u MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES An attractive 20"-widescreen allin-one monitor computer system with a fast G5 processor. OTHER INFO Includes 512MB of DDR SDRAM and a fast 250GB 7200RPM SATA hard drive. PRICE $2735 www.apple.com BCM VERDICT + - We love the power of the G5 and the widescreen monitor is fantastic. Has a hefty price tag to it.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Desktops Desktops MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES This slim notebook business-class computer has some serious computing power at a competitive price. HP Compaq nc6230 OTHER INFO Contains an Intel 2.0GHz Pentium M processor, 512MB RAM, 80GB hard drive and ATI Mobility Radeon X300 graphics. PRICE $1450 www.hp.com BCM VERDICT + - A very slim notebook that packs a punch for the business class. A better graphic interface would make this notebook perfect.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Desktops Desktops MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES A tough competitor for a Media PC with an Intel Pentium 4 3.4GHz processor and 1GB of RAM. Sony VAIO VGC-RB38G Media Center PC OTHER INFO Also includes ATI PCIExpress Radeon X300 graphics and a fast SATA hard drive. PRICE $1300 www.sonystyle.com The number of Media Centertype of tower computers is increasing with the popularity of this type of system.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Displays x Displays MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES A fantastic 19" LCD display that outperforms many of its competitors. We really like this monitor. degree viewing angle. OTHER INFO The DVI output and USB 2.0 hub sweetens the deal at a fantastic price. PRICE $400 www.hp.com BCM VERDICT + - Sharp LL-172G-B 17" Monitor HP L1940 19-Inch Flat Panel The price and performance of this monitor can't be beat! No negative comments.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Notebooks Notebooks MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES This laptop is a great business unit with great graphics and lots of storage. OTHER INFO The life of the 4800mAh lithiumion battery is commendable, with around 4 hours of use PRICE $1899 www.acer.com BCM VERDICT + - HP Compaq NC6230 Notebook Acer Travelmate 3200 Notebook A great machine to take with you on the road. The price is just a little bit above average for the class of machine.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Notebooks Notebooks MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES A fast an powerful notebook with 17” diagonal display and a fast Intel Pentium 4 3.6GHz processor. OTHER INFO A full-sized keyboard and a 100GB hard drive make this a serious computer. PRICE $2,000 www.hp.com BCM VERDICT + - Sony VAIO T250P/L Notebook HP Compaq NX9600 Notebook Fast processor, fullsized keyboard and great display make this one hard to beat. Only a larger hard drive would have given us a larger smile.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Pda's & phones Pda's & phones MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES The Motorola i605 cell phone is a perfect match to take advantage of Nextel features. Motorola i605 Cell Phone standalone Bluetooth photo printers like the Brother mPrint MW140BT. OTHER INFO With its bar-style appearance the i605 sports a large 176x220 TFT LCD display and Bluetooth technology. PRICE $300 With Sprint and Nextel having completed their merger it will be a while www.motorola.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Pda's & phones Pda's & phones MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES A true combination of wireless communication and the productivity of the PDA. If you would have told someone in the 1940's that we would have business-class PDA telephones one day, you'd likely been locked up in the attic. Many of us have already been introduced to one version or another of Palm products, if not owning one at some time.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Printers Printers MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES This multifunction device can be used as a scanner, printer, fax machine and copier. OTHER INFO The printer produced around 10PPM monochrome text and slightly slower with color. PRICE $169 www.brother.com BCM VERDICT + - A perfect all-purpose machine for the home or small business. Doesn't have enough resolution for printing large photos.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Printers Printers MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES A Wireless-g/b interface, 10/100BaseT and USB ports offer great connectivity. OTHER INFO 12 pages of text per minute while it can spit out photos in just a few minutes. PRICE $200 www.hp.com BCM VERDICT + - If you need an inexpensive networkable inkjet, check this one A bit slower than some networked inkjets we've looked at.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Scanners Scanners MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES The CanoScan 8400F is geared to scan transparencies and 35-mm media. proved that scanned/printed photo was a realistic as the original. OTHER INFO Includes film guides for use with 35mm negative, 35mm slides and 120 roll film strips. PRICE $120 www.canon.com BCM VERDICT + - Good price for a scanner that imports 35mm and 120 roll film. Just a tad slower than some of its competitors.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Security Scanners MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES An excellent projector with a 3000 lumen bulb, a contrast ratio of 350:1 and a max resolution of 1024x768. sound card. OTHER INFO The image can range anywhere between 40 to 300 inches in width. PRICE $2799 www.sonystyle.com BCM VERDICT + - A perfect project for use in small offices or constricted areas. Consider the purchase of an amplifier if using in large rooms.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Security Security MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES The Caymas 220 is a VPN appliance billed as the first IdentityDriven Access Gateway. Caymas 220 OTHER INFO Runs in three stages: Who Is the User? Protect The System? Audit The User. PRICE $9,995 www.caymas.com BCM VERDICT + - We like the way the system protects itself in three stages. Does take some time to configure to your liking.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Software Software MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES Communigate provides standard SMTP, POP and IMAP email server functions. OTHER INFO Communigate Pro 4.3 is a powerful email server that works in conjunction with multiple platforms. PRICE $699 www.stalker.com BCM VERDICT + - A powerful email server that works in multiple platforms. Licensing arrangement recently changed in ire to previous users.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Storage Storage MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES A 160GB external hard drive the connects through a FireWire-800 interface. LaCie d2 160GB Extreme OTHER INFO The drive’s 7200 RPM spindle speed, 10ms seek time and 8MB buffer make it a virtual speed demon. PRICE Under $200 www.lacie.com BCM VERDICT + - Fast FireWire-800 external hard drive that's hard to beat. Not much is known about the company or tech support.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Stuff Stuff MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES About the weight and size of a notebook, the iM4 amplifier and speakers works with most multimedia devices. How many of us have seen the countless number of youngsters (and adults) with an iPod in their shirt pocket stringed up to a separated pair of earbud headphones to their ears? Chances are we've all had the encounter.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Stuff Stuff MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES The Delphi XMSkyFi2 is one of the company's latest satellite receivers for XM subscribers. OTHER INFO Can set up to 30 preset channels notifies you when a favorite song is playing on a channel. PRICE $120 www.delphi.com BCM VERDICT + - If you like XM satellite music then you'll like this receiver. About $20 more than competitors unless you catch it on sale.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Stuff Stuff MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES A product that takes handwriting to a new level by easily converting it into text. OTHER INFO The Logitech io2 Digital Writing System is perfect for doctors, nurses, lawyers and students. PRICE $158 www.logitech.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Stuff Stuff MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES This tiny and compact headset weighs 23 grams and conveniently fits the curvature of most ears. OTHER INFO The Bluetooth compatibility lets you use it with phones, computers and PDAs. PRICE $35 www.plantronics.com Plantronics M2500 Headset There are some states and cities in the country that have banned the use of cell phones unless the device uses headphones.
REVIEWS REVIEWS VOIP Stuff MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES A relatively inexpensive wireless graphics tablet that uses Bluetooth technology for mobility. Wacom Graphire Bluetooth Tablet OTHER INFO The unit has a range of 25 feet and assists with the outline of photographs as well as a freehand diagrams. If you're a graphic designer, artist or cartoonist knowledgeable in using graphic tablet, then you may want to check out a new wireless tablet from Wacom.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Wireless VPN MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES A super-secure VPN appliance and more for medium to large companies. Array Networks SPX 3000 and domain name. OTHER INFO The system can handle up to 2,200 SSL transactions per second. PRICE $20,000 (with 100 licenses) www.arraynetworks.net BCM VERDICT + - The VPN security of this appliance is phenomenal. The price may be out of range for some companies.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Wireless Wireless MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES The NIC card has a high-gain antenna that will boost your signal reception. While the speed of your Wireless-b/g network is meeting your requirements, you find that often you are out of range of the system's router or the signal isn't strong enough. At this point you may want to consider the Hawking HWC54D network adapter.
REVIEWS REVIEWS Wireless Wireless MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES The Netgear WGXB102 Wireless Extender will add that extra boost of signal to your network. OTHER INFO Allow and deny certain hardware, IP, or MAC addresses from using the access point. PRICE $107 www.netgear.com.
Product spotlight Go to Contents Chelsio Delivers Next Generation iSCSI Product Family Featuring Breakthroughs in Performance and Port Density To meet the growing demand for IP based storage networking, Chelsio Communications Inc. today announced a new commercial grade iSCSI target stack that delivers more than 400,000 I/O operations per sec ond (IOPS).
Go to Contents Product spotlight leading iSCSI target appliance offer ings," said Ricardo Velez, chief techni cal officer, Storage Computer Corporation. "The iSCSI market is in ramp mode and we view the Chelsio iSCSI target mode solution as a vital component for delivering enterprise level IP SAN solutions to our storage OEM partners." "The new Chelsio iSCSI offering complements our strategy of offering leading price/performance open stor age solutions," said Barron Mertens, CEO of DSGStorage Inc.
Go to Contents Steals & Deals MF Digital offers $200 instant rebate on purchases of CD/DVD Printer Copier combination Buy a MF Digital PicoJet CD / DVD Printer and a 3000 Series SA DVD / CD Duplicator by September 30, 2005 and get a $200 Instant rebate. E.
Steals & Deals86 MaintenanceSoftware.info releases Free Maintenance Software for Manufacturing Plants, Industrial and Commercial Facilities – Open Source Format While individual components of CO2 monitors have remained sta ble in price, the economy of scale has allowed CO2 monitor manu facturers such as Digital Control Systems, Inc. to pass cost savings on to end users. The application of CO2 Monitors has also become more efficient as more systems have been installed.
Go to Contents VOIP IP Technology: the Likely Future of Contact Centre Markets Of all the trends in the contact cen tre market in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), the one that stands out is the geographical reorientation tak ing place there. Certain locations in Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Middle East and Africa are emerg ing as strong markets because of the distinct advantages they offer in terms of cheap manpower, inexpensive real estate, and sound infrastructure.
Go to Contents VOIP Kozio Supports MIPS32 Processor Architecture and VoIP Products; Expands Processor Architecture Support to Add to Networking, Broadband and VoIP Capabilities Kozio, Inc., a leading provider of embedded software for system level hardware testing, today announced plans for support of the MIPS32 processor architecture with general availability October 1.
Go to Contents VOIP Kozio delivers a complete diagnos tics and functional test solution for hardware board bring up, manufactur ing test and production ready power on self test through its products: kDiagnostics for system level diag nostics of embedded designs; kMfgTest for automated embedded manufacturing and functional test; and kPOST for off the shelf Power On Self Test (POST).
Go to Contents Wireless ARM Jazelle Technology to Enable Applications for New NTT DoCoMo FOMA Handsets ARM today announced that ARM(R) Jazelle(R) technology will be deployed in a new line of FOMA(R) handsets by Japan's premier mobile communica tions company, NTT DoCoMo, Inc. Jazelle technology will enable the cre ation of innovative new consumer applications.
Go to Contents Wireless Boingo Wireless Partners With Opti Fi Networks(SM) to Add 30 North American Airports to Wi Fi Network Boingo Wireless, a leading Wi Fi service provider for business travelers, today announced a roaming agree ment with Opti Fi Networks(SM) that adds wireless networks at 30 North American airports served by Opti Fi to the Boingo(R) Roaming System. The agreement enables Boingo subscribers to gain high speed wire less access at all of Opti Fi's U.S.
