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Next Generation Routers PDF Print E-mail
http://money.cnn.com/2010/03/09/technology/cisco_internet/index.htm?cnn=yes

With technology changing rapidly for bandwidth to our homes and to our wireless devices it was only a matter of time before new products showed up for the service provider backbone.  Cisco's answer is the new CRS-3 which is capable of an unimaginable 322 Terabits per second.  The article states that "the router will be able to provide download speeds of 1 Gigabit per second for everyone in San Francisco, download the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress in 1 second and stream every movie ever created in less than 4 minutes."  I don't know about you but I think those are some pretty mind boggling numbers.

--Elle Dapp

 

 
Microsoft: Don't press F1 key in Windows XP PDF Print E-mail

This is a little scary. The one key we use for the help menu could make your computer vulnerable.

--Wynn Doe

 
Smartphone Call Quality PDF Print E-mail
Smartphone use is on the rise. They are becoming more powerful every day, but does this power come with the cost of degraded call quality? According to this article, the number of dropped calls for smartphones is more than the number of dropped calls for traditional cellular phones. According to the article "smartphone customers were 3x more likely to experience problems as compared to those using traditional handsets."

--Moe Byle

 
Linux Kernel 2.6.33 Released - Android Code Removed PDF Print E-mail
Kernel version 2.6.33 was released on last Wednesday. The changelog shows that the Android code has been removed from the kernel tree. The KernelNewbies report states that "Google doesn't seem to have interest in improving the Android drivers to have minimum quality standards which could allow to merged them in the main Linux tree and share them with the rest of community." Perhaps this is an attempt to spur Google into "giving back" some of the advances they have to the kernel, as there are many area's other than just Android where this has been an issue. Google has stated that they intend to try harder to get their code merged into the trunk kernel, maybe this will encourage them to do so. A more detailed article on this subject can be found here.

--Lynn Ex.

 
Tablet Crazy PDF Print E-mail
Tablets seem to be cropping up everywhere these days ever since Apple introduced the iPad. Here are just a few others that seem to stand out.
MSI's tablet looks like a nice little Android device. Dell's new tablet is also eye catching and comes in on a smaller scale. And of course, we will see many tablets this year that run Windows 7, such as the HP Slate.

--Moe Byle
 
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