Home security hasn’t changed much in the last couple decades. Door locks, peep holes, and alarms cover much of the available product spectrum in consumer grade home security. While technology exists to actively record video via Internet enabled cameras, implementations of these systems are typically expensive or tricky to operate. Logitech, the computer peripheral company most recently [...]
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No Comments »The future of high speed wireless data communications took a major step forward today. In a joint press release, the WiGig and the Wi-Fi Alliances announced a partnership and technology sharing agreement to develop “a next-generation Wi-Fi Alliance certification program supporting Wi-Fi operation in the 60 GHz frequency band.” Traditional WiFi standards familiar to [...]
Posted in Networking, PCs and Laptops, Wireless Tags: networking, WiFi, WiGig Alliance, wireless HDMI, wirelessHD 1 Comment »“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Dicken’s iconic opening line to A Tale of Two Cities easily describes the life of someone with or without access to a NAS server. The increasing number of consumer electronics and computer devices incorporating various levels of interconnectivity, coupled with the performance enhancements [...]
Posted in NAS, PCs and Laptops, Storage Tags: Addonics Mini NAS, ethernet, HDD, iTunes, NAS, network attached storage, networking, servers, storage, Thecus N0204 miniNAS 1 Comment »Today, the IEEE finally approved the 802.11n standard for wireless network communications. The approval, which only took the IEEE special committee seven years to complete after work on it began, finalizes the standard and elevates it and the products produced in accordance with it out of “draft” status. Wireless-N networks have several key advantages over those [...]
