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 [...]
Posted in Cameras, Consumer Electronics, Networking, PCs and Laptops, Powerline, Video 
Tags: camera, homeplug, Logitech, Logitech Alert, networking, powerline, security 
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 [...]
Having previously touched on the vast amounts of data the average consumer is generating these days thanks mostly to the wide variety of digital cameras, camcorders, iPods, and other personal media players available, I thought it might be interesting to look at a few consumer level backup storage devices released today. First up is the [...]
Posted in Hard Drives, NAS, PCs and Laptops, Storage Tags: backup, LG, NAS, networking, storage, USB, WD 1 Comment »For those interested in a little technology M&A news, Atheros, a WiFi chip maker whose products are the brain of many wireless networking devices, today purchased Intellon, a powerline networking chip maker. The purchase validates powerline networking technology and will allow Atheros to “enable dynamic meshing of wireless and wired bandwidth, providing robust transmission of [...]
Posted in Networking, PCs and Laptops, Powerline, Wireless Tags: Atheros, ethernet, homeplug, Intellon, networking, powerline, powerline networking, wireless 3 Comments »Well, it looks like some geniuses in Japan have figured out a way to decrease the amount of time needed to hack into a WPA protected wireless network from around fifteen minutes to less than one, thus reminding us yet again that modern data security measures are only as good as your local hacker’s level [...]
Posted in Networking, PCs and Laptops, Wireless Tags: hacking, MOCA, networking, powerline, research, security, wireless, WPA 4 Comments »
