by Martin LaMonica:
In between power plants and the plug on the wall is this thing called the grid, an engineering marvel that's largely invisible and impenetrably complex to most of us.
If you follow the grid network backwards behind the wall socket, the meter, and the utility poles on your street, you eventually get to a [...]
By Mark Gillispie:
It would be a stretch to say that Big Brother will hang out in Clevelanders' trash cans, but the city plans to sort through curbside trash to make sure residents are recycling — and fine them $100 if they don't.
The move is part of a high-tech collection system the city will roll out [...]
By Jose Antonio Hernandez:
Two years ago, Spanair flight JK-5022 crashed shortly after takeoff in Madrid, killing 154 of its 172 passengers and crew. El Pais online newspaper reports that the ground computer responsible for triggering an alarm after three failures are reported in a plane failed to do so. The computer was infected with trojans.
By Andrew Ross Sorkin:
Intel said on Thursday that it has agreed to buy McAfee, the computer antivirus software maker, for about $7.7 billion in cash, as the chip giant seeks to expand its presence in security services.
Under the terms of the deal, Intel will pay $48 a share in cash, a 60 percent premium to [...]
By Nate Anderson:
Broadband providers in the US have long hawked their wares in "up to" terms. You know — "up to" 10Mbps, where "up to" sits like a tiny pebble beside the huge font size of the raw number.
In reality, no one gets these speeds. That's not news to the techno-literate, of course, but a [...]
By von Andreas Proschofsky:
Over the last few years Firefox enjoyed the role of the rising star in the browser world. Nowadays Google Chrome seems to have taken that very spot, currently even grabbing some market share from Mozilla. During the Linux desktop conference GUADEC Andreas Proschofsky had the chance to sit down with Chris [...]
By ThinQ.co.uk:
Rumours of a cut-down Apple iPad are ramping up as Taiwanese news outlet the Economic Daily News names a host of component makers pegged to partner Apple on the project.
The often-reliable Chinese language newspaper – which correctly predicted the first coming of the iPad when everyone else on the planet was carping on about [...]
by Caroline McCarthy:
Not too long ago, the golden rules for high school and college students turning to the Web as a research tool were simple: treat digital content that's never been in print with suspicion. Be careful what you Google. And thou shalt not touch Wikipedia.
But the Web has grown up a bit in the [...]
By Robert McMillan:
Facebook is scrambling to fix a bug in its website that could be misused by spammers to harvest user names and photographs.
It turns out that if someone enters the e-mail address of a Facebook user along with the wrong password, Facebook returns a special "Please re-enter your password" page, which includes the Facebook [...]
By LUCY BATTERSBY AND ARI SHARP:
The national broadband network will enable speeds of one gigabit per second on its fiber optic network, 100 times faster than originally planned, the company building the network will announce today.
The speed is significantly faster than the maximum speeds promised by the opposition in its broadband policy, and highlights the [...]
Untuk keperluan sharing internet secara wireless dari modem kabel (fastnet) – firstmedia ataupun dari modem adsl dapat dipergunakan sebuah wireless router.
Salah satu produk wireless router yang dapat dipergunakan untuk keperluan rumah ataupun home office adalah BELKIN F5D7234ak4 dengan spesifikasi sebagai berikut:
The G Wireless Router is perfect for setting up a simple wireless network that has the range to easily cover a small office or apartment. Its speeds are ideal for handling basic networking applications such as sharing your high-speed Internet connection with all your computers, surfing the Web, emailing, and instant messaging-all while relaxing on the couch in your home.
4 Ethernet Ports for Wired Connections
Supports Wi-Fi Protected Setup for simple wireless security setup
Keunggulan wireless router belkin ini adalah pada kemudahan setting dan bentuk yang ramping – kompak sehingga mudah ditempatkan didalam rumah atau kantor.
Detail setting:
Akses web admin : 192.168.2.1
password : (default password blank – tanpa password)
Harga yang kami tawarkan untuk Belkin Wireless Router ini adalah Rp. 380.000,- Silakan kontak kami apabila anda ingin melakukan pemesanan.