It looks like Verzion is all set to launch its answer to Sprint’s Airave femtocell on Sunday January 25th. What the heck is femtocell you ask? In a nutshell, a femtocell is a teeny, tiny cellphone tower that allows users to get all of their cellular services via a broadband connection. This me...

Filed under: DVRs, Set-top boxes Hard to say how much of an impact this will have -- after all, VUDU's already expressed its love for wire-free applications -- but the aforesaid movie set-top-box company has certified MoCA as a wired home networking solution for HD streaming. We get the impression t...

Anyone who’s been to an Apple Store, especially the one in Tysons Corner, VA, knows that Apple is experiencing some serious growth pains. Yes, as predicted, more and more people are starting to adopt Apple hardware and software and the cost/benefit factor becomes more apparent. The hardware is...

[Linux Journal] Kernel Korner - ATA Over Ethernet: Putting Hard Drives on the LAN . Article que explica com Linux ha implementat el protocol AoE (ATA over Ethernet), de forma que es puguin construir SAN amb discos ATA normals i corrents....

LaCie has announced a new Ethernet backup disc designed to store all your memories– and your friends for that matter… With up to 6TB of storage the device is created for people who have some serous data to back up. The disk can instantly store and share files with Mac, PC, Linux, or Unix...

LaCie's newest Ethernet Disk isn't for the faint of heart... nor for those with just a few files to backup. Oh no -- this one's for the storage professional. Housed in a 1U rack-mountable enclosure, the NAS device can hold up to 6TB of data and can support up to 100 users on Mac, Windows or Linux pl...

Many years ago, I recall reading about Ethernet running over power lines. The idea was you get two adapters, plug them into your wall socket and they then transmit Ethernet over the electrics. The early devices were slowish, and until recently, not of much interest. But the newest devices are quite ...

Apple’s MacBook laptop, the company’s low-end portable computer aimed at average consumers, isn’t just any old product. It’s the best-selling Macintosh in history, at a time when Mac sales are growing much faster than sales of PCs in the U.S. overall. And, according to the sa...

At today’s unveiling of the new macbook and macbook pro line, Steve Jobs mentioned that the new macbook was offering the same functionality as the old macbook pro for $700 less than before. To check the veracity of that statement, I pulled out 2 sets of data: first, thanks to Google cache, I w...

As any of you who’ve tried it know, it’s not that hard, though it did take a little trial and error to teach myself based on web howto’s. I ended up referring to this, this and this. Why bother? It really is much nicer when your cables are the right length, so you don’t ...