The early days of VOIP calling required a lot of patience, as the half-second or more delay between you speaking and your conversation partner receiving often turned the convo into a start and stop mess. Those days are gone for voice, but we’re right back there again when it comes to HD video calls. However, random product researcher Fraunhofer is working on a new device to kill the lag and speed up your two-way monologues.
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Fraunhofer working to make HD video conferencing a little less laggy
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The NITDroid project has been slogging along this year in an effort to get Android fully ported to Nokia’s N900 , and the progress has been promising so far — but wouldn’t it be nice if you could, you know, make calls ? Looks like these guys are making some solid progress there with a new video showing both incoming and outgoing calls doing…
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Intel’s been trying to break into the home entertainment market for years, and while it’s made some inroads, it’s also looking at a notable list of ho hum attempts that never managed to gain traction. Take the CE3100 processor, for instance — a couple of years ago, the outfit seemed certain that this here chip would be powering every last living room box for the rest of eternity, and nowadays it’s hardly a household name. But this week, Intel has picked up Texas Instruments’ cable modem unit, which gives it a direct link into the very area it’s been trying to exploit.
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Intel acquires TI’s cable modem unit, might be sneaking into your AV rack
When Australia goes to the polls on August 21st, citizens will vote for more than men and the traditional issues they represent — the ballots cast will directly impact the country’s national broadband plan. Where Australia’s ruling Labor party had pledged A$43 billion for an up-to-100Mbps fiber optic network fed directly to 90 percent of homes (and agreed to pay A$11 billion to Telstra ) over the next seven to eight years, the opposing Liberal-National coalition says if elected, it will scrap that notion in favor of a cheaper A$6.3 billion plan. That money would create a fiber-optic backbone by 2017 but actually connects homes with hybrid fiber-coaxial connections, DSL and about A$2 billion worth of wireless, with a minimum promised speed of 12Mbps.
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Fiber optics get political in Australia as opposition party vows to scale down national broadband plan
Remember that second generation Pogoplug we unboxed last December? Meet its corporate cousin, fresh out of LinkedIn and ready for that 40 hour work week.
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Pogoplug Biz adds corporate skinning, usage stats and other metrics
Looks like Seagate’s not content with giving users a choice of connector — the outfit’s latest GoFlex apparatus utilizes a docking system to give users an easier way to upgrade their NAS. ‘Course, those that really plan ahead will go ahead and grab a multi-bay device like Data Robotics’ Drobo FS , but for the money, it’s hard to argue with the FreeAgent GoFlex Home. Designed to work seamlessly with Windows-based PCs and Apple’s Time Machine, the 1TB and 2TB devices provide a NAS dock for the drive to sit in, and the dock itself also boasts a USB port for adding external storage to the mix or sharing a printer over the network.
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Seagate’s FreeAgent GoFlex Home adds flexibility to your next NAS setup
LED data transmission used to be all the rage — we fondly remember beaming Palm Pilot contacts via IrDA. Then we got omni-directional Bluetooth and building-penetrating WiFi , and put all that caveman stuff behind us. But now, scientists the world over are looking to bring back line-of-sight networking, and the latest demonstation has Chinese researchers streaming video to a laptop with naught but ceiling-mounted blue LEDs
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Chinese scientists demonstrate 2Mbps internet connection over LED
We haven’t been this worked up about a product since we realized that someone actually made a Hello Kitty warming blanket , and if we can convince our sound card to slide down a slot, we’ll probably be kicking our integrated Ethernet port to the curb in favor of the Killer 2100. All jesting aside, Bigfoot Networks has returned after 14 months of silence in order to debut the “world’s fastest online gaming card.” According to the company, this here NIC is equipped with a dedicated network processor, Windows stack bypass, Visual Bandwidth Control and “other optimizations” designed to provide the most optimal online gaming experience ever . For those drinking the Kool-Aid, it’ll be available for £86 ($127) in the coming weeks — we’d caution you to wait for benchmarks first, though
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Bigfoot Networks trounces ping times with Killer 2100 network card
It’s no secret that Google’s been on something of a shopping spree as of late, buying startups left for right like it was trying to win the final round of Supermarket Sweep. This latest one’s a bit more interesting, though.
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Google acquires server hardware startup Agnilux, a bevy of former Apple / PA Semi employees in tow?
