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802.11n To Be Ratified in 2010
802.11n To Be Ratified in 2010
Although the Wi-Fi Alliance started certifying Draft-N products based on draft 2.0 of 802.11n back in June of 2007, the standard isnt expected to be ratified for another year or so: the IEEEs 802.11n Task Group anticipates publication in November of 2009, with final ratification to follow in January of 2010. Still, with the Wi-Fi Alliances certification program already flourishing, that final ratification may not make much of an actual difference in the marketplace.
Frost & Sullivan analyst James Brehm points out that, thanks to the certification program, theres no shortage of Draft-N equipment already deployed. In the consumer world, when you go to the stores, you find no b, you find very little g, and all you find is n, he says. And in the enterprise world, n deployments are happening as well: people are not waiting around for the ratification to happen.
Wi-Fi Alliance marketing director Kelly Davis-Felner...
Server plugs into wall socket for small networks
Server plugs into wall socket for small networks
Marvell has launched a computer server the size of plug that can be plugged in to power home and small office networks.
The Marvell plug computer connects to an existing network using Gigabit Ethernet. This type of device eliminates the need for an always-on PC to power the network.
The Marvell plug computer is designed to be left plugged into a wall socket at all times. Marvell said it draws less than five watts under normal operation on average, compared to 25-100 watts for a PC being used as a home server.
Read the rest of the article here. I just may have to buy one of these
-Ken
IT staff do 34 days of unpaid overtime a year, says TUC
IT staff do 34 days of unpaid overtime a year, says TUC
Workplace pressure caused by the recession is leading to IT professionals working more than a month of unpaid overtime every year.
The TUC says one-third of IT workers are doing an average of 34 days of unpaid overtime in a 12-month period. The figure is an increase on August 2008, when workers were doing 33.8 days of unpaid overtime a year.
It means IT staff are working around five hours and 48 minutes a week for free. Today is the TUC's Work Your Proper Hours Day, which marks the point in the year at which the average person who does free overtime would start earning their salary if all their unpaid overtime were done at the start of the year.
The TUC has in the past made a call for employees to work their proper hours for one day today, to
remind bosses of the effort they put in.
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New Citrix XenServer Release Makes Enterprise-Class, Cloud-Proven Virtualization Free
New Citrix XenServer Release Makes Enterprise-Class, Cloud-Proven Virtualization Free for Everyone
BOSTON » 2/23/2009 » Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today unveiled a groundbreaking new version of Citrix® XenServer the companys enterprise-class, cloud-proven virtualization platform that will be offered free of charge to any user for unlimited production deployment. While basic hypervisors have been free for years, most have had limited practical use in real world environments. With this new release, XenServer sets an entirely new standard for free virtualization with the addition of powerful new features like centralized multi-node management, multi-server resource sharing and full live motion. Dramatically lowering the entry price of virtualization also helps address todays challenging economic climate by making enterprise-class virtualization far more accessible to businesses...
Sacked For Calling Job Boring On Facebook
Sacked For Calling Job Boring On Facebook
A teenager has been sacked from her job after calling it boring on Facebook.
Kimberley Swann made the comment about Ivell Marketing and Logistics Limited in Clacton, Essex, where she had begun working as an administrator.
She claims she did not name the company online and was happy in the job.
The 16-year-old was sacked with "immediate effect" after posting the negative comment on the social networking site.
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-Ken
VMware shows virtualisation on the mobile phone
VMware shows virtualisation on the mobile phone
VMware has announced a mobile virtualisation platform (MVP) aimed at handset vendors to enable mobile users to choose between two different platforms or phone numbers on a single handset.
Speaking at the VMworld conference, VMware chief technology officer Steve Herrod said that it would enable users who had separate phones for work and for home to be able to use both phones from a single device.
"The way that I envisage it working would be that IT departments would outline a set of policies and particular software build. In essence, this means that users would be able bring any device into the workplace and the IT team could use that device to include any particular workplace policies.
"It could even be the case that one device could have multiple operating systems running so that you see Symbian and Android in a single view," Herrod said.
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UK IT staff spared as RBS slashes costs
UK IT staff spared as RBS slashes costs
The Royal Bank of Scotland is expected to cut thousands of jobs as part of a restructuringthat will see it scale back operations and reduce operational costs by £2.5bn.
But UK IT workers could be spared as the bank focuses on its retail operation in Britain.
RBS reported aloss for 2008 of £8.13bn before write-offs, which are significant. The government has agreed to inject up to £25.5bn into the troubled bank.
There is speculation that the bank could cut more than 20,000 staff as part of its restructuring. RBS will now focus on the UK retail banking market, so the country will avoid the majority of cuts.
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-Ken
Single Google search uses 1,000 servers
Single Google search uses 1,000 servers
Google has reportedly admitted that a single Google search engine query uses 1,000 servers in 0.2 seconds.
The admission by Google fellow Jeff Dean, in a keynote session at WSDM 2009, may alarm those campaigning for greener datacentres.
According to Jeff Dean, while both search queries and processing power have gone up by a factor of 1,000 over ten years, latency has gone down from around 1000ms to 200ms.
Another significant change, said Dean, has been holding the complete search index in memory. This has resulted in 1,000 machines being used to handle a single query, compared to just 12 previously.
This revelation may be embarrassing for Google, which has defended its ecological record in the past, claiming a single Google query takes just 0.0003KWh of energy and that its datacentres are the world's most efficient.
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Facebook 'withdraws' data changes
Facebook 'withdraws' data changes
The founder of Facebook says the social network will return to its previous terms of service regarding user data.
In a blog post Mark Zuckerberg said the move was temporary "while we resolve the issues that people have raised".
Users had complained after new terms of service seemed to suggest Facebook would retain personal data even if someone deleted their account.
Originally defending the changes, Mr Zuckerberg had said it was to better reflect how people used the site.
He had said the changes were made to ensure that if a user deleted his or her account any comments or messages he or she had left on a friend's Facebook page would not also disappear.
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Schools complain about standardised BSF IT
Schools complain about standardised BSF IT
Camden School for Girls says its London borough's school building programme would have replaced its ICT with poorer facilities
The school, which is in need of physical renovation, was told that if it didn't sign up, the Building Schools for the Future deal for the whole borough would be delayed, reports the Guardian.
Anne Canning, the headteacher, said: "Without question we felt we had no choice. Partnerships for Schools (PfS, the government body overseeing BSF) would look for the next local authority, which was more attractive to market, we were told. The implication was, you can pull out, but if you do the whole of Camden will not proceed within this round."
The school has invested heavily in ICT since 2000. When it was told it would have to outsource its ICT to a private company managing a network for schools across LB Camden, its management wanted to know what the benefit would be to the students.
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