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Cisco is expected to announce this week the new technology and a business unit focused on integrating two-way radio, cellular, VoIP and other communications methods into an IP backbone. Read the rest of this entry »

HP Data Protection and Recovery solutions help your organization better manage risks and reduce business process downtime. Any number of events can impact business and IT operations, from simple end-user mistakes, a failed device, to the loss of an entire data center due to flooding, power loss or other disaster. Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s a round up of interesting posts from last week you should not miss.

• Cisco Catalyst Express 500-24LC earned eight stars recommendation
• Uncomplicate your Paper Flow with Lexmark Solutions
• IBM Server & Storage Promo!
• What is a Microsoft School Agreement Subscription Licensing Program?
• Preventive Maintenance Awareness
• U.S. to require RFID chips in passports
• Lexmark Print and Ride Promo

The Sudoku (Japanese word for mind games) Craze hits Cebu as the NGenius IT Hub launches the SUDOKU CHALLENGE 2005. The objective of the Sudoku game is simple, just fill in all grids so that every column, every row, and every 3×3 local grids will contain numbers 1-9 without any redundancy.

Just go in to your nearest NGenius Branch (SM or PIPC IT Park Lahug), Premium Concepts Branch (PIPC, SM, Ayala, BTC), make a minimum purchase of 2,000 and be given a puzzle (raffle) card. Answer correctly and dropped to box of the branches.

Or make a minimum purchase of 5,000 for ESprint Software and Ng Khai Development Corporation and you will be eligible to qualify.

check this site to see how to play Sudoku, and another post on why and how Sudoku develops your logical skills.

Daily tips and hint will be posted through www.ngkhai.net

Lexmark introduced affordable new color and monochrome laser printers that set a new standard of value and performance for small and medium business customers. Introducing Lexmark C520n Color Laser Printer, offering Small and Medium Business reliable, professional and vibrant color printing. Offers customers with powerful performance, producing high quality output with true 1200 x 1200 dpi in a wide variety of media. You can easily and quickly print complex print jobs with the expandable memory options.

More info on news release…

Remote employees, strategic vendors, and telecommuters access corporate networks over DSL or cable modems. However, these high-speed connections rely on fixed IP addresses, making them attractive targets for hackers. Even virtual private networks (VPNs) can be compromised at their open end points. The 3Com Embedded Firewall solution overcomes the challenges of ensuring trusted connections to remote workers, enforcing security independently of where the network end point is located. Read the rest of this entry »

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Mark Gibbs of Gearhead wrote that Vonage is, as we had hoped, less expensive and better featured than plain old telephone lines (POTS), but it has its own set of gotchas. When everything is right and WAN traffic is light and the wind is from the east, the service sounds great. Then, for no apparent reason, you will get “dropouts” and wind up asking callers or callees to repeat themselves. This takes a while because the other consequence of dropouts is the call appears to stop being full-duplex so the other person gets to carry on for as long as he pleases while you have little or no clue what he is talking about because the second sentence of his “War and Peace” monologue got trashed. Another issue is that on one of our VoIP lines, if you do not grab the phone before the second ring the call will be bounced to the alternate number configured as the “Internet down” back-up number. Read more…

Processor: Intel Pentium M LV 758 Low Voltage 1.5GHz
Cache Memory: 2MB cache/400MHz FSB/915GM Chipset
Memory: 512MB DDR2 SDRAM PC2-4200 CL4 Non-Parity (Up to 1.53GB)
Hard Disk: 40GB ATA-100 (EIDE). Hard Disk Drive
Docking Station: X4 Dock w/ Combo Slim Drive (73P3288)
Floppy Drive: Optional (USB External)
Video Memory: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900
Pointing Device: TrackPoint with “Press-to-Select”
Display: 12.1″ XGA Active Matrix TFT Color Display
Modem: Integrated 56K V.92 data/fax modem
Network: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet
Other Comm.: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG
Audio: SoundMAX
Slots: 1 Type I or II PC Card slot
Add’l Feature: ThinkLight illuminates keyboard to improve visibility in low-light conditions
Security: IBM Embedded Security Subsystem 2.0, IBM ESS 2.0 and Integrated Fingerprint Reader
Battery: 8 Cell Lithium-Ion battery (approx. 7.5 hrs battery life)
Ports: 2 USB, USB 2.0 (1 powered)l, external DB-15 monitor, infrared (4Mbps), RJ -45 (ethernet) and RJ-11 (modem) ports
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Tablet 2005
Warranty: 3 years Carry-in Warranty (1 year for the Battery Pack)

Selling Price Starts at: Php. 134,995.00

The HP StorageWorks 1510i Modular Smart Array (MSA1510i) is an iSCSI interface based 2U controller unit that connects to both HP StorageWorks Serial ATA (SATA) and/or SCSI disk enclosures and provides a flexible low cost, high capacity storage solution with SATA drives, for less than $.01 per/MB.

For businesses that need enterprise class SCSI reliability and performance, the MSA1510i can attach up-to-four MSA30 SCSI enclosures for a native capacity of 16.8 TB (using fifty-six 300 GB SCSI disks). This also supports up-to-eight attached SATA enclosures which can provide up to 24 TB (using ninety-six 250 GB SATA disk drives) of native capacity. More…

Many of us don’t know that the plans to develop Windows actually started in 1983, and it was first released in November 1985 in Las Vegas. That time, it was version 1.0, and Windows did not actually become popular until 7 or 8 years after it was conceived. It was only on version 3.0 around 1990 that Windows finally made it.

Michael Miller of PC Magazine traces the 20 year evolution of Windows from version 1 up to the present and to the future of Vista here….

Color HP LaserJet Printers

Find out more on HP Business Printers here.

CRN Test Center engineers recently evaluated the Catalyst Express 500-24LC, priced at $1,295, and earned a recommended status of eight stars out of ten. Cisco’s Catalyst Express 500-24LC switch incorporates 20 10/100 ports, four 10/100 PoE ports and two 10/100/1000BT or SFP ports, with all 24 PoE ports capable of supplying up to 15.4 watts of power over Category 5 cable, for a total of 370 watts of inline power. Read the rest of this entry »

Employees accessing inappropriate websites will always be a concern to organizations of all sizes, but the growing presence of harmful applications on desktops and the use of instant messaging and peer-to-peer (P2P) applications has also dramatically increased organizations’ risks.

- 90% of businesses suffered hacker attacks in the last year
- 30% of peer-to-peer requests are for pornographic downloads
- 1 in 3 corporations have spyware on their networks
- 45% of IT managers reported that viruses have infected their company’s network
- 70% of all internet porn traffic occurs during the 9 to 5 work day

learn more click here.