Reports and inital impressions of new IT products
NAS specialist Synology has added yet another model to its wide range of business storage appliances. The DiskStation DS112+ is an updated version of the existing DS112, an entry-level single-bay enclosure based on the new consumer DS112j model, which it closely resembles in appearance.
The SSD business is becoming ever more competitive: even in the niche high-capacity end of the market, drives are coming in under the magical £1 per gigabyte level as manufacturers try to cut costs to make their products more appealing. The latest high-capacity drive to hit the shelves is Kingston's 480GB HyperX 3K.
Buffalo Technology has become the first vendor to launch 802.11ac (Draft 2.
Never mind a photograph; now you can (finally) capture a 360-degree panorama on Windows Phone with Microsoft Photosynth.Is Windows Phone behind or is Microsoft beta-testing apps on other platforms first?
Ring2 was a conference call tool for mobile devices. It's recently changed its name to LoopUp, and added support for remote meetings as well as conference calls.
The PlayBook has had something of a checkered history, but its 2.0 software update has put it well on the road to BlackBerry 10 and given it a social network-integrated messaging platform that's second to none.
Unified edge switches, like D-Link's new DWS-3160 model, allow management of both wired and wireless clients from the same device. So instead of requiring a separate central WLAN controller to manage the wireless APs in an office, plus a separate switch to handle wired LAN traffic, a unified switch architecture allows the switch itself to fulfil either or both roles.
Samsung's Galaxy S III may be attracting a huge amount of attention at present with its pop-up shops and massive pre-orders, but it's not the only new handset in Samsung's range that's worth a look.The Galaxy S Advance may boast fewer cutting-edge specifications, but it's also a less expensive phone, and has plenty to recommend it.
A recent flurry of announcements from networking equipment vendors — including Belkin, Buffalo and Netgear — heralds the imminent arrival of the next generation of Wi-Fi products to the UK market. Incorporating many of the design features of 802.
HTC's One range of handsets comprises three models. There's the flagship HTC One X with its quad-core processor and vast 4.