Cisco Systems unveiled a new Linksys router lineup Wednesday that promises to invent it easier for consumers to customize and control their home wireless networks. Cisco additionally is copying the design simplicity of its Flip Video products in a new wireless router called Valet.

The new Linksys E-series devices are intended to serve the company’s core technology-minded consumer base, while the new Valet is “home wireless made easy,” said Cisco Systems Senior Vice President Jonathan Kaplan.

“Consumers have felt powerless and frustrated with the entire process of home wireless, but with Valet we are tearing down the walls and opening it up to everyone,” Kaplan said. “The market for wireless-enabled products is exploding and now mainstream users will be able to take full advantage of all the new opportunities.”

Valet and Valet Plus

Cisco’s push to construct wireless routing easier for consumers is based on the perception that [...]

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Cisco Systems unveiled a new Linksys router lineup Wednesday that promises to form it easier for consumers to customize and control their home wireless networks. Cisco additionally is copying the design simplicity of its Flip Video products in a new wireless router called Valet.

The new Linksys E-series devices are intended to serve the company’s core technology-minded consumer base, while the new Valet is “home wireless made easy,” said Cisco Systems Senior Vice President Jonathan Kaplan.

“Consumers have felt powerless and frustrated with the entire process of home wireless, but with Valet we are tearing down the walls and opening it up to everyone,” Kaplan said. “The market for wireless-enabled products is exploding and now mainstream users will be able to take full advantage of all the new opportunities.”

Valet and Valet Plus

Cisco’s push to produce wireless routing easier for consumers is based on the perception that [...]

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Developers have a decreased interest in creating applications for the Apple iPad, according to a survey conducted that week. The iPad, which is slated to be available on Saturday, will have to stand out to continue to attract interest from developers.

In January, developers were excited to start writing applications for the then-rumored iPad. A poll of 1,028 developers showed 90 percent were planning to create apps for the iPad, according to Appcelerator, an application development services company.

Now that interest has declined, a new Appcelerator survey shows. Only 80 percent of developers are “interested” in writing apps for the iPad and 53 percent are “very interested,” the new survey found.

“Developers are settling into a more pragmatic approach to the iPad,” said Scott Schwarzhoff, vice president of marketing for Appcelerator. “It is off a bit from January, and it looks like businesses are starting to put the platform into [...]

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Google will integrate the Adobe Flash Player into its Chrome browser and work with Adobe Systems, Mozilla and others to define the next generation of the browser plug-in application programming interface (API). The announcement Tuesday by the search giant could have an impact on competition among mobile devices and on the next generation of multimedia on the web.

Initially distributed through Google’s developer channel, the integrated Chrome with Flash will eventually be available to all Chrome users. that means that users who download Chrome will additionally receive the latest version of the Flash player, without having to download and install it separately. Updates to Flash will be made automatically, using Chrome’s auto-update feature.

HTML5 Versus Flash?

Improving the browser plug-in API, wrote Google Vice President of Engineering Linus Upson in a post on the company’s Chromium blog, will “make it possible for plug-ins to be just as fast, stable [...]

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Intel on Tuesday launched the Xeon 7500 processor series. The new processors are expandable to include two to 256 chips per server and offer an average performance three times better than the company’s 7400 series.

Kirk Skaugen, vice president of the Intel architecture group and general manager of Intel’s data-center group, boldly proclaimed that Intel is democratizing high-end computing with its Nehalem EX processors.

What’s positive is that the processor’s capabilities manufacture it possible for IT managers to consolidate up to 20 older single-core, four-chip servers onto a individual server while maintaining the same level of performance. That, Intel said, could mean up to a 92 percent reduction in energy costs and a one-year ROI due to reductions in capability, cooling and licensing costs.

No More Good-Enough Computing

For years, a clear line separated the capabilities of servers based on Intel’s x86 microprocessor architecture and “enterprise class” UNIX and [...]

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Amazon.com, which has dominated the young but fast-growing electronic book market for the past few years with the Kindle, could get its biggest threat Saturday, when Apple releases its iPad multimedia tablet.

The Kindle starts at $259 and is designed mainly for reading text on a gray-and-black screen. The iPad starts at $499, but with the higher price comes more functions: a color touch screen for downloading books from Apple’s new iBookstore, surfing the Web, playing videos and games and more.

It will take instance to determine whether the iPad causes a tremor in the e-reader market, a high-magnitude quake or something in within. But in the meantime society who read electronic books or are considering buying a reading device will find their choices getting more complicated.

whether the Kindle e-reader falls out of favor with citizens drawn to Apple’s offering, there could be a very thick silver lining for Amazon: [...]

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Yahoo e-mail accounts belonging to foreign journalists arised to have been hacked and Google’s Chinese search engine was intermittently blocked Tuesday, the latest troubles in China’s heavily censored World Wide Web market.

The Yahoo Inc. accounts of at least three journalists and an analyst became inaccessible by the last few weeks. They were greeted with messages saying, “We’ve detected an issue with your account” and were told to contact Yahoo, they said Tuesday. Yahoo techs told one of the four that his explanation had been hacked and restored his access, but it was not clear whether the other instances were related.

Sensitivity about World Wide Web shield has run high since Google Inc. announced in January it might leave China after a series of cyberattacks and complaints about censorship. Last week, Google made a partial retreat, shutting down its mainland-based search engine and redirecting those queries offshore, to the freer [...]

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