Posts Tagged ‘Digital’

Google’s own pacific marine cable by 2010

February 26th, 2008 Information Technology No Comments
Google finally confirmed the rumours of turning to undersea cables and announced that, together with other five associates will start “Unity”, a trans-Pacific undersea fiber-optic cable linking the United States and Japan. The investment will cost approximately not so cheap $300 million and became necessary as the demand and the current capacity of the trans-Pacific cables tent towards an imbalance. With today’s announcement, it appears the Internet giant’s desire for infrastructure investments is growing or should we say hunger for domination . Google’s somewhat 20,000 leagues under the sea adventure will be shared with Bharti Airtel, India’s leading integrated telecom service provider, Global Transit, a South Asian network operator, KDDI, a Japanese information and communication company, Pacnet, leading Asian telecom service provider, SingTel, an Asian leading communications group covering areas of Europe, U.S. and Asia Pacific.  This 10,000-kilometer linear cable system, called Unity (I am not so surprised by that name) has been designed as a five fiber pair cable system, each fiber with a 960Gbps capability, will link Chikura, near Tokyo, to Los Angeles and the West Coast and is expected to meet the new demands in data and Internet traffic. The cable system is expected to respond to…
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Goodbye Adobe stock photos

February 5th, 2008 Software No Comments
Adobe Systems Inc. has announced plans to discontinue its Adobe Stock Photos service effective April 1, 2008. The service enables users of Adobe’s Bridge software to purchase royalty-free images for use in their work. It was introduced in 2005 when Adobe rolled out Creative Suite 2. “Adobe has decided to concentrate its efforts in other areas,” said the company in a statement posted to the Adobe Stock Photos Web site. In straighter wards-Adobe stock photos don’t bring us any money, the way our world class image editing software brings. It’s true that me and many of my colleagues use Adobe Photoshop and Fireworks almost every day but never used their stock photos service. Some of us though use similar sort of services, which they consider much more cost effective and rich in resources. I agree with those who thinks Adobe stock photos service just not up to the mark(ex. iStockPhoto and Getty Images) to gain a lead in that stock photography market. The service will remain fully operational until March 3, 2008. From then through the end of March, comp images will still be available for download. Adobe has posted instructions for users interested in purchasing or downloading images after…
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Cisco data centre architecture rework

January 31st, 2008 Information Technology 2 Comments
Few days ago Cisco Systems, Inc announced an innovative family of data centre-class switching platforms, the Cisco Nexus Series, to meet customer demands for next-generation mission-critical data centres. As the data centre transitions to a more services-centric model, the network plays a pivotal role in orchestrating virtual IT resources and scaling workloads. The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series was designed with this environment in mind, delivering the infrastructure chapter of Cisco’s Data Centre 3.0 vision. The series is designed specifically for the data centre with improved airflow, integrated cable management, and resilient platform architecture. The product is designed around a lossless unified fabric capable of simultaneously forwarding storage, Ethernet, and IP traffic. Experts says this is an effort to reconstruct the data centre and cut expenses by creating what it calls a “unified fabric architecture” that seeks to converge the input/output (I/O) of servers into one pipe. The fabric scales performance linearly with each fabric module and is logically partitioned for efficient unicast and multicast traffic, making it ideally suited for market data video as well as collaboration applications. So we are looking at a whole new generation of hardware and software innovation from Cisco house: The Cisco Nexus Operating System…
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Marvel goes online

November 14th, 2007 Web No Comments
Our web is a lot different than neighborhood friendly spidey’s swinging web, but guess what spidey wants to swing on our web too. Doesn’t making any sense right? Well the story is not about spidey alone, rather his all Marvel super hero friends made their online debut just yesterday (November 13, 2007). Marvel Comics on Tuesday announced the launch of Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited. The new service priced starting at $4.99 per month (if annual subscription). Did I mention you can also check out 250 Digital comic free samples? If you are thinking those Digital Comics are just PDF, think again, every one of them High definition vibrant Flash based slide. But as you can guess no printing, and free samples are just 3-4 page just to tickle your comic thirst. Membership will give you access to classics like the first issues of The Amazing Spider-Man, The X-Men, Incredible Hulk, Fantastic Four and others, along with newer likes like New Avengers and Moon Knight. Marvel counts 2,500 comic books at launch, and plans to add at least 20 additional titles weekly. Unlike online Music and movie store, Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited is 1005 online experience only, since you cannot download…
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