Category: Hardware

A high-spec home/SOHO modem/router from Germany will go on sale in Australia early next year. The Fritz!Box incorporates VoIP and DECT capabilities as well as the usual Ethernet and Wi-Fi connectivity. read more

A firmware upgrade for certain Billon routers will deliver IPv6 support in early 2011. read more

Telstra today started selling its upgraded mobile broadband modem to the wider consumer market, after several months of offering the device — and its theoretical network speeds of up to 42Mbps — to big business customers and the government sector. read more

Telstra has announced the launch of new mobile device capable of doubling of data speeds over the Next G network and scheduled for release by the end of this year. read more

HP has just announced that it’s acquiring Palm to the tune of $1.2 billion, which works out to $5.70 per share of Palm common stock. The deal is planned to close by July 31, which marks the end of HP’s third fiscal quarter of the year. Current Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein is “expected to remain…

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Anvil Motion’s innovative automated doors rely on a motion sensor or keypad control. read more

A person over at the overclock.net forums and their folding@home team has put together an amazing folding farm, Consisting of 51 nVidia 8800 series GPU’s and 13 MSI P6N Diamond motherboards which each have 4 PCI Express slots for 4 video cards per board, based on calculations this folding Juggernaut can put out about 265,200PPD.…

Security specialists said Saturday that hackers are taking increasing aim at iPhones and Macintosh computers as the hot-selling Apple devices gain popularity worldwide. Hackers have historically focused devious efforts on computers using Windows operating systems because the Microsoft software has more than 90 percent of the global market. read more | digg story

What a ridiculous project! But how awesome would it be to be the hardcore system building nerds they asked to do this? A couple months ago, a French Tom’s Hardware-related superteam got together to overclock an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz as far as it would go. They just put up the pictures and…