Stories about: D-Link

Cisco Systems has combined the engineering teams for all its small and medium-sized business (SMB) products, forming a single group to develop products for the Cisco and Linksys brands.

Your PC already plays music, and your hard drive holds every digital photo you've ever taken. And you probably watch hours of video on Hulu, Veoh, or YouTube.

The Black Hat conference and its post-event, DefCon, promise to be a security funhouse in the coming week, as experts in Las Vegas seek to shock and amaze by poking holes in today's network technologies. The Web, wireless LANs, routers and desktop software may all look different reflected in the Black Hat/DefCon hall of mirrors, where security vendors will be revealing their hacker sides.

There was a time when Taiwan made cheap bicycles. That was four decades ago, when it was one of the country's main exports. Today, Taiwan takes in more than US$16 billion in revenue from bicycles and it is the home to Giant Bicycle, one of the world's leading bicycle makers.

The first commercial Ethernet switch has been successfully deployed in space aboard the Columbus module research laboratory.

Network security can be a thorny issue for small businesses because they generally lack pricey equipment and dedicated IT people who have the expertise to lock down a local area network. But addressing security is nevertheless essential: Just one customer data breach could easily wipe out a small business, and constantly battling viruses, spyware, and spam can sap employee productivity.

A recent study by In-Stat says that fixed-configuration 24- and 48-port switches can vary by more than 600 per cent in terms of how much switching capacity they support in relation to how much electric power they draw.

What can you use for kindling, a door stop, shooting practice or boosting a toddler up to the table?

Microsoft's Response Point is PBX software that runs on Embedded XP inside of hardware sold by three Microsoft partners -- Aastra, D-Link, and Quanta -- with more partners to come later in 2008, according to Microsoft. You can engage a VAR to install the system or do it yourself without much effort.

One of the biggest selling points in last year's release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard was the inclusion of Time Machine, a nifty new app aimed at making that most onerous of tasks -- backing up data -- not only easy to do, but fun.

Hackers are using a new multiple-attack package composed of seven ActiveX exploits, many of them never seen in the wild before, said a security company.