Most of us are familiar with a normal business or residential line from the phone company. A normal phone line like this is delivered on a pair of copper wires that transmit your voice as an analog signal. When you use a normal modem on a line like this, it can transmit data at perhaps 30 kilobits per second (30,000 bits per second). The phone company moves nearly all voice traffic as digital rather than analog signals. Your analog line gets converted to a digital signal by sampling it 8,000 times per second at 8-bit resolution (64,000 bits per second). Nearly all digital data now flows over fiber optic lines, and the phone company uses different designations to talk about the capacity of a fiber optic line. If your office

caption: Carnegie Mellon's Alessandro Acquisti shows how to use Facebook to ID people on dating sites and on the street

(Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET) LAS VEGAS--Facebook's online privacy woes are well-known. But here's an offline one: its massive database of profile photos can be used to identify you as you're walking down the street. A Carnegie Mellon University researcher today described how he assembled a database of about 25,000 photographs taken from students' Facebook profiles. Then he set up a desk in one of the campus buildings and asked willing volunteers to peer into Webcams. The results: facial recognition software put a name to the face of 31 percent of the students after, on average, less than three seconds of rapid-fire comparisons. In a few years, "facial visual searches may become as common as today's text-based searches," says Alessandro Acquisti, who presented his

ConnectZone.com stock's a large quantity of the CAB-DFC-OCTAL-3MF Cables which are used to connect the 36 pin connector on the octal T1/E1 card of the AS5400 to eight T1 or E1 lines.  As well at the 3meter CAB-DFC-OCTAL-3MF ConnectZone.com also stocks the following lengths

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ConnectZone.com has gotten another rather large shipment in of the CAB-AC-C6K-TWLK, AC  power cord for the Cisco Catalyst 6000 with the L6-20P Twist Lock connectors 10 feet long. The CAB-AC-C6K-TWLK has a NEMA L6-20P on one end & the square IEC-320-C19 on th4e other end. The Nema L6-20P connector plugs into the wall & then you give it a qurter turn to lock it in & ensure that it won't accidentally come unplugged.   ConnectZone.com Also carries this in other lengths like the 15 foot CAB-AC-C6K-TWLK-15 ConnectZone.com is not only your best source for CAB-AC-C6K-TWLK & other Cisco

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Smartphones are addictive, according to a study from the British telecom regulator Ofcom, which, like many other studies on the topic, emphasizes that people do things like using handsets in bathrooms in lieu of talking to their children and points out how they are changing social behavior. The press release on the research, issued Thursday, uses the word addiction in a variety of forms five times, including when it says 37 percent of adults and 60 percent of teens admit they are “highly addicted” to the devices. But why wouldn’t they be? Thanks to apps such as Twitter, texting or even email we are assured that someone is out there on the other end,

Every developer who makes a popular web or mobile app is eventually faced with a decision: They can either stick with the status quo or swing for the fences. A successful app can provide a nice living for a small team of one or two people. That kind of “lifestyle business” can be an attractive end in itself. But it can be very seductive to take on venture capital, hire a larger staff, and turn an app into a genuine startup. Taking that path is risky — but it also has the potential to bring on much bigger economic rewards. These days, it seems like more and more developers seem to be swinging for the fences.

Spinning the risk-reward roulette wheel

Buffer is one example. It’s an app that enables users to easily schedule their Tweets to be posted at a later time, and has amassed a sizable user base that is growing every day. Just seven months old, Buffer is currently bringing in enough money for founder Joel Gascoigne

Simple, everyone who wants improved transmission performance and extension of the available bandwidth. Cat 5E while much superior to Cat4 & Cat3, is old news. Cat 5E has inferior immunity from external noise. What that means to you is Cat 6 with have more robust reliability and SPEED. Of course that’s only important if you want to fly around the internet and run your internal network at lightning speed without losing data and having to re-transmit. (Insert visual of the Comcast turtle here) Cat 6 is used to carry Ethernet 10Base-T, 100Base-TX, and 1000Base-T (Gigabit Ethernet) connections. Cat 6 cable is backed with more stringent specifications for crosstalk and system noise than earlier cabling standards. Some Installers will tell you that Cat 6 is more difficult to install, which is probably true-but only by a little bit. That’s because the conductors are twisted more tightly which makes them more difficult to split apart. But a little prudence

The more mobile apps come out, the bigger the discovery problem gets for users: Apple, for example, recently announced they have 425,000 apps in the App Store. Rankings, recommendations from platform providers or search often bring unsatisfying results – a pain that an app called AppGrooves [version 2.0, free on iTunes] now tries to solve. There are quite a few recommendation engines out there already (i.e. Chomp or Frenzapp), but AppGrooves goes in a different direction: the idea is to combine a proprietary recommendation algorithm with a “Hot or not”-feature and a social element to discover unknown cool iOS apps. The way it works is that AppGrooves first detects what kind of

So you may know that Google has a new product called Google Latitude. If you have a compatible cell phone you can install it and give your friends and family the ability to track you on their cell phones or a PC. You need to ask permission to track someone and they have to agree to be tracked. You can even get directions to where your friends are. Sounds kinda cool. I will even give you the link so you can check it out: http://www.google.com/mobile/default/latitude.html

The features include the ability to share your location and privacy settings you can enable and disable should you want to go missing in action for a time period.

I can see where this would be very useful. A real life example: while on vacation in California with friends, one of the friends took our jointly rented car for a day trip. The plan was my friend was going to go shopping