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VLC launches version 2.0 ‘Twoflower’

February 21st, 2012
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Having witnessed 485 million downloads of VLC 1.1.x versions, VideoLAN and the VLC development team has come up with a new version of their VLC media player – VLC 2.0.0, codenamed “Twoflower”.

“With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 is a major upgrade for VLC,” said the company in a release.

Also, it is touted to have a new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles, and new video filters to enhance your videos.

According to the company, the new release also supports many new devices and BluRay Discs, although the support is experimental.

Mac users will see a big change in the user interface. They will be able to use VLC in 2 colours – Lion Grey and QTX Black. Also, there will be more extension support and better Lion integration.

Here are some key features of the new VLC media player (VLC 2.0.0):

- New video outputs for Windows 7, Android, iOS and OS/2.

- New audio outputs for iOS, Android and OS/2.

- Experimental support for BluRay discs

- VLC’s web plugins have been rewritten for better integration and stability in all browsers.

- For Mac users, there is completely new, single window interface, which is available in 2 colors – Lion grey and QTX black.

Source:http://ibnlive.in.com/news/vlc-launches-version-20-twoflower/231976-11.html

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Milagrow Launches TabTop PC For Women

January 4th, 2012
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Close on the heels of Sony success in its VAIO notebooks after it introduced variants aimed at women, Milagrow Business and Knowledge Solutions—provider of tech-enabled solutions seems to follow suit with TabTop tablets aimed at working women professionals.

Milagrow is also launching variants with attractive colors of powder pink, sky blue, silver and black. The tablet is powered by a 1.2 GHz processor, 1GB DDR3 RAM, runs on Android 2.3.1, and comes with 50 pre-loaded applications. It has a 7-inch multi-touch screen with LED backlit widescreen HD display.

“Women have fast evolved as intelligent consumers of electronics. They know and look for features that are easy-to-use and carry. The TabTop weighs 275 grams and slides easily into a woman’s handbag. We have also preloaded it with special security and anti theft applications,” said Rajeev Karwal, Founder, Milagrow TabTops.

The Woman’s TabTop PC is an on-the-go usability device with a 3G Ready module, direct USB ports, USB/ SD card, eight computer-five device Wi-Fi modem capability, LAN capability and more than eight hours of battery life.

It is priced at Rs 13,990, comes with 1-year warranty for the tablet, and six-month warranty for inbox accessories.

Source:http://www.crn.in/Hardware-003Jan012-Milagrow-Launches-TabTop-PC-For-Women.aspx

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Sony launches PlayStation Vita in Japan

December 19th, 2011
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Sony’s long-awaited PlayStation Vita portable game machine has hit stores in Japan as thousands of game enthusiasts lined up at stores from early in the morning.

Sony is predicting brisk sales, even though Saturday’s launch may have missed some holiday shoppers. A successful debut would help the company offset the rest of its struggling business.

The device is a touch-interface and motion-sensitive handheld seen as a successor to the PlayStation Portable. Vita’s launch would heat up competition with rival Nintendo Co’s 3DS.

Many of the purchasers Saturday had made advance orders on the internet so they can start playing immediately.

The PS Vita goes on sale in North America and Europe on February 22. Sony’s long-awaited PlayStation Vita portable game machine hit stores in Japan on Saturday as thousands of game enthusiasts lined up early in the morning to be among the first to buy it.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. is predicting brisk sales, even though the launch may have missed some holiday shoppers. A successful debut would help the company offset the rest of its struggling business. Sony projects a loss of more than $1 billion for the fiscal year through March 2012, which would be its fourth straight annual loss.

In Tokyo’s Ikebukuro shopping district, some 300 game enthusiasts lined up outside a major electronics chain that opened a few hours earlier than usual for the event. Many of the purchasers had made advance orders on the Internet so they could start playing immediately.

The device is a touch-interface and motion-sensitive handheld seen as a successor to the PlayStation Portable. Gamers can connect over cellphone networks and Wi-Fi hotspots, and use GPS location-tracking technology.

Television footage showed some shoppers unwrapping their new purchases and starting to try them out at the store.

“I’m so happy to see so many people lining up for PS Vita so early in the morning,” Sony Computer Entertainment Japan President Hiroshi Kono wrote in his official blog after touring several Tokyo stores. “I can tell they had anxiously waited for today’s launch.”

For the Tokyo-based electronics and entertainment giant, the Vita is the biggest product launch since the PlayStation 3 console five years ago. It’s also accompanied by two dozen software products-the largest number of launch titles in PlayStation history.

The Vita has front and back cameras, a touchscreen in front, a touch pad on the back and two knob-like joysticks. It will enable gamers to play against each other using PlayStation 3 consoles over the Internet-based PlayStation Network, a system that was hit with a massive hacking attack earlier this year.

Vita’s launch will heat up competition with rival Nintendo Co.’s 3DS. Nintendo Co’s 3DS had a disappointing start despite the company’s efforts to market its 3D technology, with critics complaining about a lack of interesting games. Nintendo ended up slashing prices on the 3DS within six months.

The companies are challenged by the rise of smartphones and tablets, through which casual gamers play inexpensive and simple games like the mega-hit “Angry Birds.”

Source:http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-12-17/hardware/30528583_1_playstation-network-touch-interface-and-motion-sensitive-portable-game-machine

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CommuniGate Systems launches VoicePlus HD Telephony

May 14th, 2010
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CommuniGate Systems, the leader in carrier-grade Unified Communications, today announced the release of VoicePlus; the only professional quality High Definition IP telephony solution designed specifically for the small office. The product is based on the resilient and battle tested carrier-grade technology that CommuniGate Systems has become renowned for over the past twenty years. Perfect for small businesses that do not have a large IT staff or budget, VoicePlus is exceptionally easy to manage, and practically runs itself!

CommuniGate Systems recognizes the rocketing penetration of Apple products into the enterprise market and have optimized VoicePlus for Apple platforms. VoicePlus can run on a Mac Mini and will consume less power than a Child’s night light at full power. The Mac Mini running VoicePlus can power Enterprises with even more than a 1,000 users, just by adding inexpensive external NAS solutions. VoicePlus echoes the quality and reliability of Apple hardware, making it the first choice for professional business users, including doctors, creative agencies, design agencies, architects, legal offices and any professional organization that needs low power, low noise, low maintenance IP telephony with click and forget about it reliability.

The VoicePlus client technology Pronto! works across all Apple Mac computer platforms, and offers real-time wireless synchronization with the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

VoicePlus delivers enterprise grade High Definition IP telephony features in a small business friendly, affordable package:

- CommuniGate Pronto! 3, the Flash based soft-phone and Unified Communications client that runs in any web browser on desktops, laptops or netbooks

- Complete telephony support, including conference calling, call handling, call screening, voicemail and many more enterprise-grade features.

- Powerful admin and user interfaces for feature activation, call planning, administration and provisioning

- Support for a wide range of industry standard HD Voice IP desk phones, including Thomson, Polycom and Snom

- The industry’s lowest hardware requirement and power consumption

- Built-in and optimized HD Voice with special techniques for home office users

- Micro-Dynamic Cluster enabled with 2 cluster node licenses for exceptional five 9’s reliability and performance

VoicePlus is a complete small business communication solution, offering a full IP telephony platform combined with exceptional Unified Communication functions, ready to support the evolving requirements of the small business:

- eDisc, a simple yet powerful way to share files and collaborate, with windows, Mac, or Linux computer systems.

- WebCals, a powerful way to publish or subscribe to Calendars, even on external systems such as Outlook/ Exchange users.

- Business Grade IM, with support for Multi-party chat rooms, and external integration to Google’s gTalk, and Exchange running the XMPP gateway service

- Email, collaboration tools and much more.

VoicePlus will be sold through certified CommuniGate Systems partners and select distributors worldwide starting at $4500 in the USA. To find out more about becoming a VoicePlus reseller, join one of our upcoming webinars: www.communigate.com/webinar

“We are really excited to be working with CommuniGate Systems as a VoicePlus distributor.”, said Massimo Bolzoni, CEO Answer VAD, Italy, ”VoicePlus finally gives us a cost-effective, feature-rich IP telephony solution to deliver to the small business market. With this solution we expect to drive significant new revenues out of markets we couldn’t previously compete in with solutions that were starting at 50k, and required a huge effort to deploy. Small businesses, which is the vast majority here in Italy, have no time or money for that”

“As a distributor in the UK, VoicePlus enables us to expand our telephony business in to previously difficult to reach market segments.”, said Simon Paton, CEO GAPIC, UK, “The opportunity for affordable, feature rich IP telephony in the sub-50 employee SMB market is significant and VoicePlus enables us to deliver profitable solutions into that segment.”

“Everyone talks about going into the SMB market, but few can really achieve that with expensive, complex, and un-reliable solutions they sell to big Enterprises with big IT staff and budgets” says Jon Doyle, VP Business Development CommuniGate Systems. “With VoicePlus, our partners and resellers now have access to a commercially viable and highly compelling business communications technology for their small business customers. Delivering all the features expected of the typical large enterprise systems, VoicePlus enables small businesses to appear as a larger, more professional organization but at a price point that suits their budgets and a simplicity that suits their office environment.”

VoicePlus is powered by the highly regarded, award winning CommuniGate Pro technology platform, and is the only complete IP telephony and communications platform suitable for the small business market.

To find out more about becoming a VoicePlus reseller, join us on one of our upcoming webinars

To take the Pronto! client for a test drive, and experience HD Telephony for yourself, register for a free 30-day trial at today.

Source:http://www.itwire.com/press-release/39100-communigate-systems-launches-voiceplus-hd-telephony

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ClearCube Launches Secure Blade PC and Secure Workstation

May 10th, 2010
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ClearCube Technology, the leader in rack mounted secure workstations, blade PCs and centralized computing, today announced the launch of the R3040SS secure workstation blade and R3080DS secure blade PC, which deliver unprecedented network computer security, by utilizing the Intel Advanced Encryption Standard-New Instructions (AES-NI) for encryption acceleration and Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT).

The ClearCube R3040SS secure workstation blade and R3080DS secure blade PC incorporate the latest processor advancements from Intel that include AES-NI that facilitates full hardware-based AES acceleration. Therefore, organizations that rely on AES for data encryption can do so without the performance limitations. AES-NI is comprised of six new instructions that enhance overall encryption performance as well as guarding against side channel exploits. In software-only implementations of AES, side channels present a threat vector that can be utilized for attacks and represent significant risk of encryption key exposure. The new ClearCube secure blade workstations with Intel AES-NI eliminates that threat.

In addition, the ClearCube R3040SS secure workstation blade and R3080DS secure blade PC include Intel processors that are enabled with Intel TXT. The processor executes new SMX (Safer Mode Extensions) instructions, which generate a binary hash (a number generated by a formula) of all system software, including operating systems, applications and VMMs. The hash is performed in a secure area of the processor and the results are stored in the TPM. The new hash values are verified with the previous values before any software is allowed to start execution, thus preventing system tampering.

“With more than 345 million records containing sensitive information being compromised in security breaches since January of 2005, it is critical for enterprises to secure computing environments,” said David Grawrock, Senior Principal Engineer and Security Architect at Intel. “Not only does ClearCube have the inherent security of placing the PC in the data center versus the desktop but they’ve also collaborated with Intel to deploy our latest security advancements in their blade workstations that mitigate many of the common threat vectors.”

In addition to incorporating Intel’s AES-NI and TXT into the architecture, ClearCube has included its patent-pending mass storage lockout capability in the R3080DS and R3040SS blade workstations. Mass storage lockout is a hardware security setting that prevents unauthorized storage devices from connecting to the ClearCube blade workstation.

“We continue to see strong demand for secure computing solutions for government, financial services and CAD environments in order to protect intellectual property and top secret data,” said Randy Printz, CEO of ClearCube Technology. “When the US Department of Defense banned USB storage devices we were first to respond with a hardware security layer that prevented USB storage devices from connecting to our blade workstations. The R3040SS and R3080DS are the latest examples of our commitment to secure computing.”

USB storage devices have often been the source of malware attacks as well as internal data breaches which have resulted in billions of dollars in losses. The ClearCube R3040SS and R3080DS blade workstations eliminate these threats from USB storage devices.

In addition, the R3040SS and R3080DS can operate over copper or fiber networks and include the Teradici PCoIP remoting protocol option which provides hardware compression and data encryption to deliver a high performance secure workstation experience with multi-monitor support to the end-user.

Combining the new ClearCube secure workstation blades and blade PCs with a ClearCube secure zero client and Sentral 6.1 management software provides additional security fortification.

Source:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/clearcube-launches-secure-blade-pc-and-secure-workstation-93278439.html

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SLP Subsidiary Words+ Launches EyePro(TM) System

May 10th, 2010
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Words+, Inc., a leading provider of augmentative communication and assistive technology hardware and software for people with disabilities, announced today that it has launched EyePro(TM), a new product that allows a person to operate an augmentative communication system or computer by simply looking at the screen. Words+ is a wholly owned subsidiary of Simulations Plus, Inc. (SLP 2.10, -0.15, -6.67%) .

Jeff Dahlen, president of Words+, said: “Eyegaze technology has become an increasingly important input method for people using augmentative communication (Speech Generating Devices) and other assistive technologies, especially for those who are severely physically limited by progressive diseases such as ALS (‘Lou Gehrig’s disease’). Until now, we have only been able to provide limited eyegaze technology in special cases due to the prohibitive cost as a third party provider, and we couldn’t effectively market certain proprietary communication techniques we have developed. This negatively impacted our sales to people with ALS, as well as other sales opportunities. Having negotiated an appropriate confidential OEM distribution agreement, we are now able to provide our own eyegaze product and implement new Words+ proprietary communication techniques profitably at current market prices.”

Gaylon Ponder, national sales manager for Words+, added: “Introducing EyePro(TM) not only allows us to better meet the needs of the customers we serve, but it also significantly increases the size and effectiveness of our national sales force in two ways. First, we gain the full attention of our multiline dealers, who were previously spending a significant amount of their sales time representing an eyegaze product from a different manufacturer, and second, we add eyegaze to the product line of our sales employees and exclusive Words+ dealers. We are taking orders, and delivered two EyePro systems to Veterans with ALS during the first week of May.”

Source:http://www.marketwatch.com/story/slp-subsidiary-words-launches-eyeprotm-system-2010-05-10?reflink=MW_news_stmp

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TTSL launches Ethernet-based leased line services in 8 cities

April 27th, 2010
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Telecom service provider Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTSL) today launched its Ethernet-based leased line services in eight Indian cities.Ethernet leased line services comprises a range of services to meet the growing demand from the business customer segment.

Originally Ethernet was designed for local area networks, that is a computer network covering a small physical area, like a home, office, or small group of buildings, such as a school, or an airport.This technology is now increasingly being used in companies with wide area networks.

In the first phase, TTSL launched the services in Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad.TTSL would provide customers with all the necessary hardware and access facilities for the new service, it said in a statement.

Ethernet is an ideal choice for enterprises with growing bandwidth and technology requirements, as it is cost effective, scalable and extremly flexible solution for enterprises of all sizes, TTSL Senior Vice-president Pradeep Dwivedi said.
There is rapid growth in demand for ethernet services all over the world because they solve the problems of increasing bandwidth requirements and necessity to reduce cost.

Source:-http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/ttsl-launches-ethernet-based-leased-line-services-in-8-cities/92566/on

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