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NETGEAR has just announced the ReadyNAS 716, a powerful Network Attached Storage (NAS) system for business usage that NETGEAR says is powerful enough to serve 150 concurrent 1080p video streams… if your network can support it. To achieve this level of performance, NETGEAR has tapped into a powerful Xeon (Ivy Bridge) E3-1225v2 quad-core CPU from Intel which runs at 3.2GHz and is couple with 16GB of RAM (ECC memory). More importantly, NETGEAR has chosen to connect via a 10Gb Ethernet protocol, and even features two Ethernet ports on this NAS, in case one of them fails for some reason (and no, you cannot aggregate the bandwidth of both ports). (more…)

NETGEAR ReadyNAS 716 Gets Xeon 3.2GHz CPU and 16GB of RAM original content from Ubergizmo.

The thriving city of London is truly a potpourri and melting pot of people and culture, and things look set to move forward in the right direction all the more in 2014 as London prides itself in being the first city in the world to offer its very own domain name from next year onward. This means businesses, individuals as well as organizations would be in the running for the application of web addresses that come with the .london suffix. I do wonder whether there will be folks who will perform some sort of cyber squatting on the more popular domain names.

All of this is made possible as London was awarded with the right to its own top level domain (TLD) name by ICANN, which happens to be an organization which is based in the US that oversees the internet. Among the numerous businesses (said to number in the tens of thousands) which have already expressed an interest would be Selfridges and Carnaby Street. London mayor Boris Johnson said, “Adopting the .london suffix will enable organisations to more closely associate themselves with our great city’s powerful global brand. This is also an excellent opportunity to expand London’s digital presence, which in turn is set to generate funds to invest back into the city.”

London To Receive Own Domain Name Next Year original content from Ubergizmo.

It was at the end of last year when we brought you word that the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition has ended up on sale, and just like vehicles and other kinds of hardware (tablets and smartphones included), a hardware refresh is definitely on the cards after that amount of time. Well, we are now glad to announce that Dell has introduced a revamped version of the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition, where this bad boy will arrive with a new processor, a touchscreen display, as well as a starting price that is lower than the original to help those out who are running on an extremely tight budget.

The all new Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition will now run on an Intel Haswell processor, where it will have a Full HD touchscreen display, as well as a starting price of $1,249. The most basic model will have a 13.3” display, run on an Intel Core i5-4200U processor which is accompanied by 8GB RAM and a 128GB solid state drive. Other than that, expect to see it arrive with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS alongside a year’s worth of pro support. If you have a little bit of extra money to spare, then there is the $1,549 model which will have a speedier Core i7-4500U processor and 256GB of internal storage space. Any takers?

Dell XPS 13 Sputnik Developer Edition Updated, Gets new Processor And Touchscreen original content from Ubergizmo.

The Lm-mini50B-P22LB is another newly released ultra-compact PC from Mouse Computer that packs a 1.80GHz Intel Celeron 1037U processor, an Intel NM70 Express Chipset, an Intel HD Graphics, a 4GB DDR3 RAM, a 320GB hard drive, a multi-card reader, WiFi and runs on Windows 8.1 OS. The Lm-mini50B-P22LB is available now for 49,980 Yen (about $498) and comes with iiyama’s 21.5-inch ProLite B2280HS LCD monitor. [Product Page]

Google has a heart for the environment by working alongside a bunch of researchers from the University of Maryland, NASA and the USGS. This collaborative effort would see the first high-resolution map of global deforestation being brought to life with the use of their very own Google Earth Engine. It is an immense effort, especially when you consider how this particular project was developed using more than a decade’s worth of Landsat images which showcases global land use changes in a manner where the public, NGOs and governments worldwide are able to learn more concerning various forestry practices, and along the way, will hopefully do its bit to reduce unwanted deforestation.

Lead author Matthew Hansen, Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Maryland, said, “People will use this data in ways we can’t even imagine today.” Do you think that this particular tool will allow folks to be more aware on the amount of deforestation that is happening in the world, that their consciousness will be pricked to do something about it? This tool actually analyzed a whopping 654,178 Landsat images, and thanks to the massive gains made in CPU technology that such a high-resolution map (that can be scaled down to 30 meters to boot) was able to come to fruition.

Google Offers High Resolution Map That Depicts Global Deforestation original content from Ubergizmo.