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Thales announces nShield Connect 500 and nShield Connect 1500, two network-attached hardware security modules. Part of the nCipher product line, nShield Connect 500 and 1500 complement nShield Connect 6000, Thales’s flagship HSM and the fastest on the market today. Thales is the only company to offer dual, hot-swappable power supplies for enhanced business continuity, which come standard on nShield Connect models. The products meet the varying demands of mission-critical security systems that protect personal and other sensitive information.

HSMs are widely accepted as industry best practice for protecting cryptographic keys and for performing encryption and digital signing. HSMs provide a cost-effective way to increase the security of software-based systems, enforcing access control and key management policies within a tamper-resistant security environment. Thales nShield Connect HSMs are network-attached appliances that act as a highly scalable, centralized resource for managing keys and protecting sensitive data. The nShield Connect product line is easily deployed to support a wide range of shared security infrastructure applications such as Microsoft Certificate Services (PKI), Entrust Authority Security Manager, RSA Certificate Manager, Oracle Database, and Microsoft SQL Server.

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Google Inc. is in talks with the Chinese authorities. Recall that after the recent cyber attacks on the mail service Gmail which is suspected of organizing the PRC government, the U.S. Internet giant refused to follow instructions of the censors and promised to withdraw business from the country.

Obviously bringing the threat of execution disadvantage of either side. Companies need talents of Chinese engineers working in the Research Center of Google and proceeds from the sale of advertising in Chinese sector of Internet and googlephones. Celestial Empire is in dire need of such rich IT firms like Google without which the ambitious country can not achieve leadership in the global market of high technologies. Even if you have to close the service Google.cn, the company will retain the possibility of the Beijing Research Center and sales offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. An estimated 700 people work here (the global state of Google is 20 thousand).

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NVIDIA announced a new generation of Tegra – the first processor for mobile Web devices specially designed for the Tablet PC applications of high resolution. The new Tegra processor from NVIDIA delivers blazing-fast on the network, streaming 1080p video with an acceleration in the Adobe Flash Player 10.1, excellent 3D user interface, coupled with long battery life. Underlying Tegra there are eight independent processors including the first dual-core CPU for mobile applications. These processors are used together or independently to optimize energy consumption. Due to the economical design Tegra delivers more than 16 hours watching HD video or 140 hours of music without re-charging.

Features:

1. 3D touch user interface
2. Long battery life – the tablet is always on and always in the network
3. Acceleration with Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for streaming video and 3D mobile games
4. Resolution in 4-8 times better than the resolution in smartphones
5. The optimum size of the screen – 5-15 inches
6. Exciting games, vivid pictures, video and crystal-clear sound

Tegra new generation – a leap in performance of mobile devices:

1. Dual-core ARM Cortex A9 CPU up to 1GHz
2. Eight independent processors for viewing Web pages, coding and decoding of HD video and mobile 3D gaming
3. 10 times faster than the processors used in the existing smart phones, and up to 4 times faster than the previous generation Tegra
4. Best TSMC 40 nm process with active power management.

New generation processors Tegra are already running in production.

Raidsonic will release the first products to support USB 3.0. ICY BOX IB-250StU3-B – is a compact aluminum enclosure for 2.5″ HDD SATA. ICY BOX IB-318StU3-B is designed for 3.5″ SATA drives up to 1 TB. Both drives are equipped with USB 3.0 interface with data transfer rate up to 5.0 Gbps. This is ten times faster than the maximum speed of USB 2.0 – 480 Mbps. New Drives ICY BOX USB 3.0 interface will be useful to all who works with large volumes of data for example handles video files or want to speed up the backup process. To use the new interface USB 3.0 cable is required and the controller  USB 3.0. Computers with USB 3.0 so far are rare and therefore also produces ICY BOX IB-AC604, controller, PCI Express x1, equipped with two connectors USB 3.0.

USB 3.0 retains backward compatibility with previous generations of interfaces – devices with USB 2.0 will continue to work as if nothing had happened.

New items go on sale in early 2010 recommended retail price of IB-318StU3-B is 45,50 €, IB-250StU3-B – 32,90 €, IB-AC604 – 39,90 €.

ZyXEL Communications provided web-center for a fixed connection to the network 4G-LTE (Long Term Evolution). Model ZLR-2070S is designed to work in multi-service network operators, service providers of broadband Internet access, IP-telephony and digital television. Equipped with LTE-modem, optional four Ethernet-switch, wireless access point, IEEE 802.11n, dual-port adapter IP-telephony and USB-interface, an Internet Point can be used effectively,both at home and in small office. He is able to connect to the LTE-networks at speeds up to 50 Mbps, far surpassing subscriber devices for the 3G-networks HSPA / EV-DO and even WiMAX.

LTE – the next generation of 3G mobile wireless networks based on IP technology distinguished by high speed data transfer (up to 100 Mbps to the subscriber) and low latency. The first commercial LTE networks are in commercial operation in Stockholm and Oslo. Due to the possibility of organizing the coverage area within a radius of 30 kilometers from the site of the base station ZLR-2070S will be in demand in areas where the lining of the wireline is not economically sensible, as well as for operational high-speed Internet access and telephony services in the field of sports and holiday activities at construction sites, etc.

EMC has demonstrated the concept of fully automated management of tiered storage, FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering), and announced the availability of technology opening new possibilities in the field of storage management. EMC provides a high level of automation of all its core storage platforms allowing organizations with limited resources to competently manage volumes of information, the annual percentage growth in double-digit. New technology EMC FAST is available now and allows you to automate the transfer of information in data storage and save an enormous amount of time that is spent in the performance of routine operations on the storage management manually and calculated for hours or even days. As a result of the middle class equipped with the technology EMC FAST, Corporate Disk Flash (EFD) and SATA drives will surpass its predecessors in performance, while allowing to save up to 20% on the cost of storage devices and up to 40% in operating costs related to storage data.

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VIA Technologies has announced a new motherboard form factor of Mobile-ITX which has a size of 6×6 cm and it is half in size than its elder sister Pico-ITX and freely placed on the palm. Presented sample was built at the VIA VX800 chipset running CPU VIA C7M with frequency of 1 or 1.2 GHz. In addition to the integrated video this card is equipped with 8-channel sound card and two GB of DDR2 RAM.

The developers suggest to use the Mobile-ITX as a complex with a subsidiary of interface card which will determine the final specifications of the manufacturer depending on the destination of manufactured devices. Modular solution promises to facilitate the partners VIA testing new devices and will save on their own motherboard design.

Mobile-ITX is able to support all types of monitors and it supports IDE, USB 2.0 and PCI Express. The power consumption is about 5 Watts. This fact combined with the Mobile-ITX withstand vibration up to 5g involves a wide range of new items – from medical devices to automobiles. Production of the first commercial sample board is scheduled for the first quarter of 2010.