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Raspberry Pi hacked to create a smarter digital SLR
Ireland-based photographer David Hunt came up with an ingenious idea to bring the computer to his camera by making a Raspberry Pi-enhanced DSLR battery grip.
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Broadcom launches adapter chip for Fiber Channel over Ethernet
Broadcom's first processor for FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) is now coming on the market in network adapters qualified by EMC, backed by claims it is 80 percent faster than any other FCoE component.
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Apple releases patches for Boot Camp, MacBook firmware
Apple on Thursday released several patches for its Boot Camp software as well as firmware updates for its MacBook and 13-inch MacBook Pro.
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Engineers demand price drop for 100G ethernet
Though demand for 40G and 100G Ethernet is on the rise, prices need to come down to earth before mainstream adoption can occur, experts at an Ethernet conference said here this week.
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Intel buys data centre Ethernet vendor
Intel has acquired the assets of NetEffect, a maker of Ethernet chips and adapters for high-performance computing clusters, for $8 million (£4.5 million).
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XenServer taps Chelsio's unified 10G Ethernet
10G Ethernet provides big performance gains for virtualised systems, as long as the network adapter can offload the "heavy lifting" from the host server, said Chelsio Communications as it announced that the latest release 4.1 of Citrix XenServer now includes drivers for its Unified Wire 10G NICs as standard.
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Neterion launches 10 Gig adapters for VMs
Neterion has announced a new 10Gbit Ethernet series of adapters that it claimed can enhance the I/O performance of virtual machines.
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Adaptec and Isilon produce new storage gear
Adaptec has a new version of its network attached storage, the SnapServer 650 - designed for data-heavy applications such as databases, email and video surveillance.
