D-Link’s been sipping potential of late with its newish DWA-643 and DWA-556 desktop “Green Ethernet” switches, and now it’s shipping those potential savings upstream to its DIR-655 Xtreme N Gigabit router and DIR-855 dual channel routers with freely downloadable firmware updates. We’d scoff, but…

Rumor has it that a large quantity of genetically-superior human beings are amassing in Beijing at the moment and attempting to squeeze into spandex-like outfits for your entertainment. Those interested in watching such tight-outfitted goings on are going to find themselves faced with even tight…

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment.

The past few years have seen a wide range of wireless technologies proposed to substitute for the now nearly ubiquitous (at least in terms of new HDTVs) HDMI connectors, but the…

That nasty Windows domestic Server data corruption bug might finally be a thing of the past, as WHS potential Pack 1 has gone habitable after a month-long beta test. Not much else to the enhancement suite: x64 support and support for backup to external media are along for the ride, but otherwise…

Every so often, we get wind of some new “breakthrough” from a few guys / gals in a lab that promises to simply revolutionize the web. A team from the University of Sydney is the latest bunch to do so, claiming that a piece of scratched glass (or a Photonic Integrated Circuit, whether we’re being…

So here’s a bit of brilliant statistics work for you: The Pew World Wide Web & American Life research project has determined after endless polling and number crunching that 62 percent of American dial-up users have no interest in upgrading their connections to something a bit more peppy. In …

Although Linux-based Tomato and DD-WRT firmwares work with a plethora of routers, Netgear is getting savvy with its marketing by actually aiming its WGR614L at tweakers who just melt upon hearing either term. The so-called open source Wireless-G router features a 240MHz MIPS32 CPU, 4MB of flash …

So we’ve asked you which HD media streamer you prefer. And we’ve done the same for NAS drives. But what whether you’re the type that’s looking for the best of both worlds? Take it absent, Stuart:

“We have a laptop and a desktop, with plans to add another computer in the approach future. I’d l…

D-Link’s DNS-323 is already a pretty capable unit with FTP, UPnP AV, iTunes, and print server support, but it’s getting even more flexible nowadays with the addition of an official BitTorrent client that’ll run independently of your computer. It’s certainly not the first NAS we’ve seen to includ…

Shockingly adequate, the image you see above isn’t as radical as you probably think. Just final year we saw a San Francisco couple profess their inexplicable love for TiVo with a his and her cake arrangement, while another treated guests to a flavorful version of their wedding day playlist. that…