Samsung BD-P1600 Blu-ray disc player By Robert Jensen Consumer High Definition televisions (HDTV) hit the market just over 10 years ago. The amount of data used for HD content takes up much greater space than that of Standard Definition (SD) content. From that need came Blu-ray discs (BD). Blu-ray's name comes from the blue colored laser used to read the discs. ...Read More »

Dymo DiscPainter By John Virata Dymo DiscPainter is a departure from other CD/DVD disc printing solutions in that the DiscPainter specializes on CD/DVD media. It is dedicated to printing on CD/DVD media and case templates and nothing else. With that said, it makes a lot of sense to have such a dedicated device especially if you are adept at offering more than just a CD or DVD with Sharpie writing on it, telling you what is on the disc. ...Read More »

Blu ray Buyer's Guide By Heath McKnight With the massive support and exclusivity of major studios, manufacturers, and stores (both brick-and-mortar, and online), Blu-ray is the clear choice for high definition DVD. With capacities averaging 25GB and 50GB, and bigger discs on the way, plus full 1080p playback, Blu-ray belongs in your home entertainment center, or even in your computer. ...Read More »

Sony BWU-200S Blu-ray disc drive By John Virata The PC has become a home entertainment system in its own right. Not only can you stream music from it, watch internet videos, and hook a TV tuner up to it, you can also watch Blu Ray DVDs with the appropriate drive. And with many display manufacturers shipping with wide screen HD-capable displays, why just relegate that real estate goodness to spreadsheets, email or Word docs? Play some movies on it and take advantage of that HD capable display. Sony offers up such a drive with the BWU-200S. ...Read More »

Zeus Technology and SMC Networks Announce Partnership By BusinessWire MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & IRVINE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Zeus Technology, a leading provider of award-winning application traffic management software, and SMC Networks, a leading provider of networking solutions for the SMB/e market, announced today that the two have entered into a partnership, through which SMC will market Zeus Technology's ZXTM (Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager) load-balancing software to its resellers and SMB/e clients for use with S..... ...Read More »

Voltaire Delivers Highest Performing Unified Fabrics for Data Centers with New 20 Gigabits/Second Switch By BusinessWire RENO, Nev., BUSINESS WIRE -- Voltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ: VOLT), a leading provider of grid backbone solutions for the data center, today introduced the Grid Director(TM) ISR 2004, a new 20 Gigabits/second, 96-port InfiniBand switching platform for high-performance unified fabrics in the data center. When combined with Voltaire's recently introduced 10 Gigabit Ethernet line board and 4 Gigabits/second Fibre Channel storage router,..... ...Read More »

Unify Unveils SQLBase Treasury By BusinessWire SACRAMENTO, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Unify Corp. (OTCBB:UFYC), a global provider of application modernization software, today announced the availability of SQLBase Treasury, a fully transactional, high performance and encrypted version of the SQLBase embeddable database. With headlines abound of stolen laptops with personal data, SQLBase Treasury helps organizations avoid bad press, damage to reputations and possible costly litigatio..... ...Read More »

Orbital Awarded $15 Million Contract for a Public Transit Fleet Management System in Rochester, NY By BusinessWire DULLES, Va., BUSINESS WIRE -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB) announced today that its Transportation Management Systems (TMS) division has been awarded a $15 million contract with the Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority (RGRTA) of Rochester, New York for an integrated public transit fleet management system for over 300 vehicles. The Orbital system will allow for complete information sharing between the..... ...Read More »

Connecticut Hospital Association Partners with Quantros(TM) to Collect, Report and Analyze Quality Program Data By BusinessWire SAN FRANCISCO, BUSINESS WIRE -- Quantros, a leading provider of real-time quality, safety and risk management, and accreditation and compliance solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced that it is partnering the Connecticut Hospital Association (CHA) to assist in enhancing their quality and regulatory compliance offerings. Under this agreement, CHA will integrate Quantros RRM(TM), a Web-based application for meeting..... ...Read More »

Qualys Awarded Best Practical Solution and Overall Best in Show at the Information Security Decisions Conference By BusinessWire REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Qualys, Inc., the leading provider of on demand security risk and compliance management solutions, today announced that its QualysGuard On Demand platform was named as winner in the categories of Best Practical Solution and Overall Best in Show at the Information Security Decisions Conference held last week in Chicago. This year's Information Security Decisions Best in Show Awards recognize..... ...Read More »