AT&T recently released their Femtocell. This device plugs into your home (or small office) network, and uses your current ISP to provide strong cell coverage. Currently, AT&T and Sprint are the only networks with full on femtocells. T-Mobile has their "Hotspot @ Home" which enables Wi-Fi phones to have better calling via your broadband internet, but is not an actual cell tower. AT&T's offering enables voice and data over the cell … [Read more...]
The ATI's Radeon HD 5970 is a Supercomputer in your desktop
March 27, 2010 By
Bright Side of News recently wrote an article reporting on ElcomSoft's GPU computing attempts. They used various GPUs to hack WPA-PSK passwords. Check out the results here. ElcomSoft leverages the immense computing power of latest generation graphics cards. Cards such as ATI's Radeon HD 5970, and nVidia's GTX 295. The HD 5970 is ATI's latest offering, it has 2 GPUs, with 3200 stream processing units, and 2 GB of DDR5 RAM. Stream processors … [Read more...]
Ryan Kamauff on Password Protection
March 25, 2010 By
Ryan Kamauff, Crucial Point LLC Technology Research Analyst and writer at CTOvision.com was recently interviewed by Washington DC WUSA9's Lindsey Mastis on the topic of password security. The video from the interview is below and at this link. Although I'm sure the savvy readers of the CTOvision blog know the importance of password security and probably don't need these reminders, I am also certain that you have close friends and family members who do … [Read more...]
An Assessment on the Cyber Threat
March 15, 2010 By
How would you describe the threat to the US information infrastructure? If you are a technologist or a national security expert or both I hope you would use your background and experience and expertice and produced a fused-all source assessment based on facts. But it is also ok to cite the masters, folks who really know what they are talking about and are paid to produce the most accurate possible reports. Below is an assessment I extracted from a … [Read more...]
Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS) and the Next-Generation Internet
March 9, 2010 By
We are all watching with interest the engineering of very high speed chips with multiple cores, and very high speed comms connectivity directly to those chips through optical connectors directly to end devices (like Light Peak). We are also watching increased broadband, including Fiber, directly to houses (like Fios, of course). But what about the backbone of the Internet? If the very near future sees computers which can send and receive 10Gig each, … [Read more...]
7 Differentiators of Notion Ink's Adam Tablet
March 3, 2010 By
In mid February, Notion Ink released completed specs on their Adam tablet (here). It did not receive the attention that Steve Jobs did with the Apple iPad, but in my estimation it is the far superior device. Apple has the ecosystem to back their products with a large application catalog. Apple also has the iTunes content delivery system. This is going to be where Android and Google most need to compete, in the application and content delivery … [Read more...]
Wanted: World Class Best Enterprise CTO
March 2, 2010 By
One of the great technological treasures of the nation is the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon. For 25 years they have created software engineering processes, constructs and solutions for enterprises in and out of government. You probably consider them synonymous with CMMI, the Capability Maturing Model Integration for software development. But they are really far more than that. They provide models and methods for team and … [Read more...]