San Francisco (ip-192.com): In a major breakthrough, government agencies in the U.S., Europe and Japan agreed earlier this year to recommend an industry measure called Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) as a worldwide standard. PUE was developed by the Green Grid Association, a Portland based group of IT vendors and users that promote resource efficiency in [...]
Rumor: Cisco could purchase Skype
San Francisco (ip-192.com): While Skype is preparing an IPO; Cisco may be interested in buying the company that allows cheap VoIP phone calls before it goes public. The company, founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, is looking to raise about $5 billion through the initial public offering. Skype allows its 560 million [...]
Wi-Fi: Standard for Gigabit speeds
Tokyo (ip-192.com): New wireless standards using the 60GHz frequency will allow devices to run at gigabit speeds. To speed up the development of standards for the next generation of wireless devices, Tokyo based Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WiGig) has formed a technology-sharing agreement with the Austin based Wi-Fi Alliance. Currently, Wi-Fi works in the 2.4 and [...]



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