“ARRIS today announced that it will demonstrate two DOCSIS ‘firsts’ at NCTA 2011, in Chicago,” the company said.

“The demonstration will show real file transfer throughput of 4.5 Gbps of DOCSIS downstream traffic being transmitted over 128 DOCSIS downstream channels into a single Fiber Node,” it announced.

The company can achieve this speed by using up more channels than the current DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) implementations do. This means that there are fewer analog TV channels left, but providers will probably find it a worthwhile trade-off.

“In the demo, an ARRIS C4 CMTS will be configured using four newly-released 32 Downstream Cable Access Modules (32D CAMs) to source the 128 DOCSIS downstream channels into the Fiber Node,” it explained.

“The demo will also show a proof-of-concept implementation of a 5-200 MHz high-split DOCSIS upstream system with 575 Mbps of DOCSIS upstream bandwidth being transmitted over 24 DOCSIS Upstream channels out of a single Fiber Node,” it added.

As users get more and more used to viewing online video, in HD, playing games or getting their movies in minutes rather than hours, ISPs struggle to keep up.

Bandwidth gets increasingly expensive as it nears the users, the biggest investments these companies make in infrastructure are for the so-called “last mile,” the portion that gets the data to the actual user.

Especially in areas where subscribers are spread out geographically, ISPs are always looking for ways to maximize the use of their existing infrastructure, be it telephone lines or TV cable, rather than upgrading it to fast but expensive fiber-to-home connections for example.

It’s unfortunate that Steam has removed Crysis II from their service. This was not an EA decision or the result of any action by EA,” reads the official statement from the company. “Steam has imposed a set of business terms for developers hoping to sell content on that service – many of which are not imposed by other online game services. Unfortunately, Crytek has an agreement with another download service which violates the new rules from Steam and resulted in its expulsion of Crysis II from Steam.”

The statement goes on to point out that Crysis 2 is still available online from a number of digital distribution outlets, which would certainly add weight to the theory that it’s simply been booted out by Valve – if EA wanted to make it an Origin exclusive they wouldn’t have stopped at the Steam store.

Besides performance and battery life claims the company is making (much more on that in a moment), what this means is that as far as laptops go, AMD is completely stepping away from the standalone-CPU-plus-GPU paradigm. But, the company will still make dedicated Radeon cards, which can be coupled with an APU for a 75 percent boost in graphics performance — a setup AMD is calling “Dual Graphics.” All told, these chips measure just 228 square millimeters. To put this in context, check out the gallery of hands-on shots below, featuring the A-series next to a standalone CPU, discrete graphics card, and, for the sake of scale, the kind of low-power Fusion chip introduced back at CES.

PCs are ready to be shipped, and AMD says we can expect to see at least 150 of them this year. That sounds promising indeed, but we’ve still got lots of technical details to rehash. Head on past the break for the full spill on what these APUs pledge to do, along with a video of AMD senior product marketing manager Raymond Dumbeck showing off some A-series laptops in action.

A-Series includes seven laptop APUs across three families, and offers up to 4MB of cache, and clock speeds as high as 1.9GHz in the dual-core A4 chips — up to 2.5 GHz if you take into account AMD’s Turbo Core technology. These chips are also stereoscopic 3D-capable, and support USB 3.0, DirectX 11, OpenCL / OpenGL, AMD Wireless Display, and both 1600MHz DDR3 and low-power 1333MHz DDR3L memory.

AMD isn’t shying away from direct comparisons with Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs. The APUs promise more than ten and a half hours of resting battery life with the help of power gating, and AMD makes the pointed claim that its quad-core A8-3510MX APU can last more than three and a half hours longer than a dual-core Core i5-2410M processor. And the explicit one-upmanship doesn’t end there. AMD also says that its dual-core A4 chips will compete with Core i3 CPUs, with the quad-core A6 going after i3 and i5, and the quad-core A8 taking on i5 and i7. Systems with the A4, A6, and A8 chips are expected to start around $499, $599, and $699, respectively.

Graphics-wise, the A-Series has up to 400 shader cores, depending on the model, and ushers in two additions to AMD’s Vision Engine: AMD Perfect Picture HD, which cleans up 1080p video post-processing, and AMD Steady Video, which compensates for camera shake in movies. As you can imagine, we’re impatiently waiting to get our first A-Series laptop in to review so that we can test all these claims, but until then, get your fill of details with the chart, PR.

Internet buyers can still pick the game up for a little less at places likeDirect2Drive, but as Snootle mentioned in his news alert, this is very likely to change very soon give how aggressively EA are approaching the establishment of their online portal. By the time their hottest property – that being Battlefield 3, you know, the game we all want quite badly – rolls around for its October 25th release, don’t expect to be able to pick it up online anywhere but Origin for a premium. The red carpet of future commerce has been unfurled to meet its arrival, and we don’t get to walk on it. We just get to pay for it.

This time I had that already with a capacity of 500Gb enough for me, I am a freelance computer operator and addicted in downloading a lot of interesting and useful applications especially in Multimedia and Graphic softwares, beside that I can save all my downloaded movies and mp3′s on this device.  I remember the time that I am using a USB Flash Drive which a capacity of 512Mb up to 2Gb that is not enough for saving a movies or higher amount of capacity of software. When I was in college I also remember the time, my classmates and I looking for a used desktop hard drive or laptop hard drive, and we bought an enclosure. We made a portable hard drive but it needs to plug in a electric socket to have a power before you can use it. As of now the portable hard drive does not required that.

Most portable hard drives are plug and play. This means that they do not need to be formatted and a person does not have to load special software onto her computer before they will work. Instead, it is generally only necessary to connect the device, and it should be ready for use. Connection is normally achieved with a cord that has a USB plug. The cord that connects a portable hard drive to a computer is usually detachable from the device.

You also need to consider the interface, which is used to transfer data to and from the device. Less expensive portable hard drives may use slower communications interfaces, making the transfer of a computer’s entire data inventory a long, tedious process. Some older computers and portable drives have only USB 1.0, while new ones come with the much faster USB 2.0, USB 3.0, Firewire or eSATA options. Buffalo Technology recently announced the MiniStation Cobalt USB 3.0 portable hard drive, which can transfer data at up to 5 gigabits per second. That’s smokin’ fast. The size of this device is almost 2.5″ x 3″ and very slim

As of now that the biggest capacity of portable hard drive I know is almost 1Tb up to 2Tb.. Wow hope I can have 1 someday.

I can’t say good bye to the USB Flash Drive, for me it is very useful too, I can store a small amount of data’s, file etc. and it is easy and very convenient to bring also the portable hard drive is the same

One more thing you need to do is to make a boot CD using control panel on your computer. This CD is helpful in helpful in booting the computer.
Now, you are all set to follow the steps to reformat your operating system. Ensure to follow the complete instructions by installing the system to the hard drive (usually drive C). In case, you are not very sure of doing the task confidently on your own, then you must take your computer to an expert you do not want to land yourself in a fix with a useless box full of complications.

An important fact associated with the art of formatting is, to salvage your data during the process. Hence, it is highly unwise to start reformatting on your own without knowing the exact procedure that you need to follow.
First of all, you analyze the problems, which made you to take the decision of reformatting your computer. You must have some very good reasons to do it because computer experts believe reformatting to be the last resort, as it provides your computer with such a major change.

By following some simple tips you can reduce the risk of identity theft considerably.
In fact you must make a habit of reviewing credit reports from time to time. This helps to know in case any fraud or theft has occurred. These reports clearly state the opening of any new accounts or the applying of any new loans. This allows you to clear the matter with appropriate authorities before it gets too late. You can even approach a lawyer to handle such identity theft cases.