Dell Streak 7 Tablet PC

    The Dell Streak 7 tablet is the latest 4G tablet PC. The operating system is an upgradeable Android 2.2. This over the air upgradeable ability allows for OS upgrades in the future. The processor is a NVIDIA Tegra 2 mobile processor. The large 7 inch screen makes viewing videos and photos easy. With a 1.3 MP front facing camera, you can use Skype for video chatting. Connect with 3G/4G or Wi-Fi and stay in touch with your friends and family. The Streak 7 is Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS equipped and has 16 MB of internal storage.
    With Adobe Flash 10.1 already installed, you can surf the web, check your e-mail, and watch videos on Youtube. Access over 700,000 eBooks that are easily viewable and the multi touch screen makes the process of reading almost the same as reading an actual book. The preinstalled multimedia programs make watching videos, listening to music, and looking at your photos convenient and easy. You can purchase one around 200 dollars plus a two year activation with T-Mobile.

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Wireless Home Networking

    Setting up your home with a wireless network is pretty easy with todays technologies. Wireless has become the more widely used network in small businesses and colleges. To be able to have a wireless  network in your home you will need a few different things.
    First your gonna need a wireless router and a wireless network adapter for each system on the network. You can then access the router and configure the DHCP to automatically assign IP addresses to the computers on the network. Also configure the firewall settings to help protect your network from malicious attacks.
    After you have configured the router, all thats left to do is configure the wireless network adapters on the systems connecting to the network. After this you will be able to share printers, files and folders, and even applications across your own private wireless home network.

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Virtual Computing

Since this weeks assignment is on virtual computing, I guess it would be a good time to blog about it. Virtualization was first created in the 1960's to partition large mainframe hardware. In the 1990's, VMware created virtualization for the x86 platform. VMware is currently the global giant in the x86 architecture virtualization. The reasoning behind using virtualization on the x86 platform was to help the underutilization of the infrastructure. Also the cost for maintaining or even expanding the physical infrastructure was rapidly increasing. Virtualization would take care of the need to upgrade the mainframe. Thus cutting business expenses and adding a ton of new possibilities for the infrastructure.

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This is a short video on some of the new ways that CISCO, EMC, and VMware are coming together to try to combine the best virtualization has to offer.