Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple!
Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple but will remain as Chairman of the Board. Details from the Wall Street Journal available here:
WSJ Article
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When Rock Stars Lose Data - DriveSavers Comes to the Rescue
02 June 2011 17:18 Filed in: Drive Savers | Data Recovery
| When Rock Stars Lose Data - DriveSavers Comes to the Rescue |
Metallica -- One of the world's best-known heavy metal bands has joined the ranks of DriveSavers Hall of Fame. Over the years, Metallica has counted on DriveSavers to recover everything from lost live recordings to personal data belonging to members of the band.
Recently, lead guitarist Kirk Hammett (who ranked 11th on Rolling Stone's list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time) lost access to his laptop's hard drive, which contained irreplaceable photos from his travels around the world. Attempts to recover the data using software utilities failed.
Fortunately, Kirk's assistant knew just where to send the drive. When it was opened in DriveSavers cleanroom, our engineers discovered media damage on the platter. In addition, a more serious issue was reveled -- firmware corruption.
Most modern hard drives store various drive parameters (firmware) on a rewritable chip attached to the printed circuit board. When the firmware becomes corrupt, the drive cannot function. DriveSavers technicians addressed the firmware using special equipment and customized software to essentially rewrite the corrupt programming code. Without special tools and years of data recovery experience, it would have been impossible to recover the data.
Kirk was very pleased to receive his lost data and to show his gratitude, he sent us a photo and a drumhead, both signed by the entire band. Metallica agrees -- DriveSavers Rocks!
DriveSavers Offers Aid to Japan
02 May 2011 23:29 Filed in: Drive Savers
DriveSavers Offers Aid to Japan
| Since opening its doors in 1985, DriveSavers has routinely provided data recovery support to victims of floods, fires and other disasters. In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the company is once again coming to the aid of those who have lost valuable and personal digital data, by offering their data recovery services to the citizens of the Tohoku region -- the area hardest hit by the disaster. PC Kids, the leading IT solutions provider in Tokyo, has shipped a number of drenched laptops and mud-caked hard drives to DriveSavers for data recovery. President and CEO Tetsuo Hiraoka of PC KIDS CO., LTD stated, "We are honored to partner with DriveSavers to help the Japanese people salvage any data from hard drives that were destroyed in the tsunami disaster." Scott Gaidano, president of DriveSavers, said "Residents of the devastated area may not be thinking about the loss of their data in the midst of all the other tragic losses. But, at some point, hard drives will be found. We want to help the people of Tohoku retrieve any irreplaceable data that may exist. If we can reconnect earthquake and tsunami victims with their digital photos, critical financial records, address books, passwords, personal files and other important data from their damaged hard drives, it will make all our efforts worthwhile." |
Axis Communications Channel Partner
31 March 2011 12:04
Cadco Systems is proud to announce that we are now an authorized channel partner, reseller, and system integrator for Axis Communications. Axis is the world’s leading expert in network video. Axis is known for its print servers and today one of the leading manufacturers of network cameras. According to its annual report 2007, it has sold over 1,000,000 network cameras, thus claiming to be the world leader in that market, and also ranking third in the world in the security cameras category, which includes analog as well as network cameras.
Axis has manufactured network cameras since 1996, having sold more than 1,000,000 since that time. Their first model, the Axis 200, boasted a web interface as its main attraction, which has been built into Axis's whole range of cameras ever since. Today the company's portfolio of network cameras consist of models for indoor and outdoor surveillance, megapixel and HDTV network cameras, and the latest being thermal network cameras. Axis continue to lead the market in their range of network cameras, which they claim is increasing by 40% annually.
In September 2008, Axis Communications along with Sony Corp. and Bosch Security Systems announced that they will cooperate to create a global open forum for the development of a standard network interface for network video products. The forum is introduced as ONVIF (Open Network Video Interface Forum).
Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE Technology
17 February 2011 01:07 Filed in: Verizon Wireless
This week we received the latest 4G LTE broadband device from Verizon Wireless, the Pantech UML290. Simply put, amazing! We have been testing this device on an Apple MacBook Pro laptop and have been achieving speeds both up and down between 12mbps and 15mbps. Our previous Verizon 3G device was the USB720 and were only getting about 1.5mbps tops. The 4G LTE service can easily reach 10 times the speeds of 3G. The Pantech 4G device can also run at 3G speeds if 4G is not available at the time and automatically switches over. It can also switch down to 2G (1xRTT) speeds as well. The device has two external antenna connections, one for each service (3G/4G) to improve the signal strength. Verizon has many cities up and running at 4G speeds so check to see if you are lucky enough to take advantage of it.
