Year: 2010

Quirky (http://www.quirky.com) has released Cable Caps, covers
designed to help protect, organize and add flair to your USB cables.
Cable Caps are designed to help you protect the male end of any USB
cable when not in use. It also keeps them organized and distinguished
from one another.

The top portion of each Cable Cap is a unique character with a
built-in slot to receive a standard size USB cable. Below the head,
is a body section that acts as a stretchable band to tie up the
remaining USB cable slack. When wrapped, the cable is tightly secured
in place.

ATTO Technology (http://www.attotech.com), which specializes in
storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive
computing environments, announced today that its 4Gb/s Celerity Fibre
Channel Host Adapters have been qualified by EMC Corporation as E-Lab
tested for use with the EMC CLARiiON and EMC Symmetrix networked
storage systems.

ATTO’s 4Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs provide SAN connectivity and
multipathing and failover/failback functionality for EMC storage
systems in Mac OS X environments.

The PandaWare Company has released a free maintenance update to
TimeCache Manager, offering organizations that utilize PandaWare
TimeCache for time and expense billing more options for managing
TimeCache users and reporting their time. TimeCache Manager allows
workgroups to easily keep TimeCache users’ records synchronized, and
consolidate billing data from multiple users into sophisticated
reports and invoices.

Native Instruments has introduced Massive Threat
(www.native-instruments.com/MassiveThreat.info), a new, US$59
Kore-powered instrument that specifically caters to cutting-edge
electronic music styles. For use with Kore 2 and the free Kore Player
as well as with the original Massive synthesizer, Massive Threat
offers a palette of futuristic basses, leads, soundscapes and dynamic
sequences.

Massive Threat provides 200 KoreSounds with eight morphable Sound
Variations each, resulting in 1,600 individual sounds.

Napatech (http://www.napatech.com) has introduced full IPv6 support
in all Napatech PCI-Express network adapters.

IPv6 usage is expected to grow with IPv4 addresses running out and
the number of Internet users set to increase by 45% over the next
five years. Napatech has therefore ensured that the advanced packet
capture, analysis and transmission capabilities offered for IPv4
today are also supported for IPv6, says Erik Norup, President,
Napatech, Inc.

Current projections indicate that the IANA’s pool of unallocated IPv4
addresses will be exhausted by late 2011.