Before Ziff Davis Media's yearly DigitalLife blowout of consumer computer and electronic gadgetry, we have a summer press preview at the elegant Roosevelt Hotel near Grand Central Terminal. I was there to scope out interesting software and networking equipment, since covering events is the only way press riffraff can get past the doormen at respectable hotels.
Once safely inside, I squeezed through the crowd to the D-Link booth to see what was frequency-hopping. Among the new products the company was showing were devices from the unannounced D-Life line. I immediately spied them—or rather, they spied me, since they were Internet cameras. The first members of the family, the DHA-390 camera kit and the DHA-310, a kit with a camera and power-over-Ethernet adapter, will be announced officially on Monday, July 14 and start shipping that week. According to DLink's senior director of marketing, Daniel Kelley, there's virtually no installation process beyond plugging the devices in and going to the free D-Life.com Web site. An Internet-accessible photo frame will ship later this quarter.
The company was also demonstrating wired and combination wired/wireless-G network cameras announced on Monday, July 10—the D-Link DCS-910 and DCS-920 (shown at left), respectively. Users can access and control both via a Java-enabled browser. Prices start at $99.99.
More DigitalLife preview after the jump.
For storing all those collected images, you can hook up the DNS-343 (introduced the DNS-343 on Tuesday, July 8), a 4-bay, Gig-E network SATA storage enclosure for small and mid-size businesses. The box, which has an informative OLED display, requires no tools for drive installation and supports drive configurations including standard, JBOD, and RAID 0, 1, and 5. The list price is $519.99. Another tool-free enclosure, the DNS-323 will go for $150.
Over at the Kaspersky Lab table, the company had copies of Kaspersky Internet Security 2009. Jennifer Jewett, the corporate communications manager said that this version of the product concentrates on bugging users as little as possible and not slowing down systems—the two biggest sources of consumer complaints and what pretty much all the big players in the sector say they're working on. Watch for the upcoming PC Magazine review.
As I was talking to Kaspersky, the event was winding down, and when that happens, hotel security, faced with a massive press presence, starts worrying about the silverware around the catered-food areas. A totally unjustified concern, but I sensed the need to ambulate outwardly under my own steam.
I really did like the silverware pattern, though.
Post by Gary Berline
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