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Adobe launches Flash 10.2 with enhanced performance

Adobe releases Flash 10.2 with Stage Video technology where it allows websites to take full advantage over hardware acceleration for the entire video pipeline, and also uses less processing power there by increasing the performance ie., it can play high quality video with low power. It is found to be 34 times more efficient. The player can play video with 1080p HD while the CPU usage only being 1 – 15 % on any Mac and Windows computers. Though these benefits of the player might not be visible now it would be only experienced as soon as the websites upgrade their video players.

The other features of Flash 10.2 are that we can switch to full-screen video with one click with dual-monitors setup so the user can watch video on one screen and do other tasks on another, text-readability is enhanced using sub-pixel text and support for GPU is made available through IE9. The download for the player is available at Adobe website for Windows, Linux and Mac computers and will be soon available for mobile phones and tablets.

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iPad 2 enters production

iPad 2 enters production which is slim, light in weight, built-in front camera for video conferencing, increase in memory, increase in processor speed, but there are no changes in resolution when compared to its previous version. It will be initially available via Verizon Wireless, and also with a joint venture from Vodafone and AT&T, and might have both GSM and CDMA.

While looking at its sales for the past nine months it has sold 14.8 million iPads from the release, which is around $4.6 billion ie., 17 percent of Apple’s revenue inspite of  heavy competition, and also expects to sell 27 million units this year.

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Internet running out of IPV4 addresses

The four administrative groups like ICANN, NRO, IAB, and Internet Security declared that the IPv4 has drained out and the last two blocks has been allocated to RIR,  and other last five blocks containing 16 million addresses might exhaust by September 2011. The switch over of IP addresses from version 4 to version 6 which has billions of addresses comparitively trillion times larger than 4.3 billion adrresses which IPv4 would support might have some security problems, as IPv6 has infinite number of namespace for addresses rounding approximately to 350 undecillion possible addresses.

The IPv6 is of eight sets of four digit numbers which are represented as 2^128/ 3.4 * 10^38 possible unique addresses. This is not yet widely adopted a World IPv6 Day is being planned so as the government and companies can test the technology, and for this switch over upgradation of equipments are needed like modems, hubs, etc., need to check their firewall to check how the new version can be handled since IPv6 come with optional extension headers which simplify the overall structure for improving the performance, also dual stack systems can be opted for managing both IPv4 and IPv6.