InternetPerils releases PerilSnap
Austin-based
InternetPerils Inc., a provider of automated products for Internet
Business Risk Management, released PerilSnap, a tool for users to
examine the Internet near their IP address for anomalies, nonredundant
paths, and other potential risks to their network's
performance.
With the product, Internet users, whether from the
home office or enterprise, can now easily review a snapshot of the
Internet that directly impacts the quality of their network's IP
performance. PerilSnap visualizations represent nodes in the nearby
Internet neighborhood: client computers, servers, and routers.
PerilSnap's color-coding also show the relative health and performance
of the user's nearby network by illustrating speeds of connections
between devices including the latencies, packet loss, and non-responding
nodes along the network.
Gaming to generate $60 billion
by 2011
According to a report by BCC Research, the value of
worldwide shipments of the electronic gaming industry has reached nearly
$36.5 billion in 2006. Shipments are projected to grow in value at a
10.5 percent average annual growth rate to reach almost $60 billion by
2011.
Games and software control the largest share of the total
gaming market. Worth more than $20.7 billion in 2006, this industry will
grow sharply to $33.6 billion in 2011. Gaming products command the
second largest share of the market, worth $13.9 billion in 2006, growing
to $22.1 billion 2011. Equipment and services, although the most
specialized sector of the industry, will be the fastest growing sector
of the market, reaching almost $2 billion by the end of 2006. It will
reach $4.3 billion in 2011.
QuickArrow sponsors
PSVillage
Austin-based QuickArrow, a provider of on-demand
professional services automation (PSA) solutions for billable services
organizations, announced its sponsorship of PSVillage, an international
community of professional services practitioners. As a sponsor,
QuickArrow will share its insights and support industry events and
programs, Webinars and white papers.
Launched in 2004, PSVillage
has grown from a small, industry discussion forum into a vital resource
for industry-specific white papers, job boards, Webinars, moderated
discussions and networking events. Membership is comprised of senior IT
professional services/consulting services management with a breadth of
functional, technical, strategic, and managerial experience working for
software startups, as well as industry leaders including Accenture,
Deloitte, Oracle, IBM/PWC and others.
Giganews site
offered in multiple languages
Austin-based Usenet service
provider Giganews, Inc. announced the availability of its Web site in
multiple languages. Giganews now offers its Web site in Dutch, German,
French, Spanish, and English.
Giganews is the world's largest tier
1 Newsgroup Service Provider (NSP) offering service to more than 10
million broadband subscribers in 180 countries.
IT
workers generally happy with salaries
Compared to the general
work force, IT workers are more satisfied with their compensation. In
fact, nearly four out of five (78 percent) of them are very or somewhat
satisfied with their cash and benefits, compared to 72 percent of all
workers.
The findings come from Hudson's Transforming Pay Plans:
2006 Compensation and Benefits Report, which surveyed 10,000 workers
across all sectors, examining employee attitudes about traditional and
non-traditional pay and benefit programs.
IT professionals also
anticipate making more money in 2006 than in 2005--57 percent indicate
they will earn more. Only 41 percent of overall workforce believes that
to be the case.
Topaz releases video capturing software
Plano-based Topaz Labs LLC, which specializes in video
enhancement, released a new release of its video frame capturing and
enhancing software, Topaz Moment V3.0.
Topaz Moment employs
super-resolution that creates a higher resolution image from multiple
video frames; advanced noise reduction that suppresses frame noise with
little loss of details; edge enhancement that sharpens the picture
without increased noise or overshooting; and optical flow motion
compensated de-interlacing to handle interlaced video sources.
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