IPv6: Are You Ready?

As IPv6 is around the corner and set to grow in the coming few years, are you ready for it yet?
Find out using test if your network are ready for IPv6.
IPv6 is an IP address standard designed to replace the current IPv4 protocol, which has been in use since the 1980s for routingInternet traffic. The new protocol has been available for several years now and supports several magnitudes more address spaces than IPv4, while also providing better security and reliability.
For more than 30 years, 32-bit addresses have served us well,but the growth of the Internethas mandated a need for more addresses than is possible with IPv4. IPv6 allows for vastly more addresses. IPv6 is the only long-term solution,  it has not yet been widely deployed. With IPv4 addresses expected to run out in 2011, only 0.2% of Internet users have native IPv6 connectivity.

Decomposition of an IPv6 address into its binary form.

While IPv4 allows 32 bits for an Internet Protocol address, and can therefore support 232 (4,294,967,296) addresses, IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses, so the new address space supports 2128 (approximately 340 undecillion or 3.4×1038) addresses. This expansion allows for many more devices and users on the internet as well as extra flexibility in allocating addresses and efficiency for routing traffic. It also eliminates the primary need for network address translation (NAT), which gained widespread deployment as an effort to alleviate IPv4 address exhaustion.
On 8 June, 2011, top websites and Internet service providers around the world, including Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks joined together with more than 1000 other participating websites in World IPv6 Day for a successful global-scale trial of the new Internet Protocol, IPv6. By providing a coordinated 24-hour “test flight”, the event helped demonstrate that major websites around the world are well-positioned for the move to a global IPv6-enabled Internet, enabling its continued exponential growth.
Organised by the Internet Society, the project was intended to raise awareness about the need to start the global transition to IPv6 and to enable participants to gather data about potential glitches.
Many of the problems are likely to stem from the simple facts that IPv6 is far newer and untested technology compared with IPv4, and that the two protocols will need to coexist for several years.
The real test of the IPv6 protocol, however, will come when companies start migrating to it in earnest in the next few years.

Apple's Lion sells 1 million copies in first day

More than 1 million people have downloaded the latest version of Apple's operating software, Mac OS X Lion, to their computers on the first day, the company said Thursday.

At that rate, users are buying Lion faster than any other operating software release in the company's history.

The announcement comes on the heels of a jaw-dropping second-quarter results this week.

Lion, priced at $30 and available as a digital download from the Mac App Store, is the eighth major update of OS X for Mac computers of which Apple sold 3.95 million in the second quarter.

Lion will also be available on a USB thumb drive for $69 in August. Or shoppers who don't want to wait around for the software to download over slower Internet connections can hit their local Apple store where the folks will do it for them.

Let The FaceBook Talk Over Aircel : New way of Status Updates!!

Voice Updates To Facebook From Aircel :
                                                Bored of typing your FaceBook updates? Here comes the easiest way to give the status updates on the world's favourite social networking Website, Facebook. Just dial, record your message and post it on your Facebook page. So easy and fun!

                             One of the leading service Provider in India, Aircel, has introduced the unique way to connect with your friends and loved ones through Facebook Voice Updates. This new plan allows users to upload their status updates in their voice itself and it's even without any Internet connection.

Some of the features offered by Facebook 

Voice Updates on Aircel

Voice Status: You can now update Facebook in your own voice!

Friends’ Status: You can even listen to your friends’ updates and reply directly through voice.

Find Friends: You can use it to find friends on Facebook too!

Post Notifications: With Facebook Voice Update on Aircel, you also get notifications about your friends’ wall posts.

Event Alerts: Event alerts on Facebook on Voice are supported as well. No more forgetting birthdays and anniversaries.

Some points to note are

1. Calls are charged at Rs. 1 per minute. Subscription (which is auto-renewed) is charged at Rs.5 per week.

2. When you call Facebook Voice Update server by dialing 51555, Aircel checks if you are calling from your registered Facebook mobile number or not. In case you didnt know, you can assign your mobile number with your facebook profile. If you call from a registered mobile number, you will be asked to key in your password through the keypad. If you call from a mobile number, which is not registered, you will be asked to enter your username and password.