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A Merger to bring Faster Satellite Internet in rural areas is about to occur between Wildblue and ViaSat. ViaSat Inc. a Carlsbad, California satellite equipment maker for defense and consumer markets, announced on October 1 a deal, in principle to buy privately held WildBlue Communications Inc. of Denver, Colorado, a high-speed Satellite Internet provider, one of the nations top ISPs, for a reported $568 million in cash and stock. The move will allow the two companies to reduce long-term costs and risk, as they seek to expand their position in the consumer broadband satellite Internet market.

The ViaSat SurfBeam networking system, which pioneered the use of unprocessed Ka-band spot beam technology to provide increased capacity and lower the cost of bandwidth, currently powers WildBlue. ViaSat has plans to launch ViaSat1 a new higher-capacity satellite in the first quarter of 2011, which will enable WildBlue to run at speeds between 2-8 Megabits per second, similar to the speeds cable companies provide their customers. The increase in speed apparently will not be accompanied by a rate increase, as ViaSat plans to keep WildBlue service prices at their current levels, ranging from $39.95 to $79.95. Currently WildBlue speeds reach 1.5 Mbps and start at 512 Kbps.

At the moment WildBlue has roughly 400,000 customers, with 90% of that total having just dial-up Internet service as their only alternative. The increase in speed will allow WildBlue to compete in DSL and Cable markets as well.

One challenge for WildBlue has been a lack of capacity to meet the demand for their service. This has caused some potential customers to be acquired by satellite Internet rival HughesNet, who is typically higher priced and more costly to start up. The merger should alleviate this problem and accelerate WildBlue’s already robust growth. Great news for customers in rural areas where dialup is the only other option and better news for customers that have DSL and/or cable available for Internet, the advent of another player in those markets can only be good for consumers.

The deal is expected to close in early April, subject to regulatory clearance and other conditions. The final transaction will consist of $443 million in cash and another $125 million in newly issued ViaSat stock shares. Based on how the Street has embraced this deal the stock may come out to be even more valuable than first anticipated. ViaSat shares rose sharply to a new 52-week high at $28.34 per share.

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People who like playing computer games are taking great interest in purchasing gaming laptops. Before laptops were only used for surfing the web, watching videos and doing other basic work. Gaming was not advisable on laptops because at that time the processors were not that equipped to play high resolution games. However, now times have changed and you can plenty of gaming laptops at almost every other computer shop.

Here are some factors that you need to take into account before you purchase gaming laptops:

Graphics Card
It goes without saying that most games that are available need high end graphics cards and 3D video so that you can enjoy your games without any performance issues. That is the reason why many of the laptops that are meant for playing games often come with two graphic cards such as Nvidia and ATI. Both brands are good and reliable enough for playing games. You should also check the video RAM. The system should provide you with minimum of 512MB video RAM. You can research on the web to find out the best graphic card. Some laptops sport 3 GPUs which means such laptops will give you the best gaming experience.

Processor
To play high res games, you need to a laptop with best performance processor. Dual core processors are good for gaming. However, now the computer market is being flooded with many laptops that run on quad core processors. A processing speed of 2 GHz is good enough for playing all kinds of games. However, there are many laptops in the market that have processing speed of over 2.5 GHz-3 GHz.

Display
To enjoy games; you need a large display screen. You need to check for things image clarity and color quality. The more the size of the display, the better you will enjoy the games. These days many laptops come with WUXGA and HD graphics.

Sound
Sound quality is also one aspect you cannot neglect. HD sound support will truly help in enjoying the games.

Hard Drive
Computer games require lot of space and if you are low on space, the game can perform poorly. You can go for hard drives that have 320GB space. These days hard drives are available for cheap. With few extra bucks, you can easily purchase 1TB drive. The speed of the hard drive is also important. It is advisable to go for 7200 RPM drives than 5400 RPM drives.

Technology and technological gadgets and devices are everywhere. People are spending lots of their money just to buy one of those gadgets just to consider themselves in the latest trend. However, it is not just having the latest gadgets today but also being knowledgeable about it that matters. If you don’t know anything about technology, then you cannot consider yourself “in”.

It is very important that you read technology articles, reviews, and news every once in a while. Through this, you will know what the latest technology is today and what it will benefit you. There are lots of web sites in the internet where in you can read information in the internet, just search for one in the search engine and you will see a different web site that has information about technology.

Here are some of the key benefits if you are knowledgeable about technology.

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