Grace Digital delivers wireless radio tuner

Grace Digital has a brand new Tuner Wireless Radio & Media Player that will cost you $219.99, although you might question such a purchase decision since it will still need a dedicated stereo before you are able to enjoy playback of Internet radio streams. Not only that, the rather boring user interface might some something people will have beef with, considering how far user interface has come these days. Still, if you can overlook the aforementioned shortcomings, this device is able to stream Wi-Fi radio content from 30,000 stations, Pandora, iheartradio, Sirius, Live365 and MP3tunes among others. It maxes out at 802.11g (we would have liked to see 802.11n thrown in to keep up with the times), or through an Ethernet cable if you're old school. A 4-line backlit LCD display shows off some metadata, while a remote control is thrown in to keep couch potatoes happy.

India Gears for IPv4 to IPv6 Switch

As the Internet is running out of addresses, India is geared to shift its domain name address policy from the existing IPv4 to IPv6 protocol by March 2012.
Existing IPv4 domain name addresses are staring down the barrel globally, and India's running out of IPv4 IP addresses, too. And the problem will only worsen in the country with the continuing rise in mobile phone subscribers and the rollout of 3G and broadband wireless access (BWA).

Thankfully, the Indian government has an IPv4-to-IPv6 transition roadmap in place. In a statement issued by the government earlier this week, all ISPs and telecom providers will have to be IPv6-compliant by the end of 2011
. ISPs and telecom providers are expected to offer only IPv6 services thereafter. The statement also said by March 2012, all central and state government ministries and public sector companies will make the switch to IPv6 Internet protocol based services.
How exactly is IPv6 going to save the day? It's the next-gen Internet protocol version, offering greater address space than the existing IPv4 Internet protocol -- IPv6 uses a 128-bit address scheme compared to IPv4's 32-bit address.
Since everything that connects to the Internet needs to have an IP address, IPv6 (with its greater address space) provides limitless possibilities of large scale integration of consumer electronic devices on to the Web -- TVs, refrigerators, air conditioners, microwave -- and control them remotely. IPv6 Internet protocol is already being implemented in the US, Europe, and Japan, among other countries.