C.O.D. Protests The Protect IP Act

Personally, I am sick and tired of the United States government meddling more and more in our lives.  The movie and music industry is using our elected officials like puppets (muppets) and we are sitting idly by and letting it happen.  Well, I signed the petition, and my voice will be heard next election.  G.R.I.P. – Get Rid of Incumbent Politicians.  If we really want to make changes, we have to get those that pander to big business out of office and let them know that we have the power to do it.  After all, they are there to represent Read More…

Taipei Taiwan, July 27, 2011 – QNAP® Systems, Inc. today announced that QMobile v1.1.1 is available for download in Apple® APP Store.

Taipei, Taiwan, July 2011- QNAP Security proudly announced today the successful integration of a series of Samsung Techwin network cameras with the VioStor NVR (Network Video Recorder) series. Combining the strengths of QNAP VioStor NVR series such as high performance hardware platform with excellent data processing power, user-friendly interface, and award-winning data storage technology, with the new addition of being compatible to Samsung Techwin's network cameras, this new combination offers new possibilities to the market. Retailers who use full HD displays and other professional users in the industrial, educational and government sectors, who would typically need to monitor over 100 IP cameras, have a new, reliable solution to choose from.

Taipei, Taiwan, July 20, 2011 – QNAP Systems, Inc. today announced that a newly released research study by leading industry analyst firm Gartner shows that QNAP is ranked as the #1 Asian supplier of stand-alone NAS products in the sub-$5,000 price band in terms of vendor revenue. Most impressively, QNAP’s revenue growth jumped 71% in 2010 vs. 2009, making QNAP a rising star in the highly competitive networked storage category. Full details can be found in the Gartner research report “Market Share: Network-Attached Storage/Unified Storage, Worldwide, 2010”, which was released on 21 March 2011 by Pushan Rinnen.

The days of using thumb drives and floppy disks to store your valuable data are gone.  Today the options are many and for those of us looking for an easy to use storage solution, QNAP thinks they have the answer.  The idea of a home server is nothing new and Microsoft has been trying to attack this market with their Windows Home Server operating system. What users may not know about is that companies that have been producing NAS systems for business recognized your needs and are starting to release products that fit very well in the home office or small office.  These systems are small, use very little power, pack a ton of features, and are easy to use.

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Sometimes the simplest products are actually great products.  If you remember the good old days when people played tapes instead of CD's, you would remember the Cassette boxes they came in.  The idea was simple, use the box if you didn't want to damage your cassette.  These boxes weren't the “be all, end all” for protection, but they did an adequate job of protecting your tapes from accidental splashes and dust.  In addition to that, they made organizing your collection easy because they were uniformly shaped even though our cassettes were oddly shaped.  Hard drives are no different.  They should get the same kind of love and attention that our beloved cassette tapes did in the 80's, but instead they are stacked on our shelves naked and lonely waiting for dust and coffee to find them.  Fear not solution seekers, there is an answer!  ineo (yes, that is a lowercase "i") has produced a simple hard drive protection box, but does it cut the mustard... or the cheese?

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