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ASUSTOR has announced that all of its NAS devices will be upgrading to the ASUSTOR Data Master (ADM) 2.0 operating system. ADM was the first NAS operating system in the world to be designed around the use of Apps and features an intuitive graphical interface that provides users with a familiar experience closely resembling the simplicity enjoyed on mobile and …

Show Off Your Rig’s Internal Architecture Lian-Li Industrial Co. Ltd, today announces a new brushed aluminum Mini-ITX chassis – PC-Q30. With its curve-shaped design and large acrylic front window the fully aluminum PC-Q30 allows users to show off their systems, and is sure to be the talking piece of any room. Whether in the living room, bedroom, or office, the …

Lian-Li Industrial Co. Ltd. today announces two new brushed aluminum Mini-ITX chassis: PC-Q27 and PC-Q28. These two compact cases feature Lian Li's new railing mount motherboard tray design, and allow for the Mini-ITX platform to be combined with traditional full-sized components.

Today, at 6:09PM, in my inbox... was something crazy. I try to keep up with all things XBMC as it has always been jockeying for prime position in my home theater. Well, the news is... Microsoft and XBMC are now in bed together. The good news is that XBMC will get the credit it deserves and the funds it needs to develop. The bad news is... if you are not running Windows, you will soon be out of luck.

Drobo has finally started to add some apps to their networked appliances to make them more useful for media hungry enthusiasts. Along with a copy module, Drobo has incorporated Plex for their 5N. Although Drobo is still far behind the rest of the industry in implementing features media enthusiasts look for in a network appliance, it is a step in the right direction.

FinalWire Ltd. today announced the immediate availability of AIDA64 Extreme Edition 2.85 software, a streamlined diagnostic and benchmarking tool for home users; and the immediate availability of AIDA64 Business Edition 2.85 software, an essential network management solution for small and medium scale enterprises.

XBMC.org released a public statement congratulating the folks over at OpenELEC for releasing OpenELEC 3.0.0. This release brings XBMC Frodo 12.1 with all its bells and whistles to the embedded OS.

QNAP® , Inc. today announced its new budget friendly Turbo NAS lineup TS-421U and TS-420U rackmount models for the workgroups and entry-level SMBs with fast-growing needs of economical network storage. The TS-421U features with Marvell CPU 2.0 GHz, and the TS-420U features with Marvell CPU 1.6 GHz. Both models operate with 1GB DDR3 RAM, and provide sustained high performance for daily routines in file storage, sharing, and data backup.

XBMC Frodo has been released. With it, the development team has named the next version and returned to a predictable development cycle. Team XBMC has voted and the next version of XBMC, XBMC 13, will have the name Gotham!.

Drobo, makers of award-winning data storage products for businesses and professionals, today announced that in aggregate, its customers have purchased and deployed more than an exabyte of storage with Drobo systems. An exabyte is 1,000 petabytes, or 1 million terabytes, or 1 billion gigabytes or the equivalent of 245 million DVDs. Since the first Drobo system was introduced in mid-2007, the company has sold approximately 250,000 systems to creative professionals, prosumers, small businesses and enterprises.