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Synology Disk Station DS209 Dual-Bay SATA NAS | Posted on: 30/05/2009 @ 21:25

Thrifty shoppers are faced with many options when choosing where to store their valuable data: from traditional optical media and drive based storage, to flash drives and even more exotic third party online storage - each with its own advantages and disadvantages. In this article Benchmark Reviews tests the Synology Disk Station DS209 Gigabit SATA Nnetwork Attached Storage (NAS) server. The NAS ...

AT&T's Faster HSPA 7.2 3G Network Coming Soon | Posted on: 27/05/2009 @ 20:20

AT&T's 3G mobile broadband network is about to get a lot faster thanks to the High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) 7.2 technology upgrade which should take place later this year. The new HSPA 7.2 network will provide double the speed of the current 3G network and better coverages as well. The $18 billion upgrade will raise the theoretical speeds to 7.2 Mbps and will bring many other enhancements to ...

NASA Prepares Atlantis Shuttle For $2 Million Transportation | Posted on: 25/05/2009 @ 16:50

Now that Space Shuttle Atlantis has landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California, the NASA team is working hard on preparing the shuttle for transport back to Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a transportation that will cost nearly $2 million USD.NASA will use the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft or SCA, which are essentially two heavily modified Boeing 747 airliners - one being a 747-100 and the other ...

NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis Lands at Edwards | Posted on: 24/05/2009 @ 16:00

A big welcome home to the astronauts on board Space Shuttle Atlantis. The STS-125 mission, one of the most watched missions of all times, which lasted 12 days, 21 hours, and about 40 mins has finally come to an end. The landing today comes after being unable to land as originally planned on Friday and then still being unable to land on Saturday. Then on Sunday morning, the first landing was ...

NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis Landing Begins | Posted on: 24/05/2009 @ 14:50

The Space Shuttle Atlantis has just fired its rockets to begin braking for its descent to Earth on Sunday, after being unable to land due to unfavorable weather conditions since Friday.Atlantis will land on orbit 197 at Edwards Air Force Base in California at 11:39AM with a deorbit burn performed at 10:24AM. The burn lasted three to four minutes and the Shuttle has already begun descending ...

NASA Calls Off First Atlantis Landing on Sunday | Posted on: 24/05/2009 @ 13:40

The crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis have been trying to return home since Friday but have been unable, due to weather conditions. The shuttle had four opportunities on Sunday to land, with the first landing waved off because of the same poor weather conditions that they've had for the past two days.The second landing opportunity will be orbit 197 for both Edwards Air Force Base at 11:39AM and at ...

Charles Bolden Selected To Lead NASA | Posted on: 23/05/2009 @ 21:10

The Obama administration announced on Saturday the nomination to head the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, former space shuttle astronaut and retired Marine General, Charles F. Bolden Jr.NASA selected Bolden in 1980 and by August 1981 he came an astronaut. He's logged over 680 hours in space and is a veteran of four space flights in total. Bolden served as pilot on STS-61C (January ...

NASA Crew Prepares Atlantis For Space Shuttle Landing | Posted on: 21/05/2009 @ 14:50

Crew aboard the Atlantis have been preparing for their flight home tomorrow to bring an end to the STS-125 mission of repairing the Hubble Space Telescope. Among their preparations is a test of the thrusters that will be used to position the orbiter for re-entry. After the testing of the thrusters have been completed, the crew will speak again with members of the media to discuss their mission ...

Join Phoronix Readers On Social Networks | Posted on: 13/05/2009 @ 19:00

If you want to stay up to date with the latest Linux news and hardware reviews but do not wish to use a traditional RSS feed, you are able to access Phoronix on some social networks. For some time now there has been a Phoronix Twitter feed for staying up to date with all of our latest content. If you are a Twitter user please follow phoronix...

Frontier Acquisition of Verizon Could Help Dish Network | Posted on: 13/05/2009 @ 18:10

Frontier Communications today announced that it would be acquiring some Verizon assets to create the nation's largest "pure rural" communications service provider.Under the acquisition agreement, Frontier would acquire approximately 4.8 million access lines from Verizon and the deal is valued at $8.6 billion dollars for the all stock transaction. This make Frontier the nation's fith largest ...

NASA Says Space Shuttle Damage Not Serious | Posted on: 12/05/2009 @ 23:30

NASA had reported seeing debris left behind at the launch pad shortly after the Space Shuttle Atlantis had taken off on Monday. From what they could tell, it was pieces left behind from the fuel tank and questions were raised on whether or not the Shuttle would be safe for a trip back home.Atlantis astronauts performed a full external inspection of the shuttle and found a 21-inch stretch of marks ...

AirLive! WMU-6000FS | Posted on: 11/05/2009 @ 9:50

The AirLive! WMU-6000FS is not just an access point/wireless router. It can also hold a 2.5" hard drive and has USB ports to function as print server or network storage device. An interesting device for people wanting to share their documents on a home network without creating a cable mess or having countless separate devices.

Thecus N7700 SATA 7-Disk RAID NAS | Posted on: 08/05/2009 @ 15:30

How much data storage is enough to satisfy your enterprise needs? Thecus would like to assure you their N7700 SATA-drive NAS server has you covered. With seven hot-swappable drive bays assembled into a rugged stackable chassis, the N7700 aims to safely house large collections of data in basic-disk JBOD, RAID-0, 1, 5, 6, and 10 arrays using either the EXT3, XFS or ZFS drive format. Dual Gigabit ...