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TS-439 Pro is designed for SMB/Business featuring low power Intel 1.6GHz CPU, 1GB DDRII memory, and stylish industrial design. The TS-439 Pro supports dual Giga LAN, five USB 2.0 ports and two eSATA ports, RAID 0/1/5/6/5+spare configurations, Online RAID Capacity Expansion and Online RAID Level Migration, and offers advanced functions such as iSCSI target service with Thin Provisioning, AES 256-bit volume-based encryption, automatic policy-based IP blocking, instant SMS and email alert,...

Apple has submitted a patent application which will allow users to translate Text-to-Speech & Speech-to-text in iPhone calls. This is revealed by the site Patently Apple. It is expected that this Text-to-Speech & Speech-to-Text converter will be introduced in the upcoming Apple operating system iOS 5. The first is when a smart phone user is in a loud location, such as a bar or restaurant where making voice calls is nearly impossible because of the surrounding noise. The second is...

Release candidate version of Service Pack 2 for Vista and Server 2008 are sent to Microsoft Connect testers, a few days ago. This internal version number RC 6002.16670.090130 and, in addition to currently 691, including the latest fixes, some of the highlights of SP2 will be: Support for recording data to Blu-ray media Windows Search 4.0 Bluetooth 2.1 support VIA 64-bit CPU support Improved performance for Wi-Fi connection after resume from sleep mode An interesting detail is...

AMD has just released ATI Catalyst version 9.2. Catalystâ„¢ 9.2 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPU-limited. Some measured examples are: * Crysis DX10 gains up to 20% * Crysis Warhead DX10 gains up to 20% * World in Conflict gains up to 5% . Now the new driver also enables Anisotropic Filtering for DirectX 10 applications in Windows Vista and fixes some minor issues that occured in previous versions. Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating...