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Synology has announced the replacement for its DS1511+ five-bay expandable NAS. Original post by samzenpus

Sony has no plans to launch smartphones with more powerful quad-core processors this year, a Sony Mobile Communications executive confirmed on Wednesday. Speaking with CNET Asia, Sony Mobile product marketing manager Stephen Sneeden said he believes Sony will wait until 2013 to launch smartphones powered by quad-core processors like NVIDIA’s Tegra 3. ”We’re going to join quad-core [...]

Buffalo’s CloudStor Solo is prettier in hardware and software than its older dual-drive sibling. But it inherits Pogoplug’s poor performance genes. Original post by samzenpus

NEW YORK (Reuters) – LightSquared, the beleaguered telecom startup founded by hedge fund manager Philip Falcone, is considering hiring telecommunications veteran Timothy Donahue as chief executive officer, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. Original post by Unknown Lamer

Marc Foster – who first broke onto the scene with Monster’s Ball – has chalked up quite a varied career. read more Original post by David Konow

Facebook on Wednesday announced at the company’s Marketing Conference that premium ads will now appear in its mobile application. Advertisements will be displayed on mobile news feeds — much like Twitter’s “promoted” tweets — starting immediately, with desktop logout screen advertisements scheduled to roll out in April. Previously, users would only see ads in the [...]

Well, it looks like SyFy finally has a serious contender. 

Yes, BBC America and Clerkenwell Films are currently developing two new sci-fi shows geared towards genre fans and US audiences. read more Original post by Starr Keshet

We recently reported that Paramount was trying to halt publication of a new sequel to the Godfather, and discussed how the original Godfather negative was in danger of falling apart before Spielberg personally called the studio. read more Original post by David Konow

As promised, the $35 Raspberry Pi Linux computer was made available for pre-order on Wednesday. The single-board computer is equipped with a 700MHz processor, 256MB of RAM, SD card support, two USB ports, an Ethernet hookup and both HDMI and RCA outputs. Despite the low cost and small size — which is roughly equal to a credit card — [...]

A new report from Seth Godin of PaidContent claims Apple is rejecting eBooks from its iBooks store that contain links to Amazon. “I just found out that Apple rejecting my new manifesto Stop Stealing Dreams and won’t carry it in their store because inside the manifesto are links to buy the books I mention in [...]