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	Bloomberg BusinessWeek — May 17, 2010 Toshiba's Energy-Saving E205 Laptop By Cliff Edwards "It creates a wireless network that pairs the laptop with a Netgear (NTGR) Push2TV receiver that's included with the computer's purchase. This lets users easily display images from the E205 on a big-screen TV."

	TweakTown — May 14, 2010 NETGEAR Powerline AV 200 XAVB2001 Adapter Kit By Sean Kalinich "... the NETGEAR XAVB2001 kit is a nice addition to any home that either has a 'dead' area for wireless coverage or that wants to reliably stream HD content to their systems ... This is especially in light of the increased amount of traffic (audio and video) in your typical home network."

	SmallNetBuilder — May 11, 2010 NETGEAR ProSafe SRX5308 Gigabit Quad WAN SSL VPN Firewall Reviewed By Doug Reid "The SRX5308 is the most powerful router NETGEAR has produced to date and also the most powerful that I've reviewed ... the SRX5308 certainly earns the title as flagship of NETGEAR's ProSafe business-class VPN Firewall line!"

	SC Magazine — May 10, 2010 Avenging Host: The Impact of Virtualization on Network Security By Jason Leung, NETGEAR "Virtualization has transformed the computing world. It represents the ability to rapidly deploy new servers, maximum usage of hardware resources, and have a more streamlined computing environment. As more and more businesses rush to deploy virtual machines, they must also beware of the security issues specific to virtual environments," says Jason Leung, NETGEAR's senior product line manager for SMB security.

	Investors Business Daily - May 10, 2010 Network Equipment Maker Watches Downturn Knock Out Rivals By Marilyn Alva "NETGEAR's U.S. retail market share jumped from 20% before the recession to nearly 30% now ... During the recession, while business slowed, NETGEAR regrouped. It invested in new products aimed at satisfying pent-up demand when the new technology cycle eventually emerged."

	CNET — May 5, 2010 Netgear Powerline AV 200 Adapter XAV2001 Bridge By Dong Ngo "If you are looking to quickly connect a computer to your network via your home's electrical wiring, the Netgear XAV2001 is a good solution, especially when it costs only around $130 when you buy it in a kit that includes two units."

	Computer Power User (CPU) — May 1, 2010 Netgear Push2TV Wireless Display Adaptor By Paul Cross "So long as you understand what WiDi can and can't do, we can definitely see the technology being a convenient novelty. And at roughly $100 per receiver, it isn't terribly expensive, either."

	MIT Technology Review — May/June 2010 Wireless Home Theater By Technology Review Editors "Netgear is commercializing a system that can send multiple jitter-free full-HD video streams wirelessly throughout a home."

	PC World — April 30, 2010 Netgear Powerline AV 200 and AV+ 200 By Patrick Miller "If your building can accommodate a high-speed powerline network, however, the Netgear AV 200 and AV+ 200 can help you fill in dead spots without having to run new cables."

	Channel Insider — April 29, 2010 Netgear Firewall Fills Need for Cheap Speed By Larry Walsh "... all I hear is the increasing need to improve security functionality while simultaneously decreasing the data center footprint ... Netgear is doing something entirely different: a low-cost, high-speed firewall/VPN appliance that comes in less than $500."

	Eweek — April 27, 2010 Netgear Launches Sub-$500 Gigabit Firewall for Cost-Conscious Businesses By Nathan Eddy "The company's SRX5308 VPN router is a high-performance, SNMP-manageable network solution furnishing multidimensional security ... a business-focused firewall that provides in excess of 1G bps performance for under $500, which translates to $0.50 per Mbps."

	Tom's Hardware — April 27, 2010 Netgear Launches Sub-$500 Gigabit Firewall By Kevin Parrish "It's faster than competitor products in the same price range."

	Network World — April 26, 2010 Products of the Week By Tim Greene NETGEAR's new ProSafe Quad WAN Gigabit SSL VPN Firewall (SRX5308) is featured in a "Products of the Week" slideshow. The firewall supports four Gigabit Ethernet WAN ports, a configurable DMZ port, virtual LANs, URL keyword filtering, and 50 SSL and 125 IPSec VPN tunnels for remote access.

	The VAR Guy — April 26, 2010 Netgear's $499 Firewall: Gigabit for SMBs By David Courbanou "The SRX5308 ProSafe SSL VPN Firewall does more than just be a firewall with a long name. It actually forwards WAN packets at gigabit line rate, and it offers a multi-WAN configuration. Netgear also claims it has the distinction of being the first firewall to provide an excess of 1 Gigbit per second performance for a sub-$500 price tag."

	eChannelLine — April 26, 2010 NETGEAR Announces Sub-$500 Gigabit Firewall By Mark Cox "A Virtual Private Network (VPN) firewall aimed at the SMB and distributed enterprise market, the SRX5308 provides ultra-high-performance, multidimensional business-class security."

	PC World — April 26, 2010 Netgear Targets SMBs With New ProSafe Gigabit VPN Firewall By Patrick Miller "The SRX5308's throughput is probably its most compelling feature; with an advertised speed of over 1Gbps and support for two different modes of load-balancing on its 4 WAN ports ..."

	TweakTown — April 24, 2010 NETGEAR GS605AV 5-Port Gigabit Network Switch By Sean Kalinich "In practice we found the NETGEAR GS605AV to be laughably simple to setup and use ... The speeds we recorded and the performance we observed when the GS605AV was set up correctly were more than sufficient to make this a worthwhile product."

	Tom's Hardware — April 21, 2010 Intel Wireless Display: From Your Notebook To The Big Screen By Chris Angelini The Intel Wireless Display and NETGEAR Push2TV "is an easy-to-use mainstream capability that you get as a 'free' value-add when you buy one of the three notebooks selling at Best Buy."

	Maximum PC — April 14, 2010 NETGEAR RangeMax WNDR3700 By Michael Brown "Folks, we have a winner: Netgear's Rangemax WNDR3700 is packed with features and it performs like a thoroughbred ... if you're looking for a router with almost everything, Netgear's WNDR3700 is the one to buy."

	EDN — April 5, 2010 A Powerline Networking Update: Gigle's Running Late, While Atheros Is Looking Great By Brian Dipert Brian Dipert reviews NETGEAR's new Powerline AV 200 Adapter Kit (XAVB2001) and finds it delivers speed and reliability.

	SC Magazine — April 1, 2010 "Netgear ProSecure STM600" By Peter Stephenson "Receiving 5 out of 5 stars and a 'Recommended' rating, Stephenson says, "At a price just under $3,800, we find this product to be an excellent value for the money. This appliance includes a number of easy-to-manage features that provide comprehensive protection against web and email threats at a reasonable price."

	Washington Post — March 18, 2010 Toshiba Satellite E205-S1904: Cool 'Wi-Di' Capability, Good Display, Terrible Ergnomics By Lloyd Case (PC World) "The Toshiba Satelite E205 comes bundled with Netgear's Push2TV wireless adapter. This cool little gizmo attaches to your HDTV by way of an included HDMI cable ... Overall, aside from the input lag, Wi-Di is pretty slick once you get it working ... If you want to browse the Web or watch online videos on your HDTV, that feature works well and is sure to please."

	USA Today - March 18, 2010 Intel WiDi beams video from laptops to your big-screen TV By Edward Baig "WiDi is a cinch to set up and, notwithstanding a few hiccups, worked as promised. What shows up on the TV is a cloned image of what's on the computer ... The required laptops each come with everything you need: a small wireless receiver from Netgear that you connect to the TV, plus the high-definition HDMI cable for making that connection."

	Computer America Radio — March 11, 2010 Interview with NETGEAR Host Craig Crossman NETGEAR's Som Pal Choudhury and Chris Geiser are interviewed by Host Craig Crossman about NETGEAR's new Push2TV, wireless home theater kit, and HomePlug AV powerline products.

	Channel Insider — March 9, 2010 Netgear Pushes Way into Midmarket Storage By Steve Wexler "Already a dominant vendor in the SMB storage market, Netgear is moving up-market with two new solutions optimized for storage virtualization applications and support for up to 500 users."

	CRN — March 5, 2010 Netgear Moves Into Midsize Storage With iSCSI Appliances By Joe Kovar NETGEAR "is moving upstream with the introduction of rackmount iSCSI appliances for SMB customers."

	ABC News—March 4, 2010 Storing and Sharing Your Digital Stuff By Ross Rubin "Installation is about as simple as shoving the drive into a slot; there are no tools required ... The Netgear Stora is almost perfectly situated between the PogoPlug and more expensive home server products."

	InfoStor — March 4, 2010 Netgear Moves Up-Market with ReadyNAS Systems By Kevin Komiega "Netgear is positioning the ReadyNAS 3100 and 4200 unified storage systems ... as primary storage for midrange enterprises and high-performance, secondary storage for larger businesses, respectively.

	SearchSMBStorage — March 4, 2010 8 Network-Attached Storage Devices for SMBs: A NAS Product Comparison By Beth Pariseau "NETGEAR brought its ReadyNAS prosumer desktop products into the commercial space with the ReadyNAS 2100 in May 2009 ... Since then, NETGEAR has rolled out the ReadyNAS 3200 ... and most recently, the ReadyNAS 3100, a 1U 4-bay rack-mountable system that holds up to 8 TB, and the ReadyNAS 4200, a 2U 12-bay system that holds 24 TB."

	The Wall Street Journal — March 3, 2010 How to Watch Video, Wirelessly, on Your TV Set By Walt Mossberg "Intel's new Wi-Di system is so far only available on three specific laptop models ... It also requires a small $100 adapter called Push2TV from Netgear, which comes free with these laptops ... I just plugged the Netgear box into my TV and pushed a special Wi-Di button on the Toshiba. I typed in a code number the first time I used it, and I was in business."

	InformationWeek SMB — March 1, 2010 Netgear's New SMB Network Storage Solutions Ready For Virtualization By Benjamin Tomkins "Netgear has long positioned itself as a leader in the SMB market ... Today, Netgear introduces 2 high-performance network storage platforms optimized for storage virtualization applications ... the anticipated customer use is as primary storage in so-called mid-range enterprises and as secondary storage in larger companies."

	Smart Business: Northern California — February 2010 One-Track Mind By Kristy O'Hara "NETGEAR's CEO Patrick Lo is featured in an article describing his rise from a child in China to a leader in the technology industry, and how he's keeping NETGEAR's mission at the forefront of every initiative."

	Xbit Labs — February 23, 2010 Netgear ReadyNAS Duo Review By Hugh Barros "Notwithstanding its respectable age, the ReadyNAS Duo looks good among modern entry-level NASes ... It can make a good home NAS due to its additional functionality such as an integrated DLNA server and a nice BitTorrent client."

	CRN — February 22, 2010 2010 Channel Chiefs: Who's Who In Networking By Ed Moltzen Matthew Dargis, NETGEAR's senior director of U.S. sales for the SMB, is named a 2010 Channel Chief in Networking by CRN/ChannelWeb.

	EWEEK — February 22, 2010 REVIEW: Netgear Brings Enterprise Security to the Branch Office By Frank Ohlhorst "Netgear's Prosecure UTM 5 is a small business security appliance with big business features."

	NewTeeVee — February 17, 2010 Intel Wireless Display: A Sight for Sore Eyes By Liane Cassavoy Writing on the NETGEAR Push2TV (PTV1000), Cassavoy opined "... overall, it provided one of the best ways I’ve found for viewing PC-based content on your TV."

	CrunchGear — February 12, 2010 Review: Netgear Stora By John Biggs “Hard drives that claim to do it all are a dime-a-dozen. Finally, however, I’ve found one that delivers on those claims.”

	ZDNet — February 9, 2010 Netgear's New Mobile Broadband Router Offers 802.11n And 3G For Your Boat By Andrew Nusca “The new router was announced just in time for the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The companies say the new router’s ability to connect using HSPA mobile broadband targets the SOHO (small office, home office) and “semi-nomadic” user.”

	Engadget — February 9, 2010 Netgear Partners with Ericsson for a 3G-receiving, WiFi-Emanating Router By Vladislav Savov “Had enough of dealing with oligopolistic wired broadband suppliers? Well, with Netgear's brand spanking new MBRN3300E you can just ride off into the 3G sunset and say goodbye to those pesky wires.”

	CNET — February 2, 2010 Hands-on: Is Intel's Wireless Display a Game Changer? By Dan Ackerman CNET’s Dan Ackerman completes a hands-on review of NETGEAR’s Push2TV, and says the reason the unit “... has potential is that it's easy to set up, easy to use, and could be built into a huge number of upcoming laptops.”

	SMB Nation — February 1, 2010 Right time, Right place: NETGEAR ProSecure UTM5 By Harry Brelsford “You just never know where you’ll bump into a recession dividend. Today I “bumped” into one with the ProSecure Unified Threat Management (UTM) 5 ... With this device small companies will be empowered to protect themselves with an array of defenses including firewall, SSL and IPSEC VPN, URL filtering, network antivirus, and antispam. Throw in a sexy form factor and you have the UTM5.”

	PC World — February 1, 2010 Netgear Announces ProSecure UTM For 5-User SMB Networks By Patrick Miller “Small businesses looking to beef up their network security will be glad to see that Netgear has announced the release of the ProSecure UTM5, a scaled-down version of its existing ProSecure UTM (Unified Threat Management) product lineup priced for 5-user networks.”

	Engadget — February 1, 2010 Toshiba Satellite E205 (with Intel Wireless Display) Review By Joanna Stern “Seriously, we're pretty sure any of our tech-challenged friends could figure this out without even opening the manual. It was as simple as plugging the Netgear Push2TV box ... into one of the HDMI ports on our 40-inch Toshiba HDTV ... and then pressing the wireless display button on the laptop's touch control strip.”

	Dealerscope — January 2010 Vendor View : What's Next for Netgear? By Nancy Klosek "... with the introduction of the Stora NAS device, the company is also tapping into consumers' familiarity and love affair with control devices like the iPhone and Blackberry."

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