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Seagate 'Cuda XT, 2TB and 6G SATA For Your Por...err Movies
One of the more interesting hard drives to hit the scene recently is the Seagate Barracuda XT. Its 2TB capacity, 64MB of cache, and 7200 RPM spindle speed will automatically pique the interest of many enthusiast and file hogs. Couple those features with the drive's support for SATA 6G and the story gets all the more interesting.
Exoskeletal glove gives motorcyclists an iron fist
You can't help it. It's a reflex. You stick out your hand when you fall - it's better to stop the descent with your palm than your face, right? That's fine when you're ambling down the street, but add an extra 80 mph and the weight of a motorcycle to the momentum equation and the bones in your paw might not take the strain very well.
LaDiDa iPhone App Let’s Anyone With Voice Make Music
LaDiDa a “reverse karaoke” app that makes it simple for anyone with an iPhone or iPod Touch to make songs with full instrumentation using only their voice in seconds.
Unprecedented 25 Year Sentence Sought for TJX Hacker
Computer hacker Albert Gonzalez deserves a quarter-century behind bars for leading a gang of cyber-thieves that stole tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers from a transaction processor and giant retail chains, federal prosecutors argued in a court filing Thursday night.
Naming and Shaming ‘Bad’ ISPs
I polled some of the most vigilant sources of this information for their recent data, and put together a rough chart indicating the Top Ten most prevalent ISPs from each of their vantage points.
March Madness: The Changing Data Center Landscape
While big players like Oracle and Microsoft position for the next wave of innovation, companies like VMware and EMC are trying to get in. Competitive developments in the Fibre Channel business are intended to lock customers in and the bottom-line is users want something simpler.
Twitter by Numbers: Not So Hot (Graphic)
Twitter's rise to global popularity has been pretty astonishing. It has turned into the world's biggest social networking and micro-blogging phenomenon. However, growth in the number of users peaked at nearly 20 percent last April, but had dropped down to 0.15 percent in December 2009, according to a new study released this week.
Pay to Play: Some iPhone App Sites Demand Money for Reviews
If you can’t pitch the press, pay them. That’s the proposition some review sites have for publicity-starved iPhone developers.
Chad Hurley Made $334 Million From Sale Of YouTube
You can learn all sorts of interesting tidbits from legal documents. For instance, in one of the legal briefs unsealed today in the YouTube-Viacom dispute, such as the amount of money YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley made from the $1.65 billion sale of the company to Google in 2006.
Jewish Org Says: No Facebook, Digg for 24hrs
Starting Friday evening, a campaign largely spread via Twitter, Facebook, and all things new media wants you to do something counter-intuitive. It wants you to log off from Twitter, Facebook, and all things new media.
How America Became a Surveillance State
Shane Harris lays out the U.S. government's real-life efforts to see and hear more in the face of growing terrorist threats. He pays particular attention to Total Information Awareness, a post-9/11 research project spearheaded by John Poindexter, once President Reagan's national security advisor.
Inside Microsoft's Internet Explorer Testing Lab
As part of a briefing on IE9 at Microsoft's Redmond campus, visitors toured the company's Internet Explorer testing lab. Here's what they saw.
Nokia 3310: The Most Popular Mobile Phone in the History
Mobile phones industry is developing with gigantic paces: now we are surrounded by such a variety of models that it is easy to get lost in them
Smoking guns, dark secrets spilled in YouTube-Viacom filings
It can't be good news for YouTube's $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit when plaintiff Viacom unearthed one YouTube founder telling another: "'jawed, please stop putting stolen videos on the site." But YouTube says that Viacom itself paid 18 different marketers to upload material to YouTube... and from Kinko's, no less.
5 Reasons I'm Still Not Paying for a Music Subscription Svc
After taking several different subscription services for a test-drive, however, I found that they provide a good — but still very flawed — experience. Here are five reasons why:
Apple Pays Tribute to Board Member Jerome B. York
Apple Board member, and president and CEO of Harwinton Capital, Jerome B. York has passed away at the age of 71.
All Giz Wants: A Google Set Top Box That Doesn't Suck
Google's upcoming set top box has great pedigree: It's Android-based OS, Sony and Intel are building the guts and design and Logitech doing what Logitech does best (input devices). So please, please, please don't screw this up.
Evolution of the iPod: 2001 to Present
In this retrospective feature, we attempt to make sense of all the iPods and place them in a concise timeline. From the original iPod in 2001 to the d...