Latest Components Articles

• 20 May 2013

• News: Samsung's Galaxy Tab 3 to contain Intel Atom chip, source says

  Samsung will soon release its first Android tablet based on an Intel Atom processor, according to a source familiar with the plan, in what would be a vote of confidence for Intel chips in mobile devices.

• News: Samsung readies world's most pixel-packed laptop display

  Retina who? Not to be outdone on the display front, Samsung is showing off a 13.3-inch LCD notebook panel with a whopping 3200-by-1800 resolution screen.

• How-Tos: Improve performance with a hard drive upgrade

  Alloystory asked the Laptops forum about speeding up a PC by replacing the hard drive with something faster.

• News: Shrinking chips challenge Moore's Law

  Intel will continue to fulfill Moore's Law for the foreseeable future, but the challenge of keeping up with it is growing as chips get smaller, says a company executive.

• 17 May 2013

• News: Wall Street Beat: Market stokes tech IPOs, as Tableau and Marketo debut

  A strong stock market could open the floodgates for more tech IPOs in the wake of Friday's solid debut of Marketo and Tableau, but not all segments of IT may be able to ride the wave.

• News: Barracuda Networks raises free capacity of Copy.com to 15GB

  Barracuda Networks has upped the amount of storage on its free Copy.com service from 5GB to 15GB.

• 16 May 2013

• News: Now you see it: How Apple's Retina display is a boon to accessibility

  iOS's accessibility features are great, particularly on the iPad--as I've written elsewhere--but for disabled users, accessibility is more than just a niche set of options in the Settings app.

• Opinion: Three simple ways to get a speedy PC

  There are three ways to get a faster PC or laptop: buy a new one, upgrade the hardware, or upgrade the software. We can show you how to do them all.

• News: Australia acts as a doorway to business in the East: HDS

  Australia has the potential to open many doors of opportunity in places like China, where there is seven per cent GDP growth on an already big number.

• 15 May 2013

• News: AMD launches the Radeon 8790M, its new(ish) notebook graphics flagship

  Attention mobile graphics fiends: AMD says its claiming the crown for the "world's fastest notebook graphics card" with its newly unveiled Radeon HD 8970M.

• News: Fujitsu signs Dicker Data

  Fujitsu has inked a deal with Dicker Data to distribute the full range of server and storage products in a bid to increase SMB focus and get access to the larger reseller network.

• 14 May 2013

• News: Thomas Duryea secures contract with MCRI

  IT infrastructure solutions provider, Thomas Duryea, has secured a contract with Australian child health research institute, Murdoch Childrens' Research Institute (MCRI), to design and deploy a new storage infrastructure platform.

• News: Ingram Micro to distribute Actifio Copy Data Storage (CDS) appliances

  Ingram Micro has been appointed the exclusive Australian distributor for enterprise storage management specialist, Actifio.

• News: Ailing Sharp sacks chief, vows turnaround on robots, LCDs

  Japan's Sharp booked another huge loss on Tuesday, and unveiled its latest turnaround plan, which includes relying on partnerships with Samsung Electronics and Foxconn Technology Group for business, sacking top management, and expanding into new fields such as robotics.

• News: Google dumps data silos, announces a unified storage pool for Gmail and Drive

  Traditionally, Google's cornucopia of services were all solitary islands in Sergey Brin's vast online sea--completely solitary, and completely cut off from one another. All that changed when the company instituted its new (and controversial) privacy policy, turning those islands of info into an interconnected web of sharing virtually overnight.

• 13 May 2013

• News: Microsoft improves photo management in SkyDrive

  Microsoft is rolling out changes to SkyDrive to enhance management of photos in the cloud storage service, including more efficient viewing and uploading of files.

• News: Intel loses ground as world's top semiconductor company, survey says

  As Intel mulls a plan to expand its contract-manufacturing operations, the company has lost ground as the world's top semiconductor company to chip suppliers benefitting from the success of mobile devices, according to a study by IC Insights released on Monday.

• News: The proper care and feeding of SSD storage

  Your solid-state drive sits there in silence. It's sleek. Elegant. More than a little mysterious.The hard drive it replaced was easy to understand: A soft hum assured you that its platters were spinning. A quiet mechanical click informed you of its read/write operations. You'd groom it with the occasional defrag. Times were good.

• News: Sony to launch super-thin, flexible e-reader for universities

  Sony will soon launch a flexible e-reader device that is less than 7mm thick and weighs 358 grams, targeted for use in university classrooms.

• 11 May 2013

• News: Amazon launches iOS photo app for Cloud Drive

  Got photos? Online retail giant Amazon has released a new app that lets iPhone users save their pictures directly on the company's own cloud storage space.

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