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01 November 2011
News: Seagate kills 5400 rpm desktop drives, all Barracudas now 7200 rpm

Seagate announced that it's bumping the platter rotation speed in all of its Barracuda hard drives from 5400 rpm to 7200 rpm.
31 October 2011
News: LSI: SandForce buyout won't affect other system makers' SSDs

LSI said its planned purchase of flash chip maker SandForce will not affect other equipment makers that use the company's products.
Opinion: Apple iPhone 4S Battery Drain: Guessing Game Continues

Waiting on an expected fix from Apple, iPhone 4S users complaining of rapid battery drain are coming up with their own witches' brews to keep their new handsets from dying before the end of the day. Users started complaining of the poor battery life shortly after the iPhone 4S debuted, but recently the gripes have grown louder.
News: New $89 open-source hardware runs full Linux OS

An open-source hardware group on Monday announced a US$89 credit-card sized motherboard based on an ARM processor that could be used for robotics, gaming and medical devices.
Opinion: Tips to Keep iPhone 4S Battery From Draining Fast

Apple iPhone 4S users worried about the device’s battery draining rapidly can take steps to prevent the problem.
28 October 2011
Opinion: Prices Going Up on Laptops and Hard Drives Thanks to Flooding in Thailand

The severe flooding in Thailand is causing a ripple effect in the electronics industry, as hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturers based there have been forced to close down. Thanks to HDD shortages, prices on hard drives are going up--and at least one PC manufacturer, Acer, is planning on raising laptop prices accordingly.
News: Brocade once again for sale?

According to a published report, Brocade is again making it known that it has placed itself on the selling block, hoping to drum up interest in suitors with enough money to cover its more than $2 billion market cap.
News: Thai floods unlikely to cause hard drive price rise soon

Thailand’s worst flooding for half a century is unlikely to cause significant hard drive price rises despite shortages revealing weak points in the global supply chain, drive vendors have indicated.
News: Three Surprising Things About Hard Drive Defragging

Back in the bad old days of computing, hard-drive defragmentation was a big deal. You needed a quality third-party “defragger,” and you needed to run it regularly—at least once a month—to ensure optimal system performance.
27 October 2011
News: ARM leads march to 64-bit tablets, smartphones

ARM's new 64-bit ARMv8 architecture could be used in tablets and smartphones in a few years, which could help deliver better performance when running demanding applications such as video, analysts said on Thursday.
News: Intel releases SSD Toolbox 3.0 to optimize drive performance

Intel on Thursday released the third generation of its solid-state drive monitoring and management firmware SSD Toolbox 3.0, which offers many of the same tools as previous versions but with a simpler interface.
News: ARM CTO predicts chips the size of blood cells

In less than a decade, that smartphone you're holding could have 32 times the memory, 20 times the bandwidth and a microprocessor core no bigger than a red blood cell, the CTO of chip design company ARM said on Thursday.
News: LSI to buy flash controller maker SandForce

LSI Corporation today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire SandForce, a leading provider of flash storage processors for enterprise and client PCIe-based flash cards and solid-state drives.
News: ARM goes 64-bit with its new ARMv8 chip architecture

ARM has introduced its first 64-bit microprocessor architecture, ARMv8, which should enable wider use of ARM chips in servers and other enterprise equipment and turn up the competitive heat on Intel.
News: Dropbox adds new file-sharing service for work groups

Dropbox for Teams starts at $795 annually for five users and offers 1TB of storage. It also comes with phone customer support and gives IT shops control to add or remove users.
26 October 2011
News: Citrix to unveil sub-$100 'system-on-a-chip'

Citrix Wednesday is set to unveil a prototype sub-$100 system-on-a-chip with a so-called "zero client" at its Synergy conference in Barcelona.
25 October 2011
News: Quantum offers $5K deduplication appliance for SMBs

Quantum's new NDX-8 NAS appliance delivers 8TB of capacity with built-in backup software and deduplication technology, offering to reduce storage requirements by up to 90%.
News: Nvidia to push future Tegra CPUs in servers

Looking beyond graphics processors, Nvidia is looking to push future Tegra chips into servers as the chip maker tries to break Intel's dominance in that market.
24 October 2011
News: Equinix creates market for data center clients to trade services

Equinix has launched an online marketplace for its data center customers, to make it easier for them to buy and sell network, managed hosting and other services among themselves.
Opinion: TapSense Touchscreens Know How You Touched Them

Touchscreens are already pretty effective with all the multi-touch swiping, tapping, and pinching gestures we can use on them. But why stop there? Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are looking to expand the capability of touchscreens to detect exactly what they've been touched with.

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