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• 08 September 2011

• News: Intel invests $24 million in seven software firms

  Intel has invested US$24 million in seven software companies building products in areas it sees as important to its future, mostly to do with cloud-based services, the company announced Thursday.

• News: Intel 'fully committed' to MeeGo, exec says

  Intel said Thursday it was "fully committed" to its MeeGo mobile OS despite its main partner, Nokia, having jumped ship earlier this year to partner with Microsoft.

• 07 September 2011

• News: IBM's futuristic storage aims for speed, density

  IBM is working on both super-fast and super-dense storage media that should reach enterprises before the end of this decade, and demand in some industries looks likely to keep pace with the advances.

• News: Hitachi Data Systems buys NAS-vendor BlueArc

  HDS today announced it has purchased high-end NAS vendor BlueArc. The deal builds on a 5-year reseller agreement the companies already had.

• News: Seagate to offer 4TB external drive for $250

  Seagate is preparing to ship the industry's first 4TB external drive. The drive also represents the first product redesign for Seagate's GoFlex family.

• 06 September 2011

• News: Hitachi announces 1TB-per platter drives

  Hitachi today announced that is has achieved yet another milestone by squeezing 1TB capacity onto a single disk.

• News: Are costly SSDs worth the money?

  With 5,000 employees and 280 branch offices, Associated Bank is a prime example of a medium-sized business with big data demands.

• News: Macworld's new Speedmark 7 benchmark suite

  Now that the Mac OS has entered the Lion era, its time to bring Macworld’s overall system performance test suite, Speedmark, up to date. With this latest version, Speedmark 7, we’ve updated all of the applications to their current versions, increased files sizes that some tests use, and changed our 3D game test to a more recent title.

• 04 September 2011

• News: Multiplayer gaming goes full screen with LG TV

  Hoping to boost sales of its 3D televisions among gamers, LG showed off technology that lets traditional split screen multiplayer games be played full screen.

• 03 September 2011

• News: Sony shows 3D images with glasses -- without the TV

  Sony's Personal 3D Viewer, introduced at the IFA consumer electronics show, will offer consumers an alternative to 3D televisions and will be available by the end of this year, according to the company.

• 02 September 2011

• News: Syncplicity expands its cloud storage to the iPad

  The cloud-storage service Syncplicity has revamped its iOS app, expanding the previously iPhone-only offering into a iPad-friendly universal version that will let users access their documents from just about any device they own.

• News: Samsung announces new optical drive with Wi-Fi connectivity

  Samsung on Friday announced its new SE-208BW Smart Media Hub. The SE-208BW is an optical disk drive that is equipped with Wi-Fi. Users can stream CDs and DVDs to smartphones, tablets, and computers.

• News: Storage shipments keep surging, IDC says

  Enterprises and service providers spent more money on storage in the second quarter, emboldened by growing IT budgets, research company IDC will report on Friday.

• 01 September 2011

• News: The Magical World of Tablets and Touchscreens

  "Flower gleam and glow. Let your powers shine. Make the clock reverse. Bring back what once was mine. Heal what has been hurt. Change the fates' design. Save what has been lost. Bring back what once was mine..." -Rapunzel, Tangled

• News: Q&A: Hitachi GST CEO says hard drive future hangs in cloud

  Before the proposed buyout by Western Digital is complete, Hitachi GSTs CEO said the future of its hard drive business rests squarely in the cloud and mobile market.

• News: OCZ releases its first hybrid drive, a 1.1TB rocket

  At the request of Comptuerworld, the story, "OCZ releases its first hybrid drive, a 1.1TB rocket," which posted to the newswire Wednesday, has been changed. The original fourth paragraph has been removed and the second sentence of the third paragraph has been clarified to indicate a reference to the burst rate of a hybrid drive and now reads:

• News: Lenovo says new 'Ultrabook' thinner than MacBook Air

  Lenovo has jumped on Intel's "Ultrabook" bandwagon, announcing a new IdeaPad on Thursday that the company said is thinner than Apple's celebrated MacBook Air.

• News: Sony, Hitachi, Toshiba to merge display businesses

  Sony, Hitachi, and Toshiba have agreed to merge their small and medium-size display businesses into a joint venture, that will have a government-backed investment company, Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, as the largest shareholder.

• 31 August 2011

• News: Is Transcend planning a 2TB USB thumb drive?

  According to a video posting on YouTube of memory card maker Transcend and Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) have teamed up to produce a USB 3.0 flash drive with up to 2TB of capacity.

• News: OCZ releases its first hybrid drive, a 1.1TB rocket

  OCZ today announced its first hybrid drive product based on the PCIe interface and that incorporates 100GB of flash cache with a 1TB hard drive.

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