Hitachi didn't win the race to 3TB, but it did blaze a new trail by introducing its new 3TB Ultrastar 7K3000 hard drive. What makes this drive unique is that it's the first enterprise-class, 3.5-inch HDD to offer this much capacity[......]
Disney just let go of 200 employees , most of which had been dedicated to the company's console gaming business, in an effort to put more focus on the mobile market and it's easy to see why. According to market research firm Gartner , mobile app store revenue is only forecast to grow 1,000 percent to $58 billion between 2010 and 2014. That's a lot of pieces of eight, more than a quarter of which will come in 2011. [......]
An odd message on Mark Zuckerberg's fan page racked up over 1,800 likes and over 400 comments before the hacked post was removed, TechCrunch reports . [......]
We've seen some wild and wacky home office setups, and this one that was sent in to Gizmodo definitely ranks right up there. The picture, which you can click to enlarge, is filled with gadgets and gimzos -- multi-monitor setup, a projector, iPhone, iPod touch, notebook, a wlreless printer, and lots more -- but you can hardly notice all the tech thanks to a robust Airsoft gun collection that takes computer security to an entirely different level. [......]
A leaked slide of Nvidia's upcoming Tegra 2 3D platform surfaced over the weekend, revealing a few details Nvidia reportedly plans to unveil at the Mobile World Congress in February, TechEye.net reports . There are two versions of the processor being readied, including the AP25 chip for mobile phones and T25 for tablets/slates[......]
In the battle for browser market market share, Opera Software can claim victory in a skirmish to land a contract with Sony. As a result, Sony will shove the Opera browser into its Internet-connected Bravia televisions and Blu-ray disc players, the Swedish browser maker announced . "The Web as we know it is evolving, and we are committed to making it more accessible across diverse devices," said Christen Krogh, Chief Development Officer, Opera Software. [......]
A nonprofit organization called the Environmental Health Trust (EHT) is lobbying the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to "stop flip-flopping and acknowledge and publicize the risks of cell phone radiation." What the EHT ultimately wants is for the FCC to force cell phone makers to slap a warning label on their devices. "In terms of awareness of microwave radiation risks from cell phones, the U.S. is far behind other countries, including Switzerland, Israel, France, and Germany," says EHT founder Devra Lee Davis, PhD, MPH. [......]
Our friends over at Engadget got their hands on a couple of official renders of Hewlett-Packard's upcoming Topaz webOS-based tablet, which is one of two tablets currently being developed at HP's camp. Topaz is HP's 9-inch slate, while the company is also working on a 7-inch version called Opal[......]
An APU, in case you're not up to snuff on your tech acronyms, is an Accelerated Processing Unit, and today AMD announced the immediate availability of its new Embedded G-Series APU. According to AMD, this is the world's first and only APU for embedded systems. [......]
Let's start with the good news. For you penny pinchers, AMD apparently plans to release a Radeon HD 6950 videcoard with half the amount of RAM as the original (1GB versus 2GB). [......]
You can't claim you're living in a high tech abode if your power outlets don't boast USB ports. And even if they do, will they support SuperSpeed USB 3.0 devices? TruePower's U-Sockets do. [......]
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released a controversial security report (PDF) on Monday in which the organization said "it is unlikely that there will ever be a true cyberware." In the report, its authors Peter Sommer, Information Systems and Innovation Group, London School of Economics, and Ian Brown, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University, called into question not only the real risks of cyber warfare, but even what they claim is exaggerated language when discussing such risks. "Analysis of cybersecurity issues has been weakened by the lack of agreement on terminology and the use of exaggerated language," the report states[......]
Without Flash support, browser-based gaming has all but been eliminated on Apple's iPad, though not entirely. Thanks to Sarien.net , iPad owners can relive (or discover for the first time) classic adventure games from Sierra, all playable on the iPad's Safari browser and all for free. Here's what's available: Gold Rush! King's Quest 1-III Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel Space Quest I-II The Black Cauldron The games have been slightly updated to take advantage of the touch interface, and there's even a unique multiplayer element. [......]
You're probably familiar with W. Clement Stone's advice to "Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star." Research In Motion (RIM) is certainly aiming high and expects to ship more than 1 million of its upcoming PlayBook tablets in the first quarter of 2011, DigiTimes reports . [......]
Google's Chromium Security Rewards program offers participants cash bounties for the discovery of eligible bugs. Rewards range in value from $500 to an 'elite' $3133.7 (get it?), and up until now, that max payout has never been claimed. Enter Sergey Glazunoz, who will not only collect Google's first ever elite reward for discovering a "Critical" bug, but several thousand more for unearthing four other bugs classified as "High." "We're delighted to offer our first 'elite' $3,133.7 Chromium Security Reward to Sergey Glazunov," Google said in a blog post [......]
