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Western Digital Release Super-Fast VelociRaptor Drive

Staff Writers September 4, 2012 No Comments

Click to enlarge Western Digital has released a new drive called the My Book VelociRaptor Duo. It has two 1TB 10,000 RPM drives that can transfer data at a rate…

Employee Desktops Go Mobile On Kingston Thumbdrives

Staff Writers August 24, 2012 No Comments

As more employees work away from the office, businesses are trying to balance employee productivity with the cost of equipping them. Fortunately for them, Microsoft speaks enterprise fluently. They have…

IBM Buys Solid State Firm Texas Memory Systems

Staff Writers August 17, 2012 No Comments

How much IBM will pay for Houston-based Texas Memory Systems has not been disclosed. Solid State technology is rapidly replacing the spinning disks used in computer hard drives as they’re…

SanDisk’s New Range Is Thinner, Faster & Colourful

Staff Writers July 17, 2012 No Comments

Thinner, faster, more memory and more colour is what SanDisk’s new range is all about. In addition to tangible flash storage, each SanDisk stick will come with 2GB of cloud…

Raspberry Pi Turning Students Into Comp Programmers

Staff Writers May 16, 2012 No Comments

Click to enlarge The Raspberry Pi is a computer marginally bigger than a credit card and has amassed a large following, with over 300,000 people scattered across the globe waiting…

Its Tick Tock Tick Tock Time At Intel As New Processors Revealed

Staff Writers April 23, 2012 No Comments

The new chips shrink circuit widths from 32 to 22 nanometres, and introduce so-called TriGate “3D” circuitry to reduce heat and improve performance and battery life. Intel works on a…

Apple’s iPad Graphic Claims Questioned By Nvidia

Staff Writers March 9, 2012 No Comments

Click to enlarge Image Source: Gdgt At Apple’s ‘new’ iPad launch event, Phil Schiller (VP of worldwide marketing) took to the stage and claimed Apple’s A5X chipset can produce 4 times…

Slump In TV Sales Hurts Toshiba: 138M

David Richards January 31, 2012 No Comments

The Company whose third quarter operating profit fell 72% said that profit margin in its memory-chip business dropped to less than 11% from more than 20% in the second quarter,…

IBM Squeezes Data Storage Into 12 Atoms

Staff Writers January 16, 2012 No Comments

IBM’s R&D labs have shown the potential to use atomic-scale magnetic memory to make dense storage components for the future’s computers. While the current hard drives featured in PCs today…

Intel: Hard Drive Shortage & Ultrabrooks Drive Opportunity For SSDs

Staff Writers December 20, 2011 No Comments

Intel in Europe has indicated that the hard drive shortage marks an opportunity for wider retailer adoption of SSDs, though the company also indicated that it was selling out all…