Monthly Archives: February 2009

After almost a year, Seagate has dropped its patent infringement lawsuit against solid-state disk-drive manufacturer STEC. Seagate had claimed STEC was using its intellectual property related to hard disk drive technology to produce SSDs and DRAM. Continue reading →

Advanced Micro Devices, which failed to get enough votes in favor of a plan to spin off its manufacturing operations last week, said it finally succeeded at a stockholder meeting today — but just barely. Continue reading →

If you’re looking for a way to view tons of media from your computer on your TV, but you want something other than a media streamer, a hard-drive-based media player like the Seagate FreeAgent Theater (starting at US$129 without the hard drive, as of Fe… Continue reading →

HP this week unveiled its fourth generation of PC blades, adding more memory and a license fo Citrix XenDesktop virtualization software. Continue reading →

PC microprocessor shipments slowed in the fourth quarter and will continue to decline this year, according to an IDC survey. Continue reading →

The Seagate Maxtor BlackArmor (US$135 for 320GB) is a marvel of simplicity. It’s the first external hard drive with full-disk encryption–the encryption chip resides on the hard drive’s circuitry. According to Seagate, all of the data is encrypted on t… Continue reading →

Over the next two years, mobile technology is going to change radically. We look at five of the trends that are most likely to make our lives simpler and more productive. Continue reading →

The Trusted Computing Group’s new specification for drive encryption at the hardware level means that all disks will be able to communicate with encryption management software no matter the vendor. The downside: If a user loses a password or breaks a d… Continue reading →

Seagate today unveiled two drives as part of a new line of near-line disks that will offer up to 2TB capacity along with either SATA or 6Gbit/sec. SATA interfaces. The drives will also be offered with AES government-grade self-encryption. Continue reading →