Category: Hardware

Intel’s QX9650 Marks Birth of 45-NM Era read more | digg story

Seagate Technology LLC has agreed to settle a lawsuit by offering customers who purchased a hard drive from the company during the last 6 years a cash refund or free backup and recovery software because it allegedly mislead customers on the amount of capacity the drives contained. read more | digg story

[Jalopnik’s desert stringer Curtis Walker is following the DARPA Grand Challenge, an annual race of autonomous ground vehicles, with a serious case of the techies. We’ll have his reports today on the National Qualifying Event semifinals, like this one, as soon as he can type them into his digital audio-visual receipt and transmission unit. –…

This article covers everything you would ever want to know about Intel’s new Penryn architecture and goes into detail on the kind of performance you can expect from it. Lots of technical information, lots of benchmarks, a stable 30%+ overclock and power consumption in line with 65nm dual core processors! read more | digg story

USB 3.0 should deliver more than ten times the speed of the existing USB 2.0 standard. read more | digg story

Over the past 10 years, Corel, Sun, IBM and others have tried to compete with Microsoft in the office software business, but thus far none of them have been able to take a significant chunk of Microsoft’s large market share, which generates revenues exceeding $15 billion each year. read more | digg story

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies plans to announce Monday it has developed technology that will quadruple the storage capacity of desktop hard drives within the next two years, while laptop storage could reach 1TB. read more | digg story

Pioneering work on magnetic materials in the 1980 lead to the discovery of the phenomena known as giant magnetoresistance. This, in turn, rapidly led to ultra high density magnetic storage read heads that are used in today’s hard drives. The discoverers of this phenomena are awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics. read more |…

No doubt you’ve got a home wireless network or you’ve connected to hotspots at the local coffee shop or airport —but are you getting the most out of your Wi-Fi? Whether you want to strengthen, extend, bridge, secure, sniff, detect or obscure your signal, today we’ve got our top 10 best Wi-Fi utilities and tweaks…

In 2008, Intel turns the 45nm corner with a pair of ultramobile platforms that will take the x86 ISA where it has never gone before: into pockets and purses. Here’s a look at what’s next for the ISA that just won’t die. read more | digg story