Western Digital has completed its FTC-ordered handover of assets to Toshiba in order to buy Hitachi’s HDD business Viviti .
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WD grits teeth, hands over the goodies to Toshiba to regulators and dentists’ delight
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Western Digital has completed its FTC-ordered handover of assets to Toshiba in order to buy Hitachi’s HDD business Viviti .
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WD grits teeth, hands over the goodies to Toshiba to regulators and dentists’ delight
Welcome to IRL , an ongoing feature where we talk about the gadgets, apps and toys we’re using in real life and take a second look at products that already got the formal review treatment. It’s been a busy week for tech writers
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IRL: Blue Mics Yeti, Western Digital My Passport and Razer’s Naga Hex gaming mouse
Just days after WD revealed new 2TB My Passport drives for the USB 3.0-respecting world, along comes an option for those running OS X. Aside from the conventional USB 2.0 socket on the My Passport Studio, the Mac-friendly unit also packs a pair of FireWire 800 sockets. Not surprisingly, it ships with hardware-based encryption and password protection software, and while it’ll probably come formatted for an Apple, there’s nothing at all stopping other platforms from taking advantage
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Western Digital intros My Passport Studio 2TB portable HDD, twin FireWire 800 ports included
Just like the initial run of TiVo Premiere DVRs two years ago, it appears that a refreshed version has been spotted at retail prior to any official announcement from the company. TiVo may be waiting for its official birthday March 31st to unwrap the new models, but a poster at TiVo Community has dug up listings at Amazon and JR.com showing the new TCD746500 TiVo Premiere with 500GB HDD retailing for $149 (with 1 year service plan at $14.99, of course). That can be compared to the original’s 320GB drive that’s currently selling at around $80.
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TiVo Premiere DVRs may get more storage soon, $149 500GB units appear for preorders
You know that big new hard drive you just picked up? Get ready to feel bad.
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Seagate hits one terabit per square inch, compares self favorably to the Milky Way
Still rockin’ one of those (cargo) pocket-sized GoFlex streaming drives we showed you a while back? Marvelous. According to Gear Diary , Seagate’s given the site intel saying it’s getting ready to roll out a Satellite firmware refresh on the 19th of this month
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Seagate GoFlex Satellite reportedly getting firmware update on March 19th
Back at Macworld, we laid our peepers on Western Digital’s MyBook Thunderbolt Duo and were able to take a demo setup for a quick spin.
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Western Digital MyBook Thunderbolt Duo is available now starting at $600
Thought everything was looking rosy for the hard drive hitch of the year? Well, it looks like Federal Trade Commission reckons the union of Hitachi and Western Digital isn’t quite there just yet, ordering that the new company would have to shed some of its assets to Toshiba
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FTC: Western Digital and Hitachi must give assets and IP rights to Toshiba (update: sale approved)
It’s MacWorld, which means those providers of Apple gear are busting out wares for aftermarket insertion into your objects of desire.
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OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express SATA 3.0 SSDs doubles your (MacBook) Airspeed velocity
Pogoplug, as they say, just got served. Sanho — the same geniuses responsible for the HyperMac — is introducing yet another intelligent box here at CES 2012
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Sanho’s bantam CloudFTP puts USB storage devices online, streams on battery power and sheer will

May 21, 2012 By steven
Super Diet Genius plans your meals based on super-healthy superfoods. (Credit: Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET) Diet apps are a dime a dozen

May 21, 2012 By steven
With E3 2012 right around the corner, Reggie and co. want to make sure your oft-distracted eyes catch every drip drop of the impending Wii U news flood.

May 21, 2012 By clark
Sufficiently enamored with Samsung’s Galaxy S III that you’ve got to have one in the US before anyone else, and you don’t want it sullied by carrier customizations in the trip across the Pacific?

May 21, 2012 By Dirk Pitt
We can’t be certain as to how many units of the HTC EVO 4G LTE have made it out of customs thus far, but it appears the number is high enough for Sprint to officially set a date for shipping the device out to those who pre-ordered it online. A Sprint representative reached out to us to share the company’s statement from this afternoon that customers should expect to receive their valuable treasure “on or around” May 24th. We’re not in love with the “around” terminology, but this could simply be due to a high amount of demand.

May 21, 2012 By Joe Plumber
The digital gTar never needs tuning. (Credit: Incident Technologies) At first glance, a digital guitar with the brains of a super-powered smartphone and illuminated fretboard seems like a product that could change everything about guitar instrumentation

May 21, 2012 By Joe Plumber
(Credit: Pentax) I have to admit: the $900 Pentax K-30 dSLR sounds like a pretty promising replacement for the K-r. Rugged on the outside with the potential for the same excellent photo quality as the K-01 mirrorless ILC, claimed faster autofocus performance than the already fast K-5, and a 100 percent coverage viewfinder that you usually only see in more expensive models all add up to a possibly great start to the Pentax-Ricoh era. Though it’s not “durable” in the same sense as bodies like the Nikon D4 or Canon EOS-1D X , with parts designed to withstand heavy photographic abuse, the K-30 offers weather-and-dust resistance, with claims of usability down to 14 degrees (most cameras only guarantee down to 32 degrees); that said, Pentax makes no claims about battery life at those temperatures.

May 21, 2012 By clark
House After eight seasons, the run of Gregory House MD comes to an end on Fox tonight with a double episode. While we’ll miss Hugh Laurie fumbling around on our American TV screens every week, it definitely felt like time for the series to come to an end. We’ll see how Wilson’s cancer diagnosis wraps up and if any other old characters stop by after Thirteen popped up last week, although we will avoid throwing back a Vicodin just for old time’s sake.

May 21, 2012 By Dirk Pitt
You wait for one Thunderbolt-compatible motherboard and then two decide to arrive on the same day.

May 21, 2012 By Ray Kaario
Never one to focus exclusively on the very latest hardware , a new mod has brought an 6502 microprocessor to a Minecraft world near you. The system is made from three separate cubes, representing the CPU, monitor and disk drive, respectively, all connected by ribbon cables. Part of pre-release 5 of the RedPower 2 mod, programmer Eloraam has also thrown in pumps and solar panels to keep crafters busy — you’re no longer limited to light switches

May 21, 2012 By Ray Kaario
Come summer, the 4G LTE-ready Motorola Droid Maxx will also be global-ready. Wondering when you can take your Verizon Android phone overseas without hassle?
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