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Seagate took some time out from its busy earnings reporting schedule to address supply concerns stemming from the recent devastating floods in Thailand. The storage manufacturer announced that hard drives supply will likely fall 150 million units short of demand by year’s end.
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Seagate expects flood-related hard drive shortages to continue
Keeping its Q1 delivery promise, Seagate is now shipping its GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter for portable drives of the same moniker. We got our mits on this bad boy back at CES , witnessing first-hand the much improved transfer speeds of Intel’s tech over the standard USB 2.0 for the smaller external drives
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Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter now shipping, snag one for $100
Suing’s easy. It’s the “winning” that trips folks up.
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US government rules three Barth patents invalid, sends Rambus scrambling
IBM’s Almaden Research Center is filled with some of the best and brightest minds in the world, and its researchers just released new findings that detail how just how far IBM has come in the realm of magnetic storage. Andreas Heinrich is leading the team at Big Blue that figured out how to create atomic storage based on the fact that atoms of ferromagnetic material align their spins in one direction — so the ability to control the spin direction is what’s needed to make such minature memory possible.
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IBM stores bits on arrays of atoms, shrinks magnetic storage to the scientific limit
The electronics department at Sam’s Club, soon to get more Apple gear? (Credit: Sam’s Club) Despite making a clean break with wholesale retailer Costco in late 2010, Apple could be looking to expand its footprint with one of its rivals, a new report suggests
Come spring you’ll finally be able to get your grubby paws on that droid-based console you’ve been looking for. Microsoft’s Major Nelson let slip in a series of tweets that the Star Wars Xbox 360 Kinect bundle will land on April 3rd. The set, which was first unveiled, fittingly, at Comic Con, is dressed up like R2-D2 and ships with a C-3P0-themed controller, a white Kinect sensor and the games Star Wars Kinect and Kinect Adventures .
Ep. 16: OnLive Desktop, laptop backbacks, and the Sony Headman visor This week, Ty demos Sony’s strap-on 3D visor, which we’ve dubbed the “Headman,” while Scott shows us how the OnLive Desktop brings cloud PC computing to the iPad. Also, check out a cool new laptop backpack, and find out what our favorite MacBook Air substitutes are
Otterbox is gearing up for the next iPad’s launch. (Credit: Otterbox) Well, here it is. The first e-mail for a case for the iPad 3.
