Western Digital Leads HDD Shipments for Fourth Consecutive

From X-bit Labs: Western Digital shipped more hard disk drives (HDDs) than its arch-rival Seagate Technologies in the fourth quarter of last year as well as in the whole 2010, financial results of both companies revealed this week. Still, Seagate continues to earn more thanks to its...

Amazon's Beanstalk aims to make Web Services easier to use

From InfoWorld: Amazon on Wednesday planned to introduce an offering that combines its Web services into one tool that is aimed at making it easier for customers to use and fine-tune the services.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now available for use by Java developers. To get started, a...

Nintendo 3DS Live Event to Reveal U.S. Launch Date and Pricing

From PC World: Keep your browsers close to hand, because Nintendo's set to divulge final launch details at joint press events in New York and Amesterdam this morning. The press event's been a "thing" since December 20, when the company announced it'd make, well, another announcement...

HP, Microsoft debut four new business appliances

From CNET News.com: Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft tonight are taking the covers off four pieces of HP-made hardware that will ship with software, services, and support from both companies as part of their Frontline partnership.

The goal, the companies say, is to reduce the amount of...

Cisco ships dual-band 450Mbps router

From CNET News.com: True dual-band 450Mbps Wireless-N routers were one of the main trends in networking during CES 2011, with Trendnet, Netgear, and D-Link announcing their own. Cisco, on the other hand, didn't make any announcements during the show, but it's now one of the first to...

HP's Palm Prepares Tablet Onslaught of Its Own

From DailyTech: According to Engadget, Hewlett-Packard subsidiary Palm is preparing a pair of tablets to try to create an identity for itself in this hot market. It was long expected that Hewlett-Packard, the world leader in personal computer shipments, would come up with a...

Lenovo Forms Group to Develop Tablets, Smartphones, Smart TVs

From X-bit Labs: Lenovo Group on Tuesday said it is establishing a new business group, the mobile Internet and digital home business group (MIDH), responsible for creating mobile Internet-focused devices, including tablets and smartphones, as well as devices for new categories like...

Facebook tools to help data thieves

From InfoWorld: Just when you thought the conflagration over Facebook privacy issues was winding down, Facebook has stoked the fire once again.

On Friday, the social networking company announced that it had modified its platform to make users' home addresses and phone numbers...

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