Samsung Launches Eco-Friendly 2TB Hard Drive

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics on Tuesday released its new lineup of EcoGreen hard disk drives (HDDs) with massive storage capacity and reduced power consumption. The new hard drives will definitely not offer truly high performance due to 5400rpm spindle speed, which is not...

Google Building Phone Support for Nexus One

From PC World: After struggling to support Nexus One customers using an online-only approach, Google appears to be developing a phone customer service operation.

The Digital Inspiration blog noticed a Google job advertisement for a phone support program manager for Android and the...

Comcast earnings ride broadband, voice subscriber gains

From CNET News.com: Comcast reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter results as it continued to poach telephone customers from incumbent carriers and bolstered its high-speed Internet subscriber base.

The cable giant, which will become one of the larger media players if it...

Tim Armstrong's AOL beats Wall Street's low expectations

From CNET News.com: AOL CEO Tim Armstrong turned in his first earnings report as CEO of the newly independent company this morning. And his numbers don't look anything like the ones he was used to reporting at Google--revenue plummeted across the board.

Then again, Wall Street has...

Google's Nexus One Gets Multi-touch, 3G Connectivity Update

From DailyTech: Google launched the Nexus One smartphone with much fanfare from the online community. The phone generated a lot of buzz leading up to its launch and was billed as the latest "iPhone Killer" -- a title that was also bestowed upon the Motorola Droid.

The Nexus One...

Microsoft Shows Office 2010 Release Candidate

From DailyTech: Whether you love it or hate it, the majority of the world's corporations depend on Microsoft's Office software suite. Whether it is typing something up on Word or compiling data in Excel, many of us use a version of Office every day.

Microsoft's latest version...

China working to toughen up hacking laws

From InfoWorld: Chinese police and judicial officials are formulating new measures that govern how hacking crimes are handled by courts, the country's latest step to strengthen its cyber laws, state media reported.

China's police are working with the country's highest investigative...

Google dreaming up Chrome OS tablets to take on Apple's iPad

From InfoWorld: Google has conceptual images for what a Chrome OS-based tablet computer user interface might look like at its open source Chromium Projects site.

The images actually went up a couple of days before Apple made its big iPad splash last week. Meanwhile, Apple CEO Steve...

Microsoft links security guidelines to agile development

From InfoWorld: Microsoft on Tuesday released a template for applying its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) methodology to agile software development projects built with the Visual Studio development environment.

The downloadable template, offered in a beta release, enables...

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