Toshiba Debuts Ultra-Small Hard Drives with New Connectors

From X-bit Labs: Toshiba Corp. on Tuesday unveiled a new generation of its ultra portable hard disk drives (HDDs) in 1.8" for-factor. The novelties are based on the latest generation perpendicular magnetic recording platters, provide up to 220GB of capacity and utilize low-insertion...

Firefox 4 entering the home stretch

From CNET News.com: With plenty of competitors breathing down its neck--Microsoft's IE9 in particular--Mozilla is fixing the final bugs that lie in the way of a Firefox 4 release.

Last night, Mozilla released Firefox 4 beta 10. This version focuses mostly on stability and...

Memory-chip prices set to rise with DRAM demand in Q2

From InfoWorld: Taiwan’s largest computer memory chipmaker on Tuesday forecast a jump in demand for its components in the second quarter of the year as orders from contract computer manufacturers pick up, heralding an all-but-certain DRAM price hikes.

Powerchip Semiconductor...

Samsung, TeliaSonera Launch LTE Laptop

From PC World: Operator TeliaSonera has joined forces with Samsung Electronics to launch an LTE-equipped laptop, which will go on sale Friday in Sweden, they said on Tuesday.

The laptop is a modified version of Samsung's X430, which weighs about 2 kilograms, has a 14-inch display...

Verizon keeps unlimited data for iPhone

From CNET News.com: Verizon Wireless will keep its $30 unlimited data plan for the iPhone, Lowell McAdam, chief operating officer of Verizon said Tuesday at the company's quarterly investor meeting.

The Wall Street Journal first reported McAdam's comments ahead of Verizon's...

Amazon Web Services unwraps e-mail

From CNET News.com: Amazon Web Services is taking aim at the business world with e-mail.

The new Simple Email Service integrates with the company's existing Amazon Web Services tools and is designed to make it easier for companies to manage e-mail in their operations.

The focus of...

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti GPU Breaks Cover

From DailyTech: NVIDIA has gone official today with the GeForce GTX 560 Ti video card. The new GPU used in the card promises 33% faster average performance and more overclocking headroom than previous cards. The GPU uses the Fermi architecture and supports DirectX 11.

The video...

Google Cloud Print for Mobile Documents Launches

From DailyTech: We've known about Google's printing-from-the-cloud ambitions in Chrome for more than half a year now. As of yesterday, those ambitions are finally becoming a reality.

The Google Mobile Blog announced that the company began rolling out a beta version of Google Cloud...

Synology Announces 4-bay DiskStation DS411slim NAS

From DailyTech: Synology is looking to improve upon its DS409slim NAS with the addition of a new model. The popular DS409slim is already known for its small size, 2.5" drive support, 128MB of RAM, and 1.2GHz processor. The new DS411slim retains the 2.5" drive support, but bumps up...

IBM rolls out virtual desktop package

From InfoWorld: With an eye on the small and medium-sized business market, IBM is working through resellers to roll out a VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) package that costs $150 per user annually.

The IBM Virtual Desktop for Smart Business offering should help ease the high...

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