News tagged with computer hard drive

Google Drive: Watch out, cloud computing in U.S. like 'Wild West'

With the advent of Google Drive, we talk about cloud computing as if the bits and bytes of our lives are stored somewhere up in the air, but, really, the "clouds" are very terrestrial. What's more up in the air are the laws ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Meet the Ultrabook: The next big thing in notebooks aims to compete with the iPad

At January's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, there was a lot of chatter around Ultrabooks - thin, lightweight laptop notebooks designed to be more portable than the usual laptop and more powerful than ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 6

Saving data in vortex structures: New physical phenomenon could drastically reduce computer energy consumption

A new phenomenon might make computing devices faster, smaller and much more energy-efficient. Moving so-called skyrmions needs 100,000 times smaller currents than existing technologies and the number of atoms ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Lenovo 3Q profit up by half, warns of disk supply

(AP) -- Lenovo Group Ltd., the world's second biggest personal computer maker, said Thursday that quarterly profit grew by more than half but warned hard drive costs would remain high amid a global shortage.

Technology / Business

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Intel scores 'record' profits for 2011

Chipmaker Intel on Thursday reported record revenue and profits for 2011 despite a slight slowdown in the fourth quarter related to the impact of Thailand's floods on the personal computer industry.

Technology / Business

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

USB key opens home files from anywhere

A USB-style key that splits in two lets people open their home or work computer files from any Internet-linked computer.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Apple has bought Israeli flash-memory co. Anobit

(AP) -- Apple confirmed Wednesday that it has bought Anobit Technologies, an Israeli maker of flash memory technology already used in many of Apple's gadgets.

Technology / Business

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Intel lowers outlook on disk drive shortage

US computer chip giant Intel lowered its fourth-quarter outlook on Monday, citing a hard disk drive shortage caused by flooding in Thailand.

Technology / Business

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Dell says Thai floods will impact disk drive supply

Leading personal computer maker Dell said Friday that flooding in Thailand is likely to tighten supplies of the all-important hard disk drives used in its computers.

Technology / Business

created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New Acer Ultrabook is no MacBook Air, but it's not bad

I'm a big fan of Apple's MacBook Air computer. Revamped by Apple last year, the notebook is a thin, ultralight, speedy computer. Instead of a high-powered processor, a traditional hard drive and a DVD slot, ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Thailand flooding could affect PC supplies, prices

(AP) -- The personal computer industry, already reeling from depressed demand, has been dealt another setback: Massive flooding in Thailand has curtailed production of a critical component - computer storage ...

Technology / Business

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Thailand flooding hits Western Digital operations

(AP) -- Computer hard drive maker Western Digital Corp. said Monday that flooding damage to its Thailand locations will have a significant impact on its operations and its ability to meet customer demand in the December ...

Technology / Business

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New MacBook Air to hit market this month: report

The latest model of Apple's ultra-light MacBook Air is scheduled to hit the market by the end of this month, media in the computer manufacturing hub of Taiwan reported Tuesday.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New directions in data storage solutions

(PhysOrg.com) -- One day in the not-too-distant future, the entire contents of the Library of Congress might be stored on a device the size of a postage stamp.

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Apple looks set to launch cloud-based music service

Just weeks after Amazon and Google unveiled their music offerings, Apple appears set to raise the bar.

Technology / Internet

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0