Samsung Introduces New “Rugged” High-capacity 500-Gigabyte 2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive for Mobile ComputingSEOUL, South Korea–Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, today introduced their new 500-Gigabyte (GB) 2.5-inch hard disk drive with a shock operation tolerance of 400G/2ms. The Spinpoint M7 500GB 2.5-inch hard drive with 250GB per platter features a rugged base and cover design, offering better data protection for road warriors and other

Powerful and Flexible Digital Media Player with Dual-Band 802.11n, Integrated 500GB Hard Drive, Blu-Ray Quality Video Playback and Broad Platform and Video Codec SupportSAN JOSE, Calif. — NETGEAR, Inc, a worldwide provider of technologically innovative, branded networking solutions, today announced the worldwide availability of the Digital Entertainer Elite (EVA9150), a powerful and flexible digital media player for enabling consumers to seamlessly stream digital content over their home networks to their high-definition

Computer spies have repeatedly breached the Pentagon's costliest weapons program, the $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The newspaper quoted current and former government officials familiar with the matter as saying the intruders were able to copy and siphon data related to design and electronics systems, making it potentially easier to defend against the plane. I guess it is a good thing that on April 6, 2009 US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that the US would buy a total of 2,443 JSFs! If only the companies working on the project would have had secure systems.

Citing people briefed on the matter, it said the intruders entered through vulnerabilities in the networks of two or three of the contractors involved in building the fighter jet. Lockheed Martin is the lead contractor. Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems also have major roles in the project. Lockheed Martin and BAE declined comment, and Northrop referred questions to Lockheed, the paper said. The Journal said Pentagon officials declined to comment directly on the matter, but the paper said the Air Force had begun an investigation.

Taiwan-based netbook vendors saw shipment volumes fall short of their respective goals in the first quarter, according to sources at channel vendors. Although Acer is estimated to have shipped two million Aspire One netbooks in the first quarter, the sources said that sales in the channel were lower. Meanwhile, Asustek's Eee PC sales were only 900,000 units, lower than the expected one million units, while MSI had sales of 200,000 Wind series netbooks, the sources revealed.

The sources pointed out the drop is mainly due to the maturing of key sales regions plus incomplete penetration into emerging markets. To counter the drop, both MSI and Acer have already turned their focuses toward the ultra-thin notebook market, and will reduce their investment in the netbook segment, the sources claimed.

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While NVIDIA's reference cooler for their GeForce GTX 200 series of products is pretty respectable in terms of both noise and performance, there's always something better available for anyone willing to shell out for a third-party solution. Arctic Cooling's hefty Accelero Xtreme GTX 280 aims to be that “something better”, but can it succeed in making the stock cooling solution look wimpy in terms of performance as well as size?

DisplayLink support has been showing up in a growing collection of display products, such as monitors, projectors, docking stations, and adapters (such as DVI-to-USB adapters). One of the display types that DisplayLink folks have been talking about for a while now, are small, 7-inch LCD panels–similar in size and shape to a digital photo frame. Such a small-format display could potentially meet the needs of those who seek the extra screen real-estate, but who either can’t afford to buy another full-sized monitor

If you’ve been holding out on buying yourself an Xbox 360, you may want to procrastinate just a few weeks more. Microsoft has just announced that beginning next month, the Game of the Year Xbox 360 Elite Console will hit US shelves. The bundle will include the stylishly colored Xbox 360 Elite console along with two highly-acclaimed titles at no extra cost.Currently, the standalone Xbox 360 Elite goes for $399. With this package, you’ll get Halo 3 and Fable II — all for the same $399. As expected, it also ships

It took awhile, but MSI has finally come clean with a ship date and price for its iMac-like Wind Top AE1900 all-in-one PC. The machine, which packs an 18.5″ panel that’s completely touch-friendly, is making its way out onto the US market as you read this, with pricing for the base model set at just $529.Unlike HP’s pricey TouchSmart, MSI’s obviously looking to get touchscreens into homes with a more limited budget, and it doesn’t skimp too heavily on internal components in order to do so. Within, you’ll find

If you thought the Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds laptop was an impressive design win with its secondary, slide-out display, then you ain’t seen nothing yet… Today, Sharp has announced the latest addition to its Mebius line of portables–the Mebius PC-NJ70A netbook–which features a trackpad that also happens to function as a 4-inch multi-touch-capable LCD-based display. We’ve been hearing rumors about integrating displays into trackpads for a while now; although the prime candidate for such an innovative design had

Frankly, many technology pundits have already brushed WiMAX aside as a failed attempt to become the next high-speed mobile data protocol. With LTE gaining massive support, it’s hard to envision WiMAX — a technology that is already deployed in many areas of the world — hanging around for too long. If VIA has anything to say about it, however, it’ll do just fine.Today, VIA Technologies — the company responsible for low-power processors in UMPCs, embedded devices and select netbooks — has announced its participation