With a 7200 RPM spin speed, 16 MB cache, and capacities up to 320 GB, the Western Digital Scorpio Black series of 2.5″ notebook hard drives should send fear down the heads and to the platters of competing hard drives. Read on to see how the WD Scorpio Black 320GB hard drive (WD3200BJKT) does against six other 2.5″ drives!
Ugobe, the maker of Pleo, the robotic dinosaur (pictured), has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Yes, Chapter 7, not Chapter 11, so unless someone decides to buy the company’s assets, Pleo is doomed to extinction. Ugobe’s CEO, Caleb Chung, also created the Furby, which when launched in 1998 became the “must have” toy of the holiday season. According to the company, it managed to sell 100,000 Pleos last year, for revenue of $20 million. Yet that wasn’t enough to keep the company alive. The Pleo was able to realistically
No time wasted here. The Pirate Bay has announced on their website that only days after a guilty verdict in their copyright infringement case, they have filed an appeal. Last Friday, the founders of The Pirate Bay, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde, as well as Carl Lundstrom, who provided financing, were each sentenced to a year in prison. The four was also ordered to pay $3.6 million each in damages to entertainment companies such as Warner Bros., MGM, Twentieth Century Fox, Sony BMG, Universal,
OCZ Technology today unveiled OCZ Vertex EX 2.5 Solid State Drives that is designed to meet the stringent demands of server environments and enterprise applications. These new premium offerings are the pinnacle storage option excelling in performance, reliability, and power consumption that offer professionals and enthusiasts an unparalleled computing experience. Initially the SLC-based drives will be available in capacities of 60GB and 120GB, but no word yet on pricing.
The advantages of SSDs over traditional hard disc drives including performance, reliability, no cooling requirements, and lower power consumption, are all highly beneficial to enterprise applications and enthusiast consumers looking for the ultimate storage solution, commented Alex Mei, CMO of the OCZ Technology Group. The new OCZ Vertex EX is designed to deliver unparalleled performance and reliability, featuring the latest-generation architecture and SATA interface utilizing single-level cell NAND flash memory for unmatched overall system responsiveness and stability for enterprise grade server solutions.
While Google still has a long way to go before it seriously begins to chip away at market share owned by Windows Mobile, Symbian S60 and OS X, there’s no denying that Android has already made an unmistakable mark on the mobile industry. The newfangled mobile operating system was largely praised with the HTC-built G1 launched last year on T-Mobile, and if the company’s CEO has anything to do with it, 2009 will be an even better year for the burgeoning software.CEO Eric Schmidt was quoted as saying that “overall,
OCZ Technology Announces Vertex EX 2.5” SLC-based SSD, Delivering Reliability and Performance for Enterprise Applications including Servers and Workstations OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory and computer components, today unveiled OCZ Vertex EX 2.5” Solid State Drives that is designed to meet the stringent demands of server environments and enterprise applications. These new premium offerings are the pinnacle storage option excelling
Today, MSI released the N260GTX Lightning graphics card. This latest offering from MSI looks to be aimed squarely at the hardcore graphics card overclocking enthusiast. Noteworthy features of the N260GTX Lightning include “Military Class” components, 1792MB of memory, Twin Frozr cooling, and MSI’s “AirForce Panel” that allows access to overclocking features via a panel mounted in an available 5.25″ drive bay. To further facilitate overclocking, V-check contact points for measuring GPU and memory voltage (with
Today, MSI released the N260GTX Lightning graphics card. This latest offering from MSI looks to be aimed squarely at the hardcore graphics card overclocking enthusiast. Noteworthy features of the N260GTX Lightning include “Military Class” components, 1792MB of memory, Twin Frozr cooling, and MSI’s “AirForce Panel” that allows access to overclocking features via a panel mounted in an available 5.25″ drive bay. To further facilitate overclocking, V-check contact points for measuring GPU and memory voltage (with
Caustic Reinvents Raytracing for Interactive, Cinema-Quality 3D GraphicsCompany Releases Caustic RT – Flexible Development Platform for No-Compromise Raytracing SAN FRANCISCO – April 20, 2009 – Today Caustic Graphics released CausticRT, the worlds only massively accelerated raytracing system for achieving breakthrough levels of quality in interactive, cinema-quality 3D computer graphics. The Caustic development platform, which includes a raytracing accelerator card and SDK, are now available to qualified developers
Caustic Reinvents Raytracing for Interactive, Cinema-Quality 3D GraphicsCompany Releases Caustic RT – Flexible Development Platform for No-Compromise Raytracing SAN FRANCISCO – April 20, 2009 – Today Caustic Graphics released CausticRT, the worlds only massively accelerated raytracing system for achieving breakthrough levels of quality in interactive, cinema-quality 3D computer graphics. The Caustic development platform, which includes a raytracing accelerator card and SDK, are now available to qualified developers