Just three months after announcing two new Panasonic FS-Series cameras, the company is at it again, this time with three new additions to the point-and-shoot Lumix family. Unfortunately, the DMC-FS12, DMC-FS42, and DMC-FS62 won’t be released in the U.S., but they will be available in Europe and Japan. DMC-FS12 Panasonic’s DMC-FS12 is a 12.1 megapixel camera that boasts of a long battery life of 330 pictures. This camera has a 4x optical zoom lens that can open up to F2.8. The camera’s iA (Intelligent Auto) mode

Maybe we’re just cursed with short memories, but it sure feels like the SSD market place is exploding. Every week or so we’re being introduced to a company we’d never heard of before, and while we can’t say that solid state drive prices are anywhere close to reasonable yet, adding new competitors to the field certainly can’t hurt things. Cactus Technologies (yes, seriously) has today introduced an entire family of 2.5″ industrial SATA II SSD drives. The 602 lineup are said to be the highest performing industrial

Some might say it’s the end of an era. Just so we’re clear, Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom are definitely not among that group. The four men most tightly linked to torrent hosting site The Pirate Bay have been found guilty in a Stockholm district court and sentenced to one year in prison. Not to mention the 30 million Swedish kronor (over $3.5 million) fine they’ll be facing once free from the cell.The Pirate Bay has been a hot button topic, particularly in Sweden, for

Some might say it’s the end of an era. Just so we’re clear, Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom are definitely not among that group. The four men most tightly linked to torrent hosting site The Pirate Bay have been found guilty in a Stockholm district court and sentenced to one year in prison. Not to mention the 30 million Swedish kronor (over $3.5 million) fine they’ll be facing once free from the cell.The Pirate Bay has been a hot button topic, particularly in Sweden, for

Full Disk Encryption Comes to Solid State DrivesLee, MA and San Jose, CA: Wave Systems Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., have collaborated to give professionals on the go the ultimate in hard drive security. Along with blazing speed, ultra-fast boot-up and silent operation, Samsung’s new self-encrypting SSDs automatically encrypt information as it’s saved to the drive, an industry first for SSDs.Full disk encryption (FDE) has already been adopted as a standard feature available in many commercial laptop

YouTube on Thursday took aim at its biggest competitor, Hulu, announcing it would begin offering movies, TV shows and content from studios such as Crackle/Sony Pictures, CBS, MGM, Lionsgate, Starz, the BBC, Anime Network, Cinetic Rights Management, Current TV, Discovery, Documentary Channel, First Look Studios, IndieFlix, National Geographic and more.YouTube dominates online video viewing, but Hulu, while seeing far less visitors, is doing much better at monetizing its content (why not, it has the alien version

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It’s not like Hewlett-Packard has never trumped Dell before in PC shipments, but the back-and-forth has continued today with the newest computer shipment reports. According to Gartner Incorporated’s freshest analysis, HP has snagged the number one spot in domestic PC shipments from Dell, who had most previously held the crown.The report noted that Dell’s shipments in the United States dropped 16.3% to “just” 3.9 million in the first quarter of 2009, while during the same period, HP’s shipments grew 11.1% to

The HTC Touch Diamond2 won’t arrive in the U.S. for some time, but the company has posted a 232 page User Manual for the upcoming Windows Mobile Smartphone.

The manual (download PDF) is for the GSM version of the handset and details the unit’s hardware and software and is full of screen shots and how-tos.   

Thanks to Rob for the tip!

Toshiba’s Self-Encrypting Drive Technology will make its debut at the RAS conference in San Francisco. The conference begins April 21st. The new technology supports the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Storage Architecture Core Specification, as well as the Storage Security Subsystem Class (SSC) Opal Specification. Toshiba’s encryption package uses Wave Systems’ Trusted Drive Manager application. This technology can encrypt all data on a hard drive with NIST-certified AES encryption technology that is integrated