KOREAN ELECTRONICS GIANT Samsung is apparently considering putting its hard drive manufacturing operation up for sale amid financial difficulties.
According to a report at the Wall Street Journal the division is worth around $1.5 billion but Samsung might be willing to accept offers below $1 billion. Seagate, which is one of the largest hard drive makers, is a potential buyer.
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PC manufacturers experienced the first decline in overall PC shipments in the first quarter since the most recent recession.
This time, however, the reason may not be another looming recession, but the simple fact that the netbook is on its way out and PC manufacturers did not respond quickly enough to a changing market environment.
There has been a lot of chatter recently about a new permanent unlock solution for the Apple iPhone 4 and other iPhone models. It works pretty much like any other standard cell phone unlocking service — you pay a fee and send over your IMEI, and a code is then generated that you input into your device.
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Sony has settled its lawsuit with an American hacker who unlocked the secure operating system on the PlayStation 3.
The company dropped its action against George Hotz, also known as Geohot, and secured an injunction that bans him from similar behaviour in future.
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Microsoft and Toyota are jointly investing $12 million in a bid to build a cloud-based platform that will connect cars, homes and electrical smart grids. The joint venture, announced today, will be run out of Toyota Media Services and will leverage Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud computing service, creating a platform for mobility apps that can encompass communication, GPS, power management and safety.
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From Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, it seems more and more newspapers are turning to iPads and other tablets in an effort to capture a fraction of our daily attention. And as this graphic from Column Five Media illustrates, iPad is well on its way to becoming our Sunday newspaper.
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While some might correctly argue that digital products are more or less identical to their official versions in almost every way, that’s not always the case for the media they’re stored on. Catering to the storage needs of every video and audio junkie, Chinese engineers have now come up with a counterfeit Samsung hard drive – with infinite capacity.
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Falcon Northwest's custom FragBox gaming computer manages to stuff a modern processor, two graphics cards and 24 gigs of RAM into a case the size of a largish shoebox. It's even got a handle, so you can hypothetically carry around with you.
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Facebook has shared the nitty-gritty details of its server and data center design, taking its commitment to openness to a new level for the industry by sharing its infrastructure secrets much like it has shared its software code. The effort by the social network will bring web scale computing to the masses and is a boon for AMD and Intel and the x86 architecture.Sorry ARM.
We're stumbling through a science fiction wonderland of not just high-flying communications software and tools but of the basic building blocks for the devices we use to do that communicating. The latest contender for radically-improved memory in a computer? Blood.
It’s simple: we don’t produce enough flash to replace more than a small percentage of the capacity that disks provide today. But drive vendors would be foolish to take comfort in that fact. They are still in a world of hurt.
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I've been trying to remember if Meg told me that his sister was a lawyer. I'm not sure, it was either lawyer or prostitute. I can't remember exactly but
Re: Last one to post wins the internets
Can't blame the confusion - they're almost the same thing - but prostitutes are cheaper and will stop fucking you after you're dead.
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