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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Hard Disk Error: Earnings Failure Detected

burnedoutharddriveThe econalypse has been particularly unkind to Seagate Technology. The hard-drive manufacturer posted a fiscal fourth-quarter loss Tuesday, its third in a row. Weighed down by restructuring charges, Seagate reported a loss of $81 million, or 16 cents a share, compared to net income in the same quarter last year of $160 million, or 32 cents a share.

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Microsoft Vine: The Zune of Social Networks

vineThink of it as Facebook for the people you actually know and like, those whose health and safety you’d worry about in a natural disaster. It’s called Microsoft Vine and it’s not so much a social network as it is a “societal” one–or at least, Redmond likes to bill it as such.

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Suegate?

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Seagate, Dept. of Hard-Drive Health Services, Announce SSD Awareness Program

Hard-drive maker Seagate Technology has finally settled on a strategy for competing with its solid-state drive rivals. It will enter the SSD market this year. And to prepare the market for its arrival, it’s suing an SSD pioneer for patent infringement.
Yesterday, Seagate (STX) filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing STEC Inc. (STEC), an early [...]

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Thursday, January 3, 2008

iFugly

Popular Mechanics is frantically turning the crank on the Apple rumor mill, isn’t it? In the annual guessing-game leading up to the Macworld Expo, the publication speculates that CEO Steve Jobs will announce a breakthrough laptop-tablet device at this year’s keynote, one quite a bit different from the gigantism-afflicted iPhone tablets imagined by others.
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Tuesday, October 9, 2007

1,000 Songs in Your Pocket Fert and Grünberg Changed Everything

Apple once said of its first iPod that “1,000 songs in your pocket changed everything.” And while that may be true, it wouldn’t have changed much without the pioneering work of Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg, who discovered GMR (giant magnetoresistance), a nanotechnology that makes it possible to read data that is densely packed onto [...]

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Wednesday, October 3, 2007

‘Zune’ Means Always Having to Say You’re Sorry

No wonder expectations for Microsoft’s Zune run so low–the company encourages them. Touting the newest iteration of Microsoft’s digital music player in an interview yesterday with the New York Times, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates (pictured above, right, with J Allard, VP of design and development for Microsoft’s entertainment division) described its predecessor as half-assed. “For [...]

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Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Zune Me Once, Shame on You. Zune Me Twice, Shame on Me.

Microsoft is gearing up to launch the second generation of its Zune digital music players this week, perhaps as early as today.
Sources with knowledge of the announcement tell BetaNews that Redmond is readying both hard disk and flash-based players for the launch. The flash device is said to be similar in size to the second-generation [...]

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