Latest Components Articles
- 06 November 2013
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News: Seagate releases industry's thinnest 2TB laptop drive
Seagates Samsung HDD division today announced it is shipping the industrys thinnest 2TB 2.5-in drive. It's intended for laptops and external storage.
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News: EMC sues startup for stealing trade secrets through staff hires
EMC has sued Pure Storage for allegedly colluding with some of the storage giant's former employees to misappropriate and bring to the startup confidential EMC information and trade secrets, including lists and notes on current and potential customers.
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News: Stream Nation is a private media cloud, with lending privileges
I don't miss the days of storing dozens of DVDs, but I do miss how easy it was to loan them to friends, or borrow one knowing that all I had to do to watch it was pop it in a DVD player and press Play. Digital files are convenient to own, but moving them around can be a minor hassle, especially if you have to convert the files to play nice with various devices.
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News: The data that is growing is unstructured: CommVault
Data is growing very rapidly, with CommVault global chief operating officer, Alan Bunte, seeing most of it being unstructured.
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News: EMC's Syncplicity service tightens controls on shared files
EMC will give users of its Syncplicity file-sharing and synchronization service more control over how their data can be accessed and used, including the ability to make files "time out" on a certain date wherever they may be stored.
- 05 November 2013
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News: AMD's new $399 R9 290 GPU continues premium graphics price-drop trend
Guess it pays to wait. A little more than a week ago, AMD launched the Radeon R9 290X graphics card for $550. On Tuesday, AMD unveiled the $399 Radeon R9 290, a bit slower on the performance front but much, much, cheaper.
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News: BitTorrent Sync hits 1 million users as it aims to decentralize cloud services
BitTorrent Sync has hit the 1-million-user milestone as it tries to steer people away from centralized cloud storage options like Dropbox.
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News: Chinese professor builds Li-Fi system with retail parts
The equipment is big and expensive, with the research costs at almost US$500,000. But by just using retail components, Chinese professor Chi Nan has built her own Li-Fi wireless system that can use LED lights to send and receive Internet data.
- 04 November 2013
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News: New supercomputer uses SSDs as alternative to DRAM, hard drives
A new supercomputer being deployed this month in the U.S. is using solid-state drive storage as an alternative to DRAM and hard drives, which could help speed up internal data transfers.
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News: Surface Pro 2 firmware update packs a big battery boost
A firmware update for Microsoft's Surface Pro 2 appears to have drastically improved battery life, addressing one of the beefy tablet's biggest weak points.
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News: 6TB helium-filled hard drives take flight, bump capacity 50%
Western Digital Monday started shipping a 6TB, helium-filled hard drive that represents a 50% increase in drive capacity over today's largest hard drives.
- 01 November 2013
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News: Project seeks to build inexpensive 9-inch monitor for Raspberry Pi
A project aims to bring an inexpensive 9-inch portable monitor to the popular US$25 Raspberry Pi PC, which comes without a keyboard, mouse or monitor.
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News: Six reasons you still need a desktop PC
Now that you've been liberated by the mobile age, you may be ready to consign your clunky desktop PC to the scrap heap. Not so fast. Though it's certainly past its prime, the desktop PC is far from useless. For some tasks, it's actually still the superior tool. Here are six compelling reasons to keep the old workhorse around.
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News: Intel's open-source Galileo computer on sale for $69.90
Intel's Galileo open-source computer for the hacker and do-it-yourself crowd can now be ordered for US$69.90, and is scheduled to ship at the end of November.
- 31 October 2013
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News: Intel gets serious about 4G LTE with new chip
Intel has been talking about 4G LTE in mobile devices for a while, but now the chipmaker is walking the walk with its first multi-mode 4G LTE modem.
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Opinion: Recover files from a dead external drive
Xolelwa Mzili's PC no longer sees her external hard drive. Can she recover the files?
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News: Big data filtering key for Dell
Dell has used Powering The Cloud's 10thanniversary trade show in Frankfurt to emphasise the importance of efficiently managing big data.
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News: HP's department merger aims to 'revolutionise' storage industry
HP's policy of 'Converged Infrastructure' aims to combine the departments of servers, storage and networking into one arm of the business.
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News: ServiceMesh deal augments CSC's overall cloud initiative: Ovum
CSC has continued its Cloud transformation with the acquisition of startup ServiceMesh for an undisclosed sum.
- 30 October 2013
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News: Bay Trail chips to speed up Lenovo's next ThinkPad Tablet
A speedier successor to the ThinkPad Tablet 2 is being developed by Lenovo as the company tries to add more tablets to its mix of personal computing portfolio.
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14 best smartphones: The best phone you can buy in 2013
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LG G2 review: The best smartphone you can buy
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Argos MyTablet vs Tesco Hudl comparison review: The battle of the budget tablets
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New Nexus 10 2 (2013) vs iPad Air specs comparison review; how do Google & Apple tablets compare?
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Kindle Fire HD vs Tesco Hudl vs Kindle Fire HD 8.9 tablet comparison review
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Nexus 10 2 (2013) release date, price and spec rumours
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Google Nexus 5 UK release date, UK price, photos, video and specs: what you need to know about Nexus 5
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iPhone 6 release date: When will the iPhone 6 be launched?
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PS4 release date, specs and its backwards compatibility issues: What you need to know about the PlayStation 4
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Asda launches 'nation's cheapest' mobile phone at £5
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LG G2 review: The best smartphone you can buy
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Argos MyTablet vs Tesco Hudl comparison review: The battle of the budget tablets
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New Nexus 10 2 (2013) vs iPad Air specs comparison review; how do Google & Apple tablets compare?
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Kindle Fire HD vs Tesco Hudl vs Kindle Fire HD 8.9 tablet comparison review
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LeapPad Ultra review – hands-on with LeapFrog's latest kids tablet
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How to close running apps in iOS 7: iPhone now works like Android
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How to remove Bitstrips from Facebook: Hide Bitstrip comics from your Facebook news feed
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How to set a song on your iPhone as a ringtone
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How to format a write-protected USB flash drive or memory card
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How to block a number on an iPhone in iOS 7, iOS 6
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