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Seagate CEO looks ahead

Bill Watkins, CEO of hard-drive maker Seagate Technology, sits down with CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos to discuss the future of the drive industry, the current economy, and some of the changes he'd like to see coming with the 2008 election. The U.S. needs to give green cards to college graduates,...

Tags: News, michael kanellos, seagate, hard drives, sillicon valley, flash, media, video, bill watkins

Videos 2008-04-16

Hard-drive CPR

You know that sinking feeling. You press power and nothing. Not to fear. For some serious cash, there's a handful of data recovery services out there that can help bring your hard drive back to life. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi takes us through the process of recovery and stresses the...

Tags: kara tsuboi, hard drives, desktops, laptops, james bond, photography, data recovery, data storage

Videos 2008-02-12

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News to know: Windows 7; Google Dashboard; Driving while texting; Steve Jobs; Droid

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic" Dana Blankenhorn: What the Google Privacy Dashboard can...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Google Inc., Web, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Dashboard, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-11-06

Brinell's Purestorage external hard drives are elegant, but pricey

Brinell has tried its best to combine elegance and performance with their suave-looking new line of Purestorage portable hard drives. Is beauty worth its price? by Rachel King

Tags: External Hard Drive, Hard Drive, Brinell, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-11-05

File Sheriff 2.0.4 (Mac)

File Sheriff 2.0 will have many great features including: A new, easier-to-use user interface making it easier to get things done Files can be selected and edited by dragging and dropping items onto the application and dock icons File Creator and Type codes can be modified more quickly than previous...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Sheriff, File, Apple Mac OS X, Digital Music, Apple Mac OS, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-11-05

Complete Data Wipe 1.5 (Windows)

Complete Data Wipe is an advanced security software with full capabilities to erase entire hard disk drive partition, folders, subfolders and files you select, unused disk space and also records of your offline and online activities including history folders, cookies, Internet files temp folders, URL list. In addition, it removes...

Tags: Folder, Microsoft Windows, Computer, Best Security Tips, Productivity, Security

Software downloads 2009-11-05

AVADirect Nano Cube

AVADirect's $2,266 Nano Cube tries to take on Shuttle's XPC H7 5800 at its own small form factor game. Both systems come with smaller-than-normal SFF cases, and each requires sacrifices, even more than with a standard SFF PC, in exchange for its tiny dimensions. Therein lies our problem with this...

Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, Games, Shuttle XPC, SFF, small form factor, Cube, Shuttle, Nano, DVD burner, PC, Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., AVADirect, game

Product reviews 2009-11-04

Walmart unveils 15.6" HP Pavilion G60 laptop for $298

hmmfor once, i agree with you. why are they still making the celeron...? shouldn't the atom replace that?Intel Celeron?is Inhel still making this 10 year old crap?surplus maybe? ntnti feel 298 is bad for celron processor..but still good option for ppl who r new to these creepy labtops..RE: Walmart unveils...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, HP Pavilion, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., laptop computer, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Picasa 3.5 build 79.81 (Windows)

Transfer, find, organize, edit, print, and share images, all with this easy-to-use product. Watch Picasa automatically organize all your pictures into elegant albums by date. Having all your photos in one place means no more time wasted searching for folders or files. The program works with JPEG, GIF, BMP, PSD,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Photograph, Google Picasa

Software downloads 2009-11-03

Windows Sync Live 14.0.8096.0903 (Mac)

Keep important files at your fingertips, whether you are at work or home. All file changes are automatically synchronized between linked computers so you are always accessing the latest information. FolderShare frees you from the hassles of emailing documents, loading files onto removable storage devices, or burning CD/DVDs to stay...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Removable Storage, Microsoft Windows, FolderShare, Flash Memory, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-11-03

The perfect computer?

Do we have the technology to build a perfect computer? Would it be perfect for a specific purpose or is it possible to build a perfect general purpose computer? Small Business Computing's Mark Beckley has some answers. Do we have the technology to build a perfect...

Tags: Motherboard, Computer, Machine, Chip, Small Business Computing, Watt Power Supply, Productivity, PCs, Mark Beckley Small Business Computing, Special to ZDNet, Mark Beckley Small Business Computing, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-02

Maingear unleashes Shift desktop, child-sized 'personal supercomputer' for $2,199 (or $13,394)

Without demonstrated Linux or OSX support......what's the point? Who does video stuff on Windows?Plenty do.....You just don't get out much. My XP system with cakewalk software did me just fine and that was on a P4 system that couldn't keep itself cool, ever. But my audio quality...

Tags: Desktops, Maingear, personal supercomputer, supercomputer, desktop

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Laptop computers

This year the laptop list was a tough assignment for several reasons. First, the emergence of a new class of ultra-thin laptops--spawned by lower-cost processors from Intel and AMD--has made things more complicated. Second, there's a fresh crop of Windows 7 laptops, and...

Tags: Processor, Hard Drive, Performance, Apple MacBook, Memory, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Netbook, Computer, Intel Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Compaq CQ61z, Timeline 1810T, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-11-01

CrushSync 1.4 (Mac)

CrushSync is software that lets you backup files to a remote location, or locally on your existing network or hard drives. It does this intelligently by synchronizing files based on when they were last modified. You can setup automatic schedules so it will run unattended and take care of keeping...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, File, Ben Spink, CrushSync, Servers, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-01

Data LifeSaver 3.63 (Windows)

Data LifeSaver Data Recovery provides file system recovery after partitioning and formatting or virus attacks. Typically these are hard disks, memory cards, ZIP drives, memory cards, floppy disks, and other media that are formatted with Windows (NTFS, FAT 12/16/32) file systems. You only have to pick the partition, volume or...

Tags: Recovery, Memory Card, File System, Microsoft Windows, Easis

Software downloads 2009-11-01

Averatec D1130 All-in-One

The Averatec D1130 All-In-One is a stripped-down version of the D1133 we reviewed last month, and while this version cuts the price down to only $399, it also strips away many of the features that gave the higher-end model some value. With its puny 1.6GHz Intel Atom chip, 1GB of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Monitors & displays, Averatec Inc., D1133

Product reviews 2009-10-30

Acer Aspire Revo AR1600-U910H

Typically our challenges with the emergent Nettop category have been that real budget PCs cost just a little bit more and provide a dramatic performance uptick, and similarly priced Netbooks offer equivalent performance with the added benefit of portability. The Aspire Revo 1600's price tag alone answers those issues. ...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Performance management, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Wireless and Mobility, Semiconductors, Acer Inc., wireless networking

Product reviews 2009-10-30

Onkyo SKS-HT870

Onkyo is known for having speaker expertise, even though it's not primarily a speaker company. That's because of Onkyo's success selling home-theater-in-a-box systems HTIBs, which combine a speaker system and an AV receiver in a single box, taking some of the confusion out of putting together your own system. The...

Tags: center channel, speaker, Onkyo

Product reviews 2009-10-30

Apple TV update looks good but doesn't offer much more

I second your thoughts, Sam.The updates were nice, but hardly worth it from the functional standpoint. Yes, Netflix would be nice, although iTunes provides most, if not all, of what Netflix would, doesn't it?One thing Tim Cook mentioned during the most recent earnings call was that Apple was going to...

Tags: INTERNET, Apple TV, Internet radio, Apple Inc., TV, NetFlix Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Intel seeks new 'microserver' standard

Why bother with a new standard?What Intel needs to do is use the pre-existing motherboard form factors like Micro-ATX and Mini-ITX. Why can't they just design a board in the Mini-ITX form factor for a single-socket Xeon 3400-series processor with ECC RAM and dual-GBe ports with the standard fare...

Tags: Servers, MicroServer, server, Mini-ITX, Intel Corp., HP MediaSmart

Discussion threads 2009-10-30