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- Seagate
- (Seagate Technology, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA, www.seagate.com) The largest independent manufacturer of disk drives. Founded in 1979 by Alan Shugart, Tom Mitchell and Doug Mahon, it was the...
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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
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- News to know: Ubuntu; Microhoo; IT scapegoats; XP; Google
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Microsoft: Pondering the alternatives to Yahoo Microsoft should walk away from Yahoo WSJ: Ballmer's big choice Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adventures with Ubuntu 8.04 Gallery: A peek at Ubuntu 8.4 Jason Perlow: Ubuntu: I'm...
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- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- seagate patents Compact Flash - 10 years late!
- Seagate patents Compact Flash - 10 years late!Bogus Cat Toy PatentMy favorite is a patented method of using a laser pointer to excercise your cat (or any curious animal). Lawyers can turn anything into a pile of cat-box-contents.Title: Method of exercising a catDocument Type and Number: United States Patent...
- Tags: laser, Seagate Technology LLC
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
- seagate patents Compact Flash - 10 years late!
- Can "prior art" be too prior? Dramatic evidence of America's broken patent system surfaced in last week's lawsuit by Seagate against STEC, the innovative developer of high-performance flash drives. Imagine winning a patent for something invented 10 years before. Seagate may sue SANdisk next. Seagate owns...
- Tags: Patent, Disk Drive, Seagate Technology LLC, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- News to know: Zune VideoX; Intel; AMD; Dell; Apple
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Zune VideoX: Microsoft's iTunes killer? Vista SP1 available in more languages There's more than one way to mesh Larry Dignan: Intel's quarter on target: The tech sector exhales Dell rolls out AMD quad-core servers;...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Zune, Apple Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Telephony, Channel Management, Digital Music, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Networking, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- seagate files suit against STEC for SSD patent infringement
- Seagate files suit against STEC for SSD patent infringementOK ?>>As Watkins says, this isn’t about money. Companies have spent a substantial amount of money on SSD R&D and Seagate is not looking for acknowledgement and cross-licensing opportunities to reduce future R&D costs. This not only makes sense for the bottom...
- Tags: Research & Development, STEC, SSD, Seagate Technology LLC, R&D
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- seagate cuts June quarter outlook
- Storage giant Seagate delivered solid fiscal third quarter results, but cut its outlook for the June quarter. Seagate (all resources, statement) reported earnings of $344 million, or 65 cents a share, on revenue of $3.1 billion. Excluding charges, Seagate reported earnings of 70 cents a share, a penny...
- Tags: Seagate Technology LLC, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- seagate files suit against STEC for SSD patent infringement
- Hard drive giant Seagate Technology has filed a lawsuit against rival STEC Inc, claiming patent infringement. The Solid State Drive (SSD) turf war has begun. Seagate claims that STEC SSD products violate four patents held by the company. This isn't about money, it's about...
- Tags: Seagate Technology LLC, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- 320GB for less than $70. Am I dreaming?
- Resident cheapskate Rick Broida uncovered this gem on the Crave blog, and I have to say, it's tempting: eCost.com is selling a 320GB FreeAgent External USB Seagate Recertified Hard Drive (7200 RPM) ...for $69. That's right: six-nine. As far as I can tell, April Fools' has nothing...
- Tags: Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Microsoft's storage geeks speak
- What do Microsoft storage heavies say when the suits let them off leash? Microsoft engineers at the ubergeek Usenix FAST 08 conference last month talked about Microsoft's storage intentions to a crowd of PhDs - and a stray storage blogger. Soft sell Understand that Microsoft...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- 55W PC power supply powering the dual-core computer
- 55W PC power supply powering the dual-core computerSweet findI still think that would be ideal at packing a case with hard drives. I always wanted multi tiered file servers and thought that if I build several computers into a single system, I would be better off than if I...
- Tags: File servers, Processors, PSU, POWER SUPPLIES, power supply, file server, dual-core computer, dual-core, server
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- The Bear Stearns fiasco: What tech vendors will take a few lumps?
- J.P. Morgan bought Bear Stearns for a whopping $2 a share, well below the investment bank's share price of $100 just a few months ago. The tech angle: J.P. Morgan's Federal Reserve inspired mercy killing has rattled Wall Street, financial services companies and most likely the technology spending plans of...
- Tags: Revenue, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Financial, Financial Service, Sun Microsystems Inc., Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., IBM Corp., Bachman, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Examining Intel's Skulltrail platform - and Skulltrail "on the cheap"
- Examining Intel's Skulltrail platform - and Skulltrail "on the cheap"TrueI would like to see an article on building your own cluster, nothing like turning a closet into a pc case. *looks off into distance with glazed eyes*Yeah ...... he's not at that level ... yet!Why not take a page......from the...
- Tags: Corporate communications, video editing, video, Skulltrail, Intel Skulltrail, Apple Inc., video editing software, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- Friday Rant - How to turn a simple job into a complicated one
- Today I'm going to show you how I can turn a simple job of replacing a dead hard drive into a monster job involving accurate measuring, fine tolerances and prybars. Late last week one of the hard drives in my main system died. This was a 250GB Seagate...
- Tags: Job, Dock, PC, Bay, Serial ATA, Desktops, Storage, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- Time Capsule ships; quickly unboxed and dissected (updated)
- Time Capsule ships; quickly unboxed and dissected (updated)Anxiously waiting for the Airport update as well. [nt]ntClass action law suit, file quickly!The HDD is not server grade! And it sells on NewEgg for $239! Oh wait I see an Apple logo on the case, never mind.....Questionable Vendor SelectionFirst there was AT&T...
- Tags: Storage, Time Capsule, Hitachi Ltd., hard drive
- Discussion threads 2008-03-03
- The+SSD+failure+debate
- The+SSD+failure+debateMost SSD doom and gloom writers seem uninformedThey know one thing - that NAND and NOR have erase cycle endurance limitations. Then, they create a whole doom and gloom campaign around that one limitation. It's irresponsible technical journalism. Not only are SSD's super reliable, they are are future...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Notebooks, Storage, SSD
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- Apple's cookie monster: Safari CRS
- Apple's cookie monster: Safari CRSGood ideas are squashed by the big boysA few years ago there was a great company called Mirra. I heard people rave about Mirra backup systems. Then one day Seagate snatched them up. They were quickly buried into the corporate depths and never seen again. Seagate...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Backups, Seagate Technology LLC, cookie, Apple Safari, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, MICROSOFT HAS, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- More Vista SP1 answers
- More Vista SP1 answersA bigger question needed to be answer,Where can I download it now? I have searched microsoft.com and google, but could only find reviews and release notes, but not where I can download it. I do not want to wait until march.Vista Ultimate x64 SP1Ed; I...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Third-party driver, Kevin Remde, Adobe Premiere, Microsoft Windows Vista, X64, SP1, XP x64, Vista x64, x86-version, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-02-14
- BitMicro+announces+1.6TB+solid-state+drive
- BitMicro+announces+1.6TB+solid-state+driveSoWho do I sell my soul to to get a couple of these drives?On Newegg for $499 with rebateIt would be great, huh?It won't fit......in my MacBook Air, will it?While it is a 3.5" drive, they don't tell you it is two-feet thick. :DAsus Alpha-CenturiMary Jo; ...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Monitors & displays, memory, Nvida, motherboard, Microsoft Windows Vista, ASUS
- Discussion threads 2008-02-08
- Mac Pro is now the cheapest high-end workstation
- Mac Pro is now the cheapest high-end workstationIndeed but not at $3000You built a server not a wrkstation, and a stripped down server at that, without disk or memory, and without a decent workstation class garphic card.If you want to build a dual xeon with 1600 FSB today, and still...
- Tags: Workstations, MAC Pro, RAM, Apple Inc., workstation, memory
- Discussion threads 2008-01-28
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