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Hitachi on Friday announced a pair of 1 terabyte hard drives and a new software technology targeted at digital video recording applications. The one-two disk drive punch aims to tap into what the company sees as users' insatiable desire for storage. Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 and CinemaStar hard driv...
SanDisk has taken another swing in its memory match against Samsung with the introduction of a 32 GB, 1.8-inch solid state drive drop-in replacement for the standard mechanical hard disk drive. SanDisk's latest NAND flash-based SSD counters Samsung's announcement promising 16 GB memory that taps adv...
Indications are that 2007 will be a bumper year for the solar power and renewable energy industry, as was noted in Part 1 of this two-part series. As an increasing number of state governments are introducing renewable power and energy standards and incentives, Washington, D.C., lawmakers at the clos...
In another move toward digital movie distribution, Hollywood studios on Thursday announced they are backing a new technology that will make more movie titles available for consumers to download from the Internet and burn to DVD. Sonic Solutions' industry-approved system, a licensing and certificatio...
The Blu-ray versus HD DVD battle is headed to Las Vegas, with new high-definition products rolling out at International CES next week. However, at least two manufacturers are extending an olive branch, of sorts, in the form of hybrid products. LG Electronics on Wednesday said it plans to sell a DVD ...
The proverb "he who hesitates is lost" may be true if you're a member of the Danish aristocracy, but if you've been sitting on the fence about making a move from a point-and-shoot digital camera to a digital SLR, your hesitation may be rewarded. Nikon has introduced a sweet DSLR, the Model D40, aime...
The personal information of 100 million Americans has been compromised, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. There are a few ways to avoid joining that number or to get out of the club. In the case of financial data, you will want to monitor the account in question to make sure that no pur...
Autonet Mobile hopes to turn the car into the next WiFi hotspot. The San Francisco-based start-up plans to unveil its Internet service provider for cars at International CES next week in Las Vegas. Its first product is a US$399 box that plugs into a cigarette lighter or standard wall plug. The box u...
Missing its self-proclaimed deadline to implement its audio anti-piracy software won't immediately hurt YouTube's goodwill with the entertainment industry. As New Year's Eve approached last weekend, YouTube, which was purchased in October by Google for US$1.65 billion in stock, acknowledged it would...
Social networking is meeting an unfriendly visitor -- social engineering. Social engineering tactics -- scams that depend on user-interaction to execute an attack against them -- rose dramatically in 2006. Over the past 12 months, Internet users got a little savvier to fake e-greetings and breaking ...
In what marks one of the new year's first public relations blunders, Microsoft's move to buddy up with bloggers has backfired. The software giant recently gave dozens of expensive laptops loaded with its new Windows Vista operating system to bloggers. Instead of goodwill, the gesture generated conte...
Founded in 1998 in San Antonio, Rackspace started as a managed hosting company for small businesses. Today, it includes Fortune 500 firms in its customer Rolodex, as well. However, just as when it first opened its doors, Rackspace offers no add-on services such as hardware sales or phone company ser...
For this last column of 2006, I thought it would be interesting to look ahead to 2007 and explore the battles that are to come. The three big ones are the Battle for the Digital Home, the Battle for your Pocket, and the Battle for Your Lap. The fighters include Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, HP, Dell, G...
Professional cyberthieves and organized crime rings are looking to cash in on stolen identities and are releasing an increasing amount of malware in the process. McAfee predicts the following disturbing trends: a rise in the number of password-stealing Web sites that use fake sign-in pages for popul...
A hacker who calls himself Muslix64 has Hollywood and music studios on edge this New Year's Eve weekend as they wait to see whether their latest digital rights management software standard will work as designed. Muslix64 has posted on the Internet the tools and title keys he said he has used to decr...
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