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The living room is finally getting the attention it deserves, and companies are falling all over themselves to be the box in everyone's living room. Seagate is no exception. Like Western Digital, the storage company sees the burgeoning market space as a way to sell more hard drives, but are their efforts worth your cash? Read on and find out.
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Netgear's ReadyNAS Ultra Streams Your Data Anywhere
PUBLISHED: 7/15/2010 BY: J.R. Nelson
With remotely accessible, high capacity multimedia home networking in mind, Netgear has rolled out the ReadyNAS Ultra series of Tivo-compatible digital video recorder (DVR) storage units
Microsoft Intune Beta 2: Manage Your PC from the Cloud
PUBLISHED: 7/14/2010 BY: J.R. Nelson
Microsoft this week announced a second beta test and future pricing for Windows Intune, an emerging cloud-based, Windows 7-enabled management service for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with 25 to 500 desktop PCs.Microsoft: Go Ahead; You Can Use Windows XP Until 2020
PUBLISHED: 7/12/2010 BY: J.R. Nelson
It's long been known that businesses weren't too interested in upgrading to Windows Vista from Windows XP. There were delayed product development cycles, issues with compatibility, performance questions and more. Recently, the market was showing growth thanks, in part, to those businesses finally putting more dollars into infrastructure.Mimo iMo Monster Adds Touchpanel to USB Display
PUBLISHED: 7/11/2010 BY: J.R. Nelson
While USB displays are nothing new, it's still unusual to see one with a touchscreen sitting on top. Mimo, masters at this mini-USB display market, have just announced the iMo Monster, a 10-inch, USB-powered, resistive touch monitor.Lenovo IdeaCentre B305 Adds Multitouch to Lenovo Lineup
PUBLISHED: 7/9/2010 BY: J.R. Nelson
Remember the IdeaCentre B500 we just reviewed? Lenovo has taken that design and tweaked it, adding in AMD dual-, tri- and quad-core CPUs as well as two-finger multitouch. Sleek design, a multitouch screen and reasonably affordable? Where do we sign?Kingston Suggests New SSDs for Old Desktops to Speed Up Performance
PUBLISHED: 7/8/2010 BY: DTR Staff
Do solid state drive (SSDs) work as a way of hanging on to old PCs? Thats what Kingston Technology is proposing, now that the company is expanding beyond memory upgrades into SSDs.Dell Accused of Knowingly Shipping Faulty Desktops; Denies Wrongdoing
PUBLISHED: 7/7/2010 BY: DTR Staff
Dell has publicly denied allegations leveled in a customer lawsuit that the PC maker deliberately shipped OptiPlex PCs with faulty motherboards from 2003 to 2005. Court documents recently published by the New York Times shed new light on the three year old case.iBUYPOWER MAGIC Makes Any Game Multi-touch Compatible
PUBLISHED: 7/5/2010 BY: J.R. Nelson
iBUYPOWER, a boutique PC maker known more for some of their enthusiast-oriented configurations, has just launched 'MAGIC'. MAGIC is custom software developed by the company that makes any game playable with a multi-touch display.brite-View CinemaGo Media Player: Downloads Torrents, Competes with WD, Seagate
PUBLISHED: 7/2/2010 BY: J.R. Nelson
The media player market really seems to have leapt up out of nowhere over the past two years. There have been any number of contenders, but big names like Western Digital and Seagate have long since stepped into the ring, viewing the nascent market as a perfect means of selling more storage. That means small players, like brite-View, have to stay on their toes.Intel Core i7-970, Others Expand Summer CPU Offerings
PUBLISHED: 7/2/2010 BY: J.R. Nelson
Several motherboard makers have let leak a number juicy tidbits from Intel's Summer 2010 schedule, including some price drops and a few new models. Most interesting are a new, slightly-less-expensive six-core processor and an almost fifty percent price cut on the capable 3.06GHz Core i7-950.Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex is World's First 3TB Drive
PUBLISHED: 6/30/2010 BY: J.R. Nelson
1TB was amazing. 2TB was unimaginably large. 3TB? Well, it's certainly not run-of-the-mill. Seagate is first to market with a 3TB drive, the FreeAgent GoFlex Desk. External only, Seagate claims the new drive can store 120 HD movies, 1,500 video games and "countless" hours of music.Quantum Computing Draws Nearer with 3D Hologram Memory
PUBLISHED: 6/29/2010 BY: DTR Staff
Australian researchers could be setting the stage for a future age of super powerful quantum -- or atom-based -- computing with their development of a 3D hologram-enabled approach to "quantum memory for light" technology.
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