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Seagate plan to acquire LaCie
World’s biggest harddisk manufacturer Seagate want to extend their market share and plan to acquire a controlling interest in LaCie, a French manufacturer of consumer products.
HDD’s in 2016 will have 10 to 20 times the capacity of current drives
Research company Isupply has released a report in which it says that hard-drive capacity will be 10 to 20 times more by the year 2016. Manufacturers currently use perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) , but this technology is almost at its maximum capacity. Fortunately there a new developments, such a new method researched by Seagate that is called [...]
Microsoft announces another preview of Windows 8
According to the Building Windows 8 official Twitter site, Microsoft is preparing yet another preview of their next operating system. Announced at Japan’s Windows Dev Days, there are few details available regarding changes made from the previous Consumer Preview which was released in April. This new look at the operating system is scheduled for the [...]
Dept of Homeland Security is hacking into Xbox, game consoles
- 05 Apr 12 17:16 by etdragon
- Game Consoles, Industry
The Department of Homeland Security is working on ways to hack into the Xbox, as well as other game consoles, to obtain whatever personal information they can from the devices. DHS plans to target overseas consoles to avoid Privacy Act issues related to US citizens.
EA named ‘worst U.S. company’ by consumer poll
- 05 Apr 12 00:00 by Justin_Massoud
- Game Consoles, Industry, Software
Video game company Electronic Arts has been widely criticized for monopolistic business practices, shuttering studios and spearheading a controversial anti-used game online pass program that has quickly become de rigueur for other publishing heavyweights. But does that make it the worst company in America? According to The Consumerist, yes, it does.
Pastebin to hire people to police the site for sensitive information
Pastebin isn’t necessarily a website specifically for hacking groups to post huge dumps of information but it has definitely been embraced by that community. The site was intended to be a document dumping location as well as a nice place for programmers or writers to store text in order to access it later or share it. Due to all of the attention Pastebin has gotten from Anonymous and other hacking groups the company is going to hire people to monitor its servers.
AT&T, Comcast, EA & PayPal comprise ‘elite eight’ of bad companies
- 29 Mar 12 18:22 by Justin_Massoud
- Industry, Software
Most folks can probably name a handful of companies they dislike off the top of their heads, companies that have caused past grievances or present unhappiness. That’s all well and good, but which one is bar-none the absolute worst? Now that’s a different story.
Microsoft has patented a system allowing consumers to pay to skip ads
- 28 Mar 12 02:00 by etdragon
- Industry, Online Video
Streaming video online is both convenient and either free or relatively inexpensive. The only issue are the annoying commercial breaks that most online services completely prevent you from skipping or fast forwarding through. Microsoft apparently has a solution to that problem and secured a patent for it.
Megaupload host doesn’t want to keep files
The US hosting company that is responsible for housing all of Megaupload’s files is heading to court. The company is arguing that since it isn’t getting paid for its services, they should no longer have to hold onto the files.
Hacktivists stole more than Cybercriminals in 2011
A recently released report by Verizon shows that the large majority of stolen information in 2011 was due to hacktivist groups not cybercriminals. Just two years ago the opposite was true, cybercriminal groups were behind record breaking data breaches resulting in large numbers of stolen customer records.
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Diablo 3 game fans hit with always-online DRM grief (4)
- Fri 18 May 20:04 by Seán
- Software
it appears that Blizzard underestimated the server capacity required to handle all the gamers, thus resulting in Battle.net servers being overloaded and taken offline at launch. As Diablo III requires the user to be logged in with an uninterrupted internet connection to play, most players were greeted with an "Error 37" on the day of launch, unable to play the game.
CD Projekt says the truth is, DRM doesn't work (2)
- Mon 21 May 22:48 by Seán
- Piracy
In an interview between Forbes and CD Projekt CEO Marcin Iwinski, Iwinski said the truth is that DRM simply does not work. He said the main problem is that the copy protection is cracked within hours of the release of every game, not to mention the money and development wasted to implement it. Those with pirated versions also have a clean and more functional game!
Why not? PNY announces USB drive with whistle (7)
- Wed 23 May 11:48 by DoMiN8ToR
- Uncategorized
It could be possible that there is a scenario where you would have loved to be able to whistle on your USB stick, but we really wonder when. To make
RunCore unveils InVincible SSD with smoking self-destruct (3)
- Thu 17 May 15:20 by Seán
- Solid State (ssd), Uncategorized
RunCore has launched its InVincible SSD line, claiming to provide the highest data security with its two physically attached buttons, coloured green & red, giving the user a choice of whether to wipe or physically destroy the SSD.