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Seagate and Western Digital cut hard-drive warranties

...Seagate and Western Digital are drastically cutting the length of the warranties on many of... Read more

16 December, 2011 by Jack Clark

Western Digital reopens hard-disk plant after floods

...Hard-disk giant Western Digital said on Friday that it has partially restored production at a... Read more

5 December, 2011 by Brooke Crothers

Western Digital told to pay Seagate $525m

...Western Digital has suffered a major hit as Seagate Technology won an arbitration... Read more

22 November, 2011 by Larry Dignan

Floods in Thailand hit hard-drive supply

...hit the hard-drive supply chain from component sellers to giants like Western Digital, with PC and server makers likely to be affected. Severe floods... Read more

25 October, 2011 by Larry Dignan

Regulators probe major storage mergers

...Samsung into Seagate, and the other of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies into Western Digital. The investigations, announced on Monday, will try to work out if... Read more

31 May, 2011 by Jack Clark

Western Digital to buy Hitachi's storage arm

...Western Digital plans to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Hitachi's storage subsidiary... Read more

7 March, 2011 by Jack Clark

Samsung sells disk drive unit to Seagate for $1.4bn

...The deal is another sign of consolidation in the HDD industry, following Western Digital's acquisition in March of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, in part... Read more

19 April, 2011 by Jack Clark

Seagate launches 3TB drive with Windows XP support

...drive as the system's main hard drive. Prior to this, both Western Digital and Hitachi announced 3TB hard drives with different approaches to supporting... Read more

2 March, 2011 by Dong Ngo

UK PC market grows as Western Europe declines

...this year's first quarter, according to Gartner's preliminary numbers. However, Western Europe as a whole -- which includes the distressed markets in Italy, Greece... Read more

11 May, 2012

Western Digital gets to business with NAS

Its first foray into the small business Network Attached Storage (NAS) market, Western Digital's new WD Sentinel DX4000 stands out mainly by virtue of... Read more

22 December, 2011

EC approves Western Digital's Hitachi storage takeover

Western Digital's £2.8bn takeover of Hitachi's storage subsidiary has... Read more

25 November, 2011

PC sales slip in Western Europe as Apple makes Top 5

Western European PC shipments fell by 4.4% to 19.4 million units... Read more

8 February, 2011

UK PC sales up 15%, but growth is weaker than in Western Europe

Gartner says the PC market in Western Europe grew by 19.6% in the second quarter of 2010, with... Read more

25 August, 2010
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17 May, 2012

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Lonnie

those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

3 hours ago by Lonnie on Screenshots: Photoshop CS6 Beta
BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

10 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

10 hours ago by Horace Ontalhold on Fusion-io lays minefield with a billion IOPS
BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

11 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

13 hours ago by bobandroid on London Olympics: BT needs 25,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

15 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

15 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

15 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

17 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

18 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

19 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

20 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

21 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

22 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

23 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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