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The iP1 iPod/iPhone dock from iHome is part of the company's Studio Series launched earlier this year. http://www.physorg.com/news179679917.html Electronics Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:06:31 EST news179679917 Before you buy a copy of Windows 7, you'd do well to check whether your computer -- and you -- are ready for the upgrade. http://www.physorg.com/news175978087.html Technology Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:48:43 EST news175978087 Apple on Tuesday updated its consumer desktop and laptop lines, one day after announcing record quarterly computer sales. http://www.physorg.com/news175367735.html Electronics Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:50:01 EST news175367735 (AP) -- To give more room for game, movie and music downloads, Sony is launching a PlayStation 3 with a larger hard drive on Nov. 3. http://www.physorg.com/news174847564.html Electronics Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:30:02 EST news174847564 (AP) -- Next week, Microsoft is releasing Windows 7, a slick, much improved operating system that should go a long way toward erasing the bad impression left by its previous effort, Vista. http://www.physorg.com/news174753047.html Technology Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:40:06 EST news174753047 If there's one thing to keep in mind about computers, it's this: Hard drives fail. I relearned that lesson recently when one of my laptop's external hard drives stopped working and then my 4-year-old iPod died. http://www.physorg.com/news174157392.html Electronics Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:40:01 EST news174157392 A friend whose iMac's hard drive had apparently died called recently, wondering how she might access the files on the failed drive. http://www.physorg.com/news172483185.html Electronics Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:00:01 EST news172483185 (AP) -- As any a video game aficionado knows, it's easy to pop a game into your Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 and spend hours working your way from one level to the next. Without the hefty console, though, you're out of luck if you want to keep blasting those aliens while away from home. http://www.physorg.com/news172175650.html Technology Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:00:02 EST news172175650 Samsung Electronics today announced its new 640-Gigabyte (GB) 2.5-inch Spinpoint M7 internal hard disk drive. The new 640GB hard drive, now the top-density drive of the popular M7 family, has an areal density of 516-Gigabit per square inch for each 320GB platter, which is a 28 percent increase per platter over Samsung`s previous density-leading 500GB hard drive. Samsung`s new Spinpoint M7 model is designed for high-end mobile computing applications requiring greater shock resistance without a compromise in performance. http://www.physorg.com/news171737685.html Electronics Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:56:24 EST news171737685 (AP) -- Once again, it's time to peer into Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs' cup and try to read the tea leaves. http://www.physorg.com/news171537848.html Technology Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:40:01 EST news171537848 Hitachi today announced that is it shipping its fifth-generation, 7200 RPM mobile hard disk drive. The Hitachi Travelstar 7K500 is a 500GB, 2.5-inch, 3Gb/s SATA drive designed for notebooks, gaming systems and professional external storage solutions. http://www.physorg.com/news171036705.html Electronics Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:40:09 EST news171036705 There's really no excuse for not backing up your computer these days. Used to be that making a backup was a fairly complex task. But today's backup offerings make it pretty much a no-brainer. In the recent months, I've written about several of the newest backup methods and products that make backing up a breeze. I'd like to add one more I recently discovered that adds an interesting twist to the job. http://www.physorg.com/news170616082.html Electronics Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:30:01 EST news170616082 (AP) -- A federal judge has barred RealNetworks Inc. from selling a device that allows consumers to copy DVDs to their computer hard drives, pending a full trial. http://www.physorg.com/news169282944.html Technology Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:20:02 EST news169282944 Sacrificing a small amount of performance in favor of convenience and travel ease, netbooks are all the rage. It's easy to see why. While they won't let you play next year's hottest PC titles, they can handle a round or two of "Plants vs. Zombies," are great for watching videos on the plane, and are so light you won't notice them in your travel bag. These books all feature a 10-inch screens, 160GB hard drives, 1 GB of DDR2 RAM, and come packed with Windows XP Home Edition. It's the little details that set these flyweights apart. http://www.physorg.com/news168717006.html Electronics Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:20:01 EST news168717006 Let's jump ahead 50 years. Imagine your grandchildren are rummaging around in your attic, looking through old boxes and trunks. They discover laptops, hard drives wrapped in cloth, DVDs, and maybe even a real antique: A floppy disk. http://www.physorg.com/news168717176.html Technology Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:10:01 EST news168717176 Personal computers are complex devices. We use them every day to do so many things and quite frankly, I don't know how I got along without one back in the olden days (that's the '70s in case you were wondering). Their complexity makes all the things they do possible but it's also that same complexity that can be the source of a great deal of frustration. Everything on a computer must work and work well together. If something malfunctions, you're going to know it pretty much right away. http://www.physorg.com/news166293494.html Technology Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:30:01 EST news166293494 In this day and age of instant gratification, we don't like waiting for anything. Some of us can remember having to wait when we turned on the television as the tubes inside warmed up and the picture slowly faded into view. As a kid, I remember my amazing portable Zenith transistor radio that played instantly when I turned it on unlike other radios that had to warm up. http://www.physorg.com/news160828704.html Technology Wed, 06 May 2009 11:39:20 EST news160828704 (AP) -- To design Windows 7, Microsoft analyzed billions of pieces of data. It studied exactly what PC users do in front of their screens. It tallied hundreds of thousands of Windows surveys. It got feedback from people all over the world who tried different versions of the software. http://www.physorg.com/news159372461.html Technology Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:08:15 EST news159372461 New research indicates viewers who use digital video recorders to watch their favorite broadcast TV shows tend to watch shows recorded between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. -- and many of them appear to be skipping 10 p.m. telecasts altogether. http://www.physorg.com/news159013382.html Technology Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:23:39 EST news159013382 (PhysOrg.com) -- By controlling the collective spin state of highly mobile electrons in semiconductors, researchers in the Materials Sciences Division (MSD) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have taken a major step forward in the technology of spintronics. At the same time they have discovered a new conservation law, an important advance in fundamental physics. http://www.physorg.com/news157889543.html Physics Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:12:51 EST news157889543 I remember my first hard drive. Back then, getting a hard drive for your computer was tantamount to a rite of passage. It meant that you no longer had to struggle inserting floppy discs with their limited capacities and their plethora of assorted frailties. Until my first hard drive, whenever I wanted to load a program, I first had to find the floppy that contained the wanted application, insert it into the disc drive and then wait until it loaded. And wait. And wait. http://www.physorg.com/news157806767.html Technology Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:13:10 EST news157806767 Samsung Electronics today announced its new EcoGreen F2EG hard disk that delivers a massive 1.5TB of capacity with 500GB per disk. With increased recording density and reduced number of disks, the EcoGreen F2 drive is more power efficient by supporting a capacity up to 1.5TB with 3 disks. http://www.physorg.com/news155843380.html Electronics Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:50:35 EST news155843380 Anyone who has been reading my column or listening to my radio talk show "Computer America" knows I have been preaching the back-up mantra for years. If I ever decide to have a bumper sticker on my car, it will read: "It's not IF your hard drive will fail, it's WHEN it will fail" - which would make for a really long bumper sticker or one with lettering so small as to encourage tailgating to read it. http://www.physorg.com/news155384908.html Electronics Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:28:59 EST news155384908 Since early January, a worm that has been referred to by several names, including "Downadup," "Kido" and "Conficker," has been infecting millions of computers around the world. The worm exploits a previously discovered vulnerability in Microsoft's Windows operating system to steal network passwords from the computer systems of large companies, educational and public institutions. http://www.physorg.com/news152383229.html Technology Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:41:30 EST news152383229 (PhysOrg.com) -- The race for lean and mean has a new entry. Dell introduced the Inspiron Mini 12 in Japan with some fanfare and a whole lot of interesting features. Dell's Senior Product Manager John New spoke with Laptopmag's Mark Spoonauer to explain the differences in the new Inspiron Mini 12 from other ultra-portable notebooks. http://www.physorg.com/news144331684.html Electronics Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:08:04 EST news144331684 Hitachi Global Storage has announced today the Deskstar 7K1000.B, the world`s most energy-efficient 7,200 RPM one terabyte (1TB) hard drive. http://www.physorg.com/news134832766.html Electronics Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:32:46 EST news134832766