Monday, January 19, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Tom's Hardware) 19/01/2009



The Uber-cool $40,000 Emperor Chair/Workstation
The Uber-cool $40,000 Emperor Chair/WorkstationIf you have ever worked in a cube-based environment, then you know all too well the boring, pseudo-fabric walls that hold you to what seems to be solitary confinement imposed by torturous employers. NovelQuest now has your escape rope from the pit!
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Sony P Ships at 1.3GHz in U.S., 1.6GHz in UK
Last week in Las Vegas we happened upon (okay, so it was repeatedly in our faces every time we turned around during our Sony appointment) Sony’s P Series Lifestyle PC. While there wasn't much in the way of specs, we did have a couple of scraps..
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Toshiba Taking Interest in Fujitsu's Storage Business
Toshiba Taking Interest in Fujitsu's Storage BusinessToshiba, one of the world’s largest flash memory manufacturers, is taking heavy interest in Fujitsu’s storage division.
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Updated: Seagate 1TB Drives Biting The Dust
Updated: Seagate 1TB Drives Biting The DustIn the wake of freezing issues with Seagate's 1.5TB drives comes yet another problem with the Barracuda 7200.11 series. Failure rates of the 1TB drives in particular are abnormally high, but Seagate has not acknowledged the problem...
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AMD to Cut 1,100 Workers, Reduce Salaries
AMD to Cut 1,100 Workers, Reduce SalariesAMD reports that it plans to cut 1,100 workers, or 9 percent of its global staff, and slash the paychecks of current workers still employed.
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