Saturday, February 20, 2010

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 20/02/2010



Corsair unveils encrypted Padlock 2 USB drive
After high capacity, here comes high security. Corsair has introduced a new USB flash drive to succeed the Padlock series we first heard about three years ago. The new 8GB Flash Padlock 2 has some of the same security features as its predecessors, including a security keypad right...
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Kingston claims first 256GB USB flash drive in the U.S.
Ever get the feeling USB thumb drives just don't have enough storage capacity? Well, if you have $1,108 burning a hole in your pocket, then Kingston's new DataTraveler 310 256GB flash drive might be able to quell that frustration. Kingston claims this product is the first USB thumb drive with...
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Chocolate Mint Day Shortbread
Chocolate Mint Day The Register reports Dell's profits shrink as revenue goes Nvidia reports financial results for fourth quarter and fiscal year 2010 Yahoo! and Microsoft to implement search alliance AllThingsD reports NAND...
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OCZ formally announces Vertex LE SSDs
Following last month's pre-launch retail appearance, OCZ Technology has made its Vertex LE family official. These 2.5" solid-state drives are launching in 100GB and 200GB flavors, and they should become available in the coming weeks, although OCZ intends to offer them for a short period of time onlyآ—hence...
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National Battery Day Shortbread
National Battery Day C|Net reports hp earnings rise 25% to $2.3 billion iSuppli: Global DRAM revenue to soar by 40% in 2010 The Register reports HDD supplier bound for choppy waters ...
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Dual-GPU S3 graphics card supports eight displays
Dual-GPU graphics cards typically belong at the very high end of the market, often combining two of the fastest graphics chips available, but it doesn't have to be that way. Case in point: Via subsidiary S3 Graphics is at the Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas today demonstrating its...
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Charlie's latest rant says GF100 is a lost cause
As we step into the latter half of the first-quarter release time frame for Nvidia's GF100, Charlie Demerjian of SemiAccurate has published another scathing article that labels the upcoming graphics processor as "unworkable, unmanufacturable, and unfixable." According to Demerjian, Nvidia is facing silicon yields in the single digits with the...
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