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Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:17:00 GMT
Sam's Club hires its own squad of geeks
If you're going to be serious about electronics retail in the U.S., it looks like you have to be serious about employing professional geeks.
Beginning Saturday, 20 Sam's Club stores in Virginia and Maryland will offer tech support from PC repair services company Geeks on Call as ...
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:17:00 GMT
Hard drive industry shows resilience
Despite industry leader Seagate's poor showing earlier this year, analysts say there's still plenty of demand for hard disk drives.
In the first quarter of 2008, HDD vendors shipped 137 million drives, which is 21 percent higher than the same quarter the year before, according to iSuppli, a ...
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:34:00 GMT
A mini OLED keyboard: Optimus Pultius
(Credit: Art Lebedev)
If the Optimus Maximus keyboard is a little too over the top for you, the upcoming Optimus Pultius may be more suitable. Instead of a full keyboard, this one has only 15 keys, each sporting an individual OLED display which can be customized to show whatever graphic ...
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:45:00 GMT
Lexmarks offers three new back-to-school multifunction printers
Convergence is the key to staying ahead in the technology game, so it's no surprise that printer vendors are offering more and more printers that do quadruple duty as scanner, copier, and fax machine. Today, Lexmark caters to the back-to-school shoppers with a handful of new All-in-Ones that are ...
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:14:00 GMT
Crank secret data away when your back is to the wall
In the time of triplicates, shredders and burn cans were SOP for destroying records at embassies and military installations. Today, information stored on hard disk drives far forward on the battlefield demand other methods.
Fujitsu has come up with a way to dispose of your brigade's database of informers ...
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:00:00 GMT
TransferJet: Plug and play, minus the plug
Obviously, it's been convenient to operate plug and play bus-powered peripheral devices that use USB and FireWire connections, since all you need is the device itself and one data cable that, once plugged in, also draws juice from the ...
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:25:00 GMT
eSATA comes to a pocket-size external hard drive
 The eSATA Mercury is equipped with a Hitachi internal hard drive that spins at 7200rpm. (Credit: Dong Ngo/CNET Networks)
I asked for it a few blogs ago and now I've got it: the first pocket-size external hard drive that features an eSATA connection, the eSATA OWC Mercury On-The-Go. ...
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:36:00 GMT
Photo Safe II: Digital camera storage gets huge
 The Photo Safe II can store thousands of high-resolution digital images. (Credit: Digital Foci)
Do you think the 4GB SD card for your digital camera is large? Well, it is, especially compared with a few years ago when it was a big deal to have a 512MB card. How would ...
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:35:00 GMT
Add Bluetooth to any notebook or PC for $7.99 shipped
(Credit: Meritline)It's the rare notebook that doesn't have Wi-Fi, but not all models offer Bluetooth. Though not a critical feature, the short-range wireless technology is handy to have for things like cordless mice and cell-phone tethering (i.e., using your phone as a modem). Meritline has a ...
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:44:00 GMT
WiebeTech's Forensic UltraDock V4: When drive docking gets serious
 The new UltraDock V4 has a lot more to offer than the DriveDock V4. (Credit: WiebeTech)
A while ago, I got my hands on WiebeTech's USB DriveDock V4 and was very impressed by its versatility. The device allows for quickly docking any IDE or SATA hard drive, 3.5-inch ...
Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:43:00 GMT
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