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  • WD Releases 1TB ‘Black’ Drive

    Western Digital has delivered its latest drive offering: a one-terabyte, 3.5-inch, 7200 RPM monster that it claims is the fastest on the market.

  • Amazon Stumbles Again

    Following on from its website woes last Friday, Amazon is again having a rash of 'service unavailable' errors, with the retailer disappearing off the net and slowly reappearing in both the US and the UK.

  • Disaster Safe Drives

    ioSafe has just introduced a new line of 3.5” hard drives that it says are disaster-proof – a first for the industry.

  • IBM Doubles Supercomputing Speed

    A new benchmark has been set in the world of supercomputing with an IBM built machine codenamed “roadrunner” displaying petaflop speeds.

  • IBM Brings Grid Computing to Food Crisis

    Cloud computing is working wonders in the world of medical research and astronomy, and as more computing power comes online IBM is working to open the power of the grid to humanitarian causes such as the food crisis.

  • Microsoft to Re-Badge Live Search?

    With its surprise bid to snatch Yahoo! now in the can, Microsoft’s search team is looking for ways to improve its image and make it more competitive.

  • Website Outage Costs Amazon.com Dearly

    An outage experienced by the world’s foremost online retailer has highlighted the drastic impact some server downtime can have on business, with the company potentially losing upwards of US$1.8 (AU$1.88) million during over 2 hours.

  • IBM Launches Free Productivity Suite

    While it’s market share is slowly eroded by open open source alternatives such as OpenOffice and StarOffice, Microsoft Office is now face with another challenger in the form of IBM’s Lotus Symphony.

  • SSD Market Experiencing Strong Growth

    IDC has reported strong growth in the worldwide solid state disk (SSD) market, claiming that market momentum has driven factory revenues to 10.8 percent year-on-year growth in Q1, 2008.

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