Computer Components

Man behind netbook craze

Posted by Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer A few years ago rivals mocked Jonney Shih, chairman of Asustek, and his purse-size laptop computers. But the biggest netbook maker, with 38% of the market, is another Taiwanese tech...

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Hack enables 10.6.2 on Atom processors

Upon the release of Apple's update to Snow Leopard , Mac OS X 10.6.2, a noticeable lack of support for Intel's Atom processor was uncovered. The Atom processor is a primary component of many netbooks, famous (or infamous,...

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Got Extra USB Drives Updated Pogoplug Puts Them to Use

Have some extra USB hard drives you'd like to put to a good use How using them to create an Internet storage cloud for your company, yourself, or your family Though marketed primarily as a media-sharing device, the forthcoming...

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New Pogoplug 'Personal Cloud' Does Social Networking (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor - On Friday, Cloud Engines released its newest version of the Pogoplug, a small "multimedia sharing device" that connects hard drives to the Internet and allows a user to access the files remotely. The company...

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Make way for DDR3 transition, says iSuppli

Double Data Rate 3 SDRAM, the state of the art in commodity memory technology, is expected to rise to dominance by the second quarter of 2010, according to new projections from market research firm iSuppli. Market research -...

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More than powerful! German research computer QPACE is the most energy efficient in the world

EUREKALERT Contact: Kosta Schinarakis k.schinarakis@fz-juelich.de Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres At the 2009 Supercomputing Conference in Portland, Oregon (USA), the high-performance computer QPACE (QCD...

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LG NAS Adds Blu-ray Drive

LG's N4B1 NAS box is neither a comprehensive media server nor a particularly fast performer, but as a network-attached storage device, it's quick enough for home/small-business file serving. The unit--available at this writing...

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How to Tackle the Disastrous Effects of Hard Drive Damage?

A hard disk is a primary memory storage device that stores all the data of the system. It stores a large amount of data on an electromagnetically charged surface. Earlier, hard disks were used as a data storage device for...

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Gateway DX4822-01

The Gateway DX-4822-01 makes a convincing pitch with the performance numbers and features to earn its place in your home, but if you're not tied to the midtower design, the older Gateway SX2800-01 offers faster speeds and the...

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IBM Turns the Screws on zPrime

IBM System z CTO and resident spook Mark Anzani recently sent an IBM mainframe customer a letter meant to scare it into seeing the boogeyman under its bed and make sure it doesn’t use Neon Enterprise Software’s zPrime...

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