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Windows 7 beta 1 makes early debut
News Leaked copies of Microsoft's forthcoming operating system have reportedly appeared on torrent trackers.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Western Digital Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, operating system, Beta, Microsoft Windows, News.com
Layoffs loom for M'sian electronics sector
News One of the pillars of Malaysia's economy, its electronic and electrical sector has become a double-edged sword during the current global slowdown.
Tags: Sales/revenue, Layoffs, Business planning, Trends, Intel Corp., Western Digital Corp., Electronics, Manufacturing, Chip Company, Electronics Sector
Analyst: Tardiness in SSD game hurt Seagate
News Hard-drive maker's impending closure of manufacturing facility in Singapore, which includes 2,000 layoffs, was in part due to its late adoption of solid-state drives.
Tags: Storage, Memory, Sales/revenue, Western Digital Corp., Manufacturing, Seagate Technology LLC, Singapore, net income, financial, analyst
Coming soon: Full-disk encryption for all
Techguide A lot has been written about full-disk encryption and its positive impact on reducing data theft. However, for a host of reasons, many organizations and data centers have yet to adopt the technology.
Tags: Personal storage, Authentication and encryption, Security, Western Digital Corp., Specification, Trusted Computing Group, Encryption, User Data, Storage, removable storage
Western Digital shipping high-speed 2TB hard drive
News WD launches high-performance, 7200rpm, 2TB hard drives for desktop and enterprise environments.
Tags: Storage, Western Digital Corp., Positioning, network storage, OEM, Serial ATA, hard drive, network, disk, Storage
Samsung launches two-platter 1TB disk drive
News Spinpoint F3 increases platter capacity to 500GB, which translates to faster operation and fewer moving parts, according to Samsung.
Tags: Storage, Western Digital Corp., Seagate Technology LLC, Storage, hard drive, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Laptop Computer, disk, Toshiba Corp., disk drive
Western Digital releases 1TB laptop hard drive
News Company's new hardware significantly shrinks the storage-capacity gap between notebook and desktop drives.
Tags: Consumer Technology, Storage, Western Digital Corp., Storage, hard drive, Laptop Computer, disk, desktop, Consumer Technology
Seagate lays off 1,100 employees
News Hard-drive maker lays off 1,100 employees, or 2.5 percent of its global workforce in an effort to save US$120 million annually.
Tags: Layoffs, Western Digital Corp., Seagate Technology LLC, layoff, organizational structure, product development, cost reduction, Pittsburgh, Layoffs, termination
WD claims top spot for external drives
News Western Digital claims top spot for external drives expecting over 1.1 billion of sales for PCs, Macs and digital cameras by year-end.
Tags: Storage, Earning reports/forecasts, Western Digital Corp., Mobile, Apple Macintosh, Sales, phone, software, hard drive, data storage
More Internet firm failures to come
News More than 200 Internet companies have gone out of business in the past four to five years, according to Integral Capital Partners general partner Roger McNamee. The venture capitalist also said a "small multiple" of that number will fold up this year.
Nasdaq suffers biggest loss in three weeks
News The Nasdaq Composite Index suffered its biggest loss in more than three weeks after a Japanese stock rout triggered selling from Hong Kong to London.
Western to cut 400, retreat from drive market
News Western Digital Corp, the No. 3 computer disk-drive maker, said it will stop making drives used in high-end computers and fire most of the 420 workers in its Minnesota facility to focus on personal computers.
