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TwitterMicrosoft has revealed some details of a forthcoming service that will allow Windows Mobile users to synchronize information between their phone and the Web. The service, called My Phone, will provide a place to store data such as photos, videos, text messages and calendar items. Users will then be able to share that data with [...]
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Bigger SD Storage Card
Posted by scamboy on January 10th, 2009
Imagine storing 100 movies in glorious high-definition on a card the size of a postage stamp, then calling them up instantaneously for viewing on your cell phone whenever and wherever you like. That could happen within five years, according to the SD Association, a trade group that brings together more than 1,100 technology companies from [...]
WD TV HD Media Player Brings Digital Media Collections To The Big Screen
Posted by scamboy on December 12th, 2008
Western Digital (WD), the world’s leader in external storage solutions, has introduced a simple way for consumers to play their stored digital content on their HDTV in Full-HD 1080p resolution. The WD TV™ Media Player connects to a user’s TV or home theater and plays digital movies, music and photos from WD’s My Passport™ portable [...]
SSD may be popular, that includes security issues
Posted by scamboy on August 24th, 2008
Solid-state drives are fast becoming popular replacements for hard drives, especially in laptops, but experts caution that SSDs aren’t as secure as commonly thought. SSDs may offer better data security than traditional hard drives, but they do not completely erase data and are vulnerable to physical hacks from light sources like an ultraviolet laser, experts [...]
Toshiba makes loss in HD DVD business
Posted by scamboy on March 20th, 2008
Toshiba lowered its earnings forecast for this fiscal year on Wednesday, blaming the reduction in part on 45 billion yen ($460 million) in costs associated with pulling the plug on its HD DVD next-generation video business. Toshiba also said it would rack up a 65 billion yen ($666 million) operating loss in its HD DVD [...]
Microsoft Free 500GB Internet Drive Soon?
Posted by scamboy on July 2nd, 2007
Those who have heard of XDrive before would have remembered it. In the days before YouSendIt, XDrive was the best free way to share files over the Internet. Then XDrive began to charge. Now it belongs to AOL (America On-Line). Now Microsoft is eyeing to offer a free half-TB (Terabyte) drive on the Internet via [...]
