IDF2011: HP Unveils Bevy of Beautiful Monitors, World's First Sub-$200 IPS Display

By J.R. Nelson | 9/14/2011

At IDF2011 in San Francisco this morning, HP unveiled seven new displays mostly targeted at the performance display segment of the market. Showcased were a new thin TN display for businesses, four new IPS performance displays (under $200!) and two new digital signage displays that deliver 47 inches of multitouch performance.

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Logitech Intros the Wireless Trackpad: Now Windows Has its Own Magic Trackpad

By Amber Riippa | 9/14/2011

Today Logitech announced an upcoming multi-gesture wireless touchpad that allows for notebook navigation in Logitech's idea of a "natural" way. The wireless touchpad allows users to scroll through documents and web pages with two fingers, swipe through photos and other media with three fingers and swipe with four fingers to switch from one application to the next.

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Western Digital Adds WD 2go, 2go Pro Apps to its My Book Live Personal Cloud Drive

By J.R. Nelson | 9/13/2011

Western Digital introduced the My Book Live late last year. It's goal? To simplify your networked storage woes. Today's release furthered WD's ideal by adding attractive and easy-to-use mobile apps to the stable.

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IDF2011: AMD Receives Guinness World Record for Fastest Desktop CPU

By J.R. Nelson | 9/13/2011

In just a couple of hours, Guinness will award AMD for achieving the world's fastest desktop CPU. Granted, it involves a rather significant overclock, but a record's a record. In this case, the CPU involved is the 8-core AMD FX CPU, scheduled for release later this fall.

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NEC Outs 24-inch MultiSync P241W IPS Pro Display for $799

By J.R. Nelson | 9/9/2011

NEC used to be a pretty popular name for monitors when CRTs loomed large. These days, outside of the pro market, not as many people know them for LCDs - and that's a shame. As the new MultiSync P241W shows, NEC is still a good buy if you need high-end equipment; the downside is that you'll need a high-end budget to match.

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Hitachi Delivers 1TB Platter Hard Drives with Deskstar 7K1000.D and 5K1000.B

By J.R. Nelson | 9/7/2011

Hitachi may not be a household name in the United States when it comes to hard drive technology, but they still duel it out with the other big boys. This time, they've leapfrogged the competition and delivered some of the densest storage technologies yet, packing on a whopping terabyte of data into one spinning platter.

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Seagate Breaks Out World's First 4TB Hard Drive

By J.R. Nelson | 9/7/2011

Even though solid state drives get all the face time these days, it's important to remember that good old spinning media still has a thing or two to teach the rest of the market. In this case, it's size - and Seagate's the king of the hill with a new 4TB Desktop FreeAgent GoFlex Desk.

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Cloud Storage: Is the Gain in Space Worth the Pain?

By Jacqueline Emigh | 8/30/2011

Cloud storage can cut down on your hardware costs. It can let you easily share photos, music and other files. Yet many users have lost data and privacy at the hands of online spots like Dropbox, Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN), and Microsoft's Danger. Is the extra storage space worth the security risks?

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Cloud Storage: Is the Gain in Space Worth the Pain?

By Jacqueline Emigh | 8/30/2011

Cloud storage can cut down on your hardware costs. It can let you easily share photos, music and other files. Yet many users have lost data and privacy at the hands of online spots like Dropbox, Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN), and Microsoft's Danger. Is the extra storage space worth the security risks?

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Cloud Storage: Is the Gain in Space Worth the Pain?

By Jacqueline Emigh | 8/30/2011

Cloud storage can cut down on your hardware costs. It can let you easily share photos, music and other files. Yet many users have lost data and privacy at the hands of online spots like Dropbox, Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN), and Microsoft's Danger. Is the extra storage space worth the security risks?

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SMB Storage Options: From Clouds to Connected Network Devices

By DTR Staff | 8/29/2011

Developing an effective backup strategy is relatively easy if you are a consumer or small office/home office worker. Basically, you just buy a wired or wireless disk-based storage device, connect it to a host system, and schedule the times when you want to backup your PC. The first backup will take some time, as all of your files are copied over. Subsequent backups will take less time, as only new or newly-modified files will be copied.

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SMB Storage Options: From Clouds to Connected Network Devices

By DTR Staff | 8/29/2011

Developing an effective backup strategy is relatively easy if you are a consumer or small office/home office worker. Basically, you just buy a wired or wireless disk-based storage device, connect it to a host system, and schedule the times when you want to backup your PC. The first backup will take some time, as all of your files are copied over. Subsequent backups will take less time, as only new or newly-modified files will be copied.

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