It wasn’t so many years ago that laptops were sniggered at by PC users waving their big fat HDDs around. Today, all of that is well and truly over as Samsung becomes the first company to ship a 500GB hard disk drive for laptops.
The 2.5in Spinpoint M6 HDD is just 9.5mm high and consists of three 167GB platters. Samsung said mainstream notebooks could now fit two of these drives inside to boost storage to a mind-boggling 1TB. Just last month Buffalo gave us the first 500GB HDD for our pockets.
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There are few things worse than losing precious data when your laptop decides that saving it is just too much of a chore, falls off the desk or Windows decides it needs a sudden, unannounced rest.
The new SanDisk FlashBack adapter is targeted at anyone who has ever lost that time-consuming project and is described as a ‘set it and forget it’ back-up solution.
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Sennheiser is rolling out is new Classic MX560 earphones, sporting a ‘hook’ design for snug fitting and a pocket-friendly price tag of £20.
The affordable cans are available in five colours – black, white, silver, red and aqua – and come with a useful cable winder and pouch. If you – like many others – are unhappy with the very average earphones you get with your expensive iPod, then this could be a cheap way to improve your tunes.
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Nokia has announced that it’s going to use Microsoft’s cross-browser/cross-platform plug-in Silverlight to add greater multimedia features and applications to its mobile phones.
Developers will be able to use the tool for creating robust interactive applications (RIAs) and content that will run across any number of devices. Silverlight will be ported to the S60 phones using the Symbian OS first, followed by Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets.
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Toshiba is finally talking about why it dumped its HD DVD movie format so fast and where it sees itself in the consumer entertainment market for the short-term.
In a chat with the Wall St. Journal, Toshiba Corp’s chief executive Atsutoshi Nishida speaks frankly about its recent decision to pull the plug on its ailing high-definition format.
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