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Tech Trends You’ll See in 2012
From data-only cell phone plans to HTML 5, these ten advancements are ready to go mainstream in the year to come.News
Top PC Component Picks of the Year
Looking to put together a new PC for the new year or give the gift of gorgeous gaming graphics for the holidays? Here's how to find the best PC parts out this year.News
Western Digital Warns of Slow Recovery in Thailand
Hard-drive maker Western Digital has resumed the partial production of hard drives in Thailand, but warns that some operations are still under water.News
Black Friday Retail Basics
Tips for where (and when) to go — online or to brick-and-mortar stores — to score the best deals on the holiday shopping kickoff.News
Hard Drive Shortages Will Result in More Expensive PCs, Says Gartner
Enterprise users and consumers who have held off buying new PCs recently may regret their delay as a hard-drive shortage is expected to boost prices.News
Prices Going Up on Laptops and Hard Drives, Thanks to Flooding in Thailand
Hard drive manufacturers have been forced to shut down factories in Thailand, resulting in a shortage of HDDs. Laptop makers are responding accordingly.News
Thailand Floods May Affect Global Electronics Production
Severe floods in Thailand have disrupted production of electronics including hard disk drives and semiconductors, with a number of factories suspending…News
Netflix Kills Qwikster DVD Plan
The video service caves to customer complaints and announces it will maintain a single site for DVD rentals and video streaming.News
Windows 8 Presents a Cure for Bloatware Installed by Your Printer, Camera, Other Peripherals
Microsoft wants external device makers to create Metro-style apps for Windows 8 that would eliminate junk software installs.News
HP Or No HP: The PC Lives
Clearly, the PC is dead, right? Well, no. Flexibility, innovation and users’ storage needs will keep it around a good long while.rnrnNews
Seagate Offers Free Data Recovery Service with Hard Drive Purchase
GoFlex Turbo hard drives come with two years of coverage under Seagate's SafetyNet service, which tries to recover lost data after equipment damage.News
5 Reasons Apple’s Mac Mini Isn’t Killing the DVD
DVDs aren't going away any time soon because they're cheap, easy to find and distribute and don't rely on a high-speed Internet connection.News
Facebook and Skype Partner on ‘Video Calling’
Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook is partnering with Skype on a new service called Video Calling and also announces Group Text Chat feature.News
The Best Web Apps and Online Services: Get the Most Out of the Cloud
By using Web-based applications and storing your files online, you can work from anywhere, on any device, for next to nothing.News
500GB Seagate Hard Drive Streams to 3 iPads
The battery-powered external hard drive lets you stream video and audio content to three different mobile devices at once, making long car trips with the family a bit more bearable.News
The 10 Best Free Hard Drive Utilities
Take control of your hard drive and data with these free and effective utilities.News
10 Biggest Tech Cover-Ups: Shut Up and Act Like Nothing’s Wrong
The list of tech companies that made business mistakes and didn't address them immediately includes Amazon, Apple, Dell, HP, Intel, and Sony, among others.News
Hitachi GST Expands Portable Storage Drives to Cloud
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies on Tuesday introduced new Touro storage offerings that package local and online storage so data can be accessed locally or…News
Samsung to Sell HDD Unit to Seagate in $1.4B Deal
Samsung Electronics will sell its hard-disk drive operations to Seagate Technology in a US$1.375 billion deal that will create strong links between the two…News
Intel and Micron Shrink NAND Flash
Intel and Micron Technology on Thursday said they had shrunk NAND flash memory in size, which could help add more storage and features to smartphones or tablets…News
Toshiba’s New Self-Erasing Hard Drives: The Ultimate in Data Security
When one of these intelligent hard disk drives is connected to an unknown host, it can erase itself, or a variety of other protective functions.News
Seagate Shipping World’s Slimmest Portable External Hard Drive
Seagate is now shipping what they claim is the world's slimmest portable external hard drive, which is as thin as a regular No. 2 pencil.News
Intel 320 Series SSD Boosts Capacity, Drops Cost
Test results for Intel 320 Series SSD show the third-generation drive benefits from new controller, adding reliability, security, and speed.News
Experts See Wide Use of Flash-hard Disk Hybrids by 2016
A quarter of new laptops and half of new desktop PCs will adopt an emerging data storage method by 2016, pairing flash memory with traditional hard disk drives…News
The Optical Drive: Appendix of the Modern PC
Once a core component of every laptop and desktop PC, the silver spinning disc is rapidly going the way of the floppy.News
IoSafe: Extreme Drive Testing
Watch as ioSafe's rugged portable hard drive survives gravity, water, and even firearms.News
Hard Drive Withstands Drops, Submersion, Shotgun Blasts
ioSafe's Rugged Portable hard drive launched at the Consumer Electronics Show this week withstood drops, submersion and even blasts from a 12-gauge shotgun.News
Speedy USB 3.0 Spec Quickly Becomes a Consumer Reality
Expect parity in pricing with USB 2.0 and for USB 3.0 everywhere in 2011.News
Seagate Shows Super-Slim External Hard Drive
Seagate's newest external drive is only about as thick as a smartphone.News
Hitachi-LG Data Storage Shows Off Hybrid Optical Drive
Optical drive concept could help boost system performance, too.News
Rocstor Embraces USB 3.0 for New Hard Drives
Rocstor adds USB 3.0 to two of its storage drive ranges in time for CES.News
Seagate Debuts Fast Green Drive
Seventy percent of the materials in the new drives can be recycled, and the drives use components low in halogen and have a super-low power consumption.News
Fearing More Wikileaks, Military Bans DVDs, Thumb Drives
The U.S. government, concerned of more 'Wikileaks', banned CDs, DVDs and USB drives from classified military computers.News
Playboy Releases Back Issues on Hard Disk
Just in time for the holidays–56 years of Playboy on a 250GB hard drive.News
Delorean Hard Drive Is Perfect For Time Machine
Great Scott! Back To The Future fans can store their files in style with their very own Delorean Hard Drive.News
Super-Slim SSD Promises Super Speeds
What's less than half a centimeter thick, has a smaller footprint than a credit card, and stores up to 400GB of data? It's the latest line of SSDs from Foremay.News
Best Tech Products 2010: Full List, 1-100
PCWorld scanned the entire universe of technology this year–HDTVs, phones, tablets, PCs, e-book readers, storage, software, services, apps, digital cameras, camcorders, printers, and more–and picked the 100 best. Here's how we ranked them.News
Storage and Useful Gadgets: Best of 2010
Our picks for serious storage–like the 3TB Western Digital MyBook Essential and the Iomega eGo SuperSpeed USB 3.0–mix here with innovative mice such as the Microsoft Arc Touch, and easy networking in the form of Cisco's M20 Valet Plus.News
Russian Hacker Builds 70 Terabyte Home Computer
Super rig holds sixty hard drives and forty fans.News
Western Digital Announces 2.5 and 3 Terabyte Hard Drives
The new SATA drives are part of the Caviar Green line and can be used as external storage devices or as internal disks on select systems.News