Seagate on Thursday unveiled 10 new hard drives including the Momentus 5400.3 160GB, 2.5" drive built on perpendicular recording technology. This is 25 percent more than the largest notebook drive available in the market currently.
Microsoft on Monday unleashed the push email technology capabilities which will take on Research in Motion, the Canadian maker of BlackBerry, the much successful mobile email device amongst corporates.
America Online has announced the official launch of its free AIM Mail, a web based e-mail service offering 2GB of storage space. This comes packed with strong virus and spam protection.
Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday that the next version of its Office software will use Internet-friendly XML technology as the default file format for documents created in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
AMD on Tuesday announced the launch of its dual core desktop chip Athlon 64, to cater heavy duty users, and digital media enthusiasts. Intel launched its dual core processors just a few weeks back, and although AMD has come in later, it claims the chip is much better than Intel’s.
The innovative carrier plane used to air-launch SpaceShipOne has a new mission. At its inland spaceport in Mojave, Calif., the White Knight mothership has been involved in fit and high-speed taxi checks with a new passenger: the X-37, an unpiloted, reusable space plane.
Intel has launched the next generation of processors, supported by the Intel 945 Express chipset, equipped with high definition audio and PCI express suppport, DDR2 and serial ATA 2 compatibility.
IBM, Infineon and Macronix have announced a joint research initiative to explore the potential of a new form of computer memory technology, coined as phase-change memory (PCM).
According to a press release put out by the Bluetooth SIG yesterday, it appears that the people behind Bluetooth are intent on merging their technology with the still-evolving high-speed wireless technology known as Ultra-Wideband (UWB). There has been much talk of UWB being an eventual "Bluetooth Killer" when its products finally reach the market in a couple of years. This could very well prevent that from happening.
