Samsung ships hybrid hard drive

Samsung Electronics has begun shipping its hybrid hard drive to the commercial marketplace. Samsung's MH80 series hybrid hard drive is offered in 80GB, 120GB and 160GB capacities. The MH80 is optimized to work with Windows Vista capable notebook PCs, is...

Fujitsu's 2.5" HDD Breaks Storage and Speed Records

Speed freak take notice: Fujitsu recently broke some records with its new MHW2 BJ HDD, the first 2.5-inch laptop drive to hit 7,200 rpm and offer 160GB of storage. Read: It's fast plus ups the storage capacity on laptops. Fujitsu...

Apple admits battery problems in laptops

Apple has admitted that "some batteries" in its range of MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops have "performance issues." The company issued a software update and has offered to replace defective batteries. Reports of problems, including swollen batteries, have been circulating...

Google helps eggheads with data dumps

Google is developing a program to help eggheads exchange huge amounts of data. The search giant's open source team is working on ways to physically transfer huge data sets up to 120 terabytes in size. Good thing, too: Recent research...

Microsoft jumps patch schedule to fix cursor attach

Microsoft will jump its monthly patch schedule to a release a patch this Tuesday for the animated cursor attack that's been pestering Windows users for a week. The regular schedule would have been for patches to come out on Tuesday,...

Metasploit 3.0 ships with 177 exploits

HD Moore's open-source Metasploit Framework, rewritten from scratch, has been released with 177 exploits, 104 payloads and new modules to exploit Wi-Fi driver vulnerabilities in the Windows kernel, Ryan Naraine reports. Version 3.0 of the point-and-click hacking tool, which is...

Report: Wi-Fi users do more online

People who use wireless networking do more activities online, according to a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. The survey asked 798 US internet users about their wireless habits and sampled almost 2,300 people overall. The...

Apple iPhone to Boost Mobile Ajax Adoption

One of the leading blogs on mobile phone trends, called Opne Gardens, has posted an analysis of the implications of Apple's decision to use mobile AJAX to build the new user interface for the iPhone.

SharePoint 2007 to Get Ajax Support

In a service pack for SharePoint 2007 that should be out later this year Microsoft reportedly plans to add support for ASP.Net AJAX, which should allow developers to create a whole new range of iterative applications for the Web on top of SharePoint.

Red Hat pairs with JBoss for Open-Source SOA

SOA Software Inc. will partner with Red Hat Inc. to promote the shift to service-oriented architecture solutions for the enterprise. Los Angeles-based SOA, a provider of SOA and Web services for governance, management, security and mediation solutions, is teaming with...

Microsoft says Vista sales strong

Vista has beaten Windows XP's sales figures. More than 20 million copies of Windows Vista were sold globally in February 2007, the first month of sales since its widespread consumer release. Only 17 million copies of Windows XP were sold...

Microsoft to acquire TellMe Networks

Microsoft announced today that it would acquire TellMe Networks, a hosted speech applications company that uses voice recognition to improve data access. Microsoft isn't disclosing the acquisition price, but sources tell Om Malik that it's around $800 million. Will TellMe...

Vonage Ready to Settle e911 Lawsutis

VOIP Central is reporting that Vonage is getting ready to settle lawsuits stemming from its lack of compliance with e911 regulations to the tune of $500,000.

YouTube launches new sharing feature

YouTube announced a few new features over the weekend, most notably Active Share, which lets others see which videos you've been watching. This history tracking feature can be turned off, says Pete Cashmore. Additionally, you can rearrange the order of...

EMI announces DRM-free song downloads

EMI announced today that they are offering their entire music catalogue sans DRM. Their first distributor: Apple's iTunes, where songs will be available in May for $1.29 per song. The new tracks will offer a higher sound quality that DRM...