January 31, 2006
Prestigio Technologies announced the release of the new Prestigio Visconte 1300 notebook PC based on the latest Intel® Centrino® Duo mobile platform.
January 25, 2006
Seagate Technology, the world's largest maker of computer hard-disk drives, said its biggest revenue driver in the next 18 months will be digital set-top boxes that record TV shows, Chief Executive Bill Watkins said Thursday.
January 13, 2006
Seagate Technology announced it has been honored with the title of "2006 Company of the Year" in the January 9 issue of Forbes Magazine. In selecting Seagate as its cover story, Forbes lauds the company's performance against that of 1,000 other publicly traded companies and ranked Seagate as the best of the best.
January 11, 2006
Seagate Technology, a producer of hard disk drives with operations in Longmont, won the "Best Design of the Year" award from Electronic Design Magazine for its Barracuda 7200.9 500GB Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive. Electronic Design readers nominated various desktop PC hard drives for the award and the magazine's editors selected Barracuda 7200.9 500GB Serial ATA as the best.
January 05, 2006
Kingston® Technology Company, Inc., announced its major support of the growing U.S. multifunction mobile or "Smartphone" market with the release of microSD expansion memory cards as well as larger capacity miniSD and MMCmobile cards, all shipping immediately.
December 27, 2005
Pioneer Corporation announced that the company's first internal BD/DVD writer with ATAPI connection for Windows PCs has recently been developed. The new Pioneer BDR-101A complies with the latest specifications for the BD-R (Blu-ray Disc recordable), BD-RE (Blu-ray Disc rewritable), and the BD-ROM (Blu-ray Disc read-only memory). It is expected to start shipping at the end of January, 2006 (Shipment schedules may change depending on the start date for the Blu-ray Disc format logo license and the copyright protection technology license).
December 21, 2005
Seagate and Maxtor today jointly announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Seagate will acquire Maxtor in an all stock transaction. The value of the transaction is approximately $1.9 billion.
December 19, 2005
Lite-On IT estimates it will ship 9.0-9.5 million slim-type optical disc drives (ODDs) for this year and expects to double shipment volume in 2006 due to growing global demand for notebook PCs and large orders from new clients, according to associated vice president Mike Wu for the company’s production base in Guangzhou, China.
December 16, 2005
SEAGATE LEADS 1-INCH HARD DISC DRIVE MARKET WITH CYBERCAPTURE TECHNOLOGY
Seagate Technology, supplier of Consumer Electronics hard disc drives, announced the first practical implementation of Cybercapture™ technology. Sony Corporation has employed this technology in its new Compactvault™ removable hard disc media drive that uses Seagate's CompactFlash Photo Hard Drive, following a joint implementation effort between the two companies.
December 16, 2005
SEAGATE BARRACUDA 7200.9 HARD DRIVE WINS 'BEST DESIGN OF THE YEAR' AWARD FROM ELECTRONIC DESIGN MAGAZINE
Seagate Technology, the world's #1 supplier of disc drives, announced that its Barracuda 7200.9 500GB Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive, a model that delivers the industry's leading combination of performance, reliability and capacity, has won the "Best Design of the Year" award from Electronic Design Magazine, a leading publication for electronic design engineers and managers.