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    CompUSA Closing Half Of Its Stores

    ChimpUSA is closing about half of its stores in the USA and Canada. WurstBuy seems to have overwhelmed them a bit in certain markets. I stopped by one near me and they had most of everything at 20% off the regular sticker price -- though some of it was just 10% off. After a few weeks, they...
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    NEWZ: Hitachi & Maxell's New Proprietary Optical Format

    I think they would be better off just jumping onto the holographic disc format. I know Maxell has been one of the many developers in holographic storage media. 470 GB per optical disc will get eclipsed by holographic disc, and I doubt this Hitachi / Maxell technology can match the read/write...
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    NEWZ: $ High-End $ Windows $ And $ Office $ Coming $

    Ballmer: High-End Windows & Office Coming $teve Ballmer told analysts that the company will add both high-end desktop editions and new server options in the next versions of Windows and Office... http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-5808554.html
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    NEWZ: The State Of 64-Bit Windows Anti-Virus

    Enterprise customers can purchase Symantec Corp.'s AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.0 product, which supports x64 Windows. Symantec representatives weren't able to say whether the Cupertino, Calif.-based company was planning a 64-bit version of its antivirus software for small-business or home...
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    NEWZ: Microsoft To Enter Enterprise Backup Arena

    Microsoft Takes Disk-based Backup For A Spin Taking another step into data storage, Microsoft on Friday unveiled software for backing up files on disk-based systems. The product, dubbed System Center Data Protection Manager, is designed to tempt more companies to try disk-based backup and...
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    HARDWARE: Consumer Video Cameras with Hard Drives

    NO TAPE, NO DISC – NEW JVC CAMCORDERS FEATURE LARGE CAPACITY, BUILT-IN HARD DISK DRIVES New Everio G Series records more than 10.5 hours of DVD-quality video. NEW YORK, June 14, 2005 – JVC today announced a new series of camcorders that eliminates the need to carry tapes, discs or any media at...
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    HARDWARE: Matrox *1-Lane* PCI Express Graphics

    Millennium G550 for PCIe offers maximum flexibility Matrox Millennium G550 products for PCIe (PCI Express) are the world's first PCI Express x1 graphics cards. The unique x1 design allows these cards to be compatible with all compliant PCIe slots...
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    NEWZ: Samsung's Big Plans For Flash-Based Hard Drives

    Samsung has big plans for flash-based drives Samsung champions solid-state memory as replacement to hard-disk drives in laptops GIHEUNG, SOUTH KOREA - Samsung Electronics Co. hopes that falling prices for flash memory chips will mean solid-state memory can eventually replace hard-disk drives...
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    HARDWARE: Westinghouse Computer Monitors (?!?)

    Yoikes! Westinghouse making computer monitors??? Who else is going to come out of the woodwork? RCA, Sylvania, Frigidaire/Vauxhall, Philco??? :errr: General Electric makes computer mouses. Are we beginning to see a trend here? http://www.westinghousedigital.com/products/monitors/
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    HARDWARE: Hot Rod *SATA* Flash Memory Reader

    Might be fast enough to melt yer compact flash! Also, an affordable US$36.99 + shipping. ...this Addonics SATA CF adapter is one of the fastest CF Readers/Writers in the market today. Connect directly to the fast SATA port, this adapter supports direct booting from the CF media as well...
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    Windows For Cash Registers (SP-2) NOW AVAILABLE

    Microsoft announced today that its "retail-optimized" flavor of Windows XP Embedded SP2 is now shipping to manufacturers of POS (point-of-sales/service) equipment for the retail and hospitality industries... WEPOS is claimed by Microsoft to be the first POS software platform to support...
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    NEWS: Seagate First To Market With Perpendicular Tech (?)

    Seagate To Use Perpendicular Technology For Hard Drives APRIL 13, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - TOKYO -- Seagate Technology LLC is developing a perpendicular recording technology for hard disk drives and intends to be one of the first companies to use it in its products, the company said today...
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    1 Down, A Thousand More Jackasses To Go

    Between about April 2003 and about January 2004, Stergios tried to fraudulently buy and sell merchandise, including jewelry, watches and computers, over the Internet through online auction Web site eBay. Stergios engaged in the fraudulent transactions with at least 321 victims, Frank said...
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    NEWZ: 64-Bit Windows Available End Of April

    ...but what year? 2005! ...as it's being claimed Maybe even 25 April! ...you know, they could be correct about this one http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/03/03/HN64bitwindows_1.html?source=NLC-TB2005-03-03
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    NEWZ: All New Internet Explorer -->7<-- Coming In 200

    IE 7 will -- again -- be standalone product. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5577263.html?tag=nl.e589
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    [NEWZ] Nero V6.6 Out (Yes... Six Dot SIX)

    Nero BurningROM recently had a major jump in its minor version numbers, going from 6.3 all the way up to 6.6. The update is a whopping 25.0 MB, which will surely cause yer computer to scream out in ecstacy at the end of what will likely be a long rigorous overnight operation of filling the...
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    E-Bay Weirdos: Laff 'Til Sides Hurt...

    Every once in a while I run across some weird / hilarious / crafty E-Bay goings on. Here are a couple from the past few months that I've stumbled upon one way or another: I guess this bit of hilarious handiwork was done at a time when you could leave feedback by screwing around with the...
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    200 GB Hard Drive... 99 US Dollar$

    http://www.globalcomputer.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=4497&sku=THD-200A2%20P&SRCCODE=GLOEM010
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    NEWZ: Sun & Microsoft Now Best Buddies

    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=&e=6&u=/ap/20040402/ap_on_hi_te/sun_microsystems ========================================================================== McNealy: Boy oh boy! With the price of things going up around here in the south bay area, this $1.6 Billion sure will...
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    Yardsale! Yardsale!

    ... a humdinger of a yardsale !!! First Come... First Served... http://www.gary-hendershot.com/yardsale/
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    Hitachi 2.5-inch 60 GB 7.2kRPM & 80 GB 5.4kRPM Hard Driv

    First 7200 RPM mobile drive lets users 'unplug' from desktop; New 5400 RPM drive combines top capacity and performance SAN JOSE, Calif., May 14, 2003 – Hitachi Global Storage Technologies made hard drive history today by introducing new advances in miniaturization technology to create a giant...
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    The Other Shoe Drops: Adaptec SATA RAID

    MILPITAS, Calif., March 18, 2003 - Adaptec, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADPT), the global leader in data storage access solutions, today announced a broad Serial ATA (SATA) product family including motherboard solutions and zero-channel, 2-, 4-, 8-, 12- and 16-port add-in RAID cards that deliver Adaptec's...
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    [NEWS] Roxio Easy CD Creator V6.0

    New York, NY - February 18, 2003 - Roxio, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROXI) The Digital Media Company, provider of the best selling digital media software in the world, today introduced its new Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 Platinum, The Digital Media Suite. Totally redesigned for maximum performance and...
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    Attention Pioneer DVD-R/RW Owners !

    Pioneer announces that many of its DVD-R/RW computer drives and DVD recorders will require a firmware update in order to avoid potential damage to the units and discs... it is extremely important for owners of these products to make sure it is completed prior to using any new high-speed discs...
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    The Apocalypse Is Near...

    General Electric enters the mouse business... And, if that wasn't enough, how about some CD-R discs that look like 45 RPM singles... Verbatim introduces Digital Vinyl CD-R, a recordable disc designed after the popular and groovy 45-rpm record format...
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    How Did You Stumble Across The [S]torage [R]eview Website ?

    I was actually out looking for the website for Storage Review Magazine -- a stuffy no-fun periodical for storage professionals -- when I stumbled across what was (then) the testbed for the Storage Review website. This was late April of 1998. As I found out in the discussion forum from a...
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