Samsung would abandon hard drives

The Wall Street Journal says that Samsung would have its hard drive division in sales and hopes to retire between 1 and 1.5 billion dollars (700 million euros and 1 billion euros). Western Digital has bought Hitachi GST. We therefore doubt that he is trying to acquire as Samsung. It is not impossible, but Seagate seems the favorite of analysts.

It might as well try to win back market share. Having lost his first-place last year (see "Western Digital over Seagate finally, it could benefit from the technology park and Samsung has seen better days on the market for hard drives and now focuses primarily on SSD.

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LG flies to the rescue of MeeGo

Despite the defection of Nokia, the mobile OS MeeGo is not dead, quite the contrary. The vacuum created by the departure of the Finnish giant will attract other players, not least, the Korean company LG has thus joined a group of companies working to develop MeeGo for smartphones. Alongside LG, including the Chinese ZTE.

The interest for LG MeeGo on smartphones is not new: we remember that the Korean had developed the prototype smartphone based on the platform "Moorestown" Intel used in all its presentations to the last year. This prototype, GW990, was ultimately never released. But his descendants might happen soon.

Portable Workspace: Windows 8 USB key

Leaks on Windows 8 continue to flow. Last revelation to date: the Portable Workspace. French: the ability to install Windows 8 on a USB stick to carry it around with you. This feature is familiar to users of Linux or Mac OS X, but Windows until now steadfastly refuses to run from a USB volume. Microsoft finally add it in Windows 8, but the booking prior to the Professional edition of the OS.

Seagate and Samsung form alliance on the hard drives and SSDs

Seagate and Samsung this morning announced an alliance that will revolutionize the storage industry. Seagate is the big winner: absorbs the production activity of hard drives from Samsung and gaining privileged access in exchange for the Korean and flash memory technologies on its SSD. Seagate has missed the technological shift of DSS.

For reasons unknown to us the leader in hard drives has failed to develop a range of products sufficiently attractive. Result, it is totally absent from the SSD market for the general public and arrived very late on the SSD market "pro" with its Pulsar, which are based on a classic controller SandForce.

First images from Z68X-UD3P Gigabyte-B3

With coolpc page. com. tw we saw the first images of Z68X-UD3P Gigabyte-B3, in the middle of speculation that talk about leaving manufacturing Gigabyte boards with P67 chipset to focus only on the Z68 chipset. The new UD3P motherboard chipset is based on the Z68, and EFI-BIOS presents a hybrid (dual BIOS supports disks larger than 3 TB), and is uniquely designed to use dedicated graphics cards, since no connectivity for displays (DSUB , DVI or HDMI).

Filming in 720p ... 720 fps

Want to shoot with a system capable of interesting effects in a simple way? The Fastec offers to film in 1280 x 720 (720p) to ... 720 images / s. The camera has a 7 inch screen and a 1.3 megapixel CMOS sensor (1280 x 1024) very fast, and 128 GB of flash memory for storage, plus a location SDHC. Connecting to a computer is original, with USB 2.0 but also of the 1 Gigabit Ethernet / s.

The camera accepts Nikon lenses with C-mount or F and controlled from a computer. For video, there are other modes than 720p / / 720 fps In 1280 x 1024, it reached 500 fps and speed increases with the decrease of the definition: in 1024 x 768, it reached 816 fps, 800 x 1 258 600 1 869 640 x 480 and even 20 000 frames per second when it goes into a ridiculous and useless mode 160 x 89.

TDJ: Gigabyte M6980, Cubitek HPTX-Tank

Our fellow Cowcotland just released a test HPTX-Tank Cubitek an all-aluminum enclosure showing dimensions of 230 x 600 x 610 mm and weighing up to 8.5 kg on the scale. Five bays at 5.25 inches are available, and 7 slots and two 3.5 inch by 2.5 inches. We also found three 140 mm fans and a 230 mm. The HPTX-Tank in receipt of a mounting system without tools.

Verdict? For its part, our fellow Revioo just put a test online gaming mouse Gigabyte M6980.

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