Western Digital launches world's first 2TB Hard Drive
Western Digital haven't officially launched their brand-new WD20EADS 2TB Western Digital Caviar Green HDD, however it is already available for purchase at Australia's Mwave online store.
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27.1.2009 Western Digital Launches High-Performance 7200RPM 2TB Drives
Western Digital has announced today that it will be shipping 7200 RPM 2TB drives: the WD RE4 (WD2003FYYS) which is targeted towards servers and enterprise systems, and the 2TB Western Digital Caviar Black (WD2001FASS) for desktop systems
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1.9.2009 Samsung SPH-G1000 Gaming Phone
Samsung has recently launched the SPH-G1000 and SCH-G100 gaming phones in Korea. These phones are powered by powerful industry-leading 3D accelerator and vibration capability, make them quite promising for gamers. Controls which include a dedicated gaming joypad and a multi-key which operates in 8 directions are ergonomic and comfortable. For more detail, check out the specs below.
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24.11.2005 Samsung Pays $300m for Price Fixing
Samsung accepted terms of a plea agreement Thursday that finds the electronics company guilty of conspiring with other manufacturers to artificially inflate the cost of computer memory, thus unnecessarily increasing the prices consumers paid.
As part of the agreement, Samsung would pay a $300 million fine in exchange for prosecutorial immunity for both the company and most of its employees. Seven people, including president of the semiconductor division Y.H. Park, were excluded from the settlement and could still face prosecution.
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1.12.2005 Samsung monitors with Windows XP embedded
Samsung has introduced two new monitors who are capable enough to display pictures, movies and documents without an additional computer.
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27.7.2006 Samsung To Release 10 Megapixel Camera Phone
Samsung Electronics will put a 10-megapixel camera phone on the market in South Korea shortly. The mobile phone was first shown at Cebit in Germany in March this year and was originally due to launch in the second quarter.
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11.10.2006 Samsung develops new graphics memory speed limit
Samsung is getting ready to produce extremely fast memory chips to be used on future graphics cards.
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25.2.2007 Microsoft: Samsung Deal Could Improve Xbox, Zune
Microsoft executives said the patent deal struck with Samsung Thursday morning could have implications for the Zune MP3 player and the Xbox, as well as for Windows PCs.
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21.4.2007 Samsung Announced World’s First 32GB DDR3 Memory for Server Market
Samsung, the famous memory chip maker has just unveiled a next generation DDR3 memory module that packs with high density.
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19.6.2009 Samsung Set to Launch Hybrid Blu-Ray/HD DVD Player
Samsung Electronics, one of the world’s leading producers of consumer electronics as well as microchips, on Friday said it would release the Duo HD player capable of Blu-ray disk (BD) and HD DVD playback this summer.
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13.4.2007 Samsung Finally Shows Off Its Unholy Hybrid Blu-ray - HD DVD Player
Although the rumors regarding Samsung's hybrid HD DVD / Blu-ray player have been circulating on the web for quite a long time, the company decided to keep it all under wraps for the past few months (in order to increase the customer's interest, perhaps?).
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26.7.2007Hitachi GST announces first 7,200RPM 2TB hard drive
Its fun to think that ten years ago the biggest hard drive available was 73 gigabytes. However with the constant and near unstoppable push to solid
state drives, hard disk manufacturers must continue to press on. Fast forward to today and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies becomes just the first
vendor to announce a 2TB 7,200RPM desktop hard drive. Hitachi is not the first hard drive manufacturer to reach 2TB, Western Digital did that earlier
this year, but the first 2TB drives were limited to a read/write of 5,400RPM. Seagate hit 5,900 RPM earlier this year as well, but again these new
drives will have a distinct speed advantage.
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07.08.2009Western Digital launches world's first 2TB Hard Drive
Western Digital haven't official launched their brand-new WD20EADS 2TB Western Digital Caviar Green HDD, however it is already available for
purchase at Australia's Mwave online store. Priced at AU$377.80 (US$250) Western Digital will be the first ever hard drive maker to
provide users with a 2TB hard disk drive. Image Courtesy: Engadget So far, Seagate's Barracuda 7200.12 packs 500GB per platter, and has the
highest areal density of 329 Gigabits per square inch. Western Digital might have reached this areal density with the release of its 2TB hard drive.
Further product specifications are not known yet.
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27.01.2009Review: HP StorageWorks X510 2TB Data Vault
The HP StorageWorks X510 2TB Data Vault is a simple device with a lot to offer. What is the HP StorageWorks X510 2TB Data Vault you say? It's a
home server that offers up to 5TB of storage, up to 10 PC clients (unlimited Mac) and endless streaming, storage, and access options. When I took the
conference call to get the background information on the product, they made one thing clear. They reiterated that this product was designed for
either the high end home user with a lot of PCs or the small business user and it was supposed to be as easy, if not easier to setup than a new PC.
In a simple phrase, they nailed it.
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17.11.2009Seagate release their first 2TB SATA 3.0 hard disk
Seagate have introduced their first hard drive which supports the new SATA 3.0 specification. The Barracuda XT is the Seagate's first drive to use
the new interface, which has a theoretical bandwidth of 6GB/s - double that of the SATA 2.0 (3GB/s) specification. The drive offers 2TB of storage
space, using four platters, according to Seagate (via Techspot). The 7200RPM drive has a sustained data rate of 138MB/s – the fastest speed
achieved by a 7200RPM drive, Seagate claims. The 64MB cache provides "screaming burst rate speeds and improve
overall performance," according to
their website.
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neowin.net - 22.09.2009
Western Digital's 2TB Caviar Green hard drive
Late last week Western Digital briefed us on their forthcoming release of a new addition to their Caviar Green family of hard drives.
No
we're not talking some sort of exotic sushi or cracker-bound fish egg here either but rather a new, rather humongous and environmentally more
friendly hard drive from WD, that can be considered an "industry first". Today marks the day that standard rotational media breaks the 2TB barrier.
Let's spell that out a bit more clearly again here; T-W-O full Terabytes of SATA-based storage on a single, standard 3.5" hard drive.
Those of you on the consumer side of the market, hording gigs of music, movies, pictures and other media just got a bunch more breathing room to play
with. And those of you in the enterprise space now have a new option to consider with respect to bulk, low-cost, power-efficient storage. Perhaps
that rack just got a little smaller or the need to cool it a little less? well anyway the 2TB Monster is available from a starting price of $299.
jcxp.net - 27.01.2009
Sony, SanDisk plan to make 2TB Memory Sticks
SDXC format is just not good enough. So, Sony and SanDisk have just announced that they plan to offer a new format for their jointly built memory
stick. The format is tentatively dubbed "Memory Stick format for Extended High Capacity".
This new format can reach 2TB and neither
company has released much more information than that.
In addition to the 2TB memory card format announcement; they are working on a new
Memory Stick HG Micro format, which promises to boast a blazing 60MB/s maximum data transfer speed.
There has been no indication of a
release date for either announcement. The companies are only saying that format licensing for both new formats is "scheduled to start in 2009".
jcxp.net - 09.01.2009
Apple Nixes Samsung Investment
Plan
Apple has decided against
investing some $3.8 billion in
Samsung, citing the increasing
"anti-Samsung sentiment
[that] has recently deepened
among some political and civic
groups," according to an
anonymous Samsung official.
Details of the fallout were
reported Saturday in the
financial paper Korea Economic
Daily...
betanews.com - 18.10.2005
Seagate plans SSD, 2TB hard drive for next year
Seagate will introduce its first SSD (solid-state drive) storage and 2TB hard drive next year, company CEO Bill Watkins said.
The company's first SSD product will be targeted at enterprises that need speedy storage and can afford to pay a premium for the expensive
drives. Seagate has no plans to release SSD drives for consumers as the high prices could deter them for the next few years, Watkins said in an
interview.
The release date and price information for the 2TB hard drive were not available. Seagate released 1TB hard drives,
the Barracuda 7200.11 and Barracuda ES.2, in the middle of 2007.
winbeta.org - 30.05.2008
69.2TB of imagery added to Virtual Earth during May 2008
Last month, Microsoft disclosed that it had added 22TB worth of imagery throughout the month of April. Triple that number and you still don't have
enough for what was added in May: 69.2TB. While April's update focused on adding images for Australia and Canada, May seems to be once again focused on the US. All the additional
Obliques, also known as Bird's Eye View, seem to be only for American cities (289 cities in total, to be exact).
winbeta.org - 06.06.2008
Android comes to Samsung, the I7500 is official
The rumored Android based Samsung handset has now been confirmed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd in Seoul, Korea. This makes Samsung the second
handset manufacturer in the world to unveil a handset powered by the Android platform, the other being HTC. Samsung Mobile Press Release: Seoul
(Korea Newswire) April 27, 2009 05:08 PM — Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leading mobile phone provider, today unveiled the I7500, its first
Android-powered mobile phone. With a launch of I7500, Samsung became the first company among the global top three mobile phone manufacturers to unveil
an Android-powered phone.
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neowin.net - 28.04.2009
Apple, Samsung May Face
Inquiry
The chairman of the South
Korean Fair Trade Commission
said on a local radio talk
show in Korea on Friday that
it might consider
investigating Samsung and
Apple over collusion charges.
The probe would focus on
allegations that Samsung gave
Apple a favorable deal on
flash memory chips...
betanews.com - 07.10.2005
Ericsson Sues Samsung Over
Patents
Ericsson said on Friday that
it had filed a lawsuit against
mobile phone manufacturer
Samsung, accusing it of patent
infringement in a number of
countries. Ericsson says
agreements with Samsung to
license GSM, GPRS and EDGE
technologies had expired at
the end of 2005 and the
companies have been unable to
negotiate new deals...
betanews.com - 25.02.2006
Samsung Completes Blu-ray
Drives
Samsung said on Thursday it
had completed development of
its Blu-ray disc drives,
paving the way for the company
to begin manufacture of a line
of players compatible with the
format. However, Samsung was
mum as to prices and a
specific date for launch, only
saying that drives would
appear in 2006...
betanews.com - 19.01.2006
Sprint, Samsung bet on WiMax high-speed Technology
Sprint Nextel Corp , which recently said it would spend up to $5 billion on a mobile high-speed wireless standard by 2010, said it had awarded the New
York WiMax market to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. .
Samsung had previously been awarded the Washington, DC, Baltimore,
Philadelphia, Providence, R.I. and Boston markets as part of Sprint's push to use the mobile WiMax wireless standard.
"Those
are very good markets that we've given to Samsung," Barry West, president of Sprint's high speed wireless unit, told Reuters on Monday after
Samsung made the official announcement on the sidelines of the Samsung 4G Forum.
Samsung officials also sounded an upbeat note,
with Choi Gee-sung, president of its telecommunications unit, saying the mobile WiMax business could turn profitable within the next 3 to 5 years...
winbeta.org - 27.08.2007
Samsung to open recycling centers in all 50 states
Samsung Electronics America has announced that, beginning October 1, 2008, consumers wishing to recycle their electronics will be able to drop off
their Samsung-branded devices at collection sites across the country, including permanent facilities located in all 50 states. There will be no charge
applied to any Samsung-branded devices that are brought in. If a consumer wishes to recycle a non-Samsung product at these centers, however, a small
fee will be charged, though it will go directly to the recycling process and will not be for the purpose of profit.
To add to this new
environmentally friendly approach, Samsung eliminated the middle man and contracted out recycling partners directly. Not only does this help eliminate
costs, it also allows Samsung to use partners that follow a set of requirements, including the requirement that none of these partners incinerate,
landfill, or export toxic waste to developing countries. Samsung's contracts also allows them to monitor all collected devices to assure that they
are being recycled properly.
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neowin.net - 04.09.2008
Samsung Releases New UMPC
Even though the platform
itself is struggling to stay
afloat, Samsung on Monday
introduced a new line of Ultra
Mobile PCs in an effort to
kick start the market...
betanews.com - 08.05.2007
Samsung posts losses, maintains strength in telecommunications
Like the majority of its fellow electronics companies this week, Samsung today posted a loss for the fourth quarter of 2008...
betanews.com - 23.01.2009
Samsung: We had questions, they had answers
A roundtable panel on Thursday afternoon at CES was one of the show's briefer events so far, but we picked up some interesting news tidbits from the
forthright Samsung executives present...
betanews.com - 09.01.2009
Seagate releases 2TB enterprise-class drive
Seagate Technology LLC today launched
its first 2TB enterprise-class disk drive as part of a new family of near-line SAS and SATA drives.
The new Constellation
2.5-in. and Constellation ES 3.5-in. drives come in Serial Attached SCSI 6Gbit/sec. or Serial ATA 3Gbit/sec. models and include a feature that allows
them to shut down when not in use to save power.
winbeta.org - 03.02.2009
Sharp Sues Samsung Over LCD Technology
Sharp sued Samsung in Texas
District Court on Monday,
accusing it of infringing on
patents related to liquid
crystal display technologies...
betanews.com - 07.08.2007
