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  Last week, WD introduced My Book Live Duo for the Indian market. Coming in capacities of 4TB and 6TB in dual-drive configuration, the My Book Live Duo can be used for its huge storage or use the second drive to mirror the original data, thanks to the RAID technology, which can be setup to [...]

  Seagate has announced to buy a controlling stake in LaCie for $186 million. Seagate will buy a 64.5% stake in the company and subject to government approval, will start an all-cash simplified tender offer to acquire the remaining outstanding shares. Seagate says the transaction will allow them to combine LaCie’s premium branded offerings with [...]

  Intel has announced third-generation of Core vPro processors targeted at businesses and intelligent systems. Since security is one of the major criteria for businesses, Intel has managed to embed security at every layer, including the silicon. The chips are equipped Intel Identity Protection with public key infrastructure, OS Guard and Secure Key that helps [...]

  National mobile manufacturers are aplenty in India but the fact that most decide to just import the devices from Chinese OEMs, brand and sell them, it becomes a bit hard to differentiate and compete with other reputed brands. Things however, can change with this initiative from Qualcomm. The Qualcomm Reference Design is a “pre-cooked” [...]

  So we’ve got the first confirmed feature that is expected in the upcoming Samsung Galaxy device. It’s the quad-core processor aka Exynos 4 Quad which Samsung announced today. The Exynos 4 Quad is built using Samsung’s 32nm High-k Metal Gate (HKMG) low-power process technology and is based on four ARM Cortex A9 chips clocked [...]

  Epson today announced a nifty portable scanner for users who require document scanning on-the-go. The WorkForce DS-30 is just 325 grams and all it needs a single USB port off a laptop or a PC to operate. DS-30 is able to scan documents up to A4 size and is equipped with technologies like ReadyScan [...]

  Looks like HTC is following the footsteps of Apple and Samsung to develop in-house processors for the devices. An article by China Times claims HTC has entered into a partnership with ST-Ericsson to co-develop the chip. But unlike the other two companies, HTC developed chips will be used in low-end smartphones, which maybe to [...]

  Nvidia has confirmed that they’ll launch a new Tegra 3 processor later this year. While the details are scarce at the moment the chip will mostly be called as Tegra 3+ and will boast improved processing and graphics performance. Nvidia’s roadmap also hints at two new processors on the way, codenamed Wayne and Grey. [...]

  Microsoft has launched a new Bluetooth-equipped keyboard for the Indian market. The wireless keyboard is targeted towards tablet and smartphone owners who want a physical keyboard in a compact size. Microsoft says the keyboard works with Windows as well as iOS and Android devices. In addition to the wide compatibility, the keyboard boasts a [...]

  Western Digital has announced that their first ever 2TB portable hard drive is now available in India. The 2TB hard drive is part of the new My Passport range that boasts a new premium finish and scratch resistant exterior and supports both USB 3.0 and 2.0 interfaces. Additionally, the drive comes with an automatic [...]

  Google’s Chrome OS currently runs on devices powered by Intel Atom processors but according to the new info on the Chromium OS page, Google’s OS will support ARM-powered processors pretty soon. A Chrome OS device codenamed Daisy is apparently being tested with an ARM-based Samsung Exynos 5250 processor. This Exynos processor is a dual-core [...]

  Tegra 3 has four main cores that drive all the processing power but Nvidia recently confirmed to have added another core that allows the device to carry-out less performance intensive tasks while maintaining the device’s battery life. While it was referred to as a companion or a ninja core back then, Nvidia has decided [...]

  SanDisk has launched its Extreme line of SSDs in the Indian market. Touted to be 10 times faster than a 7,200RPM HDD, the SanDisk Extreme SSD delivers up to 83,000 of maximum random write Input-Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) and up to 44,000 random read IOPS achieving a sequential read/write speeds of 550/520 megabytes [...]

HP announced the availability of its TouchSmart 620 3D Edition all-in-one PC. The 620 3D Edition PC comes integrated with a Bluray player with premium stereo speakers coupled with Beats Audio. It is powered by Intel Core i5 2400 processor running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit edition with 1GB DDR5 graphics memory. The display is [...]

In the ongoing CES, storage giant Seagate has collaborated with Verizon wireless to showcase first 4G LTE – GoFlex Satellite. This 4G LTE-connected wireless storage can hold 300 HD movies that can be watched on your Android or IOS device. One can also download music, movies and photos over 4G LTE and stream it all [...]