Momentus 5400 FDE.2: HDD with embedded encrypting system from Seagate

Many users ignore safety of their data. Most of them are well protected against harmful software: they have anti-virus and firewall. But there are few who thinks about protection from physical stealing. And here comes a solution - new Seagate HDD    Momentus 5400 FDE.2

There are two possible dangers: losing of data and information leakage. If hard drive is broken, data stored on it will be lost. If you make backups regularly, actual damage to the data will be minimal. But if you cannot physically protect storage device or whole system, your data may be compromised, which means unauthorized users will have access to your information.

Most troublesome are mobile users. When they work on PC's inside corporate building data usually stored on unified file servers or local discs. Local security policy and IT-infrastructure are usually enough to provide maximum data security. It could be compromised only in case of breach in IT-infrastructure or if someone will physically steal disc drive or copy data via direct access.

You know some standard methods of protection: BIOS password, Windows authentication and so on. But is good only for keeping your kids from playing on your PC while you are absent.

The only effective mean of protection is a hardware one. Seagate used new Trusted Platform Module in it's Momentus HDD. But you'll need special software all the same.

All models of Momentus series are represented by most popular modifications of  80, 120 and 160 Gb. It is not as fast as leaders such as Spinpoint M5 (Samsung), Hitachi Travelstar 5K250 or new Momentus 5400.4, but encrypting almost does not affects speed.

It is not supported by Windows Vista for now so you'll have to use Windows SP Home or Professional. To activate encrypting procedures you have to install FinallySecure package by Secude. After that you receive small second partition where you can store your most valuable information. To access it you'll have to enter login and password. When connected to other system this partition renders empty.

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GeForce 9600 GT with passive cooling

It seems engineers of Micro-Star International intend to provide customers with all imaginable and unimaginable accelerators based on graphic processing unit GeForce 9600 GT. No other manufacturer can boast such variety of goods based on D9P chip technology.

Developers brought another modification with index N9600GT-2TD512Z to international exhibition CeBIT 2008. It has alternative double-slot passive cooling system which consists of impressive-sized radiator and four heat pipes.

This modification built on non-standard red circuit board, has 512 Mb GDDR3 memory with 156-bit interface and functions on frequencies of 650/1625/1800 MHz perfectly matching etalon numbers.

There is no approximate information about price and public release date of N9600GT-2TD512Z.

[via 3dnews.ru]

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Asus Triton 79 AMAzing - Yep, It is Really Amazing

Asus announced production of 3200 CPU coolers Triton 79 AMAzing. This move was specially made for gamers. Asus Triton 79 AMAzing is compatible with Intel Core 2 extreme / Core 2 Quad (LGA775) and AMD Athlon 64 FX/X2 Dual -Core (939/940/AM2/AM2+/1207+). This cooler is perfect for gamers who want to squeeze maximum power from hardware and also have the platform alternative.

Each part of Asus Triton 79 AMAzing is defended with polyurethane foam. Every customer will have exclusive identification card with device serial number. Without a doubt, every gamer will like this cooler for it's performance and very nice looking design.

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Radeon 3870 X2 on CeBIT: DDR4 RAM and Water Cooling

Most of AMD's partners on CeBIT released Radeon 3870 X2 video cards with DDR4 instead of DDR3. Radeon 3870X2 with water cooling also will be shown. Mass production of these video cards with DDR4 memory planned for middle March 2008. And you can find such a cards in shops around a first half of April 2008.

Cost of Radeon 3870 X2 with DDR4 will be slightly higher than its analogues with DDR3 memory, but exact overprice isn't known yet. Performance with new memory will be improved of course but not very much.

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Dell Doesn't Want to Sell AMD Anymore

It seems Dell Company has disappointed in AMD based desktop computers and now seriously shrinks its stock of AMD related consumer products. Confirming this Dell announce that now you can't buy AMD based computer on Dell's website. And you can get such a computer only by phone or in offline shop.

This news rushed down AMD shares immediately.  Shares felt on 4.7% to cost as low as $6,28 per share. It was just a excuse because the market was waiting for some bad news about AMD for 2 weeks already. Dell claims that it affects only website and AMD products may come back at any moment.

Dell is second in rating of world's leading computer manufacturers. It started to assemble desktop computers with AMD processors in may 2006. Now you can find only one desktop computer with AMD processor on the Dell website: Dell OptiPlex 740. Server solutions are not affected now.

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.Asia can be registered now

New top-level domain ".asia" is available for registration. Registration and control are entrusted to nonprofit organization DotAsia Organization Limited which consist of members from China, India and Japan.

So far registration available  only for companies located in Asia-Pacific region which have registered trademarks and for government offices. Regular people will be able to register .asia domains only in February 2008.

Currently Asia has 400 million users(for example 253 million in North America).

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Toshiba recalls 142 000 DVD player AC adapters

Toshiba announce one more massive recall again, not a good sign for company.

AC Adapters sold with portable DVD players may overheat and even ignite when they fail, potentially threatening the user. This recall comes after two DVD players was burned, however, no injuries have been reported. You bought affected DVD player if it was between January 2005 and April 2006 at consumer electronics stores in US then and Your AC adapter has "ADPV16" mark. Don't use dangerous AC adapters and contact Toshiba service for replacement.

Affected AC adapter:

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Do You Want To Have Your Own Universe?

If you want to broadcast your messages to the whole world you can be builder of My PC Universe(or any another blog of MyUniverseRing). We are waiting for your contribution.

Contact us:       

 

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Goog-411

Google started new service - Goog-411. This is search on the phone for US. You can call 1-800-GOOG-411, ask your query and operator will read the answer from Google. Of course this service is free.

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Vixta: Vista Look and Feel for Penguins

Vixta - new Linux distributive with very strange target audience. It is supposed to be used by Linux users impressed with Windows Vista and wanted to have similar-looking desktop.

Vista based on Fedora with customized KDE. It has widgets, main menu and taskbar in Vista style but inside it's still Linux. So in that a la Vista main menu you'll find Konqueror instead of Explorer, OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office etc.

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WiFi everywhere

New shirt from ThinkGeek has animated WiFi and shows signal level to everyone. Now you can to find best place for WiFi just walking around. Detector placed on the shirt with stickers so you can wash it without harming electronics. I think it would be very nice present for a friend with IT interests.

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Google gets Extra Large size

"Extra Large" option appeared in Google Image Search.  Now you can use it if you want to find really big pictures. For example querying "Ferrari" with that option you can get 3414 x 2968 photo found by Google. But I think it would be more interesting when Google implement feature that gives opportunity to set searching dimensions manually. Something like "300-500 wide and 200-250 height".

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A case was disclosed by Flickr

  Six computers were stolen from the office of WorkSpace company. It was regular thievery but only one thing - it was disclosed by thief himself and online photo sharing service Flickr, owned by Yahoo.

WorkSpace had a company account on Flickr and stolen computers were using for uploading pictures on it. Thief, who didn't know about flickr-server function of his new computers, decided to make photos of himself. After that some nice photo of man with scary tattoos appeared on WorkSpace company's Flickr account. Photos was titled "Me". One of the WorkSpace's managers, Dane Brown saw that photos and didn't believed in such an ignorance. But it was true - thief upload photos of himself and pointed in title that it was he, who stole the computers.

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Intel Phone Announced

It looks like Phone Mania is spreading wider and wider among the top IT-companies. Next XPhone announced to be created by Intel. It is supposed to be innovative smartphone with sensor screen. You can see demonstration of Intel Phone in the video below:

By the way, don't You think Intel's phone can be called iPhone too? :)

PlayStation Store comes to PC

Sony's network services for games distribution now available on PC. CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Kaz Hirai announced that PlayStation store can be reached from PC in Japan now. Of course we thought that Sony will spread this feature in Europe and North America.

Before now You could to use PlayStation Store for downloading games, demos and media  only with PSP.

Google Phone to be released in Q1 2008

As mobile phone producers from Taiwan says Google will released its phone right after model specification works and OS planning. Google still don't have any contracts with distributors and other partners. Earlier it was known that Google will use hardware EDGE-solutions of Texas Instruments, but recently leaked out that 3G technologies can be used in Google Phone.

But this using of 3G technologies can delay Google's announce of Google Phone. There's suggestion that Google will do its best to start GPhone in bound with Google's own OS, which must be competitive with such OS as Windows Mobile and Symbian.

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Do You want to get inside Apple's product?

Apple CEO Steve Jobs met Volkswagen's chief Martin Winterkhorn few days ago. And they plan to meet again for discissions. That fact makes some experts think Apple and Volkswagen decided to create "iCar" - vehicle with significant amount of media device aboard. Such a proposition have an opportunity to get reality because Apple have partnership with a lot of automakers including VW. It can be great step for Apple to create a branded car but don't You think that Apple goes out from its territory?

Skype was attacked by... Microsoft

Skype is on at last. Numerous users of peer-to-peer phone service Skype was unable to use it for almost 2 days. It was greatest outage of Skype for all its history. There was a lot of gossips about reasons of this problem. Someone told about DDoS, someone told about hackers etc. But Skype recently revealed the real reason of crash. The attacker was Microsoft! Cause was the regular Window Update. Skype reports that update caused massive computers reboot and then massive sign in of Skype users. There were some error in program code and because of it chain reaction crashed whole the peer-to-peer system.

iPhone's keyboard sucks

Usability study group User Centric shows in its study that iPhone's keyboard isn't as well as common QWERTY keyboards. Users on common keyboards make much less mistakes while typing texts or numbers and they are much quicker in typing texts. You can read more about it here.
Some pictures showing the difference between QWERTY keyboards and iPhone's keyboard:

Intel did it again!

Not so much time ago Intel seriously cut prices on its processors. And now Intel repeat its move. Great price cut on quad-core processors bring them much closer to the consumers.