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Over the holidays, my Facebook page was hacked and a phishing attack was launched using the "chat" feature, where my friends were contacted and told my wife and I had been mugged and that we needed money. It just goes to show that even with an alphanumeric password, your account information is not safe.

Today, it was narrowly reported that C programming language inventor and Unix co-creator Dennis Ritchie died after a long illness. He was 70. Earlier this month, Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs also died after a long illness.

It’s quite the juxtaposition.

On the exhibition floor of SNW in Orlando, I shot some video of the latest solid state drive and PCIe flash card technology -- oh, and a $240,000 Lamborghini.

At SNW, Fusion-io set up a video wall with 4,500 streams all being fed through a single SSD card

A California judge ruled today that former EMC top executive David Donatelli cannot oversee storage operations at HP due to a noncompete clause with his former employer.

EMC employee Nick Glasgow has Leukemia and efforts to cure the disease by transfusing blood platelets and antibiotic treatments have so far failed. What he needs is a bone marrow transplant. The technology community is rallying around the cause of getting as many possible donors to submit a simple sample to the national donor base.

While its price is still higher than most SSDs, Intel at least is making an effort to be more consumer friendly.

EMC is building up hype around a worldwide announcement on April 14, and most rumors put the money on it being centered around partnering with Cisco and offering enterprises in-house cloud computing.

Let's face it, Woz is a nice guy with whom we can identify and who is vastly more entertaining than those other model types gliding across the floor.

Samsung decided to see what a team of engineers could prove by stringing together 24, high-capacity solid state disk drives. The results were pretty impressive, including 2GB/sec throughput.

Do different hard drives actually make different sounds as they grind to a horrible death? The answer is, yes. Some even play you a tune as they shuffle off this mortal coil, taking away your data in the process.

Sales of lower resolution televisions, such as 720p and 1080i, are outpacing true hi-def flat panels this year, which may be affecting the sales of Blu-ray players and content, which display video in full 1080p resolution. Without 1080p televisions, there's little reason to purchase Blu-ray.

While you may think the voting issues associated with the elections in 2000 and 2004 have been resolved, you'd be wrong. And, there's a new call to go back to paper.

PNY announced this week that it was releasing a USB flash drive with the movie Ghostbusters on it. While it may only be a marketing ploy, it signals opportunity for the motion picture industry and users.

Yes, we want more than 512MB of storage with the Wii in order to store downloads, but we're not this desperate.