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California court backs EMC: Former exec can't oversee HP's storage ops

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.

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Finding a bone marrow match for Nick

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.

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Intel drops its prices on solid state disk drives

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

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Tectonic plates shifting with EMC's upcoming news?

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.

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Three reasons Woz should remain on Dancing with the Stars

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.

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Twenty-four SSDs strung together for 6TB, 2GB/sec throughput

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.

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40 different sounds of failing hard drives

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.

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Lower-res TV sales outpace 1080p -- hurting Blu-ray?

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.

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Prevent unwanted presidencies with paper ballots

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.

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A USB flash drive with Ghostbusters - a good/bad thing

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.

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Wii's new external hard drive is really 'cool'

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

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Good news users: Flash memory prices continue to tumble

Flash memory prices have been dropping for a year now, and the only thing that could disrupt their descent is the iPhone or a couple of other hot hand-held devices that will give NAND memory a shot in the arm.

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Celerra Man

While attending EMC World in Las Vegas this past week, I was confronted by Celerra Man, a guy dressed up in a foam costume to look like an EMC Celerra disk array.

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Solid state disks find home with Google, Apple

Both Google and Apple appear to be rolling out new solid state disks in two different environments: the data center and retail products, according to industry sources.

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This ID thief got off easy

Randall Craig stole sensetive data on more than 17,000 U.S. Marines and military employees with the explicit purpose of selling it to a foriegn government. His act, which netted him a whopping $500, should carry with it a special punishment.

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