Today, Hitachi has been found guilty of price-fixing, through its own admission, in the current round of a court battle involving three other companies that produce TFT-LCD screens. The others are LG, Sharp, and lesser known Chunghwa. from BetaNews Hitachi would pay the least of the four companies t...

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has acquired Fabrik, the San Mateo-based data storage firm which owns the G-Technology and SimpleTech data storage brands. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Fabrik is a provider of data storage hardware, flash memory, USB hard drives, and memo...

We've seen quite a few hardware-encrypted disks hit the scene lately, but to be honest, we've always thought they were a risky investment, since all the systems were proprietary -- we wouldn't want to store our encryption-worthy data on a disk that can't be read at all in a few years, after all. Tha...

Western Digital is my favorite hard drive brand. Their drives are the most reliable I have ever used. I have contacted their email support many times and they always respond in less than 24 hours with useful information, something other companies should learn from them. Western Digital has a strong ...

I’ve talked about the regrettable 3-D TV trend at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in a separate post. But I spotted some other trends among the 2,700 exhibitors at the show as well. Gesture control and multi-touch screens: Part and parcel of good industrial hardw...

Gesture recognition is one of the most exciting new technologies at the International Consumer Electronics Show this week. A variety of companies — inspired by the Nintendo Wii’s gesture control and the iPhone’s multi-touch screen — developing new ways to interact with gadget...

Some say that the end of the trusty hard drive is near, killed by SSD. But let's not be so quick to give up on a technology that stores a whole terabyte for $100. It'll be years before solid-state......

Filed under: Reviews, Other hardware, Hitachi Hitachi's DZ-BD10HA isn't for everyone, as evidenced by the built-in 3-inch BD-R / RE burner that your content gets cooked onto. If you're one of those folks who doesn't mind (or enjoys, we should say) the direct-to-disc approach, however, CNET's review ...

File this one under: “Wow, that’s even possible?” xbox-scene hacker [RDC] has been hard at work converting his Xbox 360 to slot loading. To start, He removed the slot loading drive from a blueberry iMac G3. The loading mechanism is the top half of the drive. He split this off and m...

You’re at the store and you’re looking at all the digital camcorders trying to decide which one to buy. They’re all about the same price but some boast more features than others. Some are really small and some just average. Of course, nowadays, most are no bigger than the size of y...