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Data dumping ground: external hard drives

You can now store hundreds of gigabytes of data in a compact external hard disk drive. But not all external drives are created equal though, so we've compiled four popular options to see how they stack up.

LaCie dresses up its new hard drives

LaCie unveiled a whole posse of new hard drives at this year's CES.

The golden wave of storage

How to make an external hard drive look sexy? LaCie's trick is to whack on a layer of gold.

Apple releases latest Leopard, 10.5.2

Apple's latest cat rolls out of the litter.

Lenovo hikes netbook price for Aussies

Chinese PC maker Lenovo has flagged plans to enter the miniature notebook market with a one-kilogram model to launch later this year. But while Australians will get the notebook before their US counterparts, they can also expect to pay more.

Tonium Pacemaker soon to be released into the wild

Digital music has changed DJing forever. Swedish firm Tonium intends to take it to the masses with its handheld Pacemaker.

Vista Service Pack 1: Things Microsoft forgot to fix

Life's all about grabbing opportunities, and we think Microsoft missed a few with Windows Vista SP1. Here's a list of things we think should have been included with the operating system upgrade to improve the Windows Vista user experience on the whole.

Maxtor Shared Storage Plus

Maxtor Shared Storage Plus family dishes out A/V files and serves as a network backup

Servers in the home remain scarce

Microsoft tried to make fun of the notion of a home server with a faux children's book. However, it faces the real challenge of trying to convince consumers that they want to install a server at home.

FireWire standard accelerates to 3.2Gbps

The speed of FireWire is set to quadruple next year after the group behind it announced a new specification for the networking interface.

PS3 spreads its wings with PlayTV, BD-Live and social gaming

Sony has sold some 238,000 PS3s in Australia since its launch, and plans to keep that number ticking over with new games, community features and a TV recorder.

Revolution games to be under AU$100

Nintendo executives have revealed that they will be keeping the cost of their first-party Revolution games below US$59.99 (AU$85).

Dude, Dell does backup

Worried about losing files or photos? Dell says it's got your back.

Aussie Xbox on-demand HDTV, film service coming

Xbox Live to feature downloadable movies and TV shows in the US; Australian service to be unveiled in the next few months.

Telstra cancels Microsoft IPTV trial

Telstra has cancelled its field test of Microsoft Internet Protocol TV, another setback for the software giant's TV technology efforts.

Wireless USB devices arriving by September

First devices using the technology will be external hard drives, digital cameras and printers, industry group leader says.

Networked storage heads for homes

Storage companies are betting a technology once reserved for businesses will appeal to consumers dealing with large files shared by multiple PCs and a need for data protection.

Data-corrupting Home Server won't be fixed til June

Yesterday Microsoft dashed the hopes of users waiting for a fix to the Windows Home Server data corruption issue -- the patch will not be available in its official form until June.

Wireless USB poised to cut the cable

After years of discussion, fast wireless connections between PCs and peripherals are getting close.

Xbox 360 unveiled, and it's coming next year

Microsoft has officially taken the wraps off the Xbox 360, its next generation console that features a sleek new design, a detachable hard drive and more than a teraflop of processing power.

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