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Hitachi announces 500GB, 7mm, 7,200 RPM Z7K500 notebook hard drive

On Wednesday, Hitachi announced the release of its 500GB Travelstar Z7K500. Per Electronista, the drive is the first to hit a half-terabyte at the slimmer 7mm height while keeping a full 7,200RPM spin speed and just one drive platter. Along with being the first to have both a 6Gbps SATA3 connection and a 32MB buffer, […]

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SkyDrive OS X client pics, specs leaked, iCloud may have worthwhile competitor

If you’re not totally enthralled with iCloud at all times, Microsoft is working to ensure that there are options. Per Germind, Microsoft is readying a significant update to SkyDrive in Windows 8, and reportedly leaked screenshots of the revamped file syncing and cloud storage service show that a Mac OS X client could be poised […]

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Adobe Reader, Adobe Reader Pro updated to 10.1.2

On Wednesday, Adobe released version 10.1.2 of its Adobe Reader application. The update, which can also be snagged through the Adobe Update Utility, adds the following fixes and changes: – On printing a PDF file to a PCL printer via Acrobat or Reader, the italic output in the printout is not correct. – Mouseover events […]

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Apple releases iOS 5.1 SDK beta, Xcode 4.3 preview, references upcoming iOS devices

The next major iOS update: it’s usually a pretty cool thing. Per Electronista, Apple has released a new iOS 5.1 beta for developer testing on all iPad, iPod touch and iPhone models that support iOS 5.0. The beta contains references to next-generation iPhone and iPad models with references to a next-generation iPhone, “iPhone5,1,” as well […]

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Microsoft looking towards digital delivery system for Windows 8 upgrades/installs

You may not be in love with Windows, but it does become handy from time to time. Per the MSDN blog, Microsoft looks to be gearing up to release its next-generation Windows 8 operating system via digital release. In a post to the company’s official blog this week, Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft’s Windows Division, […]