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Data Storage News
06/28/2009 Review: Intel's X25-E SSD runs circles around rival drives
The Intel X25-E is considered one of the most advanced solid-state disk (SSD) drives on the market. It boasts impressive I/O performance, solid reliability and longevity -- and you might be surprised by just how well it did in our tests. More info...


06/23/2009 Trouble With an Incompatible Laptop Hard Drive
My laptop needed a roomier hard drive; and on NewEgg.com, I found a great deal on a 256GB solid-state drive from Patriot. After three days or so, I noticed that my laptop intermittently froze. I did some research and found that some SSDs have serious problems that are significantly more prominent when they're installed in certain laptops. NewEgg appears to have a policy of not offering a refund or store credit on this product. This is a $600 product and I cannot use it with my laptop. NewEgg approved a replacement, but if it doesn't work on my laptop, I don't want another! More info...


06/22/2009 Samsung releases SSDs in PCIe card form factor
Samsung today released an SSD for netbooks that is roughly the same size as a PCIe card, which should enable netbook manufacturers to produces thinner, lighter machines. More info...


06/22/2009 Apple issues fix for MacBook Pro SATA interface
Apple today released a firmware upgrade that apparently addresses complaint from users having problems with the SATA 3Gbit/sec drive interface on MacBook Pro laptops. More info...


06/19/2009 DreamWorks: 3D movies to double data storage requirements
With a growing number of feature-length animated movies and the changeover from a 2D to a 3D format, DreamWorks Animation deployed a disk-based data archive system that reduced the time it takes artists to retrieve reference video from days to seconds. More info...


06/18/2009 DRAM's inventor, 76, still going strong at IBM
Dennard's Law? It doesn't have quite the ring of Moore's Law, mostly because IBM researcher Robert H. Dennard remains unknown to the general public. But the research community knows the name behind DRAM. More info...


The Computer Help Center offers free computer training with high quality video tutorials

The Computer Help Center is designed to be the easiest way to learn how to secure, maintain, and use your computer. Computer-help-center.com makes learning about computers easy by using as little technical jargon as possible and by providing high quality video tutorials for numerous computer tasks. Let's face it, it is easier to learn about something when you see it done than to read about it. The main computer help topics are always listed on the top navigation bar ("Computer Backup" to "Computer Privacy"). Subtopics are listed in the left navigation bar once a main topic is chosen.

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Cybercrime News
07/02/2009 Security guard charged with hacking hospital systems
The grainy video shows a bleary-eyed young man in a hoodie inside the Carrell Clinic in Dallas. As he hits the elevator button, the Mission Impossible theme music plays in the background. "You're on a mission with me: Infiltration," he tells the camera.
07/01/2009 The Pirate Bay: Users can delete accounts ahead of sale
The operators of The Pirate Bay will allow users to delete their accounts on the torrent-tracking site, a feature many users have requested since a deal to sell the site was announced Tuesday.
06/30/2009 'Iceman' pleads guilty to massive computer hacking
Max Ray Butler, a hacker known as the 'Iceman,' pleaded guilty to breaking into numerous financial institutions and card-processing networks and stealing credit card and identity data on hundreds of thousands of individuals.
06/30/2009 Juniper nixes ATM security talk
Juniper Networks has barred one of the company's security researchers from discussing security flaws in Automated Teller Machines after an ATM maker threatened legal action.
06/30/2009 Feds arrest man allegedly behind DDoS attacks against Rolling Stone
A man has been charged with allegedly launching distributed denial-of-service attacks against at least nine Web sites, including Rolling Stone magazine's site.
06/30/2009 Seven Deadly Sins of Social Networking Security
Admit it: You are currently addicted to social networking. Your drug of choice might be Facebook or Twitter, or maybe Myspace or LinkedIn. Some of you are using all of the above, and using them hard, even IT security practitioners who know better.

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