Data Storage News Summary (TM) - August 30, 2006
30 August 2006
In The News
- Thai Officials Woo Hitachi GST
- Terabyte Becoming The Gold Standard In Personal Computing
- Nidec Beefs Up HDD Motor R&D Capacity in Japan
Feature
- Take My Music Please
Financial releases, Market notes
- Tech stocks rally to close higher overall
- Komag to Participate in Citigroup Investor Conference
- Costco selling 400 GB hard drives for $100, no rebate, no coupons
- Higher capacity to drive Eng Teknologi sales
- Seagate Launches Summer Promotion for HDD Resellers in Korea
- Microsoft picks Toshiba to make iPod rival “Zune”
- Intevac Opens Kulim Support Center
Focus on: The Economy
- Consumer confidence plunges in August
Focus on: Technology
- Shift from hard drives to flash may have environmental benefits
Focus on: Products
- Hitachi Promotes SATA Hard Drive to Enterprise Ranks
- Review: Seagate 750GB Pushbutton backup hard drive
- Microsoft reveals more about Live Drive
- Infortrend Qualifies Seagate's 750GB SATA Hard Drive
- ArcSoft Announces Backup Software Bundle Agreement With Western Digital