Infected Seagate Hard Drives - Chinese subcontractors blamed for trojan horses

Investigators say the tainted Maxtor portable hard disc, made by Seagate, uploads information saved on the computer automatically to Web sites in Beijing

A shipment of Maxtor external HDDs, produced in Thailand by US-based Seagate and sold in Taiwan, has been found to be infected with Autorun trojans designed to gather sensitive data from machines connected [...]

Asustek to launch £199 Asus Eee PC laptop in UK

Asustek has announced that its ridiculously low-cost notebook, and challenger to Nicholas Negroponte’s OLPC, the Eee PC, will launch in the UK on 12 November.

The cost of the Asus laptop in the UK will be £219 inc VAT for the 4G model, and £199 inc VAT for the 2G Surf model in the UK.

That said, [...]

Western Digital Announces Scorpio WD3200BEVT 320GB Laptop Hard Drive

Western Digital yesterday announced it is now shipping its new Western Digital Scorpio WD3200BEVT 2.5-inch notebook HDD with 320GB of storage capacity (Hard Drive requires a SATA interface).

Scorpio WD3200BEVT 320GB - With 5400 RPM spin speed and 12 ms access time, even the most demanding customer will appreciate the performance achieved by Western Digital Scorpio [...]

Toshiba Launches AMD-Based Laptop

Toshiba is bringing back its Satellite Pro line of notebook computers, which are geared towards small businesses. The latest models are designed to meet the demands of business professionals who want multimedia features but don’t want to pay over $1K. The Toshiba Satellite Pro A200 and Toshiba Satellite Pro A210 will load Intel and AMD [...]

Lenovo Launches G-Series Laptops in India

Chinese PC manufacturer Lenovo has announced the launch of their G-Series notebooks in the Indian market. These are basically low cost notebook models aimed at budget buyers. These laptops are priced starting at Rs 31,750.
These are now being made available through all authorized stores in the Indian market.
Lenovo claims that these laptop models are provided [...]

Laptop Hard Drive Recovery

To avoid paying a lot of money and saving yourself from trouble of losing all your important data, backing up your local files once a week is recommended. Back up your files using CD-RW or DVD-RW or you can backup your files online.But if the worse has happened and you have already lost your files [...]

Dell Precision M6300 + Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme X7900 mobile processor

Yesterday Dell announced that the processor would be used in its Precision M6300 laptop computers, which is marketed towards engineers, artists, architects, and other professionals that need the processing power of a desktop out in the field. We’re still patiently waiting for this power in Dell’s XPS systems.

While the base model of Dell’s Precision [...]

Taiwan’s Acer to buy Gateway

Acer already sells computers at retail in the U.S., as done Gateway, both under the company name and as eMachines, which it purchased in 2004. And as part of the deal, Gateway says it will exercise its rights to acquire control to PB (Packard Bell). It’s all fairly complicated, because Lap Shun Hui had owned [...]

Dell Unveils New Services For Customers in the UAE

Underlining its commitment to the region, Dell has launched an array of services for business customers and consumers in the region at a press conference held at the Fairmont Hotel in Dubai.
The new investment will see Dell enhance spares availability by managing the spare parts and logistics via a new central regional distribution hub in [...]

Lenovo Setsup Regionalhub in PETALING JAYA

Lenovo is setting up a regional operations hub to deliver and provide support services ranging from financing, channels marketing and customer service to the company’s offices outside of China.
The operations hub, based in Damansara Uptown, is part of Lenovo’s plan to centralise its business functions while maintaining consistent quality and increasing operational efficiency.
At a press [...]