http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/16/new.hitachi.2tb.external.drives.new.simpledrive/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/hitachisimpledrive2009.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Hitachi on Monday added a new range of SimpleDrive external desktop hard drives available in up to a 2TB capacity. In addition to the new capacity, the disks have a Turbo USB 2.0 interface that is said to be 25 percent faster than the traditional spec. Hitachi includes its Fabrik backup software, which automatically copies over selected files from the host PC and includes 2GB of free online backup... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/16/new.hitachi.2tb.external.drives.new.simpledrive/ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:15:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/27/hitachi.toshiba.join.sony.in.anti.trust.query/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/hitachiBD.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Hitachi and Toshiba's optical drive divisions have also been implicated in a US Department of Justice investigation regarding possible antitrust abuse, according to another Monday WSJ report. As with Sony, not many other details were revealed, and executives at both Hitachi and Toshiba say they will fully cooperate with the investigations. Hitachi's optical drive business is a joint venture with L... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/27/hitachi.toshiba.join.sony.in.anti.trust.query/ Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/21/att.sues.au.optronics.more/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/htcpure-att.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />AT&T has filed a lawsuit in a federal court in San Francisco on Tuesday against Samsung, LG Display, AU Optronics and other LCD makers for allegedly colluding on fixing the price of display panels in the US. According to a Wednesday Bloomberg report, AT&T claimed Samsung and six others have formed an illegal international cartel meant to "restrict competition in the United States in the market for... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/21/att.sues.au.optronics.more/ Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/13/hitachi.15000rpm.ultrastar.drives.now.shipping/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/hitachiultrastarhdintro.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Hitachi has released two new hard drives on Tuesday, both turning at the fastest-possible 15,000RPM design. Part of the Ultrastar series, this includes the company's first 2.5-inch drive with the extra speed, the C15K147, and the firm's fourth-generation 3.5-inch drive, the 600GB 15K600. Either has a 6Gbps SCSI (SAS) interface, though the latter can be had with a 4Gbps Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loo... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/13/hitachi.15000rpm.ultrastar.drives.now.shipping/ Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/14/casio.hitachi.nec.joint.cellular.venture/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/hitachihi-visionphone-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Casio, Hitachi and NEC took defensive steps to protect their cellphones today and said they would merge their handset businesses into a single joint venture. The deal leaked earlier will see NEC join an existing Casio and Hitachi venture but largely take it over; NEC will have a 66 percent stake while Casio and Hitachi will have 17.3 percent and 16.7 percent respectively. All three will share th... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/14/casio.hitachi.nec.joint.cellular.venture/ Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/01/hitachi.500gb.notebook.hdd/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0908/hitachihd.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Hitachi has expanded its Travelstar line of 2.5-inch hard drives with the 7K500 series, available in capacities up to 500GB. The new drives represents the company's highest capacity notebook storage without sacrificing the 7200RPM speed and 16MB cache. Media transfer rates have been increased to 1245Mb/s, approximately 16 percent faster than the 7K320-series drives.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/01/hitachi.500gb.notebook.hdd/ Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/28/casio.hitachi.nec.rumor/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0908/hitachihi-visionphone-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Three of Japan's major cellphone makers are nearing a joint venture that would create one of the largest companies of its type, sources said on Friday. Contacts for the WSJ believe Casio, Hitachi and Sharp are in talks to create a phone-only firm that would launch by April 2010. The project would be an attempt to consolidate businesses after the combination of economic fallout and a largely satu... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/28/casio.hitachi.nec.rumor/ Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/27/hitachi.hdtvs.announced/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0908/hitachi-hdtv.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Hitachi has announced several new plasma and LCD televisions to be released in the coming months, the P-XP035 Series and the L-XP035 Series. Both televisions feature a 500GB internal HDD, an iVDR slot and DLNA support, while an light sensor is used to automatically adjust the display brightness to suit the ambient lighting. The devices support 1080p video signals which can be recorded directly ont... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/27/hitachi.hdtvs.announced/ Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/07/tdk.2.5tb.hard.drive.plans/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0908/wdcaviargreen2tb.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Advances in TDK's hard drive technology could lead to another large boost in the capacity of hard drives within a few months, a roadmap presented this week shows. The storage firm is currently going through qualification tests of 640GB drive platters that would fit into a typical 3.5-inch drive and so would allow significantly more storage than existing 2TB drives from Hitachi, Seagate and Wester... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/07/tdk.2.5tb.hard.drive.plans/ Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/06/hitachi.2tb.7200rpm.hdd/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0908/hitachi2TB.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Hitachi GST is now shipping its first 2TB, 7,200 RPM desktop hard drive. The fourth-generation Deskstar 7K2000 uses the company's proprietary five-platter design with relaxed bit density and perpendicular magnetic recording technology. The company is also refreshing its K1000.C Deskstar line, with capacities ranging from 160GB to 1TB.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/06/hitachi.2tb.7200rpm.hdd/ Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:00:00 GMT