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On its own, the Unit 1 bag is a sleek, slimline and very nice-looking laptop sleeve (or paper-notebook sleeve, if you must). But add in Unit 2 and Unit 3 and it transforms into something a lot more useful, and yet still just as eye-friendly.
The company is called Unit Portables, and the bags are modular, with connections that are robust enough not to be snatched off by a passing pickpocket.
Two years ago Tandberg Data was an ailing company, but yesterday it agreed to buy the RDX removable disk assets from ProStor, signalling its return to health.
RDX is the removable disk drive cartridge technology devised by ProStor Systems with manufacturing ad marketing rights licensed first to Tandberg Data and then to Imation.
Tandberg Data is a tape automation supplier that fell on hard times as the backup-to-tape market consolidated onto the DAT and LTO formats and then shrank under the onslaught of backup to disk and reduplication technologies.
As Data Domain’s fortunes soared as those of Exabyte, Overland Storage, Tandberg Data and other tape backup device manufacturers slumped.
An Amazon cloud server is said to have been used by the PlayStation Network hackers to wage their attack.
Hackers responsible for the massive security breach of Sony’s PlayStation Network that left as much as 100 million users at risk of identity theft used an Amazon-run server to launch the attack, according to “a person with knowledge of the matter,” reports Bloomberg.
Rather than hijack Amazon’s server, the hackers allegedly used an alias to sign up for an account through Amazon’s EC2 service, and waged their cyber attack from there, says the unnamed source. The accou
Samsung has unveiled its new and first sliding Tablet PC that was dubbed the Samsung Sliding PC 7 Series. The compact Tablet gets a 10.1-inch touchscreen display with a 1366768 resolution plus a sliding keyboard for easy typing. It packs the power of an 1.66GHz Intel Atom Z670 Oak Trail Processor, choice of 32GB or 64GB SSD and 2GB of RAM.
The Sliding PC 7 Series also ships with Samsungs own Touch Launcher that offers a range of applications that was optimized for touchscreen. There is an integrated 1.3-Megapixel Camera, a 4-in-1 card reader, HDMI output, WiFi 802.11b/g/n, HDMI Output, optional WiMax and 3G support.
If you thought there were limits to Google’s plans for world domination, think again. The company’s announced plans to fill your home with electrical products including light bulbs, dishwashers and thermostats which can be controlled remotely via an Android device.
The plan is to create a series of devices that can communicate wirelessly with PCs and phones, under a project called Android@Home.
“We want to think of every device in your home as a connection to Android apps,” says product management director Hugo Barra.
Users would be able to turn lights and heating on and off, download music from the internet to a hifi and start home appliances running.
Other applications include Project Tungsten, an Android device for Music Beta designed to give more control over music playback.