Industry News   The proper care and feeding of SSD storage Your solid-state drive sits there in silence. It’s sleek. Elegant. More than a little mysterious. The hard drive it replaced was easy to understand: A soft hum assured you that its platters were spinning. A quiet mechanical click informed you of its read/write operations. You’d groom it with the occasional defrag. Times were good.   Microsoft discontinues Office 2010 sales, some retailers jack up prices Some sellers have raised the price of Office 2010's lowest-cost multi-license package after Microsoft discontinued retail sales of the suite. Giant online retailer Amazon.com, for example, now lists what Microsoft called the "Full Packaged Product" (FFP) of Office Home & Student 2010 at $170, $20 higher than the former list price, representing a 13% surcharge.   FCC cracks down on campaign robocalls to cell phones Two companies face fines of nearly $5 million for allegedly making millions of artificial voice messages without consumers' prior consent.   American retailer Genesco sues Visa, demands $13m in PCI-DSS data breach fines paid back In what seems to be a legal first, the company is taking Visa to court to try to recover penalties it claims it oughtn't to have had to pay at all.   Google Removing Ad-Blocking Apps From Play Android Market Google, which has been a favorite target of privacy advocates for the last few years, has taken another step that's unlikely to endear the company to that crowd or Android users. The company has begun removing ad-blocking apps from the Google Play Android app market.   Seagate launches new hybrid hard drive that closes the SSD gap, drops Momentus XT brand For the last few years, Seagate has pursued a different SSD strategy from other hard drive manufacturers. Instead of releasing standalone SSDs, the company has focused on building a line of hybrid hard drives (HHDs) that incorporate a significant amount of flash memory, but retain a hard drive’s larger capacity. Samsung and Hitachi have also dabbled in this market, but it’s been Seagate that pushed its Momentus XT product line forward with multiple iterations.   PC laptops and accidental damage: Best and worst warranties Basic PC warranties are just that: Basic. They cover faults in the electronics, typically over a one-year period. Anything outside the realm of a malfunction can be deemed as "accidental damage", which gives the OEM an escape route to charge you a lot of money on a repair.   'Six Strikes' System Flags P2P Piracy and Throttles Broadband Connections The entertainment industry is teaming with five major Internet service providers to this week launch a new Copyright Alert System that will first warn online pirates and then start to strangle bandwidth of repeat offenders.   100,000+ Americans demand legal right to unlock phones be legal On Saturday January 26, US citizens lost the right to unlock our mobile phones. On Thursday February 21, two days before the deadline to get enough petition signers to trigger the administration into re-examining an issue, 100,000 annoyed people demanded that that right be given back.   Unauthorized unlocking of smartphones becomes illegal January 26th Starting Saturday, January 26th, it becomes illegal in this great land to unlock a new smartphone without the permission of the carrier that locked it in the first place.   The Secret World of Embedded Computers You may have heard it before: computers are everywhere. It's been a mantra of our computer-controlled world since the 1970s—just as the microprocessor began to find its way into common household appliances, cash registers, cars, and heating/cooling systems. What launched that invasion, in large part, was the 1974 invention of the microcontroller, a computer-on-a-chip that integrated common computer components like CPU, RAM, and program storage onto a single piece of low-cost silicon. Read more >>   Toshiba Satellite Laptops Recalled for Burn Hazard The U.S. and Canadian governments this week said that Toshiba is voluntarily recalling some Satellite laptops for posing a burn hazard to customers. The burn hazard results from a faulty component. Laptops being voluntarily recalled include the Satellite T135, Satellite T135D and Satellite Pro T130 models. The model and part numbers are located on the bottom of the laptops, and begin with PST3AU, PST3BU, or PST3LU. Toshiba laptop recall >>   Important notification for Sony VAIO laptop F11 and CW2 series owners In rare instances, these notebook computers may overheat due to a potential malfunction of the internal temperature management system, resulting in deformation of the product's keyboard or external casing, and a potential burn hazard to consumers. Sony laptop recall >>   Snow Leopard Bug Deletes All User Data By Gregg Keizer   Snow Leopard users have reported that they've lost all their personal data when they've logged into a "Guest" account after upgrading from Leopard according to messages on Apple's support forum. Read More >>   How powerful was the Apollo 11 computer? By Grant Robertson   With all the buzz about the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing I got to thinking, how powerful were the computers that "took us to the Moon?" It turns out, they were nothing short of amazing. Read More >>
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