Kensington Orbit Trackball Review

By Amber Riippa | 7/22/2011

The Kensington Orbit mobile wireless trackball is a mouse with an ambidextrous design and touch scrolling. Check out our full review of the trackball to find out if the combination of its design, ease of use and value are worth the price tag.

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Western Digital 1TB Scorpio Blue Hard Drive Resized

By Amber Riippa | 7/20/2011

Western Digital announced the shipment of its new form factor for the 1TB Scorpio Blue hard drive today. This capacity hard drive now fits 2.5-inch hard drives, the form factor for many mainstream notebooks.

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IBM's Cloud To Offer Gold, Silver and Bronze Data Recovery to SMBs

By Jacqueline Emigh | 7/8/2011

For SMBs and enterprises alike, IBM plans to launch new cloud-based data recovery services later this summer, at gold, silver and bronze service levels and price points. In an interview with NBR, an IBM exec divulged details of the realtime recovery and restoral service, while also talking up a forthcoming data archive in the cloud.

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Kingston V+ 100 96GB SSD Review

By Phil | 6/30/2011

In the last weeks we've reviewed several fast Solid State Drives (SSDs). This time we're going to look at the budget-friendly Kingston V+ 100 96GB SSD. With an average street price of $136 is this a great bargain or are you better off spending more money? Read on to find out.

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Microsoft Office 365 Preview: Hello Lync, Goodbye Live Meeting

By Jacqueline Emigh | 6/25/2011

Microsoft's Office 365, now set for rollout on Tuesday, will swap out Live Meeting for Lync Online collaboration while improving the online editions of Exchange and PowerPoint. Although Microsoft's latest online office suite will carry some advantages for businesses of all sizes, clouds might not yet be for everyone, an analyst said this week.

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Kensington Announces Wireless Trackball

By Amber Riippa | 6/21/2011

Kensington today announced its upcoming wireless trackball and an update to the accompanying Trackballworks software. The Orbit trackball features a centered-ball red and black design, 2.4GHz wireless technology with a nano receiver, and is ambidextrous.

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OCZ Vertex 3 120GB Review

By Phil | 6/21/2011

The latest solid state drive (SSD) in our review line up is the OCZ Vertex 3 120GB. According to the specs this should be one of the fastest SSDs we've seen. Will our real world benchmarks confirm this? And, regardless of speed, is it the best SSD for notebook users? Read on to find out.

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Crucial M4 128GB SSD Review

By Phil | 6/13/2011

The new Crucial M4 Solid State Drive (SSD) uses the latest Marvell controller and 25nm IMFT NAND flash memory to deliver the fastest possible storage for your notebook. Is this SATA 6Gbps SSD a worthwhile upgrade for your new laptop? Keep reading to find out.

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Samsung Releases Terabyte High-Density Internal Hard Drive

By Amber Riippa | 6/9/2011

Samsung announced the release of its 1TB internal hard disk drive yesterday, the Spinpoint M8. The hard drive has a 9.5mm (H) form factor to fit inside notebooks and consists of two 500GB platters.

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Genius Announces the Traveler 9000 Multi-Surface Wireless Mouse

By Amber Riippa | 6/9/2011

Genius, a PC peripherals company, today announced the availability of the Traveler 9000 BlueEye-tracking wireless mouse.

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Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive Cloud Edition Review

By Jerry Jackson | 5/23/2011

The new Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive, Cloud Edition is a easy-to-use network storage device that lets you share and access files, photos, video, and music between all your computers and your friends and family via the web.

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Cirago SuperSpeed 3.0 Hard Drive Docking Station Review

By Amber Riippa | 5/18/2011

If you've collected several hard drives from your old laptops or desktops over the years and want to use those hard drives, the Cirago USB 3.0 hard drive docking station might be your answer. We tested the new docking station to find out how much faster it is than a regular USB 2.0 dock.

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