Top Software Picks: 22 Hot Apps for PCs, Phones, iPads, and Android Tablets

By Jacqueline Emigh | 11/28/2011

Here are our picks for seven top software apps in each of three device categories: PCs, smartphones, iPads and Android tablets. We've chosen an overall winner, too!

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Holiday Deals on PC Software: Black Friday - Before and After

By Jacqueline Emigh | 11/18/2011

November is a fabulous month to get bargains on PC software, whether you're shopping for yourself or for somebody on your holiday gift list. Great deals are already out there and more will be coming on Black Friday!

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Top Holiday Software Gift Pick: McAfee All Access, for PC, Mac and Mobile Security

By Jacqueline Emigh | 11/14/2011

This year's nod for top software holiday gift goes to McAfee All Access, a cross-device security suite for safeguarding Windows PCs, Macs, tablets, and phones.

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Thailand Floods Could Impact HDD Supplies, Computer Production Worldwide

By David Barboza | 10/21/2011

The monsoon rains that have created flood conditions in Thailand since July are expected to have a significant impact on computer manufacturers and production worldwide, mostly affecting notebook and desktop PC systems.

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With Steve Jobs Gone, How Will Apple's Software Fare Vs. Windows 8 & Android?

By Jacqueline Emigh | 10/14/2011

Apple's remaining management team now inherits two aspects of Steve Jobs' legacy: profoundly successful previous products, plus an ongoing embracement of change.

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Battle of the 1TB Laptop Hard Drives: Samsung vs. Western Digital

By Jerry Jackson | 8/29/2011

It's time to replace that pathetic little hard drive that came with your laptop. We reviewed two of the latest one terabyte laptop hard drives: the Samsung Spinpoint M8 and the Western Digital Scorpio Blue to see which one is best.

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Samsung SSD 830 Series: New SATA 3 Solid State Drives for Consumers

By Jerry Jackson | 8/17/2011

Samsung Electronics just announced its brand new line of internal solid state drives (SSDs) designed for consumer laptops and desktops - the Samsung SSD 830 series, and will be available in October of this year.

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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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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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Lexar Launches its Fastest Crucial to Date m4 SSDs

By Amber Riippa | 4/27/2011

Lexar Media today released the fastest solid state drives Lexar has to offer, supporting SATA 6GB/s; advertising read speeds of up to 415MB/s and write speeds up to 260MB/s.

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Aleratec Releases Flash Drive Duplicator

By Amber Riippa | 4/19/2011

Today Aleratec annouced the USB Copy Cruiser Mini for business professionals and users, a portable flash drive duplicator with a 10-slot capacity. The 10:1 Cruiser Mini works with a notebook so users can duplicate and share data from up to 10 thumb drives at once.

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