Technological company Western Digital revealed their latest GreenPower Initiative – the latest line of hard drives that leans towards the greener side. Greener because the hard drives are provided with the capacity to save up to 40% of power, which when you convert to your yearly power bill could be up to $10. This greener drives will include encompass desktop, enterprise, consumer electronics and external applications with sizes of 320GB up to 1TB.

It is already a common knowledge that the substance lead can be hazardous to human health. It not only debilitates a person’s health but at the worst level it can lead to death. A lot of company’s already phased-out the use of lead in their products and in the world of technology; Intel is joining the lead-free production of their processors.

IBM has once again proven their capability in developing revolutionary solutions for the computing industry. What they have come up with recently has what it takes for improving the operations of industries that rely on microprocessors. The new Power6 chip is IBM’s latest creation which is dubbed as the world’s fastest microprocessor ever. And to make it even better and more appealing, the Power6 chip is also environment-friendly since it uses up less electricity. The power6 clocks in at 4.7GHz bearing an 8MB cache together with the 790 million transistors on its 65nm. Speed is guaranteed with the 300Gbps internal bandwidth provided for it. With its kind of speed IBM said it is capable of downloading the whole iTunes catalogue in a mere 66 seconds…amazing!

The gaming world will sure be glad to know that Nvidia will soon be launching the graphics card that can perform 10-15 percent better than the ones being used at the present time, especially when compared to the previously released GeForce 8800 GTX card. Nvidia’s new GeForce 8800 Ultra will be several notches higher in performance because of the improved core, memory and shader clocks.

Toshiba is among the brands that are widely known for developing high quality hardware like laptops, DVD players as well as televisions. But with the growing trend in portable data storage, they too have ventured in the world of portable hard drives as evident in their line of external hard drives introduced at the CES last January. Toshiba is now bringing to the market the newest addition to their previously released external hard drives. 200GB external hard drive or USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive costs $229. This kind of storage capacity is a huge improvement from the 160GB that is available in the market at the present time.

PC recalls are not only exclusive to the Dell Inc. As we all know from last year’s records Dell has recalled thousands of units because of a technical problem in their PCs that have resulted in the products catching fire. They are not alone now because Lenovo, the world’s 3rd computer maker recalled about 205, 000 ThinkPad batteries made by Sanyo Electric because of overheating problems. The recall was made in connection with four reports of overheating wherein one has resulted in a minor eye irritation.

You probably heard that the Silicon Valley’s Advanced Micro Devices bought out ATI Technologies Inc last July for $5.4 billion. Before the deal came through, AMS was very dependent on its partners in developing integrated graphics chipsets for its processors. And now the merger is proving to be beneficial for both companies because now AMD just announced their new product, which is the AMD 690 chipset. This new product will sure be a hit for technology users since it is already integrated with a graphics processor coming from the ATI division. This 690 chipset was manufactured the engineers in Markham, Ont.

Even though XP users still have until 2011 to upgrade their operating systems, a lot of hardware manufacturers are on their feet in order to create faster and better computers. All this is brought on by the launching of the new Microsoft Vista. Launched last January 30, the Vista is now available to 17 countries around the globe. And I know that even as I write this, many PC owners are gearing up to have their upgrades.

The field of technology is an ever-expanding territory. It seems that everyday is a chance to discover something and something better. Research is the key to these new discoveries. This is definitely what California-based Hewlett-Packard does each time they come up with a new device of technology. This largest personal-computer maker recent stated that they are into a research that could greatly improve the chips utilized in various industries, especially in communication, automotive and consumer electronics.

Thinking back on the world’s history sometimes you cannot help but be awed by the great changes, milestones in fact, in the way we, as people live our lives. No longer can we be called primitive since the evidences of human progress are at hand! In technology alone, a lot of improvements have been implemented. I’m quite sure you will agree with me when I say that the world is full of brilliant minds that never rest just to give bigger and better products for the world market.

We all have anti-virus software running on our PCs, some of which are very good. But all the anti-spyware, antivirus and anti-spam programs can't protect your machine from raw theft. Sure, you can use biometrics and password encryption but non will be as efficient as what Seagate Technology have thought of.
Get this: The California based company have developed full-disk encryption technology that can be built into hard-disk drives. The new Technology automatically encrypts all the data written to the disk, making it inaccessible to anyone who doesn't have the correct password when the computer first starts up. This makes you think of hard disks in more ways than just storage.

Samsung has recently announced the first 40 nanometer memory chip, the 32GB NAND flash chip. This 32GB NAND flash memory can be used to create memory cards with capacities up to 64 gigabytes. A 64GB card can hold about 40 DVD-quality movies or 16,000 MP3s.

This device is also the first to employ “Charge Trap Flash” technology, Samsung’s new way of improving manufacturing efficiency and performance. The CTF design technique, compared to the usual floating gate structure of today’s flash chips, stores data in nonconductive layer of the flash memory. Samsung says that this technology can later lead to the development of a 20nm 256GB NAND chips.

Scanning photos and documents is now easier and better than ever with the newest line of flatbed Canon scanners: the CanoScan 8600F, the LiDE 600F, the CanoScan 4400F, and the LiDE 70. All these scanners boast its automatic alignment feature that lets you achieve straight scans all the time. Except for the last one, all the new scanners have transparency adaptors that let you scan film.

Several years ago, I was the first one in the circle of my friends who bought a 250 MB Hard Disk Drive, my friends thought that I wasted my money and I will never be able to fill that much space!! Well, it turned out they were wrong and 250 MB nowadays is not enough to even install an operating system which needs at least 6 times that space!

If you are one of those people who store all their favorite music, videos and play games that needs lots of hard drive space like the God Father game for example, then you will be happy with the new Seagate hard drive, the Barracuda 750 GB model which comes in two models, a 16MB and 8 MB buffers...