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Panasonic announces world’s lightest full HD camera, targets it at women

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 03:59 AM PDT

Panasonic yesterday announced [JP] what it says is the world’s lightest full HD camcorder, the HDC-TM35. Sized at 51.5×107.5×57.5mm and weighing just 185g, the device is mainly targeted at women and will be available in white, purple, grey, and “gold”.

Spec-wise, buyers get a 1/41 type MOS sensor, iA 23X zoom (which Panasonic says will retain HD quality even at the maximum setting), AVCHD support, 32GB of internal memory, an SD/SDHC/SDXC slot, an HDMI interface, a 2.7-inch LCD, and a 2ch stereo microphone.

In Japan, the HDC-TM35 will retail for around $810 when it comes out on July 1. Panasonic hasn’t released any information about international sales plans, but you can expect the camcorder to go abroad rather sooner than later.

Daily Crunch: Morning News Edition

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT

Innoversal Lattice Tablet gets its Pixel Qi touched

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 06:32 PM PDT

Pixel Qi. If you haven't heard of them, you will. Everyone will want one of their screens. They offer both a full color LCD screen and an E-Ink screen in one. From what I have seen so far, the technology appears to be very promising. Other companies seem to think so as well, and are lining up to use Pixel Qi screens in their devices.

Take the new Innoversal Lattice tablet, for example. It’s a full 10-inch, 1024 x 600 touchscreen Windows tablet with a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor. It also features SSD storage up to 64GB, Wi-Fi, 3G, Bluetooth and a 6-cell battery.  The Lattice runs either Windows or Linux and will soon run Chrome OS.

The great thing about the “transflective” screen is that it uses less battery when the backlight is off. Not only that, when the backlight is off, it is way easier to see outdoor than normal LCDs. Take that, iPad.

Considering that we’re still waiting on the release of the Adam, I doubt we’ll see the Lattice any time real soon, but if Notion Ink doesn’t get its rear in gear, it could be beaten to the punch by other, similar devices. Although don't expect Android or the power-sipping Tegra 2 — and I could do without the glossy screen.

Dueling “Life” Blu-ray discs: Attenborough vs. Winfrey

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:30 PM PDT


They ruined “Planet Earth” with narration by Sigourney Weaver and James Earl Jones. They ruined “Life” with narration by Oprah Winfrey. At least on Blu-ray, though, you have the choice to choose the real versions, narrated by one of my personal heroes, Sir David Attenborough. There are, in fact, two versions on the shelves right now, and the Winfrey one, in addition to having an inferior narrator, also has inferior picture quality. Yes, incredibly, they released it in 1080i. High definition fail!

Yeah, the Attenborough version costs a couple bucks more, but what do you expect? It’s a superior product!

If you haven’t watched “Life” yet, do yourself a favor and pick it up. And actually buy it, for two reasons:

1. Supporting nature documentaries and the organizations that fund them like the Beeb
2. You want the best possible picture quality, and streaming or pirating generally will not give you that

So head on over to Amazon. Sure, it’s $50, but you’ll be glad you did it.

[via Crave]

New Netflix interface for Roku is now live

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 04:50 PM PDT


Nice. The Roku/Netflix interface update we wrote about a few weeks ago is now rolling out to all users. What do you have to do in order to activate this marvel of modern set-top-boxery?

Every Roku customer can now get the new interface for Netflix, featuring browse and search (view the demo here). This free update is rolling out automatically to all of our customers over the next week. Or, get it now:

* Go to Settings on your Roku
* Select Player info, then Check for update

Boom.

Full-body exoskeleton game controller to be shown at E3

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 04:31 PM PDT


From the Falcon to the NeuroSky to all these new motion controllers, the world seems to be in a big hurry to replace traditional control methods. I don’t blame ‘em: we’ve been using the same tools for far too long, but… really, an entire exoskeleton for tracking movement and giving force feedback? I get a sneaking feeling that this may not be the next Wiimote.

The controller technology was actually developed in the medical field, for rehabilitation and physical therapy purposes. The servos in the controller (feels wrong to call it a controller when it totally envelops your arms and torso) will activate and stop or resist movement when, say, you punch someone in the game. Sounds kind of cool, and I don’t doubt their power, since the Falcon and other force-feedback devices really give you a pounding.

Unfortunately, the whole Power Loader outfit won’t be ready at E3 — Forcetek is just showing the arm controller, with “shoulder, back and lower body attachments” on the way.

Thank you papa Sony for the HDMI

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 04:30 PM PDT


There is nothing worse then getting home after buying a PS3 – for use as a Blu-ray – and realizing no one told you the box comes missing one important item. If this happened to you, then you know how it felt to watch a Blu-ray through component because Sony decided to skip out on the HDMI cable.

Worry no more, at least for a limited time, for Sony has decided that during Father's Day they would be kind to daddy and include an HDMI cable for free. While it's not the most extravagant thing Sony has done, if you’ve been waiting to get a PS3, now might be the time.

[via SlashGear]

Review: Kobo eReader

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 03:30 PM PDT


Short version: This low-price e-reader is a solid performer, as long as you don’t mind the total lack of things like notes, bookmarks, and WiFi. It reads books; if you want more, you’re free to pay more.

Features:

  • 6″ 8-level e-ink screen
  • 1GB internal storage, SD card slot
  • Comes with 100 classic books
  • Supports ePub, PDF, Adobe DRM files
  • MSRP: $149.99

Pros:

  • Compact and light
  • Clean, straightforward layout
  • Included books are great

Cons:

  • On-device capabilities are limited (just reading, essentially)
  • Doesn’t support many file formats
  • Will soon be surpassed at this price

Full review:

I wrote about the Kobo a little while back; a $150 e-reader, I thought, could reasonably be sold in bulk to universities and such for a truly reasonable price. This in turn would drive demand for e-books, which would drive demand for readers, and so on. But now, a few months later, with new devices on the horizon, that $150 price point is looking less and less attractive. After all, how cheap will a basic e-reader be in a few months when the new Kindle is announced, or the first relatively affordable color e-readers come out? But all this is by the by, and what matters right this moment is the quality and value of this device today.

To begin with, let’s have no illusions: this is an e-reader and nothing more. While Kobo’s included software means you’ll have plenty of books to choose from, there is no way at all to do anything on this device but read books. There is no keyboard, no book store, no calculator, no nothing. If you want that stuff, may as well stop reading now. Go ahead, hit that back button!

Still with me? Okay. So once you get past the idea that the Kobo is essentially just a big stack of e-books behind a screen, it’s actually quite a decent little guy. Navigation is simple: you have your library, your currently reading books, and your documents. These are accessible at any time via the “menu” button. “Display” brings up the usual options: serif or sans-serif, five font sizes, and a choice (which I appreciate) of landscape or portrait. Moving between menu items (accomplished by the rubberized D-pad, which sticks out a bit) is about as responsive as you can expect from an e-ink screen, and while it ain’t quick, it’s competitive with other devices.

Loading up three medium-sized ePub books from Gutenberg and two smallish PDFs took perhaps 30 seconds once it detected the SD card. It then added them to my “reading” list, which is nice. Be aware, though, that if you put in several large documents at once it will likely take several minutes to process them. I occasionally saw the “processing new content” randomly, but never for longer than a few seconds. Books can be sorted in several ways, but the lack of a search did chafe me a few times as I plodded through the letters to get to “N” or some such.

The screen is about as good as any other e-reader I’ve seen; the usual e-ink ghosting and artifacts are present. PDFs look fine; the 8-level screen means you’ll see more dithering and banding than you do on a Kindle, but remember that a Kindle costs twice as much. Sure, a 16-level screen would be nice, but e-readers really aren’t the venue for art. I found text and graphics both in PDFs to be plenty sharp and contrast was good. An important thing, I think, is that the Kobo has one of the higher screen-to-bezel ratios out there — i.e. more screen and less controls, like a book.

The device itself is quite nice: it’s thicker than the Kindle 2 by a millimeter, but has a significantly smaller footprint. It’s about the size of a trade paperback, and happens to be one of the lightest e-readers on the market as well. The back side has a pleasant “quilted” texture which feels natural under your fingers, though I wouldn’t say it really aids grip at all. Switching between the Kobo, the Kindle, and the Alex, I felt that the Kobo was the most comfortable to hold. The lack of a keyboard or touchscreen helps focus you on the text, and you’re not afraid you’re going to accidentally grip a function button. Build quality was solid, and the compact size makes it feel especially well-constructed.

Kobobooks.com can be browsed by anyone, but to get books on your Kobo you’ll need its little Desktop app (or just load stuff onto your SD card). It’s a straightforward, rather plain app (and bookstore) but again, that’s pretty much the point. Descriptions are limited to star ratings and synopses; the web bookstore is a bit more robust, but if you’re looking for in-depth reviews, excerpts, and other extra stuff, you’re better off at Amazon. The formats supported are ePub and PDF only – the Kobo is also Adobe DRM-friendly. It seems like support for plain text files wouldn’t have been too hard to implement, but as it is you’ll have to use a converter tool if you want to load any of those suckers on there.

When you buy a Kobo, it comes pre-loaded with a bunch of classic books — 100, to be precise. A lot of my favorites are in there, but you might not like 19th century literature quite as much as I do. But it’s a nice gesture and the books themselves are well-chosen and well-presented. There are a ton more available for free in the store.

Conclusion

Although the market is rapidly advancing, the Kobo is a perfectly good little device right now if you know what you’re getting into. One commenter compared it to a Flip for e-books, which is a remarkably apt comparison. $150 is a reasonable price for a way to read the thousands of books out there, but if you feel you need touchscreens, utilities, on-device search and so on, this is absolutely not for you. I actually do see it as a great option for educational establishments; there’s little that can be done with it other than read, which makes it less of a risk to give to a bunch of students. Until the Kobo is out-featured at its own price point, this would be my choice for best e-reader value on the market.

Product page: Kobo eReader

Tips and tricks to extending the HTC EVO 4G and Incredible’s battery life (and what this says about Android)

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 03:00 PM PDT

MG and I came at our EVO 4G reviews from different backgrounds. Even though I'm married to a  BlackBerry with a little Droid action on the side and he's a self-proclaimed iPhone fanboy, we both came to the same conclusion: the battery life on the EVO 4G sucks. Sorry, it does. But that's the state of high-powered Android phones at the moment. Both the EVO 4G and Incredible are in the same boat. The 1GHz Snapdragon CPU makes the phones a joy to use, but drains the battery in no time. It's not entirely the snappy dragon's fault either. Android users have been putting up with these type of shenanigans since the G1 debuted in late 2008. It's really sad that the battery life issue still exists and users have to work around it just to use the latest and greatest hardware. I read every single comment on my EVO 4G review with the hope that I was wrong about the phone's battery issue and was simply doing something wrong. But none of the suggestions significantly improved my EVO 4G's battery life. However, by doing a bunch of little things, I extended it's idle life from about 12 hours to 14:30 -- this is the phone's battery life with everything turned off besides 3G and it just sits. All the tweaks are easy to do, but you're going to have to forgo some of the more fun things about Android. It's a shame, really, that a user has to give up fun widgets, advance wireless connections, and auto setting just to squeeze a few more hours from their phone.


Full-color 13-inch e-paper “e-Magazine” looks-promising

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 02:30 PM PDT


Yeah, “looks promising” doesn’t need a hyphen, but it just felt right. The device in question is a color e-paper tablet from Delta Electronics called the e-Magazine. Not the most creative name, but it gets the point across. It’s 13.1″ diagonally and weighs about 1.6 pounds (730 grams). The color is low-contrast, unfortunately, but e-paper is a moving target technology-wise, and the next version of this thing will probably be much more vibrant.

You can tell it’s not coming to the US because it’s in the shape of an A4 sheet of paper, not our weird 8.5×11 style. But I wouldn’t rule out a differently-sized US version, since we love our periodicals here so very much.

Supposedly it’ll come with WiFi or 3G, and, as it uses a passive display technology, counts its battery life in page turns (6000) rather than hours. I think it looks pretty nice — a much more practical device than that monstrous Kno we saw yesterday.

Contest: Win the final laptop from HP and Dolby

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 02:20 PM PDT

We had huge response yesterday and I'm pleased to report that it was a rousing success. Today is the final contest and it’s a big one. It’s open to entrants worldwide, so even if you live in Brussels or Burkina Faso, feel free to enter.

The details, again: HP and Dolby would like to give you one of three HP Pavilion dv6t Select Edition laptops complete with Blu-Ray player and Dolby Advanced Audio. Here are the details:

To celebrate HP's recent launch of its new Pavilion laptops all of which include Dolby Advanced Audio for providing stunning audio, Dolby is giving away three Ultimate Dolby PC Entertainment Packages for enjoying surround sound entertainment. Included in each package:
· HP Pavilion dv6t Select Edition with Dolby Advanced Audio and Blu-ray playback
· The Hangover and Star Trek on Blu-ray featuring Dolby TrueHD loseless audio
· Magix Movie Edit Pro Plus with Dolby Digital 5.1 Creator – the ultimate tool for creating the perfect movies and videos
Dolby Advanced Audio gives new Pavilion users a personal surround sound experience with any set of headphones and will enhance their music, movies and games with a suite of technologies designed to provide the best listening experience from their PC.

What do you do to win? It’s so simple even a child to could do it.

First, however, congratulate Tom Woolf, our second winner.

Now, on to how to win.

Answer this question of the day: What type of entertainment will you consume most on the Pavilion? Music, movies, TV or games?

Answer in comments and leave your real email address (Facebook logins don't really work). Enter once and only once from one IP address. We will pick one winner at random tomorrow at 5pm Eastern. This contest is worldwide.

AT&T apologizes to the guy they threatened to C&D for e-mailing their CEO

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 02:05 PM PDT

If you spend any more than a few minutes a day on the Internet, you’ve probably already heard the story of Giorgio G.: Upset with AT&T about his iPhone eligibility dates, he e-mails the company’s CEO. A few days later, he e-mails again for a different (albeit related) matter. Within a few days, AT&T responds… with a threat to send him a formal cease & desist letter unless he stops e-mailing the CEO.

‘Twas the voicemail heard around the blogosphere. Within a few hours, just about every gadget-oriented blog and news network had mentioned it, none of them too happy. Undoubtedly looking to save a bit of face in the situation, AT&T has publicly apologized to Giorgio.

Read the rest at MobileCrunch >>

Rumor: HTC Scorpion and all of its 1.5 Ghz, Android 2.2 goodness headed for Verizon?

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 01:32 PM PDT

Waaay back in February, we told you guys a tale of the HTC Scorpion, a mighty beast of a phone. Packing Android 2.2 and a 1.5 Ghz (!) processor, it could very well be the phone that everyone lusts over after their love for the current king, the EVO 4G, tapers.

Take it as you will for now, but we just got a heads up from a generally well-informed source that the Scorpion is headed for…. [insert drumroll here]

Read the rest at MobileCrunch >>

A Nixie Tube display that looks like something Q would use

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 12:51 PM PDT

Tim at The Transistor in Provo, Utah, built his own Nixie display using an Arduino board, a serial converter, and a heavy-duty DC-DC converter to power the tubes.

More great videos after the jump.

The best parts are those crazy punch-labeled toggle switches that look like something Q would hand 007 before a mission. He also got the Nixie’s to fade in and out using the Arduino board.

via Make


Statistics prove the obvious: The Internet is for porn

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 11:00 AM PDT

What is the Internet for? It’s certainly not for education or the betterment of humankind. No… No, the Internet is for porn, and the sooner we admit this to ourselves, the better. New stats show that, yeah, people don’t like Internet porn, they love it! One great stat to get us started: 25 percent of all searches are porn-related. One out of every four times someone goes to Google they’re looking for naughty bits. Nice.

The stats are simply hilarious, but totally expected.

• 12 percent of all sites online are porn

• 40 million Americans regularly visit porn sites

• 35 percent of all downloads are porn

• Utah is the number one U.S. state for porn downloads

• Kids first see porn online, on average, at age 11

• 20 percent of men watch porn at work

This probably isn’t breaking news in the traditional sense, but it’s nice to have some numbers to back up that famous song.

EA Sports sez Spain will win the World Cup, USA crashes out in second round

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 10:30 AM PDT

Another day, another EA Sports prediction, World Cup edition. According to the latest game, EA Sports FIFA World Cup 2010, MIGHTY SPAIN will win the tournament. That’s funny, because as I write this Spain can’t even score a goal against South Korea…

The final will be Spain vs. Brazil (which isn’t a bad guess, actually), with Melo, Villa (2), and Fabregas scoring in the 3-1 game. England makes third place.

Team USA? We lose to Germany on penalties in the second round. There’s no shame in losing to Germany on penalties.

On bwin, a popular gambling site (which I, as an American, am barred from using, which is unfair), Spain is favored to win, followed by Brazil and Argentina.

Want a good bet? Put some money down on North Korea getting out of the group.

Would any international readers care to place a few bets on my behalf? I have PayPal. Silly American laws preclude me from placing bets online.


The Star Wars Kid is back and he’s going to be a lawyer

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 10:12 AM PDT

It was eight years ago that Ghyslain Raza slashed his way into our hearts with his Star Wars Kid video. Sadly, Raza suffered from severe bullying and abuse for his video and eventually ended up in a psychiatric ward for children. However, his video was seen 1 billion times and multiple thousands of geeks came immediately to his defense. While those must have been the worst years of his life, things are now looking up.

He and his family sued the kids who leaked the video for $250,000, settled, and that seemed to be the end of it. Now, however, Ghyslain just became the president of the Patrimoine Trois-Rivières, a heritage society dedicated to conserving his hometown in Quebec. He’s also working on law degree at McGill in Montreal.

I can’t imagine what the younger Ghyslain went through but I’m sure most of us felt the effects of bullying in our younger years. It’s great to see the Star Wars Kid take the traditional path of the bullied – a few years of torture for being different and then a lifetime of success for that selfsame difference. My bully, incidentally, works at a Kroger grocery store in Ohio, if LinkedIn is to be believed.

via Motherboard

Ford adds GPS-enhanced 911 location awareness to its Sync system

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 10:00 AM PDT


Ford’s Sync system is a fantastic application suite capable of a seemingly endless amount of functions. The system currently provides navigation, traffic info, voice commands, Internet radio, and a 911 Assist mode that automatically dials 911 in case of an accident and provides emergency dispatchers with an approximate location from the connected phone’s GPS or through signal triangulation. That’s the old 911 Assist, though. Most of the 2011 Ford and Lincoln models take safety up level.

The new and improved 911 Assist mode improves the accuracy thanks to a dedicated onboard GPS module. Even with the new capabilities, the whole Sync system remains subscription free. You just need to provide the Bluetooth cell phone.

DEARBORN, Mich., June 3, 2010 – As thousands of emergency communication professionals gather in Indianapolis June 5-10 for the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) 2010 conference, Ford is announcing new capability for the SYNC 911 Assist™ application: the communication of a vehicle's exact location using GPS coordinates provided to emergency responders.

The nonsubscription-based app remains available to customers at no additional cost; providing emergency operators access to GPS coordinates of a vehicle, another important tool that could help first responders reach the scene of an accident faster.

"Ford is committed to continuously enhancing the owner experience, and SYNC is a key part of that strategy," said Doug VanDagens, director, Ford Connected Services. "SYNC 911 Assist is free for the life of the vehicle, and now we're making it perform even better. That adds unexpected value and peace of mind for the customer."

Available with certain 2011 model year vehicles, the GPS coordinates are generated by the vehicle's onboard GPS receiver for maximum accuracy.
"SYNC 911 Assist calls already come in on priority emergency lines, due to the call being placed from the customer's personal cell phone versus an intermediary call center," said Dave Hatton, global product leader/electrical engineer with Ford Connected Services. "Currently, 911 Assist is designed to provide location information to emergency service providers through assisted GPS or signal triangulation – the same system providers rely on when dispatching help to mobile phone user emergency calls.

"The new system is designed to provide coordinates through the onboard GPS receiver in addition to assisted GPS, which adds an even greater level of location accuracy."

Unlike competitive offerings that require customers to subscribe and pay a monthly fee for such accident assistance, Ford 911 Assist remains a nonsubscription-based, no-cost feature of the SYNC system that uses a customer's existing mobile phone. The fee-free service is available in both the U.S. and Canada.

When the feature is turned on and a phone is Bluetooth-paired to SYNC, 911 Assist can make a call directly to a local emergency operator in the event of an accident involving the activation of an airbag or emergency fuel pump shutoff. With the GPS capabilities, the system is designed to not only alert the operator that a crash has occurred in a Ford vehicle, but to give the operator the option to retrieve the vehicle's GPS coordinates.

The call is fast, direct, and doesn't involve a separate call center or intermediary.

"Integrated GPS is a logical next step for 911 Assist, leveraging the GPS hardware that is now included with SYNC," said Gary Jablonski, manager for the Ford Infotainment Product Development Team. "That's the beauty of the SYNC platform – it can quickly adapt to and accommodate new technologies, features and services that provide great value to customers without great additional costs."

The wireless world
The 911 Assist with GPS update comes as telecoms in both the U.S. and Canada continue to improve their respective capabilities, allowing emergency operators to receive not only a caller's wireless phone number, but the caller's location information as well. According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), an estimated 240 million calls are made to 911 in the U.S. each year. One third of those are wireless calls; in many communities, that number is one half or more.

"911 Assist with GPS can be useful for those calls where location information is still not available, or if the operator wants to double-check for accuracy," added Hatton.

Keeping a pulse on the needs of customers as well as the emergency services community, Ford continues to work with nonprofit agencies such as NENA and the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International as it develops other potential enhancements to 911 Assist.

911 Assist with GPS will be available on most SYNC-equipped 2011 vehicles, including the Ford Taurus, Focus, Flex, Fusion, Escape and F-150; as well as the Lincoln MKS, MKZ and MKT.

Vehicles featuring the new MyFord or MyLincoln Touch™ driver connect technology will also have the updated 911 Assist GPS capabilities, and offer customers a number of other emergency service options. A priority emergency screen, for example, will contain location information and quick-touch access to In Case of Emergency (ICE) contacts at the completion of a 911 Assist call.

That’s what you get when you click random links: Facebook scam promises nude photos of Paramore’s Hayley Williams

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 09:00 AM PDT

Matt invited us to a Facebook party last week, something along the lines of “CLICK HERE FOR A FREE IPAD~!” Now, I knew this was malware-related because I know Matt knows I wouldn’t want an iPad—free or otherwise. Clearly something smelled fishy here. The point is, even so-called techies can be the victim of malware. There’s a new clickjacking scam going around Facebook right now that, while not malicious right now, could well mutate into something not very nice with the flick of a switch.

“Clickjacking”? Basically, you click a link and it takes you to a different site, or delivers you to different content, that you expected. So, you click a link that says “WATCH THE WORLD CUP IN HD CLICK HERE” and all of a sudden you wind up on some hacker’s server inadvertently downloading a malicious payload.

Other subjects to be weary of include “JUSTIN BIEBERS PHONE NUMBER” (who the hell would want that, by the way?) and “NUDE PICS OF PARAMORES HAYLEY WILLIAMS” (which aren’t hard to find at all). Seriously, if you can’t find these photos you might as well admit you have no idea how to use the Internet. They’re everywhere.

As the scam exists today on Facebook, the only thing that happens when you click these links is that it adds the site to your “liked” list without your knowledge or express consent. (Shocker: another Facebook security glitch.) Again, that’s how it works today. Who’s to say that, come tomorrow, the scam starts sending you to virus-filled Web sites?

If I’ve said it once I’ve said it one million times: do not click random nonsense while on the Internet. You really do need to assume that everyone out there is out to get you, and that you need to be on guard every single minute you’re online.

Firefox users can do a few things to keep extra safe. One is to install AdBlock Plus. Yes, there’s a certain moral “wrongness” to using AdBlock, but there have been cases where popular Web sites (Drudge, ESPN) have served up malware-laden ads. Block those ads before they even reach your browser. You may also want to install NoScript, which turns on and off Javascipt, Flash, and other nonsense Web technologies that are about as secure as [something not secure]. (Sorry, couldn’t think of a way to finish that simile.) You can, of course, ad exceptions for sites you “trust,” like Gmail or whatever.

Bottom line: just be alert while online.


Western Digital outships Seagate for the first time ever

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 08:30 AM PDT


Seagate is no longer the reigning hard drive king. Western Digital edged-out Seagate in the first quarter of 2010 by shipping 51.1 million hard drives.

That’s a 3.2 percent increase from the last part of 2009, which was just enough to pass Seagate who only shipped 50.3 million. But that’s only half the story. Seagate still managed to net more revenue than WD, which probably is more important to the investors anyway.
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