HLDS Busted for Optical Disc Drive Price Fixing

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $21.1 million criminal fine for its participation in a series of conspiracies to rig bids and fix prices for the sale of optical disc drives.

200 PC Models to Feature Nvidia GeForce GPUs

Nvidia announced that PC manufacturers plan to launch 200 products in the first half of 2011 that feature Nvidia GeForce Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), paired with the new generation of Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs.

VGA R.I.P. 1987-2015

Intel and AMD (with the support of Dell, Lenovo, LG Display and Samsung Electronics) announced that, by 2015, they will end PC support for analog display outputs (VGA, LVDS, DVI-I) and move to all digital interfaces (DisplayPort, HDMI).

Consumers Interested in Mobile DTV

The Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC) announced that more than 2,800 comments about Mobile Digital Television service have already been recorded by the first group of Washington, D.C.-area viewers who have the first “hands on” opportunity to experience Mobile DTV.

BDT Licenses RDX Technology from ProStor

ProStor Systems announced that BDT AG has become the latest licensee of ProStor’s RDX Core technology. According to the statement BDT is a major supplier of tape automation systems to OEMs who resell them under their own brands since 1988. Under the license, BDT will develop and market multi-terabyte data protection systems based on the …

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