Seagate First in Hard Drive Market

IHS announced it reckons that Seagate Technology recaptured the lead in hard disk drive (HDD) shipments during the fourth quarter of 2011, ousting Western Digital, which suffered heavy losses in the Thailand floods last year.

USTR Publishes Intellectual Property Rights Report

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced that it has published its annual Special 301 Report, which provides the agency’s opinion of the adequacy and effectiveness of the protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) by U.S. trading partners.