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.

Throw Another DRM Initiative on the Fire

Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox announced they are working with SanDisk and Western Digital to develop standards that will allow high definition movies to be securely distributed to, as well as stored and played back on, a range of devices.