Marketcircle acquires LGO
Marketcircle announced the strategic acquisition of LGO, a veteran IT consulting firm based in London, UK.
Seagate Barracuda SATA 400GB
With Western Digital SATA Generation II disks causing trouble in Power Mac G5 machines equipped with only the original SATA controller, I decided to ask Seagate for one of their Gen II SATA drives. After emailing back and forth, I received a Gen I SATA 400 GB Barracuda disk.
TOLIS Group announces BRU Server 1.2 for Mac OS X
TOLIS Group, developer of the BRU brand of data protection solutions, today announces BRU Server 1.2 for Mac OS X, whose human interface was influenced by the input of hundreds of experienced Macintosh users worldwide.
Sony DRM analysed by Gartner
On 1 November 2005, media reports indicated that some CDs produced by Sony BMG install operating-system-level software when played that cloaks its presence and alters the functioning of the user’s machine. Gartner analysts took a look and condemn Sony for its use of what they describe as spyware.
Sony DVD RW DRU-810A Review
Sony has a tradition of not supporting Mac OS X, but the Sony DVD-burner DRU-810A is an external device which works excellently with Apple’s OS, although the box content would have you believe otherwise.
Verbatim on Optical Media
IT-Enquirer had a short conversation with Torsten Leye, DVD Product Manager at Verbatim, when he came back from a business trip that took a few weeks. We asked him about his opinion on DVD quality, compatibility, the arrival of Blu-Ray discs on the market and Verbatim’s market position.
Western Digital 400 GB SATA SE16
The Western Digital SE16 range of hard disk drives is Western Digital’s top range of SATA drives for desktop use. These drives have 16MB of cache memory, and they are available in 300 MB/sec models and the mainstream 150MB/sec Buffer to Host models. Western Digital sent me a 150 MB/sec disk which I built into my trusted Power Mac G5 Dual 1.8GHz.
An Interview with Pioneer
When Pioneer released its latest DVR-110D DVD-burner, we thought it might be worthwhile asking Pioneer about their view on the future. And so we got to speak to Brendan Sheridan, Product Planning Engineer for the Components and Mass Storage Division at Pioneer Europe.
Pioneer DVR-110 D
The Pioneer DVR-110D is Pioneer’s latest multi-media burner. How else do you call a device which burns CDs, and DVDs and will read DVD-RAM version 2 and later? I had the chance to test-drive the Pioneer DVR-110 with the latest firmware, version 1.22.
Data Rescue II 10
Prosoft Engineering released a new version of Data Rescue, their data recovery utility in September. It is the first version to have been worked on by Prosoft in collaboration with DriveSavers from Novato, California. Data Rescue II 10 is probably the safest data recovery utility available for Mac OS X. It’s more powerful than anything else on the market, and it shows.
LinkageDesigner Application for Mechanical Design with Mathematica
Wolfram Research Announces New LinkageDesigner Application for Mechanical Design with Mathematica. LinkageDesigner is a new application package for virtual prototyping of linkages with Mathematica.
TEXTML Server 3.6 Announced
IXIASOFT, the native XML database and search engine developer, announced TEXTML Server 3.6.
