Apple TV rivals offer far more features
While Apple figures out what to do with its languishing Apple TV - it quietly dropped its 40Gb model on Monday leaving only the 160Gb version - there are plenty of other contenders scrapping to bring networked content to the big living-room screen.
Among them - FreeAgent Theater+, announced by Seagate today as an improved version of the unit it launched only six months ago. Continue reading "Apple TV rivals offer far more features"
Vertical circuits are thin end of the wedge
Bill Watkins’ brain has still not been reformatted since he left Seagate and his chief executive post in January, in a management reshuffle at the world’s leading hard-drive maker.
He has carried on thinking about hard drives and, in March, joined the board of Vertical Circuits, a neighbour to Seagate in Scotts Valley and a company he had followed closely, out of interest in the trend towards Flash memory and solid-state drives (SSDs). Continue reading "Vertical circuits are thin end of the wedge"
Seagate’s retro bid for the living room
Seagate’s FreeAgent Theater media player, announced at CES and now available, seems almost a retro concept for getting digital media files playing in the living room, given all the talk this year of bringing the internet to the TV.
But if you have still failed to grasp the DLNA standard, have ever struggled to set up a Wi-Fi connection to a set-top box or television or endured the frustration of seeing your streaming picture steadily deteriorate and freeze, the FreeAgent Theater is something of a hassle-free charmer. Continue reading "Seagate’s retro bid for the living room"
Seagate CEO to throw away the BlackBerry
Tech journalists will be mourning the departure today of Bill Watkins as chief executive of Seagate Technology, the world’s biggest maker of hard-disk drives.
He was the most candid and colourful CEO in Silicon Valley, never afraid to tell it the way he saw it and provide a great quote. Continue reading "Seagate CEO to throw away the BlackBerry"
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Richard Waters has headed the FT's San Francisco bureau since 2002 and covers Google and Microsoft, among other things. A former New York bureau chief for the FT, he is intrigued by Silicon Valley's unique financial and business culture, and is looking forward to covering his second Tech Bust.
Chris Nuttall has been online and messing around with computers for more than 20 years and since 2004 has reported from the FT's San Francisco bureau on semiconductors, video games, consumer electronics and all things interwebby.
David Gelles, a California native, has been hanging around and reporting on Silicon Valley for several years. He joined the FT's San Francisco bureau in 2008 and writes about social networking, clean tech and artificial intelligence.
Maija Palmer has been writing about technology for the FT since 1999 and is facinated by cybercrime, privacy and all the other issues of the information society. Based in London, she covers European tech companies and hopes that they won't all get acquired by American rivals.
Joseph Menn writes about tech security and privacy, digital media, and the computer industry from the San Francisco bureau. He spent a decade covering tech for the Los Angeles Times and therefore remembers the days when pre-revenue dot-coms handed out free bottles of champagne at their launch parties.
Robin Harding is the FT's technology correspondent in Tokyo, following the fortunes of Japan's videogame, semiconductor and consumer electronics companies. Before that, he was an FT editorial writer in London, having previously worked for various banks and asset managers.
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