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The retailer will has promised 15.6? eMachines Laptop for under $200.By Jonathan Angel Walmart says it will be offering a 15.6-inch Windows 7 notebook for under $200 in its post-Thanksgiving "Black Friday" sale.The retailer will has promised 15.6? eMachines Laptop for under $200.By Jonathan Angel... more
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Western Digital has announced the second iteration of its TV connected media player. The new WD TV Live HD takes all that was awesome about the old, and adds some new tricks. The box still has wide codec support for playing files from USB drives, but it now also streams content from...Western Digital has announced the second iteration of its TV connected media player.... more
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Western Digital was the first company to release a 2TB 3.5 inch hard drive, but it looks like Hitachi has done it better. The company is introducing their 2TB Deskstar 7K2000 which runs at a nice 7200 RPM (WD only could do 5400 RPM).Western Digital was the first company to release a 2TB 3.5 inch hard drive, but it... more
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Dell SB has 1TB Western Digital Caviar Green Serial ATA (OEM) desktop hard drive w/ 32MB cache for $77 - 10% off coupon XTHR0RQRXJHQ12 = $69 with free shipping. Lowest on Google Products including shipping is $88.Dell SB has 1TB Western Digital Caviar Green Serial ATA (OEM) desktop hard drive w/... more
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"Jon spent $250 on a Western Digital VelociRaptor but what he received from Best Buy was a Quantum Fireball, a discontinued hard drive that hasn't been sold for nine years. Best Buy, of course, took no responsibility for the odd swap, and said that Western Digital must have accidentally sold a competitor's discontinued drive. Western Digital, of course, said that a Best Buy employee stole Jon's hard drive. We've seen this happen before with Best Buy, and Jon has made it clear that he knows how to bite back..."
Best Buy...Don't shop there. This is ridiculous that he couldn't get his money back, all they would give him was a gift card for half the price. This kinda crap has been happening a lot lately with Best Buy.
http://current.com/items/89943593/best_buy_screwing_customers_over_tv_recall.htm
For the full story, and how Jon plans to get back at Best Buy click on the link at the top."Jon spent $250 on a Western Digital VelociRaptor but what he received from Best... more
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Storage company Western Digital today joined the ranks of companies scaling back their workforces, announcing a cost restructuring that will involve a worldwide headcount reduction and closure of manufacturing facilities.
"We expect demand weakness to last well into the middle of the 2009 calendar year," John Coyne, president and CEO of WD said in a prepared statement. The company has seen increasingly competitive pricing from the likes of Hitachi and Seagate coupled with a decreased demand for hard drives overall. The projected revenue ceiling for the December quarter has dropped from $2.15 billion down to $1.8 billion.
Therefore, in the interest of cutting operating expenses, WD enacted a production freeze that will last from December 20 to January 1.
This is, of course, a short term solution. For the long term, it looks like most of WD's employees will be affected. Bonuses for executives, senior management and the board of directors will be cut back, hourly employees' schedules will be cut back 20%, and capital spending will be reduced by about $250 million.
Approximately 2,500 employees will be laid off in this cost-cutting plan, amounting to 5% of WD's total workforce. The company will also be closing one of its three hard drive manufacturing plants in Thailand, and either close or sell one of its media substrate factories in Malaysia.
WD anticipates the cutbacks will save $150 million in annual operating costs.Storage company Western Digital today joined the ranks of companies scaling back their... more
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Western Digital is billing its new RE2-GP hard drive as the greenest high capacity drive on the market. How does one make a hard drive "green," and what's the payoff? We take a quick look, and end up green with envy.
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=385Western Digital is billing its new RE2-GP hard drive as the greenest high capacity... more
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