So as promised the Daily Friction is back even if slower than before. Things will be getting back on track gradually. Today you can check out the new Constellation Hard Drives from Seagate, learn why the Wii will win the world, read about the new supercomputer the U.S government order from IBM, find great bargains and more.
and much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.

Hardware

  • Seagate Introduces Constellation Hard Drives With The World’s Highest Capacity And Power Efficiency – Seagate today introduced its Constellation family of new enterprise storage solutions for Tier 2 nearline storage applications. The two new drive models, the 2.5-inch Constellation and the 3.5-inch Constellation ES hard drives, include a combination of features that enable high capacities, increased power efficiency, enterprise-class reliability, and data security.
  • Only the Rich Can Afford It. Should Taxpayers Back It? The Tesla Roadster is an electric car that goes fast, looks sensational and excites envy. The seductive appearance, however, obscures some inconvenient truths: its all-electric technology remains woefully immature and don’t-even-ask expensive. If enough billionaires step forward to inject additional capital to keep the doors of its manufacturer, Tesla Motors, open, I’m happy for all parties.

Information

  • Why the Wii Could Win the World (but Probably Won’t) – with a few savvy improvements to the Wii system, the company could turn it into the living room Net appliance of choice. But despite the opportunity Nintendo has with the Wii, the company seems determined to let it remain a mere video game console.
  • IBM Offers To Move Laid Off Workers To India – The climate is warm, there’s no shortage of exotic food, and the cost of living is rock bottom. That’s IBM’s pitch to the laid-off American workers it’s offering to place in India. The catch: Wages in the country are pennies-on-the-dollar compared to U.S. salaries. Under a program called Project Match, IBM will help workers laid off from domestic sites obtain travel and visa assistance for countries in which Big Blue has openings. Mostly that’s developing markets like India, China, and Brazil.
  • US Orders Massive Supercomputer to Manage Nuclear Stockpile – The U.S. government has commissioned IBM to build a massive supercomputer that will have 1.6 million processor cores and be 15 times faster than today’s most powerful machine. The “Sequoia” supercomputer is scheduled for operation in 2012 and will be able to perform at 20 petaflops, or 20,000 trillion [T] floating point operations per second, IBM said.
  • IE slips further as Firefox, Safari, Chrome gain – The amount of market share commanded by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser has dropped for the seventh consecutive month. Internet Explorer now has 67.55 percent of global browser market share, a drop of over seven percentage points in a year, according to figures from Web metrics company Net Applications.

Bargains

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