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Helium-filled hard drives balloon storage space

Living with Roku and the rest: indie streaming boxes offer a lot of choice without many options

A week with the Netgear NeoTV Pro, the Roku 2 XS, Western Digital’s WD TV Live, and the new Boxee TV

WD TV Play set-top box will let you play casual games, but only with navigation buttons

An FCC filing reveals some information about WD's upcoming TV Play set-top box, including that the device will support casual games like Texas Hold 'Em and Sudoku.

Western Digital's My Net routers prioritize bandwidth usage for gaming, Netflix, or Skype

Western Digital debuted a new line of wireless routers today, which automatically give more bandwidth to important activities.

WD adds SlingPlayer and AOL On to TV Live and Live Hub streamers

An addition to the Western Digital TV Live and Live Hub adds several new content channels and SlingPlayer, which streams live TV through Slingbox hardware.

Seagate to buy LaCie for $186m as hard drive industry continues shrinking

Seagate announced that it will acquire boutique hard drive vendor LaCie at a total valuation of $186m. Seagate will first purchase 64.5 percent of LaCie's stock from CEO Phillipe Spruch, and then try to buy all the remaining shares over the next few months.

Slim Western Digital hard drive gives ultrabooks a cheap storage option

Western Digital's new 7mm, 2.5-inch Scorpio Blue hard drive might not break performance records, but it won’t break the bank.

Skitter streams live local TV broadcasts to Roku and WD TV boxes starting at $12 per month

Portland, Oregon residents are the first to get their hands on a new service from Skitter that hopes to serve the cord-cutting market. Like the recently-released Aereo service in New York City, Skitter streams live TV feeds from local networks like ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX for a monthly fee between $12 and $15.

Western Digital launches My Passport Studio 2TB portable drive with FireWire 800

Western Digital's My Passport Studio portable drive has been launched in a 2TB size. The drive includes dual FireWire 800 ports for Mac computers.

HDD prices could drop by 10 percent at the end of April

Industry sources have suggested that hard disk prices could fall by 10 percent at the end of next month, the first sign of recovery from manufacturers since the Thai flooding disaster last October.

Western Digital launches 2TB My Passport external hard drive for $249.99

There's already a number of 2TB external hard drives on the market, but Western Digital's new 2TB My Passport is a nice combination of massive storage capacity and small size.

Western Digital releases My Book Thunderbolt Duo external drive, starting at $599.99 for 4TB

Western Digital has been making its My Book line of external hard drives for years now, but now the company has launched its first Thunderbolt-powered drives

Western Digital and Toshiba trade hard drive tech, clearing the way for WD / Hitachi merger

Western Digital and Toshiba have agreed to trade parts of their respective businesses by March 2012, leaving Toshiba with equipment and intellectual property to build 3.5-inch hard disks, and Western Digital with a shuttered 2.5-inch plant in Thailand and the divestiture it needed for approval to merge with Hitachi.

Western Digital previews My Book Thunderbolt Duo external drives

Western Digital will soon be offering Thunderbolt-enabled external drives. The My Book Thunderbolt Duo will be offered in two capacities: 4 and 6 TB.

WD TV update adds Vudu, iOS remote to Live and Live Hub streamers (hands-on pictures)

Western Digital updated its WD TV Live and Live Hub set-top boxes this week, and also launched a free iOS app that works as a remote for the boxes.

Seagate and Western Digital cutting hard drive warranties in 2012

Next year, Seagate will reduce many of its internal hard drive warranties from five years to one, and Western Digital from three years to two. The companies claim that this change will bring hard drive warranties in line with those of other components.

Western Digital receives conditional approval from EU in Hitachi hard drive takeover

California-based hard disk manufacturer Western Digital has received conditional approval from the European Union to go ahead with its planned purchase of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies for $4.3 billion.

Staples Black Friday 2011 deals

For Black Friday 2011, Staples is offering deep cuts on Canon's EOS Rebel T3 DSLR, the BlackBerry PlayBook, camera bags, printers, hard drives, and more.

Western Digital ordered to pay $525 million to Seagate in settlement

Storage manufacturer Seagate has been awarded $525 milion as a settlement in its dispute with Western Digital. The pair have been in arbitration over allegations of misappropriated confidential information and use of trade secrets following a former Seagate employee moving to Western Digital.

Roku 2 gets new firmware, games: Pac-man, Galaga, and more