The week in hardware: Unlocked, encrypted, upgraded, merged
We recap the week's hardware news. Transmeta is no longer an independent company, you can now unlock your T-Mobile G1, and Toshiba is now selling a 500GB ultraquiet laptop drive. Read More...

Holton Hardware closes after 64 years
Holton Hardware closes after 64 years

NASA scraps controversial hardware from its next-gen Mars rover
LOS ANGELES: NASA is scrapping a controversial piece of hardware from its next-generation Mars rover that would have allowed the spacecraft to store rock fragments in a mini-basket for a future mission.

If I have hardware drivers already installed on my system how can I find
out what the name of the drivers hardware is? If I have hardware drivers already installed on my system how can I find out what the name of the drivers hardware is?

NASA scraps controversial hardware from its next-gen Mars rover
NASA is scrapping a controversial piece of hardware from its next-generation Mars rover that would have allowed the spacecraft to store rock fragments in a mini-basket for a future mission.

US makes big counterfeit hardware bust
Authorities in the US have seized a massive collection of counterfeited IT equipment. The Department of Homeland Security said that between May and June of this year, customs officials uncovered more than 420,000 pieces of networking equipment and hardware components.

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Budget hardware
Lists ... if there's one thing that people seem to what at this time of year it's lists. Over the next few weeks I've planned on posting several kit lists for the Holiday season covering a wide variety of different kit. The other day I posted the "high end" hardware list, crazy-priced, sky's-the-limit stuff. Today I'm going for a change of pace and posting the budget hardware list.

US in huge counterfeit hardware bust
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Friday 21 November 2008 at 02:10:00 Customs officers nab 420,000 pieces of snide kit The US Department of Homeland Security has seized a huge collection of counterfeit IT equipment. Customs officials uncovered more than 420,000 pieces of networking equipment and hardware components between May...

Japanese hardware sales fall
Nintendo's DSi held onto its lead amid falling hardware sales in Japan for the week ended November 16, according to data provided by Media Create.

Hardware, Molding Turn Drab Cabinets into Decorative Elements
(ARA) - Cabinets rank with appliances and countertops as a kitchen design element that draws a lot of attention. Upgrading cabinets with cost-effective, high-impact accessories like fresh hardware and moldings can put the finishing touch of personalization on your kitchen.

US makes big counterfeit hardware bust
Authorities in the US have seized a massive collection of counterfeited IT equipment: 420,000 pieces of networking equipment and hardware components.

NASA MEPAG: Analysis of arguments for and against removing the sample cache hardware from MSL
The primary benefit of the sample cache on MSL is the potential increase in the likelihood of Mars Sample Return. The primary quantifiable risk of retaining the cache is in mission operations.

Maine man gets prison time in gun case
A former employee of a Calais hardware store has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for transferring a firearm to a nonresident of Maine during an undercover investigation aimed at curtailing the flow of guns from Maine to Canada.

Hardware Roundup: Weekend Edition
Our weekend roundup includes a few reviews from around the web for you to check out. We'll start off with the Cooler Master ATCS 840 mid-tower case (recently reviewed by OCC here ). Working our way down the list we next come to the Xilence Xilent CPU cooler (say that three times fast!) - it's a quiet cooler, but how well does it perform. Read on to find out. IN WIN has the Na eSATA hard drive ...

Project Hyperion: A super testbed for HPC apps and hardware
Freebie teraflops for ISVs SC08 When it comes to parallel supercomputing, and indeed any kind of parallel processing, the hardware is the easy part. The systems software, including a tuned software stack and middleware for managing data, visualization applications for turning datasets into something human beings can use to make decisions or understand some phenomenon, is a bit trickier.?

National Instruments Adds Instrument-Class I/O to LabVIEW FPGA Hardware
New NI FlexRIO Product Family Increases FPGA-Based I/O Performance for PXI Test Systems AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 11, 2008 / / - National Instruments (NASDAQ:NATI) today introduced a new family of open, FPGA-based hardware for the PXI platform. The NI FlexRIO product family is the industry's first commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solution to provide engineers with the flexibility of NI LabVIEW FPGA ...

11/20/2008 Daily Hardware Reviews
DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Thursday...

Week in review: net filters, NBN, CEOs, security and hardware
It's been a busy week in the Australian tech industry. Both the NBN and net filters are due to happen in weeks, so companies and government departments are scrambling on all sides. Overseas, several companies have dropped their CEOs or hired new ones. Read on for more information.

US military searches abroad for source of cyber attack on Pentagon
Washington, Nov.22 : The cyber attack on the Department of Defense that has led to a ban on the use of external hardware devices could have come from a number of foreign countries, possibly Russia or China, the Pentagon has claimed.

STS-126 MCC Status Report #15
The space shuttle and International Space Station crews were hard at work transferring, assembling and testing hardware at the station today.