Seagate introduces 500GB hard drive for Android tablets

Seagate is giving more computing powers to your Android tablet with its new Ultra Mobile HDD. Pairing the Ultra Mobile HDD with Seagate’s Mobile Enablement Kit, you are expected to get a 500GB drive house in a 5mm form factor with a speedy 8GB flash cache, built-in zero-gravity sensors and gyroscopic motion support, improved system responsiveness and battery life courtesy of the Dynamic Data Driver, and customized mobile storage mounting kit reference design. No official word yet on availability and price.

Seagate acquires LaCie

Seagate Technology plc. and LaCie S.A.  announced the completion of the purchase by Seagate of all of the shares of Philippe Spruch and his affiliate, representing 64.5% of the outstanding shares of LaCie for a provisional price of €4.05 per share. The price payable to Philippe Spruch and his affiliate may be increased by 3%, to €4.17 per share, in the event that within six months following today's date, Seagate holds at least 95% of the share capital and voting rights of LaCie.

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Video: Seagate's GoFlex Satellite, 500GB wireless storage for your iPad

During today's Future Shop training event where a bunch of manufacturers showed off their latest and greatest for the upcoming (gasp!) Back to School season, we got a chance to check out Seagate's innovative new GoFlex Satellite. This WiFi enabled hard drive can be accessed simultaneously by up to three iOS devices. You can even take this in your vehicle to serve as a mobile server.  This drops July 29th for $199! How cool is that!