Ford Motors has announced owners of its upcoming electric vehicles, including the Focus Electric, will have the ability to remotely manage some aspects of their vehicles over the AT&T wireless network.

Diskeeper Corporation has just introduced its 2011 product. New features include an Instant Defrag technology that eliminates small fragments on the fly and HyperFast, a solid state disk (SSD) optimizer.

Iomega has introduced its ScreenPlay DX line of home multimedia products in 1TB and 2TB models as well as a storage-less version. The product features a QWERTY remote control and supports 1080p video playback in a variety of formats.

Samsung has announced its new slim external 3D Blu-ray drive, the SE-406A. The drive is USB powered, eliminating the need for an AC power adapter. Look for it to hit retailers this April.

Today Toshiba announced they are updating their STOR.E External drive lineup to include the newer and faster USB 3.0 interface. While not Thunderbolt, it is a step in the right direction, with more laptops offering USB 3.0 as standard, even on lower configurations. Backwards compatibility is also strong with USB 3.0, working with older interfaces,

Almost a year ago we reviewed the first hybrid SSD/HDD (well, first in a long time); the Seagate Momentus XT. Since that time it has remained the one and only drive in the hybrid drive category and gained a ton of popularity in the enthusiast market. While offering a very good mixture of performance and capacity, which

Western Digital has announced a 6TB My Book Studio Edition II dual-drive storage system. Designed largely for Mac users who are creating, editing and storing video and photo files, the My Book Studio Edition II offers a quad interface (eSATA, FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and USB 2.0), Time Machine support and a top capacity of

Seagate has announced several updates to their enterprise hard drive and SSD lines. The Pulsar.2 is an MLC NAND based SSD that offers capacities up to 800GB and the Pulsar XT.2 leverages SLC NAND to deliver Seagate’s fastest drive speeds to date. On the hard drive front, the Savvio 15K.3 gets a capacity boost to

Today OCZ Technology announced that they will be purchasing Indilinx, which is one of the primary manufacturers of SSD controllers and software. Currently OCZ uses Indilinx in a variety of products, including the Z-Drive and Onyx-series SSDs.