Maxtor Black Armor; Price: $149.99 Stats: 5.2 x 3.3 x 0.7 inches. Weighs 7.2 ounces. Features: 8MB cache with USB 2.0 interface. 160GB storage. Website: www.maxtor.com

WHEN LAPTOPS ARE STOLEN OR LOST, THE CONSEQUENCES can be serious. One missing notebook held personal information on every texas police officer. Others held data on 26 million U.S. veterans, information on patients in a medical study and secrets from the U.K. Ministry of Defense.

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Hard drive maker Seagate (STX) filed a patent suit against flash drive maker STEC (STEC) in federal court on Monday, firing the first shot in a new intellectual property battle between hard drive makers and providers of flash storage technology.

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Seagate CEO Bill Watkins stopped by the Wired offices to chat with EPICENTER author Bryan Gardiner.

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Ken Spencer Brown writes about “wireless” including Seagate’s Digital Audio Video Experience (D.A.V.E.)

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Jeffrey L. Wilson writes about Maxtor BlackArmor’s hard core security.

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Lee Brodie talks with Robert Scoble. Follow the link and scroll down to see the video.

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N’Gai Croal wants to get his hands on a D.A.V.E.

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Stephen Pritchard writes about the external Maxtor “BlackArmor” drive that offers full disk encryption.

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Brett Thomas takes a look at D.A.V.E.

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Michael Kanellos talks with Bill Watkins about Blue-ray, surveillance, flash and more.

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