Tech Mania: Seagate reportedly turned down takeover bid from Western Digital plus 1 more articles

Seagate reportedly turned down takeover bid from Western Digital

Posted: 05 Dec 2010 01:21 PM PST

Reports from Bloomberg say that Seagate rejected a takeover bid from rival Western Digital in October, which would have created a hard drive company to dwarf all others. Trust me this would have happened ! According to “two people with knowledge of the matter,” Western Digital was willing to offer as much as ten to fifty percent more than a competing takeover proposal from TPG Capital, which had already put more than $7.5 billion on the table for Seagate. As you might expect, however, the sheer size of the merger was apparently largely responsible for its refusal. Not only would it have created a huge amount of product overlap and likely led to numerous management departures, but it would have almost certainly faced some pretty significant antitrust obstacles. Of course, neither company is actually commenting on the matter itself and, for the time being at least, it looks like Seagate is content with going it alone.

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iOS 4.2 affects Camera Kit Usage on iPad Due to Lower USB Power

Posted: 05 Dec 2010 01:10 PM PST

If you see the comments from the release of iPad OS 4.2 there has been a mixed reaction from the users — why ? –some iPad users seem to experience new issues and one of them is the lower current drawn from USB interface that makes some of the USB peripherals such as Camera connection kit unusable.

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The root cause has been identified to be due to the current limitation that been restricted by the new firmware and instead of emitting 100mA from its USB port, the current drawn has been reduced to 20mA which is barely sufficient to supply to its external camera connection kit for proper operation. When such devices are connected, users will get the following alert message stating that "The connected USB device requires too much power" that have not been observed in previous iOS version. Other than the camera kit, some other USB based peripherals such as USB keyboard and flash drives are also impacted as those are the devices that require more than 20mA to work correctly.

As of now, the Cupertino-based company has not acknowledged if it is a new bug in iOS 4.2 and how they are going to address it, but obviously this is quite an important feature to be able to utilize external peripherals or otherwise it will be lacking behind as compared to other competitor's products such as Samsung Galaxy Tab with built-in camera module especially before the iPad 2

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