HP becomes the latest company to offer online storage service. HP has launched upline, an online data storage service that lets you put your data in a more secure location where you can share, store, retrieve and manipulate everywhere for as long as you are online.

HP offers three storage plans namely Home/Home Office, Family and Professional plans. All are offering unlimited storage and features that suit your needs.

The good news is that HP offers “free plan” with 1GB of storage for one year for those who would like to try the service first. The paid plans start at $59 per year.

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Hitachi has updated its TravelStar laptop hard drive products with a 320GB disk that spins at 7,200rpm.

The 2.5-inch Travelstar 7K320 beats its year-old 7,200rpm predecessor by 120GB data capacity. Hitachi also claims that TravelStar 7K320 increases an application performance gain of 12% and reduce power consumption by 22%. Power specs are: 1.8W read/write power and 0.2W standby power.

The TravelStar 7K320 drive can be connected to a SATA 3Gb/s interface or to a SATA 1.5Gb/s in models featuring on-board automatic data encryption technology.

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China’s satellite navigation officials intend to have an operational GPS system covering all of Asia by 2010. However, the officials are giving few details on the deployment plans for their GPS system. China is yet to complete the frequency coordination with the United States, Europe, Russia and others despite the fact that it is a member of the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICGNSS) which was founded to ensure global interoperability of navigation satellite networks.

According to Space.com, Chinese officials said at the Toulouse Space Show that China’s global Compass/Beidou system would be fully compatible with the U.S. GPS, European Galileo, and Russian Glonass global navigation constellations.

Japanese officials have expressed concerns about the Chinese plans because Japan is developing its own regional system called the Quazi Zenith Satellite Systems which will have three satellites in orbit with an apogee over Japan and Asia. When the U.S., Russian, Chinese and European medium Earth satellites are added together there could be 120 operational navigation satellites in medium Earth orbit.

The Chinese satellite system will include an encrypted channel, presumably for use by the Chinese military.

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While Microsoft Vista is struggling to get the public’s perception, Bill Gates said that 140 million copies of Microsoft Vista have been sold. However, Bill Gates did not clarify whether those were licenses or retail copies. Microsoft first made such an announcement when they crossed the 100 million mark of Vista sold at the end of last year.

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