The venerable hard drive is hitting middle age.
Samsung has developed a new computer flash technology with so much capacity it could replace mini hard drives in some PCs, the company said on Monday.
The convergence of mobile phones and other portable devices shuffled another step forward on Monday when Samsung launched a handset that contained a 1.5GB hard drive with a one-inch diameter.
For hard drives, life seems to be an uphill battle.
The world as notebook users know it is about to change in a flash.
Faced with the thought of a USB drive, notebook PC or backup tape going missing, most IT managers look to some form of encryption as the first layer of defence. However, according to one storage security expert, that's largely a pointless exercise.
The issue of how best to handle large email inboxes is a perennial topic here at Snorage, and it doesn't only affect enterprise customers.
Qualcomm has poured money into its broadcast mobile television system, MediaFLO. Now US carrier AT&T is hoping that consumers will do the same, following the launch of a consumer mobile TV offering based on the Qualcomm tech. Good luck with that.
Celebrity comes with its perks free alcohol, better-looking partners, lots of holiday time and disadvantages constant media intrusions, being forced to appear in films with Eddie Murphy for the long-term good of your career, and having to do mindless radio interviews with angry men who've been awake since 4am.
Although 3G phones have been around for years, it appears the iPhone 3G has successfully rewritten the rules of competition in Australia's mobile sector whetting the nation's appetite for data.
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IBM is expected to announce technology that shortens the time it takes to find information is being extended to its desktop hard drives.
When you need to wipe dozens of hard drives, a correctly configured, bootable floppy can save you time and effort.
A look at IBM's RAMAC, the original hard disk drive created in 1956. It weighed more than 250 kilograms and stored only 5 megabytes of data on 50 disks, 24 inches in diameter.
Two Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate students have uncovered a treasure trove of personal and corporate information on used disk drives.
eSATA offers higher speed connections to your PC for external hard drives.
Install Ubuntu Linux on a Windows machine without partitioning your hard drive or booting from a CD.
The new RealPlayer 11 lets you save streaming Web video to your hard drive.
Apple Time Capsule's hybrid 802.11n wireless router/networked hard drive offers some powerful data backup features for Mac owners, as well as Apple's typical pleasing design. Windows users and anyone who demands speed from their 802.11n network will be disappointed.
Previous versions of Windows have required the user to be familiar with the logical directory structure of their hard drive. Breadcrumbs mean this information is less important in Vista and can easily be hidden.
Heat or dots? The question is dividing the hard drive industry as it prepares for a major product overhaul.
Seagate's Pushbutton External Hard Drive is capacious, but its performance is disappointing.
Two MIT graduate students say they found personal and corporate information on used disk drives bought off the Internet and at swap meets.
One of the most difficult areas to troubleshoot is the hard drive. Read on as we reveal seven troubleshooting steps for tracking down hard drive problems.
IBM is expected to announce technology that shortens the time it takes to find information is being extended to its desktop hard drives.
Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
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Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
Google should come clean on datacentres
US shows what OPEL could have been
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