As employee-owned portable devices become more sophisticated they become less secure, according to one analyst -- and the more senior an employee, the less compliant they are when it comes to protecting the information on those devices.
EMC today announced it will sell flash-based solid state drives for the first time, which are currently 30 times more expensive than conventional drives.
Mobile storage devices could give thieves and hackers a back door into corporate networks.
Palm's bid to reinvent mobile computing looks an awful lot like the current state of mobile computing, but with less horsepower.
Windows makes it easy to quickly download files to iPods and other portable storage devices--a little too easy in the minds of many IT managers.
Toshiba claimed a new benchmark in storage density on Tuesday as it unveiled its largest ever 1.8-inch hard drive.
Consumer-electronics giant Philips is demonstrating a prototype miniature disc drive that uses a coin-size disc capable of storing nearly twice as much data as a standard-sized CD.
The arrival of portable USB storage devices—so small that they fit easily in your pocket and even sport rings for easy key chain attachment—may finally put the venerable floppy to rest. We examine four options.
Microsoft is expected to release the first test version of its new Windows Media Player software Wednesday in the US, marking a significant upgrade aimed squarely at the burgeoning portable device market.
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.
Consumer-electronics giant Philips is demonstrating a prototype miniature disc drive that uses a coin-size disc capable of storing nearly twice as much data as a standard-sized CD.
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Cisco Systems, a multibillion-dollar player in security tools for businesses, is planning to move into the consumer market.
Identity theft is on the increase, to the tune of 10 million victims in the U.S. and $50 billion in costs. Share this list of preventive measures with your end users, friends, and family members to help protect them from this escalating crime.
Less is more when it comes to handheld devices, a report by Jupiter Research has found.
Today's smart phones are less about ring tones and more about extending your corporate applications well and truly into the field. Say goodbye to the deskbound worker -- and hello to a potential data and security nightmare, warns David Braue.
Five years from now the notebook will likely be smaller and lighter, capable of making mobile phone calls on its own and running on methanol.
Iomega has unveiled details of a small, detachable storage drive it is developing for portable electronics gadgets.
With the increasing popularity of the IEEE 1394 interface, also known as FireWire, many people are predicting the demise of SCSI external hard disks. Although it is doubtful if SCSI would really disappear, the Maxtor Personal Storage 3000DV shows that external IDE hard drives are finally ready to mount a serious challenge together with FireWire.
Consumer-electronics giant Philips is demonstrating a prototype miniature disc drive that uses a coin-size disc capable of storing nearly twice as much data as a standard-sized CD.
Microsoft released the first test version of its new Windows Media Player software Wednesday, marking a significant upgrade aimed squarely at the burgeoning portable device market.
Version 8.0 of this six-year-old jukebox isn't exactly revolutionary, but it features some notable improvements.
Choosing a portable computing device is getting trickier -- we take a variety of devices for a spin and weight up the pros and cons.
Maxtor's latest hard drive isn't just frighteningly large; it's also spookily portable. Firewire drives are nothing new, but the Personal Storage 3000XT takes matters to a new level.
A consortium of companies developing Blu-ray Disc technology, a recordable DVD format using blue-violet lasers, announces the start date for the licensing of the technology.
Do you think you can tell the difference between an MP3 file encoded at 128KB and a WMA file at 96KB? Are you curious about how digital compression works? What bit rate should you use when encoding files? Take the aural challenge and see if you can hear the difference between a variety of formats!
Sony's CLIE PEG-SJ20 and PEG-SJ30 address the budget side of the PDA equation. Do budget colour and monochrome PDAs offer enough for your spending dollar?
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In the second part of his interview, Defence CIO Greg Farr talks about outsourcing, the skills crisis and reveals his most urgent IT priority.
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