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In a breakthrough that paves the way for higher capacity notebook computers and digital music players, Toshiba announced Tuesday that its storage device division broke the 100 GB barrier for mobile hard disk drives. The new 1.8-inch drive -- model MK1011GAH -- is based on perpendicular magnetic reco...
As much as I am enamored with USB "thumb" drives, some storage problems -- such as system backups -- need a more robust solution. Robust need not mean bulky. There are USB portable hard drives on the market that fit in the palm of your hand and are big enough to support substantial data demands. Amo...
NEC on Tuesday added an interesting twist to the high-definition format battle: a semiconductor that crosses the boundaries between the competing standards. NEC's new chipset will be compatible with both the Blu-ray disc, which is backed by Sony and Matsushita Electric, and the HD DVD disc developed...
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on Tuesday will ship a 50 GB Blu-ray disc, making it the first company to release a film using a high-definition format that can store twice as much data as traditional, standard definition media. Sony Pictures will release the hit comedy motion picture "Click" on Tu...
Autumn is here. That means the start of the holiday shopping season, the traditional time for electronics makers to introduce their new product lines. This buying season, consumers interested in one of the new high-definition DVD players being introduced over the next two months risk buying a player...
While the Blu-ray and HD DVD camps battle for format dominance, Warner Bros. is looking for a middle ground with a three-layer optical disc that could play either HD DVD or Blu-ray. Technology analysts have been hedging bets on which of the two new high-definition formats will ultimately win the war...
Hewlett-Packard aims to tap into the growing need among small and medium sized businesses for high-capacity, networked storage with its new StorageWorks All-in-One Storage Systems unveiled this week. The company's AiO Storage Systems align with Microsoft's storage products and servers and are aimed ...
Samsung Electronics on Thursday took steps to address image quality concerns with its high-definition Blu-ray disc player. The electronics giant plans to make production changes and offer owners of existing players free upgrade discs to silence complaints from product reviewers. The movies played on...
Samsung on Monday unveiled a prototype for what could one day become a less expensive substitute for flash memory and at the same time touted a healthy flash memory market with high demand and prices to match. The South Korea firm's new technology -- phase-change random access memory -- could eventu...
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based KnowNow, a provider of publish-and-subscribe information services, announced Monday the deployment of two KnowNow systems at financial services company Wells Fargo. The on-site KnowNow Material Event Notification service allows Wells Fargo business managers to continuously wa...
New developments are shaping the high definition DVD landscape. The latest news in the evolving Blu-ray vs. HD DVD format battle comes from Sony, which this week said Japan and the United States will share the same region code for Blu-ray disc players. The company also announced that it has started ...
Putting a fresh face on its modular storage systems, Sun Microsystems on Thursday unveiled the first two products in its StorageTek modular storage family -- the Sun StorageTek 6140 and 6540 arrays. Sun is targeting midsize-to-enterprise customers with the products, as well as the sweetspots for th...
Microsoft demonstrated this week a new high-definition DVD, or HD DVD, drive add-on for the Xbox 360 gaming console. The device is the company's answer to Sony's coming PlayStation 3, which features an integrated media disc drive using the rival Blu-ray format. Microsoft did not indicate pricing or ...
Chip giant Intel has entered the mobile phone memory market, making its first NOR flash memory semiconductor products available this week for low-cost, wireless devices in emerging markets. Intel said NOR flash, a non-volatile, read-only memory technology -- was a direct response to demand for low-c...
IM Flash Technologies, a NAND flash memory venture established by Intel and Micron, leaped ahead of rival Samsung this week by sampling a 50-nanometer manufacturing process that more efficiently delivers high density flash memory chips. Last week Samsung announced it had achieved manufacturing of it...
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