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Will Blu-ray DVDs be too expensive?

News Both are high-capacity discs that will support the distribution of high-definition versions of movies, with much better picture quality than what's possible with today's technology. Alperovich argues that if there is a short-term price gap, the...

29 November 2005, 9:47

Is the time right for phone-music player hybrids?

News A phone may be limited to storing about 1,000 songs now -- as much as 4GB of music storage is available in Nokia's N91 handset -- but that's expected to grow dramatically as larger flash memory becomes available and as phones begin incorporating...

8 September 2005, 9:50

Will Vista jam the Net?

News With many DNS servers already running close to capacity, this can have serious consequences, he said. While there are name servers that are running close to capacity, Kaminsky, in a preliminary scan, said he found most networks have quite a bit of...

7 September 2006, 9:40

Vodafone broadband to cover huge loss?

News It will be done by acquiring capacity and reselling capacity," he said, adding that suppliers had yet to be selected. Vodafone has launched a new push for convergence, after posting the largest corporate loss in UK history.

31 May 2006, 9:44

Home storage to boost hard-drive growth

News But when it comes to storage capacity for PCs and media players, bigger is better with consumers, said David Reinsel, director for Storage Research at IDC. Reinsel also said that hard disk drives could reach 1 terabyte in capacity sometime in 2007...

30 June 2005, 8:28

Seagate launches perpendicular drives

News Seagate has been working for some time on perpendicular technology as a way of creating more capacity in a smaller space. In these circumstances, the capacity of the disk is limited by how close together the bits can be, and most manufacturers...

19 April 2006, 9:12

SanDisk launches 8GB music player

News Apple's player with the next-highest capacity, the 30GB iPod, runs on a hard drive rather than flash and sells for £219. The Sansa players enable users to increase storage capacity and change which songs are kept on the device by inserting...

22 August 2006, 9:40

HSPDA comes to ultra-portable laptops

News Additionally, Vodafone told CNET.co.uk's sister site, ZDNet UK, it has increased the last-mile connectivity capacity -- the connection between the end user/network and the main network -- for its HSDPA services where needed.

3 August 2006, 9:39

Apple wants to rule your living room

News The movies can be watched on new improved iPods with brighter screens and more capacity. The new nanos feature twice as much capacity as the original generation of nanos introduced last year, and are available in a variety of colours, like the iPod...

13 September 2006, 10:29

Earthquakes cause comms failure in Asia

News In Taiwan, Chungwa Telecom, the country's largest phone operator, told news agencies that it had lost between 40 per cent and 60 per cent of its capacity for International calling to places such as the US.

2 January 2007, 9:16

Broadband now faster but not up to speed

News A provider only needs around 1.5 per cent of users to make use of, say, the BT Vision product at the same time to use up all the capacity," he said. The UK does not yet have the infrastructure to support millions watching EastEnders via broadband...

26 February 2007, 9:29

News.blog: Yahoo Live tries livestreaming

News Unfortunately, Yahoo Live launched with a serious capacity deficit. Yahoo-sized capacity into a new product, don't pretend that it's ready for a public viewing. Last night, Yahoo dropped a new service on the world: the livestreaming service Yahoo...

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8 February 2008, 9:12

MP3-player demand to jump in 2009

News In addition to the coolness factor of designs from Apple, as well as the new bean-shaped Sony Walkman player and Creative Technology's Zen Vision music-and-video player, IDC pointed to other factors, such as cost and memory capacity, that will...

14 October 2005, 10:27

Mobile WiMax gets the green light

News Even though phone companies have spent billions of dollars upgrading their cellular networks, they are still limited in capacity. Mobile phones still have a longer reach than WiMax, but supporters of WiMax believe that mobile operators could use...

12 December 2005, 10:20

Philips unit to unveil rollable-display mobile device

News According to Thomas van der Zijden, vice president of marketing at Polymer Vision, the company's initial production capacity for the Readius devices will be "a few hundred thousand", which he admitted was a "very small number" for the mobile...

9 February 2007, 9:46