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Toshiba unveils new notebooks
News The system features a 7.2 inch diagonal widescreen LCD (liquid crystal display), a new keyboard, wireless connectivity, and a 1.8 inch 60GB hard disk drive. The notebook, which starts at $2,099, features a Pentium M processor, a 1.8 inch 60GB hard...
25 April 2005, 9:39
Apple's iPod costs likely went up -- in a flash
News Apple will probably never go back to hard disk drives. By using flash memory rather than mini-hard drives in the iPod nano music players, Apple probably increased its own component costs, said analysts.
8 September 2005, 10:08
Photos: Top ten holiday gadgets
News As well as watching movies on the 102mm (4-inch) widescreen LCD, you can connect it directly to your digital camera and download your photos to the hard disk. If you're happy to wait until you get home to catch up on two weeks of Deal or No Deal...
26 July 2006, 10:55
Microsoft TV dealt blow Down Under
News It has become apparent that the technology currently available is not yet suitable for serial delivery, in particular since the set-top box has no internal hard disk and only one television channel is available," Swisscom said in a statement about...
23 June 2005, 9:00
Buy Vista for the security, Allchin says
News Originally, Microsoft wanted virtual folders to replace standard views, which show the physical location of files on a hard-disk drive, but it has backpedalled on that decision. For businesses, Vista will offer tighter control over removable...
30 January 2006, 10:14
Microsoft sees Zune as opening act
News For example, users sometimes get confused between songs that can be played versus those that are transferred to a player only as a file in disk mode. Even a feature as basic as the disk mode, though, adds complexity, Microsoft said.
15 November 2006, 10:57
Perpendicular drives hit the market
News Although the shift to perpendicular recording methods greatly increases the amount of data that can be stored in a small space, it has forced the drive industry to put extra work into developing disk media, new heads and new electronics.
17 August 2005, 8:48
Wireless USB devices due in September
News Wireless USB promises help for consumers frustrated with PCs sprouting a profusion of cables linking their PCs with printers, digital cameras, music players and external disk drives, said Jeff Ravencraft, chairman of the USB Implementers Forum and...
7 March 2006, 10:01
Hitachi plans laptop drive revolution
News Hitachi's largest 7,200rpm laptop disk now holds 100GB, while the 5,400rpm model goes up to 160GB. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, the hard-drive division of the Japanese electronics giant, will sell hybrid hard drives that cut battery...
1 November 2006, 10:26
Nokia to launch phone that stores 3,000 songs
News The N91 has an integrated 4GB hard disk and supports digital music formats including MP3, M4A, AAC and WMA, Nokia said. Nokia on Wednesday announced a trio of new phones, including one that can store up to 3,000 songs.
28 April 2005, 15:22
MP3 players owned by one-third of households
News A separate report by research firm Canalys recently found Apple currently remains market leader in the music-player world -- around 45 per cent of all MP3 players and more than 70 per cent of hard disk-based devices bear the iPod name.
15 September 2005, 9:43
Canon releases two new HD camcorders
News In early July, Sony announced two camcorders that record to DVD discs and hard-disk drives slated for retail release this autumn. Canon has released two new high-end handheld HD camcorders aimed at broadcasters and cinematographers.
31 July 2006, 9:29
Smart phones that scream when stolen
News The same kind of test is often done on used hard-disk drives. That ear-piercing ring you hear in a restaurant might not be somebody who forgot to set their mobile phone to vibrate. A new service called Mobile Manager, from Synchronica, can remotely...
30 August 2006, 9:02
Google mapper advises: take browsers to the limit
News The downside is that browsers don't give programmers full access to a computer's resources such as memory, process power and hard disk space. The only way to transform the Web into the desktop platform of the future is to fully embrace bleeding...
29 July 2005, 9:47
Photos: Ceatec's consumer electronics
News A set-top box sporting IVDR (information versatile disk for removable usage) technology. Basically, it's a portable hard drive. Panasonic has shown off similar wall TV concepts, so this shouldn't be too far away from being seen in living rooms.
4 October 2007, 9:32


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