storage

Hitachi cooking up Blu-ray camcorder

News This will appear in one to two years, Hiroto Yamauchi, general manager of storage products marketing at Hitachi, told CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com during an interview at CEATEC, a large Japanese trade show taking place near Tokyo this week.

Tags: hitachi, ray, disc, burner

4 October 2006, 10:53

Samsung shows off 8GB hard-drive phone

News The candy bar-style SGH-i310 will pack 8GB of storage and run Windows Mobile 5.0. The i310 is the fourth of Samsung's hard-drive phones: the device was preceded by one model packing 1.5GB of storage and two offering 3GB, including the i300.

8 March 2006, 10:25

Vista may require hybrid drive tech

News A Microsoft document specifying requirements for flash storage led to speculation that hybrid storage would be mandatory for all Vista laptops, from June 2007, but this has been denied by Microsoft. Details have emerged this week that Microsoft may...

19 June 2006, 10:11

Google beta offers alternative to gmail.com

News The hosted Gmail beta, which is going head-to-head with a similar beta that Microsoft launched last year, is offering 2GB of storage, email search tools and a control panel to manage user accounts, aliases and mailing lists, as part of its beta.

14 February 2006, 8:46

Cornice launches 10GB matchbook hard drive

News Upgrades to Cornice's Dragon series feature 8GB and 10GB of storage, up from 4GB and 6GB, and have slimmed down to the size of a book of matches, the company said. The Dragon series micro hard drive is Cornice's answer to our customers' needs.and a...

3 January 2006, 10:06

Ultraportable speculation at Macworld

News This slenderness could be the result of a switch from traditional hard drives to flash-based storage, claimed Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster in an interview with USA Today. There is also speculation that Apple boss Steve Jobs will unveil a new...

Tags: apple

15 January 2008, 8:52

Microsoft's digital home hub uncovered

News The Windows Home Server is for households that want to share storage among multiple PCs or Xbox games consoles. It will provide automatic backup, easier storage expansion and connectivity among different devices, including Zune media players, Gates...

9 January 2007, 10:05

Asus Eee PCs upgrade to Intel's Atom

News In an interview with Laptop Magazine published on Saturday, Jerry Shen also said that Asus may at some point incorporate hard drives, rather than solid-state storage, into the popular machines. The Asus chief expanded further on his company's...

Tags: storage, machines, processor, intel

11 March 2008, 8:53

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

SanDisk launches 8GB music player

News That marks a significant difference in price-to-storage ratio when compared to Apple's 4GB iPod nano, which retails for also sells for $249 in the US, or £169 in the UK, according to the online Apple Store.

22 August 2006, 9:40

TDK boasts 200GB Blu-ray discs

News Data storage requirements for business users are increasing -- everybody wants higher capacity," said Taro Ikushima, head of product marketing for TDK. Ikushima said that removable media would still be popular, despite the rise of Web-based storage...

4 September 2006, 9:16

IBM unveils software for real-time data backup

News Snapshots also require more storage space than a continuous data protection approach, said Steve Duplessie, a senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. Continuous data protection backs up only the last changes made to a file, whereas snapshots...

26 August 2005, 8:39

USB drives smarten up

News Intrigued by the possibilities of making it easier to recover from laptop mishaps, she left her lucrative consulting business and took a job as CEO of U3, a consortium of USB (Universal Serial Bus) flash drive manufacturers bent on advancing their...

8 June 2005, 8:55

PC makers fuming over DVD dispute

News From a PC end-user perspective, Blu-ray is a superior format," HP personal-storage unit general manager Maureen Weber said in a statement. Weber said Blu-ray offers anywhere from two-thirds to 150 per cent more storage capacity, as well as higher...

30 September 2005, 9:12

Apple's iPod costs likely went up -- in a flash

News By contrast, mini-hard drives with the same amount of storage costs about half as much, said iSupply's Nam Hyung Kim. Typically, hard drives provide more storage for less money than flash. Thus, Samsung would have to sell the memory at a loss or...

8 September 2005, 10:08