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Stories on
tapes
CNET.co.uk has 26 stories on tapes
Storage fashion favouring tapes
News When it comes to storing data these days, disks just aren't enough, EMC indicated this week. The maker of disk-based storage systems announced on Thursday that it will resell tape-based devices from Advanced Digital Information as a way of giving...
14 June 2004, 7:35
EMC 'disk library' draws inspiration from tapes
News To help companies handle data backup and recovery tasks, storage specialist EMC plans next week to unveil a product that is based on disk drives but acts as a tape device. EMC is calling the new product a "disk library," according to sources close...
5 April 2004, 9:35
TiVo stages the death of the VCR in fine style
News Target said it is also phasing out sales of VHS tapes. The funeral service, which coincided with opening of the Digital Life consumer technology event in New York, also featured a eulogy and a casket overflowing with VCR tapes.
17 October 2005, 10:01
Death knell sounded for cassettes
News As of today, Currys will start flogging off its old stock of tapes and won't order in any more when supplies are exhausted. In 1989, at the height of sales of pre-recorded music cassettes, 83 million such tapes were bought by UK shoppers, while...
9 May 2007, 11:28
Sybase offers dynamic alternative to archive storage
News Sybase Dynamic Archive allows the automatic transfer of inactive data from production databases to an archive database, rather than tapes or discs. I don't see it affecting the market for tapes and disks as they will still be used for very rarely...
21 June 2004, 7:30
BBC's new media boss looks to Web 3.0
News However, Highfield spoke about two big obstacles to this move away from old tapes: "ingesting" and rights management. By "ingesting" he means physically transferring tapes on to digital storage. Future media and technology director at the BBC...
4 July 2007, 9:07
Software soups up surveillance
News There was a good reason why British authorities were able to identify the suspected London bombers last year more quickly than usual from surveillance tapes. They assigned scores of officers to review the video footage from all of the cameras, said...
26 January 2006, 9:26
Apple to return 'piracy tax' to iPod buyers
News Although the Canadian Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to a lower-court ruling that the tax -- a levy put on all recordable blank media, such as tapes and CDs, to compensate the music industry for piracy -- was unlawful, the levy had...
10 August 2005, 9:32
Digital music singing new sales song
News On one level, this is little different from the age-old practice of making mixed music cassette tapes for a friend. Despite the millions of dollars that record labels spend on advertising, it may be people like Robert Burke who determine the future...
20 January 2006, 10:58
Europeans pay double tax on Net music, study says
News These levies were originally designed as a tax on people making private copies of tapes and CDs they had bought. European consumers are being forced to pay for usage rights on legal copy-protected music downloads multiple times because of outdated...
14 October 2005, 8:54
Behold the customisable keyboard
News These keys are like blank tapes," said Pankaj Garg, a software architect at Ergodex, which developed the product. Game fans like to moan about the standard QWERTY keyboard layout. Everyone's hands are sized differently, after all, and every player...
27 June 2005, 10:29
RatDVD creates more headaches for Hollywood
News On their Web site, the programmers say they created the software because most movies available online were little better than digital VHS tapes, without the additional features that made DVDs interesting.
6 June 2005, 9:26
The 'smiley', 25 years on
News School of Computer Science facilities director Howard Wactlar and others, Jones found backup tapes covering the period from 1981 to 1983. Emoticons -- the smiley faces that frequently punctuate emails and instant messages -- are 25 years old on...
20 September 2007, 9:02
Roxio software targets iPod users
News CD Spin Doctor, meanwhile, is a tool for digitising music from analogue sources such as tapes and LPs, and MusicMagic Mixer analyses songs to automatically generate playlists. Digital-media company Roxio is offering a software suite designed to let...
10 June 2005, 9:03
Grateful Dead backtrack on download ban
News The crackdown appeared to be a sudden reversal by the band, which reportedly had long approved of fans trading homemade concert tapes. Facing criticism from thousands of fans, the Grateful Dead appear to have backtracked on recent moves to deter...
2 December 2005, 8:49
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