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BT restructuring draws mixed reaction
News Industry analysts have welcomed the reorganisation and believe it will drive competition and lower prices for businesses in the UK. Other analysts are also sceptical about the effects of the reorganisation, arguing that old habits will be hard to... [14 Apr 2000]
Quantum invests $100m in VC spin-off
News QTV said it will look to develop storage products beyond its traditional desktop hard-disk drive, tape drive, consumer storage, network attached storage, and DLT lines of business. Storage specialist, Quantum, has set aside $100m to establish a... [22 Mar 2000]
HP desktop momentum produces e-Vectra
News He explained: "If the system breaks down, a support engineer will able to open the security door on the unit and remove the hard drive. The unit is then taken away and the drive is inserted into a new one. [22 Feb 2000]
Western Digital bids 'adieu' to SCSI hard drives
News Western Digital has announced it will quit the SCSI hard drive business - which makes up 11 per cent of the company's drive revenue - to concentrate on what it calls Internet-related data content management systems and management software. [21 Jan 2000]
Email game declared safe for your computer's elf
News The emails claim the game is a time bomb which will destroy the hard drive on Christmas day. Allegations that a popular online game, Elf Bowling, is a computer virus have been squashed by leading virus detectors. [15 Dec 1999]
Y2K virus spate continues with ICQGreeting
News According to Trend Micro, ICQGreeting has a second payload which attempts to reformat the computer's hard drive on 1 January - however because of errors in its program code the anti-virus vendor said the threat is limited. [13 Dec 1999]
Symantec issues W32.Mypics virus warning
News If undetected until 1 January 2000, the worm will overwrite data on a hard drive. Security company Symantec has warned of yet another virus that has been plaguing US networks. The W32.Mypics.worm spreads with the usual vigour across user email... [03 Dec 1999]
Sophos software launched in D-Fence of mobile workforce
News The software, called D-Fence, secures data on a laptop hard drive, including boot files, operating system and swap files, reassuring users the information will be inaccessible in the event of loss or theft. [22 Oct 1999]
Encyclopaedia Britannica to go online for free
News The company which once charged £1,000 for a hard-backed 13 volume set, has been hit with dwindling sales revenues over recent years, for both the print and CD ROM versions of its publication. The company has decided instead to drive revenue through... [20 Oct 1999]
IBM set to roll out 73Gb hard disk drive
News IBM is to launch a hard disk drive capable of storing 73Gb of data. This puts it at the top of the capacity ranks - beating Seagate's 50Gb drive. However, the IBM drive won't be available until early 2000 [15 Oct 1999]
Western Digital recalls 400,00 defective hard drives
News Disk drive manufacturer, Western Digital, has been forced to recall more than 400,000 hard drives due to a faulty chip. The hard disk drive is an extremely competitive and mature industry and Western Digital having to recall its drives is a big issue. [30 Sep 1999]
Sun attempts another thin client foray
News Sun Microsystems has made another bid to enter the thin client market with the launch of its Sun Ray device - an enterprise appliance designed to run applications, not from a hard drive, but straight from an Internet server. [09 Sep 1999]
UK corporations brace themselves for virus attacks
News The virus is hard to detect because it lies dormant in PCs running Word 97 until 13 December when it will be triggered into life. It carries what Network Associates describes as a potentially destructive payload that will attempt to delete all... [06 Sep 1999]
Quantum to shed 800 employees
News Quantum is to lay off as many as 800 employees in the next 12 months as part of a restructuring strategy which aims to ensure its survival in the fiercely competitive hard drive (HD) marketplace. The company's hard disk drive group will take a one... [23 Aug 1999]
Corel launches 'easyload' Linux
News The software is installed in four steps and automatically partitions your hard drive. Corel announced an easy-to-use version of Linux called Corel Linux at LinuxWorld. The free beta version will be available from Corel's Web site from September. [11 Aug 1999]
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