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Web 2.0, cloud computing 'to transform business'
News Photos: How to destroy your hard drive The analyst also identifies electronic paper, service-oriented business apps and solid-state drives as emerging techs with high potential in this time-frame. Web 2.0 technologies may make you roll your eyes... [11 Aug 2008]
Highways Agency drives on with traffic tech
News The scheme has been trialled on the M42 south of Birmingham, with the hard shoulder of the motorway opened to traffic during busy periods and variable speed limits being employed. Transport Secretary, Ruth Kelly, said the trial on the M42 proved... [28 Jul 2008]
Home servers latest trend to sweep market?
News Soon, the 500GB hard drive that comes as standard on most home computers today won't even be big enough to store and organise the amount of digital music, video and photography that users are accumulating as part of the emerging "terabyte lifestyle". [21 Jul 2008]
Seagate unleashes 1.5TB desktop
News Seagate has unveiled 1.5TB desktop and half-terabyte laptop hard drives, claiming industry firsts for both. The Barracuda 7200 1.5TB drive is aimed at the desktop market and the half-a-terabyte jump in capacity from 1TB marks "the single largest... [15 Jul 2008]
Google: Server efficiency needs different approach
News But chips are actually better than hard drives, memory and network adapters at reducing power consumption during periods of moderate activity. Some sophisticated hard drives, for example, can slow down their rotational speed to save power during... [25 Jun 2008]
Stolen music still big with MP3 generation
News More than half (58 per cent) admitted to copying music from friends' hard drives, while 95 per cent have copied music in some way. Record industry artist and publisher group, British Music Rights (BMR), claims the average 14- to 24-year-old now has... [16 Jun 2008]
Mobile market booming: But there's room for all
News Jeff Janukowicz, research manager, hard disk drive components and solid state disk drives at IDC, said during the same conference, IDC expects a boom in the SSD (solid state drive) market from now until 2010, growing at a compound annual growth... [06 Jun 2008]
Intel registers second-gen Classmate
News The upgraded system can also have an optional 30GB hard disk instead of 1GB, 2GB or 4GB flash drives, and the 802.11b/g wireless networking now has a mesh mode to connect Classmates where there's no wireless infrastructure. [04 Apr 2008]
silicon.com Classics: 10 hard drive disasters
News The latest in our weekly look back through the classic stories of the last decade in the silicon.com archive is a story about some of the most bizarre ways people have accidentally destroyed computer hard drives. [28 Mar 2008]
Stolen M&S laptop contains 26,000 pension details
News M&S now has until 1 April to ensure all laptop hard drives are fully encrypted. We have been encrypting all hard drives since October last year. Click on the links below to find out more. A is for Antivirus [25 Jan 2008]
Whitehall staff banned from removing laptops
News Cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell sent an email to top civil servants on Monday night warning them that laptops and hard drives containing personal data could not be removed from government premises unless they are encrypted. [22 Jan 2008]
Details of Vista SP1 revealed
News Microsoft also claimed SP1 would reduce the time Vista takes to read large images by 50 per cent and address a problem which can cause a five-minute delay when booting ReadyDrive hard drives. Microsoft has revealed details of the changes to its... [12 Dec 2007]
Top 10 weird data disasters
News Follow the link to see video of how silicon.com reporters fared when they were told to do their worst to two innocent hard drives and then send them off to be resurrected in Ontrack's labs. Melting point: During an experiment, a scientist spilt... [05 Dec 2007]
Work-related files go walkabout
News Fourteen per cent of employees admit to storing company material on their laptop's hard drives, nine per cent on personal devices not owned by their workplace, eight per cent use portable hard drives and seven per cent use mobile devices to keep... [13 Nov 2007]
Lost laptops ground UK business travellers
News But despite this, and the rising levels of laptop theft and high-profile examples of data loss, businesses are failing to understand the need to encrypt their hard drives or better protect sensitive data, according to separate research conducted... [06 Nov 2007]
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