tapes in news
RSS tapes in newsBrics demand feature-packed mobiles
News On the other hand, you can still find cassette tapes in the US. With saturated mobile markets in developed nations, phone manufacturers are having to find ways to squeeze more features into lower-priced phones to capture... [09 Jun 2008]
Red Chilli aflame for hosted backup
News However, the company has made savings in staff time checking tapes and the cost of tape stock itself. Independent property finance advisory firm Red Chilli has outsourced its disaster recovery and backup systems to... [23 May 2008]
BBC's new media boss talks 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 onto digital storage. Future... [03 Jul 2007]
CIO Essentials: Open source, green tech, women in IT
News They were programmers, operators (the sys admins of the time) and punch girls (they 'punched out' tapes and cards). Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top... [19 Jun 2007]
$100 laptop exec blasts desktop security
News He explained: "[In 1971] the only way that code could get from one place to another was with punch-cards or tapes. The director of security architecture for the One Laptop per Child project has blasted the IT industry... [21 May 2007]
Downloads sound the end of 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... [08 May 2007]
Lenovo taps into viral web-marketing
News The PC maker launched a series of viral videos on a website called The Lenovo Tapes last year. The Lenovo Tapes site was subsequently discussed in 2,248 blogs in 165 countries and received nearly four... [08 Feb 2007]
Steve Jobs and Beatles make trademark peace
News Additionally, it replaces a pre-existing agreement, signed in 1991, which forbade Apple Inc from distributing music through physical media such as CDs and cassette tapes - an agreement that, needless to say, predated the... [05 Feb 2007]
Gates and Brown: Tech transforming education
News Speaking at the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum in Edinburgh, Gates said: "We need to be humble in making predictions of how technology will affect education" - because people made big predictions about how TVs, video... [31 Jan 2007]
Re:Viewing 2006: The year in security
News More data was at large in May when back-up giant Iron Mountain lost tapes containing employee data from one of its customers. 2006 lacked 'old school' security scares such as major virus outbreaks or headline-grabbing... [14 Dec 2006]
Seagate CEO: Storage at heart of personal tech growth
News He said in an interview with silicon.com: "We're going from physical to electronic distribution of content, getting rid of film, tapes, CDs and DVDs. A world of electronic distribution and consumer electronics devices... [16 Oct 2006]
Should companies care about data breaches?
News If companies have to implement privacy procedures, hire lawyers to ensure compliance and track back-up tapes, it may cost more to prevent privacy breaches than ensure they don't happen, Friedman said. [03 Jul 2006]
Apple wins court battle with Beatles' record label
News The agreement forbade Apple from distributing music on physical media such as CDs or cassette tapes but it was not clear whether this extended to the distribution of digital music over the internet. Apple Computer has... [08 May 2006]
'Not again!': Iron Mountain loses back-up tapes
News Data protection and storage company Iron Mountain has admitted losing back-up tapes for two of its customers. Tapes containing the private information of employees of the Long Island Rail Road company... [04 May 2006]
Apple v Apple: Hefty settlement on the cards?
News The 1991 agreement forbade Apple from distributing music on physical media such as CDs or cassette tapes but it's not clear whether this extends to the distribution of digital music over the internet. [29 Mar 2006]
