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NEWS ABOUT: hard drives

hard drives stories: 5 news summaries

 Computer Whiz 
 Records Life 
 as 'E-Memory' 

Microsoft researcher saves audio, video experiences on hard drive

Sep 25, 09 4:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Philip K. Dick, eat your heart out. Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell is recording his entire life with video and audio equipment and storing it on a hard drive to keep it safe, CNN reports. The 350 gigabytes of data—which include scans of receipts and PDFs of every Web site... More »

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digital video • Philip K Dick • hard drives • computer

(Newser) - Apple will unveil a new line of iPods complete with point-and-click cameras on Sept. 9, Apple Insider reports. In addition to the 3.2-megapixel camera—which, according to a “Taiwanese rumor site,” will grace the probable last-generation hard-drive iPod in addition to the Flash-based Nano and Touch—Apple... More »

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social networking • Apple • iPod • digital camera • digital music • hard drives • consumer electronics • flash memory • megapixel • point and shoot

Toshiba to Make Solid-State
PC Disks

Joins competitors in effort to create demand for flash memory

Dec 10, 07 3:05 PM CST
(Newser) - Toshiba will start making flash-based solid-state drives for laptops, the company said Monday. The Japanese memory chip maker is trying to create more demand for flash chips, reports Reuters. Solid-state drives, which offer a faster boot-up than hard disk drives, are used in portable devices, but aren't mainstream yet in... More »

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flash • Samsung • Toshiba • Micron Technology • hard drives • solid state drives • SanDisk

Google Plans Remote File Storage

Long-rumored 'Gdrive' might become reality within months

Nov 27, 07 11:16 AM CST
(Newser) - The Wall Street Journal reports on a new service under development at Google that would allow users to store personal files on the search giant's own hard drives, making them available via the Internet to multiple devices. The new service, as yet unnamed but known among bloggers as Gdrive, could... More »

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Google • hard drives • online data storage • Gdrive

Nobel Hard Drive Tech Revived

Oct 15, 07 12:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hard disk space is about to quadruple, says Hitachi, thanks to this year’s Nobel Prize-winning physicists. The company today announced it had developed a new technology for passing data between the disk and the disk-reading heads which shrinks the heads and allow for disk storage of up to 4... More »

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Nobel Prize • hard drives • computer

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