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  • October 2008

    • Service Cuts Make AOL Even More Useless

      Silicon Alley Insider  |  Oct 1, 08 5:00 PM CDT

      Service Cuts Make AOL Even More Useless

      (Newser) - AOL is cutting two more of its website’s offerings, a blog creator and a data hosting service, Peter Kafka notes on Silicon Alley Insider. Users of AOL Journals, which hosts blogs, will be migrated to an equivalent host. Users of AOL Hometown, which mainly store photos—and, Kafka sniffs, is “as anachronistic as a dial-up ISP”—received a stiffer message: Save it elsewhere. More »

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      Internet  • AOL  • blogging  • web services  • restructuring  • data storage

  • January 2008

    • GE Money Loses Data on 650,000 Credit Card Holders

      Associated Press  |  Jan 18, 08 4:29 AM CST

      GE Money Loses Data on 650,000 Credit Card Holders

      (Newser) - GE Money has lost a computer tape with the personal information of up to 650,000 customers of JC Penney and other retailers, reports the AP. The tape went missing in the warehouse of a data storage company. There's "no indication of theft" and none of the data has yet been used, said a GE Money spokesman. More »

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      credit card  • General Electric  • data  • JCPenney  • data storage  • personal privacy

    • 473 Days of White House Emails Missing

      Washington Post  |  Jan 18, 08 3:53 AM CST

      473 Days of White House Emails Missing

      (Newser) - An internal White House study found that  email messages weren't archived for hundreds of days between 2003 and 2005, the Washington Post reports. The disclosure follows the White House admission that administrators recycled back-up tapes for the first three years of Bush's presidency, possibly losing millions of emails during a time that included vital communication leading up to the war in Iraq. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Iraq war  • White House  • email  • archive  • data storage

  • December 2007

    • New Plexi-Like DVDs to Hold 1TB of Data

      ComputerWorld  |  Dec 21, 07 11:58 AM CST

      New Plexi-Like DVDs to Hold 1TB of Data

      (Newser) - An Israeli company will unveil, at the Consumer Electronics Show in January,  a DVD made of a plexiglass-like polymer that can hold half a terabyte of data. Mempile adds that within a few years its DVDs will be up to one terabyte—enough to hold 250,000 high-resolution photos or MP3s, or about 40 HD movies or 115 DVD movies, reports ComputerWorld . Current HD DVDs hold 50GB maximum. More »

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      DVD  • HD DVD  • data storage

    • Intel Rolls Out Minuscule Flash Drive

      MIT Technology Review  |  Dec 18, 07 10:30 AM CST

      Intel Rolls Out Minuscule Flash Drive

      (Newser) - Intel has unveiled a new flash-memory hard drive smaller than a fingertip and lighter than a drop of water; the 2- or 4-gig Z-P140 is a play to compete with Samsung in storage technology for handheld devices. Conventional magnetic hard drives aren’t small, rugged, or efficient enough to power smartphones, but the new drive could eventually bring the power of a desktop to a handheld. More »

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      Intel  • Samsung  • data storage

  • August 2007

    • The CD Turns 25

      Wired  |  Aug 17, 07 5:06 PM CDT

      The CD Turns 25

      (Newser) - The compact disc, which Wired calls an "obsolete form of optical media," has been spinning for 25 years today, according to a press release from Philips. The first disk, a recording of ABBA’s “The Visitors,” was produced in Hanover, Germany in 1982. A stunning 200 billion CDs have been produced since, and the technology and form have been adapted for next-gen media like DVD and Blu-Ray. More »

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      music  • Sony  • digital music  • CDs  • data storage  • Philips  • compact discs

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