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NEWS ABOUT: data storage

data storage stories: 10 news summaries

Microsoft Recovers Nearly
All Lost Sidekick Data

Meltdown not as bad as feared; minority of users affected

Oct 15, 09 11:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - It turns out Sidekick users will get “most if not all” of their data back, Microsoft announced today. The company now believes that only a minority of users were affected by the blackout. Until now, the company had painted a much bleaker picture, saying Saturday that though it would... More »

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Microsoft • crash • data storage • Sidekick • cloud computing • online data storage • T-Mobile

Sidekick Users Revolt Over Mass Data Loss

Forums crowded with angry users; some threaten lawsuit

Oct 12, 09 1:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sidekick users are on the warpath after learning Microsoft and its subsidiary, the ironically named Danger Inc., have lost all their data, permanently, in a server crash. T-Mobile offered to credit users a free month of data service, but that didn’t mollify the people on T-Mobile’s support forums,... More »

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Microsoft • crash • data storage • smartphones • Sidekick • T-Mobile • Danger Inc.

(Newser) - General Electric has announced a new DVD-sized disc that holds 500 gigabytes of data—the equivalent of 20 Blu-Ray discs or 100 DVDs. Aimed at archivists but likely headed for the consumer market, the micro-holographic disc saves more data by storing it in three dimensions rather than on the disc's... More »

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compact discs • General Electric • DVD • data storage • consumer electronics • Blu-Ray • holograph

PRODUCT REVIEW

 Kindle 2 Worth It 
 for 'Serious Book Readers' 


Feb 26, 09 2:16 PM CST
(Newser) - Amazon’s new Kindle e-reader offers vast improvement over the previous model, writes Walter Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal, and “is finally a pleasure to use.” Faster page-flipping, sleeker design, tons more memory, and a digital audio feature are just some of the advances. But hardware is... More »

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Walt Mossberg • battery • data storage • Kindle • Amazon.com • ebooks • e-readers • improvement • digital content

ANALYSIS

Service Cuts Make AOL
Even More Useless

Blogging, page-hosting features latest to go as parent Time Warner looks for answers

Oct 1, 08 5:00 PM CDT
(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,... More »

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

GE Money Loses Data on 650,000 Credit Card Holders

Missing customer info raises data breach fears

Jan 18, 08 4:29 AM CST
(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... More »

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

473 Days of White House Emails Missing

Millions of messages may have been lost
and federal law ignored

Jan 18, 08 3:53 AM CST
(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... More »

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

New Plexi-Like DVDs to Hold 1TB of Data

Company will demo 500GB version in January, 1TB to follow

Dec 21, 07 11:58 AM CST
(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... More »

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DVD • HD DVD • data storage

Intel Rolls Out Minuscule Flash Drive

4 gig chip weighs less than a drop of water

Dec 18, 07 10:30 AM CST
(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... More »

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Intel • Samsung • data storage • flash drives • Z P140

The CD Turns 25

Wired salutes the 'obsolete form of optical media,' which turns 25 today

Aug 17, 07 5:06 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

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