Stories by Chris Mellor

Article | 12/11/2007 Phase: The iPod's Guitar Hero
The original Guitar Hero developer drops a cool new music game for the iPod.
Article | 12/10/2007 Hybrid hard drive works without Windows
New FlashMate hybrid hard drive technology has been introduced that allows data to be read, even when the computer is switched off.
Article | 2/10/2007 British ISP powered by the sun
UK-based Internet service provider Ecological Hosting is powering its data centre with sunshine.
Article | 28/09/2007 D-Link promotes power-saving switches
D-link has announced Ethernet desktop switches that, it claims, use up to 44 percent less power than existing 5-port switches. It said it was the firs...
Article | 26/09/2007 USB 3.0 is coming: Faster wired and wireless speeds
Intel and other companies have formed a group to promote the USB 3.0, which should deliver more than ten times the speed of the existing USB 2.0 stand...
Article | 5/09/2007 Sun shuns FalconStor's de-dupe system
Sun has agreed to resell Diligent's de-duplication and virtual tape library software despite currently selling rival FalconStor's virtual tape library...
Article | 5/09/2007 RAM cache makes hybrid hard drive fly
A new hard drive from Japanese company DTS has added 1GB of DRAM cache to a 2.5-inch serial ATA disk.
Article | 5/09/2007 Via decreases motherboard power consumption
Via Technologies has launched a new PC motherboard to help OEMs build PCs meeting the US Energy Star requirements.
Article | 7/08/2007 Sony asks small fortune for flash-based Vaio
Sony has introduced a flash memory-based Vaio notebook that, compared to a hard-drive model, costs US$700 extra and delivers 68GB less storage.
Article | 23/07/2007 Eco drive cuts power by 75 percent
An external drive that drops its power down in three stages as inactivity time lengthens has been announced by Kanguru. It is an 80 - 750GB capacity p...
Article | 2/07/2007 1TB optical disks now in prospect
Manufacturers are being offered the world's highest capacity optical storage technology to license, reportedly, leap-frogging 300GB holographic disks ...
Article | 26/06/2007 Seagate joins the terabyte disk club
Seagate is a launching a pair of 1TB capacity disks with advanced power-saving technology. This could save up to a quarter of the power consumed by no...
Article | 20/04/2007 Fujitsu doubles its non-volatile FRAM
Fujitsu has announced 2 Mbit ferro-electric RAM (FRAM) memory chips, twice as dense as its previous 1 Mbit FRAM. This memory technology combines the q...
Article | 19/03/2007 Dell to ship PCs with 1TB drives
Dell is the first computer system supplier to ship 1 terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) hard drives targeted at users needing to store large amounts of digita...
Article | 13/03/2007 Intel to roll out PRAM
Intel is about to sample non-volatile phase-change random access memory (PCM or PRAM) as a drop-in replacement for NOR flash memory, the type used in ...

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