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Article | 28/04/2009 GE develops optical disc material to hold 500GB of data

GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Co. said Monday it has made a breakthrough in holographic optical disc stor...

Article | 28/04/2009 Texas Memory Systems shows less expensive, faster flash

Texas Memory Systems has added a less expensive, faster and smaller form-factor flash storage array to its line of solid-state products.

Article | 28/04/2009 AMD to Ship Six-Core Chip in June, Plans 16 Cores by 2011

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. last week said it will release a six-core Opteron processor in June, five months ahead of schedule. And it detailed plans ...

Article | 28/04/2009 Human vs. machine: IBM supercomputer takes on 'Jeopardy!'

Who could possibly unseat the best Jeopardy! players in the history of the game show, Alex?

Article | 28/04/2009 GE crams 500GB of data on DVD with holographic tech

General Electric Global Research says it has figured out a way to put up to 500GB of data on a regular-sized DVD disc under laboratory conditions. GE ...

Article | 27/04/2009 Toshiba to ship higher capacity flash chips from July

Toshiba plans to begin shipping from the middle of this year flash memory chips that are more tightly packed than current models and will make possibl...

Article | 24/04/2009 China pushes its own blue-laser optical discs

Chinese manufacturers hope to sell hundreds of thousands of optical disc players for a locally developed next-generation disc format this year, a spok...

Article | 23/04/2009 Western Digital unveils 1TB TiVo external drive

Western Digital Corp. Wednesday said that its TiVo-enabled My DVR Expander external hard drive is now available with a capacity of 1TB capacity. The e...

Article | 23/04/2009 VMware intros vSphere

VMware threw a party at its Silicon Valley headquarters on Tuesday and declared that virtualization has arrived.

Article | 23/04/2009 VMware says revenue may decline for the first time

VMware reported a first-quarter profit on Wednesday, but said sales are being hit by the recession and it might report its first-ever drop in revenue ...

Article | 22/04/2009 Seagate announces new green desktop drives

Seagate Corp. Tuesday announced a new family of lower-power 3.5-in desktop hard-disk drives the company said have the highest performance and best pow...

Article | 22/04/2009 Sun unveils MySQL update as Oracle deal looms

Sun Microsystems on Tuesday unveiled an early look at MySQL 5.4, the next version of its open-source database, one day after Oracle said it is buying ...

Article | 22/04/2009 Tap In Systems monitors and runs in the cloud

Startup Tap In Systems is launching its Cloud Management Service, a platform that will be used to monitor cloud-based applications, at the Under the R...

Article | 22/04/2009 Virtualization is 'the new mainframe,' VMware says

VMware launched an upgrade to its core software platform on Tuesday with the message that virtualization is ready to run any class of enterprise appli...

Article | 21/04/2009 Oracle, entering hardware arena, agrees to buy Sun for $7.4bn

Oracle has signed a deal to purchase Sun Microsystems for US$7.4 billion, plunging the enterprise software vendor into the hardware market and making ...

Article | 21/04/2009 OpenSolaris, Linux could merge under Oracle

Oracle may end up merging the best of OpenSolaris with Linux once it takes control of Sun Microsystems, but it is unlikely to kill off Sun's widely us...

Article | 20/04/2009 Massive server purchase likely in Chinese Warcraft deal

Chinese online game firm NetEase.com will buy all-new servers to start operating World of Warcraft in China this year, potentially leaving masses of u...

Article | 17/04/2009 If Blu-ray is dying, why are disc sales soaring?

Will Blu-ray finally get some respect? The high-definition optical disc format has long been the whipping boy of media pundits, many of whom predict c...

Article | 15/04/2009 Deleted data drives new data breaches

According to a new report on data breaches from Verizon Business, cyber criminals are no longer attacking where the credit card files are, but where t...

Article | 17/04/2009 Samsung, Dell provide data encryption for SSDs

Samsung Electronics on Thursday said it is boosting security on solid-state drives by bundling data encryption software with SSDs it ships.