by Marcus Yam April 27, 2009
Backing up your data is one of the most important and sensible things that you can do for your computer system. Most computer users – even savvy ones – don’t perform regular backups due to sheer laziness (I’m one of them). While companies have been selling “one-touch” backup solutions with USB hard drives for a while, the process of backing up still isn’t simple or complete enough. Seagate believes that it has a USB external HDD that’s simple and complete enough to be the backup solution that all lazy Windows users have been waiting for. The Seagate Replica, announced today, promises that it “completely eliminates the need to manually learn, manage, or dedicate any time to the backup process.” In other words, it’s for the lazy.
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Monday, April 27, 2009
GE talks up 500GB-per-disc optical storage tech
By James Sherwood 27th April 2009
General Electric (GE) has demonstrated a storage technology with the potential for allowing 500GB of data to be written onto a single DVD-sized disc. GE hailed its technology – known as micro-holographic storage – as a “next generation optical storage” technology. It added that the technology could see individual discs able to hold the same amount of data as 20 single-layer Blu-ray Discs. Data is only written to the read surface of DVDs and BDs, but holographic storage uses the disc’s entire volume by creating 3D patterns that represent bits of information. GE hasn’t actually created a 500GB micro-holographic disc yet. The firm’s boffins recorded micro-holographic marks with nearly one per cent reflectivity and a diameter of roughly one micron – one millionth of a metre — in order to demonstrate the basic technology. Based on this achievement, GE’s boffins are confident that its scaled down marks would have sufficient reflectivity to enable 500GB to be written onto a disc.
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General Electric (GE) has demonstrated a storage technology with the potential for allowing 500GB of data to be written onto a single DVD-sized disc. GE hailed its technology – known as micro-holographic storage – as a “next generation optical storage” technology. It added that the technology could see individual discs able to hold the same amount of data as 20 single-layer Blu-ray Discs. Data is only written to the read surface of DVDs and BDs, but holographic storage uses the disc’s entire volume by creating 3D patterns that represent bits of information. GE hasn’t actually created a 500GB micro-holographic disc yet. The firm’s boffins recorded micro-holographic marks with nearly one per cent reflectivity and a diameter of roughly one micron – one millionth of a metre — in order to demonstrate the basic technology. Based on this achievement, GE’s boffins are confident that its scaled down marks would have sufficient reflectivity to enable 500GB to be written onto a disc.
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Microsoft: Not Dead Yet
It's been a tough year for Microsoft, but the software giant is finally getting it half right.
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Apr 27, 2009
Ever since Bill Gates stepped down and Steve Ballmer took over his role, Microsoft has been getting one thing after another wrong. Vista continues to be a disaster both for users and for the company's bottom line. And Microsoft's ad campaign last year, starring Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, is already a model of how not to do television advertising. Somehow, though, after years of stumbling around like a drunken college freshman after an NCAA basketball win, Microsoft is getting its act together. First, Microsoft has reluctantly -- oh how reluctantly -- brought back Windows XP. Officially, Microsoft has cut XP support. Unofficially, hardware vendors such as Hewlett-Packard aren't going to let XP die anytime soon. You'll still be getting new PCs with XP on them well into 2010, and I wouldn't be surprised to see fresh copies of XP appearing in 2011. Microsoft finally got it. No one with two brain cells wants Vista.
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By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Apr 27, 2009
Ever since Bill Gates stepped down and Steve Ballmer took over his role, Microsoft has been getting one thing after another wrong. Vista continues to be a disaster both for users and for the company's bottom line. And Microsoft's ad campaign last year, starring Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, is already a model of how not to do television advertising. Somehow, though, after years of stumbling around like a drunken college freshman after an NCAA basketball win, Microsoft is getting its act together. First, Microsoft has reluctantly -- oh how reluctantly -- brought back Windows XP. Officially, Microsoft has cut XP support. Unofficially, hardware vendors such as Hewlett-Packard aren't going to let XP die anytime soon. You'll still be getting new PCs with XP on them well into 2010, and I wouldn't be surprised to see fresh copies of XP appearing in 2011. Microsoft finally got it. No one with two brain cells wants Vista.
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QuickTime to receive YouTube support
by Jason Parker April 27, 2009
Apple Insider has unearthed proof that YouTube uploading will be built into the upcoming version of QuickTime that ships with OS X 10.6. According to beta testers, several video-sharing options will be baked into the latest release of Apple's QuickTime media playback and editing software, including the capability to directly upload to YouTube. With the new QuickTime, you will be able to convert and upload any supported video file type to the online video service and all you will need is to be a registered YouTube user. You also will be able to seamlessly upload supported video to the MobileMe Gallery. In addition to these new sharing options, iTunes also will offer ways to convert and export your video files to work on your iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV. All of these options will be available to you from the same convenient location and will automatically be imported to iTunes before being synced to your supported devices.
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Apple Insider has unearthed proof that YouTube uploading will be built into the upcoming version of QuickTime that ships with OS X 10.6. According to beta testers, several video-sharing options will be baked into the latest release of Apple's QuickTime media playback and editing software, including the capability to directly upload to YouTube. With the new QuickTime, you will be able to convert and upload any supported video file type to the online video service and all you will need is to be a registered YouTube user. You also will be able to seamlessly upload supported video to the MobileMe Gallery. In addition to these new sharing options, iTunes also will offer ways to convert and export your video files to work on your iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV. All of these options will be available to you from the same convenient location and will automatically be imported to iTunes before being synced to your supported devices.
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$250 Netbook Running Android Coming in Three Months
By Shane McGlaun - April 27, 2009
Netbook will target the 80% of the world without a computer, not affluent westerners. Almost as soon as Android debuted for the smartphone market some began eyeing the Linux-based OS for use in other types of electronics devices like netbooks. A company called Guangzhou Skytone Transmission Technologies Co. is now in final testing with what is expected to be the first Android-based netbook to hit the market. The netbook, called the Alpha 680, is expected to hit the market in three months and will run a low-cost ARM processor rather than the netbook staple Intel Atom. Skytone reports that the final prototype of the netbook is set to launch in June with manufacturers likely to introduce models to the market two months after that. Prototypes of the Alpha 680 have been seen at Hong Kong trade shows already.
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Netbook will target the 80% of the world without a computer, not affluent westerners. Almost as soon as Android debuted for the smartphone market some began eyeing the Linux-based OS for use in other types of electronics devices like netbooks. A company called Guangzhou Skytone Transmission Technologies Co. is now in final testing with what is expected to be the first Android-based netbook to hit the market. The netbook, called the Alpha 680, is expected to hit the market in three months and will run a low-cost ARM processor rather than the netbook staple Intel Atom. Skytone reports that the final prototype of the netbook is set to launch in June with manufacturers likely to introduce models to the market two months after that. Prototypes of the Alpha 680 have been seen at Hong Kong trade shows already.
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