Giant babies kill the floppy disk
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And rocket-powered cars Letters Sad news this week as California coastguards were forced to call off the search for Microsoft researcher Jim Gray who has been missing since setting out in his yacht last Sunday. A respected IT personality and database developer, Google chipped in with an offer to use its high resolution satellite imagery to aid the search:â¦
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Also: Crippled spy satellite threatens Earth. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Can the movie studios kill the most promising new DVD format?
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Seagate has launched the highest capacity PC hard disk to date. Pitched at desktop computers, the new Barracuda 7200.8 hard disk is a 7200rpm model that&#39;s available with either a fast SATA or Ultra ATA interface
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How to recycle a 3.5 inch disk. And a PR strategy? PC Worldâs marketing department declared the death of the floppy disk yesterday, generating a wave of publicity that even rivalled Bill Gatesâ touting of Vista.â¦
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Think shredding a device is enough? Wrong. A determined expert can get data off of even a small piece of a chip. And, as an estimated 50 million or more PCs, notebooks and servers are disposed of each year. New portable storage devices, such as USB flash drives and portable music players, can store gigabytes of data and make it easier for a disgruntled insider to download and walk out the door with sensitive information. Handheld computing and communications devices such as Blackberries and PDAs, through email, can funnel sensitive data out of the organization, or let virus or other malware in.
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Why it ain't going to happen Storage briefing Disk-based backup has become hugely popular in the last couple of years, to the extent that some suppliers have started talking about the "death of tape".â¦
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Tussle over next-generation DVD format could alienate consumers.
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Floppy disks, one of the most popular forms of storage for many years, will no longer be sold in PC World shops.
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Doomsayers predict pandemonium as computer clocks make the switch from 99 to 00. Count on it: The whole rotten structure is going to tumble like the walls of Jericho.
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OK, shredders, dudes, dudettes, rugrats, whippersnappers, all of you out of the room. Go find something else to do today. Clean your room or something. This one's for your parents, or even grandparents.
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Also: Start-up offers messages that self destruct. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Cures for an update gone bad, a trashed Registry, and a shutdown failure.
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'Check out my new portable computer! HUUGHGHHHGHHGFFFH!!!' This Old Box We're shrinking away this week from monolithic supercomputers with This Old Box for something a little bit smaller. In fact, we'll be looking at the world's first commercial full-color portable computer. Fantastic!â¦
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What happened to the guts in mainstream publications? I recall back in the 80s InfoWorld pressured Lotus into ditching its copy protection scheme by docking Lotus 1-2-3 several points in reviews because of the inconvenience. I believe Lotus was the first to buckle, but other vendors jumped on the bandwagon and abandoned copy protection. Fast forward to today. Not only has copy protection come back from the grave, it has risen like a juggernaut zombie bent on eating everyone's brains. Worse, many consumers and writers alike seem to be unscrewing their scalps and willingly offering up the meal. "I want the latest iThing, it's so cool!" Sure, you'll find appropriate outrage in Linux Journal and a handful of renegade publications like the Register. But what happened to the mainstream journals with the guts of yesteryear?
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COMPUTER chain PC World is dropping floppy disks from sale due to plummeting demand. It will no longer stock the computer storage devices once supplies are sold.  (c) 2007 Liverpool Echo. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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The combination of technologies like SATA disk drives, grid architectures, de-duplication, removable disk cartridges and asynchronous replication coupled with their faster speeds and higher reliability ratings are simply too much for tape to withstand any longer. Expect to say goodbye to tape as a backup's primary target yet in your career.