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4TB on Desktop Drives by 2009, Hitachi Says
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies plans to announce Monday it has developed technology that will quadruple the storage capacity of desktop hard drives within the next two years, while laptop storage could reach 1TB.
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Nanotech revolution hints at 1TB iPod
Your storage worries could be all over — nanoscale hard drive technology developed by Japanese researchers could soon see a quadrupling of the current storage limits on devices such as laptops and iPods.
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Consumer protection org warns: resist Vista, “back to the future” with XP
A consumer advocacy organization in the Netherlands has issued a statement urging consumers to stay away from Windows Vista, saying that the OS was released before it was ready.
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Hard drive technology wins the 2007 Nobel Prize for physics
Pioneering work on magnetic materials in the 1980 lead to the discovery of the phenomena known as giant magnetoresistance. This, in turn, rapidly led to ultra high density magnetic storage read heads that are used in today’s hard drives. The discoverers of this phenomena are awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics.
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Linux for Business: 50 Apps to Get your Office on Open Source
“Open source software is often some of the best software for the job, even when cost is no consideration. So how can you make open source software work for your business? Here are 50 apps that can help your office get on track to join the growing numbers of businesses that have made the switch to open source.”
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Critical Excel 2007 bug cripples users
What is 850 x 77.1 ? a calculator will tell you it’s 65535, but a critical flaw in Microsoft’s Excel 2007 causes it return 100000 as the answer to this, and any other calculation for which the result is 65535.
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PHONES: Google Creates Free, Open-Source Competitor to Windows Mobile
“The essential point is that Google
’s strategy is to lead the creation of an open-source competitor to Windows Mobile,” said one industry executive. “They will put it in the open-source world and take the economics out of the Windows Mobile business.” -
Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3 due in Q1 ’08
The first service pack for Windows Vista is on its way, and PC Magazine has a preview of an early private beta version.
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Windows XP SP3 goes Vista-ish
According to NeoSmart Technologies, which is among those who have received the first version of Windows XP SP3 build 3205 as part of the Windows Server 2008/Windows Vista SP1 beta program, SP3 has more than 1,073 patches/hotfixes including security updates.