Apple's new MacBook Airs and Mac Mini desktop machines have one less hole than they used to: A CD-DVD slot. Apple thinks the spinning optical drive is done. And soon the rest of the computing world will follow.READ»
295 Exabytes. It sounds like a lot of data. It IS a lot of data. It is the estimated amount of data stored across the world from 1986 through 2007. To understand how much data that is, let's take a look at some facts.READ»
"We're going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device," said Steve Jobs in his keynote address at Apple's WWDC today. "We're going to move your hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud."READ»
An Apple patent gives us some clues about the cloud-based iTunes we're all expecting any moment now--namely, how it'll make streaming content a seamless experience. READ»
As an eco-fuel, hydrogen has numerous advantages, including clean emissions. Storing hydrogen, however, has been proven difficult and dangerous--until now. The DOE has achieved a nanotech breakthrough that will allow for the safe storage and transport of hydrogen. READ»
In the arms race between rival firms who use micro-second computer trading to make big profits, there's a new weapon: Flash drives in place of hard disks. READ»
Rice University scientists are reporting advances in shrinking the technology that makes computer memory work--a huge key to the next revolution in gadget design. Soon your supercomputer may be iPhone-sized.READ»
LaCie's new XtremKey is a ridiculously rugged USB flash drive, capable of withstanding extreme heat, cold, and impact without losing a single kilobyte of data.READ»
IBM's Almaden Research Center is where the hard drive was invented so we visited there to find out what kinds of things they are working on today. Our cameras found a group of scientists moving atoms of Iron around one at a time with ...READ»
Our sponsor is Seagate, first storage company to ship a billion hard drives. Here the CEO, Bill Watkins, sits down with us to discuss what’s happening in the storage business. Bill’s known for taking on tough issues and here we ...READ»
Brian Dexheimer, division president of Seagate's consumer solutions, shows me Seagate's new FreeAgent hard drives, being announced Tuesday in New York. These drives, are thin, quiet, colorful, and high capacity.READ»
Rackspace last week bought Jungle Disk which lets you store files up on a data center on the Internet. That protects your data in case your computers get stolen or, worse, you have a fire that destroys your computers. Here you meet ...READ»
We are proud to have Seagate as our sponsor. They make all of these videos and trips around the world possible, so we thought "Why not go and see how a hard drive is built?" Here's the result where we visit Seagate's ...READ»
Most DVDs have a pitiful lifespan of 2 to 5 years--certainly not enough time to make sure those family memories are stored for future generations. Start-up CranBerry LLC thinks it has a solution in its DiamonDisc, a DVD that last ...READ»
"Have you ever wondered what data is stored with your Google Account?" Google asks, and privacy advocates and techy-minded people will quickly answer "YES!" Now Google's Dashboard lets you see, but not delete, what's stored about you ...READ»
Hydrogen fuel cell technology is full of promise, but it's being held back by the problem of storing the dangerous gas safely and efficiently. Some U.S. scientists have been tackling this, and their solution is as ingenious as it ...READ»
Who uses all those ridiculous pockets that you find in most laptop cases? No one, as far as we can tell. Which is why Cocoon designed a unique panel of elastic straps called the GRID-IT system, which you'll find in ...READ»
Nanotechnology is all about the science and engineering of incredibly small devices, so breakthroughs in information storage density are to be expected. But a team from two U.S. universities has achieved a breakthrough in ...READ»
The format of future memory cards, SDXC, just announced by the SD Card Association -- of which Panasonic is a founding member -- allows data storage in capacities between 32GB and 2TB.
That's 2 terabytes, folks: about as much ...READ»
