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A DVD that lasts a thousand years?

By Christopher Null - Posted Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:49PM EST

A DVD that lasts a thousand years? What will you be doing in 3009? While you may be dead and gone, one startup wants to ensure that even after 40 generations of your progeny have come and gone, your great-great-great-etc.-grandkids will still be able to watch that precious copy of Read More

Movies on SD card now a reality

By Christopher Null - Posted Mon Nov 9, 2009 2:36PM EST

Movies on SD card now a reality First came movies on USB thumb drives. Now feature films are suddenly Read More

Q&A: Options for real-time data sync

By Christopher Null - Posted Mon Nov 9, 2009 11:10AM EST

Q&A: Options for real-time data sync Reader Ryan writes: For years I have been bouncing back and forth between my home desktop and the one I have at my law office. I prefer not to carry my clients' files around for confidentiality reasons in a laptop between the two places. ... Read More

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Movies on USB thumb drives get real

By Christopher Null - Posted Tue Nov 3, 2009 11:24AM EST

Movies on USB thumb drives get real I was almost joking when I suggested back in 2007 that movie studios might package motion pictures on flash media like SD cards or USB thumb drives... ... Read More

DVD-R vs. DVD+R

By Christopher Null - Posted Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:10PM EDT

DVD-R vs. DVD+R Reader Harry writes: My dvd drive in my computer says DVD+/-RW. ... Read More

Q&A: Choosing an external hard drive

By Christopher Null - Posted Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:59PM EDT

Q&A: Choosing an external hard drive Reader Arash writes: I'm looking into buying an external hard drive to back up pictures and old files. Do you have any brand you recommend? Or what should I look for? Flash vs. regular, name-brand vs. generic, etc. ... Read More

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MySpace dumps hard drives for flash storage, uses 1% of the power Solid-state hard drives are rapidly moving from luxury splurge item that CEOs drop into their $3,500 laptops to gear suitable for the mainstream. ... Read More

TDK plans 10-layer, 320GB optical disc

By Christopher Null - Posted Tue Oct 6, 2009 11:47AM EDT

TDK plans 10-layer, 320GB optical disc Optical media is perpetually playing catch-up against its magnetic counterpart, with the highest-capacity optical discs typically offering about a tenth the storage space of the highest-capacity hard disk drives.And that gap has been getting even larger i Read More

Blu-ray prices way down in 2009 -- and falling? At last the price of a Blu-ray disc is beginning to dip into viability. ... Read More

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