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The gold bits of Firefox 3.0 went live on June 17, 2008, over half a year past the initially planned launch which was targeted for the end of 2007. At just a few days short of the first two months on the market for the successor of Firefox 2.0, users of Mozilla's open source browser now have access not only to t... |
13 August 2008
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We often think of lasers as sharp, highly focused beams of light, but the truth is that most of the time lasers have high divergences, spreading light into beams similar to those produced by flashlights. This is especially true for semiconductor lasers, such as those used in building CD-ROM devices and in fiber-optic... |
28 July 2008
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Forget about transistor based flash memories, say researchers working for the flash memory chip maker Numonyx; future ultrahigh-capacity solid state information storage devices are most likely to be made out of the same materials used to manufacture CDs and DVDs. It may be just a matter of time before nonvolatile mem... |
16 July 2008
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HVDs, or Holographic Versatile Discs, are a type of optical digital data storing devices bearing a striking resemblance to the construction and operation of more common optical storing devices, such as CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray, relying on read/write techniques based on the principles of holography. Similar to typical op... |
3 July 2008
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The fact of the matter is that Microsoft has wrapped up with Windows XP Service Pack 3, ever since it reached RTM stage on April 21. After being released to manufacturing, on May 6, 2008, XP SP3 RTM Build 5512 was made available for download to the general public via Windows Update and the Download Center. The third ... |
23 May 2008
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It all started in 1982, when compact discs became commercially available. They were the first optical devices used to store data in a digital format, have typical capacities of up to 700 megabytes, or 80 minutes in audio format, and diameters between 60 to 120 millimeters. In 1997, a new optical storing medium became... |
17 April 2008
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Holograms are ideal when it comes to storing three-dimensional images, but the problem is they can only be written once. Rewritable holograms would greatly improve the storing capacity of future personal computers and could also provide with the technology to create three-dimensional displays. A team of U.S. research... |
7 February 2008
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If you think the HMRC data loss affecting 25 million people is not enough to make you accept the fact that your information is not secure wherever it would be, then listen to this: another data loss occurred in UK, as details of about 3 million people had "gone missing from a facility in Iowa in the United States." T... |
18 December 2007
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It's no longer a secret that our data is put at risk due to employees' negligence, as they have periodically lost CDs, laptops or computers hosting our information, so today's piece of news is nothing new for us. However, let's see what happened and how it occurred. According to BBC News, the Dri... |
12 December 2007
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We've heard about dangerous viruses which attempt to copy malicious files on removable drives and infect other computers once they are connected to them. But today's report might be something new able to cause serious headaches. According to security company Trend Micro, PE_MABEZAT.A-O is a new virus which ... |
22 November 2007
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Ever had problems with pesky CDs being unable to be read by the CD-ROM drive, due to the fact that the surface was too scratched to be distinguished from the information imprinted in its layers? In the next article, I'll talk about methods of salvaging your precious data.The CD or Compact Disk, is a optical disk... |
20 November 2007
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Most computer users that are the proud possessors of an older optical burning drive have just about three options in order to label their freshly backed CDs or DVDs. First of all, there is the option of using a soft tipped marker pen and hand writing your very own label, but this option leaves the optical discs in a ... |
27 August 2007
10:14 GMT |
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Exactly 25 years ago, on the 17th of August 1982, Royal Philips Electronics manufactured the very first compact disc at their factory near Hanover in Germany. The idea of a recording medium that can be read without actually touching it is in fact a little over 40 years old now as the first who introduced the concept ... |
17 August 2007
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To adapt to the new trend in which everybody judges you according to the mobile phone you own, youths tend to reanalize their priority list, in favor of mobile phones.It is reported that more and more teenagers give up smoking, eating chocolate or buying CDs to save money for a newly released gadget in order to impre... |
16 April 2007
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This one is for the metalheads: you know or at least have heard about the rock legends called Danzig. At least your girlfriends should know their frontman, Glen Danzig (I just know they've dreamt many times about an evening in his company...)Well, for the fans out there, a piece of nice music news: old and unrel... |
4 April 2007
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OpenSource applications have been an intriguing subject for a long time. Who makes them, how do they make them and most of all, why they are made are the main themes of this never-ending discussion. As for every delicate situation, people are divided into three large categories: those who are pro, those who are again... |
4 April 2007
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Gizmondo is one bunch of guys I begin to like more and more, especially as I noticed we're on the same side of the barricade as far as the struggle against RIAA is concerned. Today, one of their editors, Adam Frucci, came in with a very cool idea on how we could kick RIAA's a** further more: buying used CDs... |
22 March 2007
06:40 GMT |
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Looks like CD players could soon be vintage. Apple products are better music players than many hi-fi CD players, said AVI mogul Ashley James to Tech.co.uk. He thinks Apple hardware such as iPods and Mac Minis, though far from being the perfect tool, deliver better sound better quality than many of the Hi-fi CD player... |
12 March 2007
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