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Hitachi have promised 4Tb drives by 2011, I wonder how much faster they will be? In other HDD news, Seagate is planning full disk encryption on enterprise drives. Hitachi announced today that it has developed the world's smallest hard drive read heads, and that it expects the new technique to eventually quadruple hard drive size within four years.
Singapore Airlines have recieved the first Airbus A380 order. It's been a long time coming. The muchy ballyhooed Airbus A380 jumbo jet has endured months of delay, but the world's largest passenger plane is now in the fleet of its first customer. Singapore Airlines took deliver Monday at a ceremony in Toulouse, France.
ComputerWorld have posted a lengthy column on why they think Linux is in fact ready for the desktop. Michael Gartenberg claimed that Linux is still far from making it on the desktop. As someone who has tracked Linux’s progress since 1991 and the progress of the IT industry since 1979, I would like to offer an alternative perspective. While Microsoft presently sits in a commanding position on the desktop, it got there by eclipsing the previous PC platform incumbent, and there is every possibility that it too, will in time be eclipsed.
Greenpeace is still annoyed with Apple and its iPhone. Remember that "Greener Apple" Steve Jobs committed to back in May? Apparently, the company has a lot of work ahead of it before meeting Greenpeace standards. A series of new test results commissioned by the environmental group point to some potentially nasty chemicals hiding inside that sleek exterior.
TechnologyReview have looked at how Google Maps works. Technology Review interviewed engineers at Google and at *DigitalGlobe, the company that supplies Google's satellite photos, and did a little bit of reverse-engineering to figure out how it works.
Universal is planning a free online music store funded by the subsidy of the purchase of a device. Universal Music Group, the world's biggest record label, is looking to mobile hardware makers to foot the bill for a free music subscription service for buyers of a certain mobile phone or music player, The Telegraph reported Saturday.
Nero 8 has been released but it is confusing some people. We have been looking at the retail box version, which Nero 8 now only comes on DVD and no longer on CD. The software Now comes in at a whopping 1.26GB of data, where as the downloadable version is only 182.5MB.
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