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Amir Pnueli, pioneer of temporal logic, dies at 68

November 16, 2009 Pnueli turned a philosopher's explorations of time, logic, and free will, called temporal logic, into a critical technique for verifying the reliability of computers. (From The New York Times) TAGS: computer science, logic, Israel, professor, programmer, hard drive

Bye-bye hard drive, hello flash

January 4, 2006 Hard drives take up a lot of room and eat a lot of battery power. Flash memory could soon offer an alternative for notebooks. TAGS: NAND, Micron Technology Inc., NAND flash, flash memory, transistor, memory chip, notebook computer, hard drive, Samsung Electronics, camera, cell phone, memory, battery, video

Here comes the terabyte hard drive

January 5, 2007 With a terabyte drive, consumers can store 250,000 MP3 songs, enough for two solid years of listening without a single repeat. Photos: Hitachi's terabyte drive TAGS: terabyte, Hitachi Ltd., gigabit, drive maker, capacity, Seagate Technology, hard drive, MP3, photograph, video

The hard drive at 50

September 11, 2006 Hard drives have come a long way since debuting 50 years ago this week. Do they still have room to shrink? TAGS: margin, font, IBM Corp., hard drive

Deal of the day: Seagate 300GB hard drive for $99.99

January 10, 2006 With $30 in instant savings and $60 in rebates, CompUSA is selling this hard drive for nearly half-price. TAGS: CompUSA Inc., hard drive

A divide over the future of hard drives

August 23, 2006 Room temperatures should derail the current line of disk drive development soon, so changes are coming. TAGS: grain, drive maker, Hitachi Ltd., disk drive, Seagate Technology, hard drive

Coming soon: The 8-terabyte desktop

February 28, 2006 Eight terabytes of data storage? That's like 8,000 pick-up trucks filled with books. But VoodooPC says you'll like it. TAGS: PC company, home entertainment, 64-bit, Microsoft Windows Vista, hard drive, PC, Microsoft Corp., video, operating system

Coming soon: Movies on flash memory cards

March 3, 2008 Distributing movies on the Internet isn't the only game in town. Flash is better, says a new Irish start-up. TAGS: kiosk, flash memory, movies, movie, retailer, memory card, U.S., DVD, hard drive, video

Terabyte drive to debut later this year

August 14, 2006 Desktop hard drives holding 1 terabyte of storage will appear in 2006 and be incorporated into PCs and home servers. TAGS: terabyte, Hitachi Ltd., Seagate Technology, hard drive, TV, PC

Does new hard drive foreshadow 100GB iPod?

December 5, 2006 Toshiba's 100GB 1.8-inch hard drives will begin shipping next year, which could lead to larger storage capacity for Apple's music device. Photo: Toshiba's little hard drive TAGS: Toshiba, Apple Computer, Apple iPod, hard drive

SanDisk drops prices with new flash drive

March 14, 2007 Decline in cost of new drive is chalked up to the drastic pricing reduction experienced by the flash industry. TAGS: SanDisk Corp., flash memory, pricing, notebook computer, USB flash drive, hard drive

SanDisk rolls out flash hard drives for laptops

January 4, 2007 Unlike traditional hard drives, flash memory drives do not contain moving parts, making them less prone to breaking down. TAGS: SanDisk Corp., NAND, flash memory, NAND flash, USB flash drive, notebook computer, notebook company, aerospace, capacity, hard drive, laptop computer, Microsoft Windows

Al Shugart, hard-drive pioneer, dies at 76

December 13, 2006 The founder of hard-drive maker Seagate was one of the pioneers, and one of the regular guys, of the tech industry. TAGS: Bill Watkins, Seagate Technology, dog, hard drive

Samsung hybrid hard drive works while it sleeps

April 25, 2005 The typical hard drive spins constantly. But by buffering a drive with flash memory, it can sleep most of the time. TAGS: Spansion Inc., flash memory, NAND, Samsung Electronics, notebook computer, hard drive, battery, Intel, Microsoft Corp.

Face recognition comes to photo albums

March 14, 2006 Riya is a new search technology that will let you find pictures of Mom on your hard drive using text and images. TAGS: Munjal Shah, facial recognition, PC Forum, security camera, sample, match, photo album, photograph, Florida, face, picture, hard drive, camera

More firms endorse smaller hard drives

April 27, 2005 Hewlett-Packard, which boasted in March of its early transition to smaller, 2.5 inch-wide hard drives, lures new partners to the effort. TAGS: Hitachi Ltd., HP, hard drive

Intel cuts PC boot time

October 17, 2005 Robson technology demonstrated in Taipei lets you bypass the hard drive to wake up your PC fast. TAGS: Taipei, flash memory, memory chip, Intel, memory, hard drive, PC, Samsung Electronics

Xbox specs revealed

May 13, 2005 A 20GB hard drive and high-def game support: Glimpse the Xbox 360's system performance specifications provided by Microsoft. TAGS: memory bandwidth, Microsoft Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox Live, Microsoft Windows XP Media Center, DVD-ROM, IEEE 802.11, Microsoft Corp., hard drive, camera, games, CD, Microsoft Windows XP, video, Microsoft Windows

Western Digital to enter minidrive arena

January 20, 2005 Hard drive maker plans to start shipping a one-inch product in the second quarter. TAGS: Western Digital, hard drive

Big storage on the cheap

July 29, 2005 Running out of hard drive space? Start-up Capricorn Technologies is offering plans to build low-cost mass storage systems. TAGS: storage system, EMC Corp., gigabyte, spokesman, hard drive
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