Tag: Computing

  • Apple updates laptops, launches watches

    Apple has put a price to its new Watch, which should be available from 24th April. Prices will range from $349 with Apple saying the top model will be in exces of $10,000 prompting speculatin that it would be as much as a whopping $17,000.

  • Thunderbolt – still in the fast lane?

    Thunderbolt offers high speed but at the cost of very few connection points.

  • Toshiba announces 5TB drives

    Toshiba Electronics Europe has launched a new range of 7,200 RPM hard disc drives with capacities up to 5TB. The MG04 series have been designed for nearline business-critical workloads and provide a 25% increase in maximum capacity and a 24% increase in maximum data rate at outer diameter (OD) compared to previous-generation, MG03 series drives.…

  • New Toshiba disk drives

    Toshiba has launched a couple of new drives, including a new series of enterprise SSDs with a 6.4cm form factor. Using the advanced 24nm eMLC (enterprise multi-level cell) NAND technology, the new PX02SSx series is available with capacities of 100GB (PX02SSF010), 200GB (PX02SSF020), 400GB (PX02SSF040), 800GB (PX02SSB080). There’s also a small hard disk drive series…

  • New iPhone security problems

    Apple has launched its latest iPhone 5S and immediately run into problems. A German group, Chaos Computer Club, has cracked the flagship fingerprint security feature. The group posted a video demonstrating how easy it is to photograph a fingerprint from another surface, such as a glass, print it to plastic and then use it with…

  • UK scientists develop superman memory crystal

    Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a new form of data storage based on nanostructured glass. It’s been called the 5D Superman memory crystal, in homage to the “memory crystals” used in the Superman films. It can record and retrieve data using five dimensions including the size and orientation as well as the…