News tagged with computer storage

New power source discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and RMIT University have made a breakthrough in energy storage and power generation.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (55) | comments 56 | with audio podcast

Ferroelectric switching discovered for first time in soft biological tissue

The heart's inner workings are mysterious, perhaps even more so with a new finding. Engineers at the University of Washington have discovered an electrical property in arteries not seen before in mammalian ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

PNNL's Olympus supercomputer advances science, saves energy

A new, 162-Teraflop peak supercomputer at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is helping scientists do more complex, advanced research in areas such as energy storage and future ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Wi-Drive gives Apple-Amazon gadgets more capacity

Kingston Technology Co. is helping pack more entertainment into Apple gadgets and Kindle Fire tablets.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

New EU project targets first 100GHz optical RAM silicon chips

A new EU project that aims to develop a 100 gigabits per second (Gbps) optical random access memory (RAM) chip has just kicked off. This chip will be the first of its kind.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New application makes supercomputing simple

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new open source application developed at Murdoch University is giving researchers a revolutionary new way of accessing supercomputers.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Dell expects disk drive shortage to hurt revenue

Dell is likely to be hampered for a couple quarters by an industry-wide shortage of computer storage drives resulting from the recent flooding in Thailand, the computer maker said Tuesday.

Technology / Business

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New Acer Ultrabook is no MacBook Air, but it's not bad

I'm a big fan of Apple's MacBook Air computer. Revamped by Apple last year, the notebook is a thin, ultralight, speedy computer. Instead of a high-powered processor, a traditional hard drive and a DVD slot, ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Galaxy DNA-analysis software is now available 'in the cloud'

Galaxy -- an open-source, web-based platform for data-intensive biomedical and genetic research -- is now available as a "cloud computing" resource. A team of researchers including Anton Nekrutenko, an associate ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find ways to reduce computing energy consumption while saving money

Lowering energy consumption associated with computer data storage (specifically, cloud computing) and saving millions of dollars are possible now, thanks to new memory technology, a field that researchers at the University ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Thai flooding disrupting hard drive supplies

The massive flooding in Thailand is disrupting supplies of hard disk drives (HDDs) for the world's personal computer makers, according to companies and market intelligence firms.

Technology / Business

created Oct 29, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The trouble with the media Cloud: If we can have everything, does it mean anything?

Why did they call it "The Cloud"? Couldn't they have chosen a better metaphor? Clouds burst. Clouds darken. Clouds disappear.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Thailand flooding could affect PC supplies, prices

(AP) -- The personal computer industry, already reeling from depressed demand, has been dealt another setback: Massive flooding in Thailand has curtailed production of a critical component - computer storage ...

Technology / Business

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers work to take the errors out of the cloud

Cloud computing, which taps the resources of a network of remote computers, offers tremendous potential for storing and processing vast amounts of data quickly and cheaply. The catch: As cloud computing applications become ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US fines Hitachi-LG disk drive firm for price fixing

US justice authorities hit a Japanese-Korean producer of optical disk drives with a $21.1 million fine for bid-rigging and price fixing, the Justice Department announced.

Technology / Business

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1