Primera to Show 4 New Software Enhancements at NAB.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-10 April 2008-Primera to Show 4 New Software Enhancements at NAB(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Primera Technology, a developer and manufacturer of CD, DVD, and Blu-ray Disc duplication and printing equipment, announced it will be showing four significant new software enhancements at NAB 2008, along with...

National Inventors Hall of Fame Announces 2009 Inductees.
Innovators related to integrated circuit technology to be inducted WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Dedicated to recognizing inventors and innovation, the National Inventors Hall of Fame has announced its 2009 class of inductees. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the integrated circuit, this year's class represents...

Publisher donates educational software to schools.
Weekly Reader, a publisher of classroom magazines and educational supplements, and Innovative Knowledge, a leading San Jose-based educational software developer, have teamed up to provide its popular Weekly Reader: Mastering series of educational software to schools free-of-charge. If a student purchases the software, Weekly Reader and Innovative...

The future of CD-RW and DVD in corporate IT. (Storage Networking).
Today, it is easy to forget that recordable optical technologies were once so unusual and expensive that only corporate data centers could afford them. These technologies have come a long way over the last two decades, as we've gone from 5.25-inch optical disc drives with $10,000 price tags, to...

Flash drives: latest & greatest gadget.
The one constant about personal computers is change, and the one PC technology that has changed the most is storage devices. The first IBM PC in 1981 came with one or two 160-kilobyte floppy drives. Following the lead of Apple's first iMac in 1998, most of today's PCs dispense...

No more tax cuts on personal computers.
NEW DELHI: The IT ministry's plea for reducing taxes on PCs has not cut ice with the North Block. The revenue department is of the view that there is no case for duty reduction as the duties on computers were already low and on par with tariffs in other...

TEAC America Launches Multifunction Portable Storage Drive.
Manufacturer Adds Portable Storage Drive to Its Line of Products MONTEBELLO, Calif., Nov. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- TEAC, a premier manufacturer of DVD-Recorders, CD-RW, CD-RW/DVD-ROM Drives, DVD-ROM, CD-ROM, Internal and USB Floppy Drives, External Hard Drives, USB Flash Drives, Disc Printers and Disc Duplicator Systems, announces the launch...

Saving, Sharing Videos On CD.
"I think a lot of people really want to do this (capture and show personal videos),"' said Andy Parsons, senior vice president of product development for Pioneer New Media Technologies, at a recent Consumer Electronics Show. "I wanted to do this two years ago and I was frustrated. I...

DVD jukebox technology appeals to CD users. (Tape/Disk/Optical Storage).
Information technology has dramatically altered the demand for data storage and enhanced its value to the workplace. Desktop, department, and enterprise environments have all evolved to the point where data that was once viewed as a static resource is now viewed as a mission critical company asset. ...

Challenges Of CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive Design.
What's required to reduce costs and boost write speeds The first part of this article appeared in the October issue (Q3 2000) of Storage Inc. CTR had planned to run the second part in this issue, but, because of the complexity of the article, we have decided...