The Bitstream

As you can tell by now, I’ve either been quite busy or incapacitated. Thank goodness, it’s the former…

Posted on June 30th, 2010 by OMas
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… Intel announced the latest round of updates to their Core processor family. Arguably the most significant change to the new Intel® Core™ i7, i5 and i3 processors is the 32 nanometer fabrication process used to manufacture them.

Posted on January 11th, 2010 by OMas
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You see, your average MID, netbook or iPhone may be portable but they aren’t designed to do one thing well. They’re general purpose, all singing, all dancing designs able to handle smooth video playback, read your e–mail, and throw up seventeen suggestions for restaurants within two blocks of your location, all in glorious color. Can most traditional books do that? No but, what a book can provide is a highly legible, usually black and white “display” that requires no power to maintain…

Posted on December 27th, 2009 by OMas
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Amazon, a pioneer in virtual storefront technology and electronic commerce services, today announced Amazon CloudFront, a web service for content delivery.

Posted on December 16th, 2009 by OMas
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Buried on Sony’s web site is the final death knell for the AIT data tape format. The declaration…specifies the format’s End of Life for the close of March 2010.

Posted on November 10th, 2009 by OMas
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Rich media producers rejoice! G-Technology by Hitachi, a brand know for their well–packaged, high performance storage products, announced this week that their entire 3.5″ product line will incorporate Hitachi’s 2TB, 7,200 RPM drives.

Posted on November 5th, 2009 by OMas
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It’s official: The DAT format isn’t dead yet. It’s still shuffling around, attempting to find a place at the backup table. Trouble is, more capacious and sweeter smelling formats have taken all the seats. This past week, Tandberg Data was previewing the latest generation of the DAT digital data format at the SNW Europe 2009 [...]

Posted on October 31st, 2009 by OMas
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The Wi-Fi Alliance, an industry trade group for the promotion of all things Wi-Fi, announced recently that a branded version of new wireless peer–to–peer networking protocols are in the pipeline. Dubbed Wi-Fi Direct, “The Wi-Fi Alliance expects to begin certification for this new specification in mid-2010, and products which achieve the certification will be designated Wi-Fi [...]

Posted on October 28th, 2009 by OMas
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Hey sports fans! Oh, er, wrong blog… Hello happy reader, This turn of the platter brings us to some recent announcements concerning disk drives from Toshiba, WD and others plus, an interesting statistic…

Posted on October 13th, 2009 by OMas
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Hallo hoppy reader, Yesterday, Psystar Corp. announced an OEM Licensing program. They’ll begin certifying other manufacturer’s hardware to allow the licensing of Psystar’s “virtualization technology.” Psystar’s methodology, specifically engineered for Snow Leopard, allows for seamless operation of the Mac OS on generic Intel Hardware and would be offered on all Psystar–Certified machines.

Posted on October 6th, 2009 by OMas
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