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IBM Storage Tech: DVRs in the Cloud, SSD Replacements

      An IBM data center in North Carolina How is IBM funneling its vast resources into research around future products and services? At a press and analyst day last week in New York City, the company...

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Optical Drives: Obsolete? Almost Obsolete? Necessities?

TechCrunch’s MG Siegler says he’s never once used the DVD burner on his MacBook Pro and is therefore excited about the possibility of a superlight, driveless MacBook Air. I keep going back and forth on...

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Five Questions About This Week’s Apple News

Apple’s big press event yesterday previewed OS X, introduced iLife ’11 and two new MacBook Air models, and provided lots to chew on–including decisions on Apple’s part that are bound to be...

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How Long Until Apple Does Away With Disks?

Can we all agree that Apple will be the first major computer manufacturer to stop using hard drives? I assume so, anyhow–although I’m still trying to figure out just when it’ll happen.

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Care For a Little RAID?

Last Gadget Standing nominee: Newer Technology Guardian MAXimus Mini Price: starts at $229.99 Newer Technology’s Guardian MAXimus Mini is an external RAID (0 and 1) storage systen that protects your...

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CES 2011: Iomega Does iPhone Backup, Boxee, and the “Personal Cloud”

Venerable storage company Iomega has made its CES announcements. They include a unique new iPhone/iPod Touch dock, two TV boxes that are the first ones to run the Boxee software since D-Link’s original...

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IoSafe’s Drives: The Torture Tests Continue

IoSafe, which makes disaster-proofed storage devices, may not have the biggest booth at CES–or, come to think of it, any booth at all–but it consistently comes up with unique, memorable demos of its...

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Mozy’s New Pricing is a Small Price Hike, or a Big Price Hike, or a Price...

Online backup kingpin Mozy built its business in part on an appealing, cheap-sounding offer: You could back up as much data to the cloud as you wanted for $4.99 a month. On Monday, it announced plans...

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How To: Record, Publish, and Manage “A Video a Day” of Your Child (Part II of...

David Spark (@dspark) is a veteran tech journalist and the founder of the media consulting and production company Spark Media Solutions.  Spark blogs regularly at Spark Minute. This article is Part II...

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Iomega’s New Hard Drive is for iPad-Owning Mac Users

How can hard-drive companies jump on the iPad bandwagon? Seagate and Hitachi have created wireless drives designed to work with Apple’s tablet. Iomega is taking another approach. Its Mac Companion...

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TechReads for July 14, 2014

The password is dying. (Christopher Mims/WSJ) And to prove it, Mims shares his own Twitter password (which is christophermims). Bringing back Prodigy. (Benj Edwards/The Atlantic) One man wants to...

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At Comcast, You’re Not Just a Valued Customer–You’re Also an Indentured Servant

My friends Ryan Block and Veronica Belmont decided to cancel their Comcast service and switch to Astound, a smaller cable company available here in the Bay Area. So they called Comcast–and talked to a...

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One New Slingbox Caters to the Masses, the Other to High-End Users

Slingbox M1 When it debuted back in 2005, the original Slingbox–which let you pipe your TV signal at home over the Internet to a distant computer or smartphone–helped invent the whole idea that you...

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TechReads for July 16, 2014

Why that Comcast rep wouldn’t let Ryan and Veronica just cancel. (Adrianne Jeffries/The Verge) Because doing so would cost him money. Fox tried to buy Time Warner. (Andrew Ross Sorkin/Michael De La...

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The New Features in Jawbone’s Up App Are All About Eating

Thanks to wearable fitness gadgets such as Jawbone’s Up and Up24 wristbands, it’s now very easy to get some sense of how many calories you’re burning as you go about your everyday activities. But...

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TechReads for July 17

Microsoft to reorg, cut up to 18,000 jobs. (Satya Nadella/Microsoft)

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How to Animate Your Dragon

A DreamWorks Animation artist works on How to Train Your Dragon 2 using Premo Mr. Peabody and Sherman, the computer-animated movie which DreamWorks Animation released in March is–of course–the tale of...

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A Celebration of James Garner’s Polaroid Commercials

They weren’t the best thing he ever did, or the one which we’ll cherish the most. But with the sad news of the passing of James Garner, it’s worth pausing to remember the commercials he did in the late...

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I’m Going to Want a Car With Built-In LTE…Eventually

Buick owners enjoying their car’s built-in LTE in a photo provided by GM Last week, General Motors invited me to a press event at which it showed off some new Buicks. Normally, such events involve...

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RIP, Jim Frederick

Jim Frederick, the first editor I had during my time as a tech writer for TIME, died unexpectedly on Thursday night. He was only 42, and I’m still in shock. The loss would be incalculable no matter...

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