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Need more room for data --- the 10 Terabyte CD is here!

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:44:49 GMT

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The future of discs: 10TB CDs

December 7th, 2006

A while ago, Etherfast presented the 300GB CDs. Among their disadvantages, I saw the enormous price (between $100 and $125 per CD, and $15,000 per unit), which makes the holographic CDs nothing but a dream, so far.

But today I found out about a Romanian inventor, who managed to create a CD which is capable of storing no less than 10,000GB, which is 10TB. Unfortunately, the CD is, although created, not produced on a large scale yet. Its developer, Eugen Pavel, has won many awards with it (worth mentioning are the Geneva exposition and the Eureka exposition in Bruxelles, where it has been aclaimed and where it has won gold medals), and he estimates that, at first, the CD will cost between $100 and $200, but when it will become available in large scales, the cost will probabily drop to about $30 per CD. Its price is not high, considering the CDs and DVDs which exist today, and their prices.

So far, this technology has been breveted in 21 countries (and counting), and the project is approaching its release. The only thing needed now is a serious investor.

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Comment by Jerry Kindall on December 8, 2006 1:13 am
Breveted, huh? I’d like to brevet some technology in various countries myself.

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Tags: data storage, computer science, new technology, information storage

Taking passwords to the grave

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:02:48 GMT

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Taking passwords to the grave

William Talcott, a prominent San Francisco poet with dual Irish citizenship, had fans all over the world. But when he died in June of bone marrow cancer, his daughter couldn't notify most of his contacts because his e-mail account--and the online address book he used--was locked up.

Talcott, 69, a friend of beatnik Neil Cassidy, apparently took his password to the grave.

It's a vexing, and increasingly common problem for families mourning the loss of loved ones. As more and more people move their lives, address books, calendars, financial information, online, they are taking a risk that some information formerly filed away in folders and desks might never recovered. That is, unless they share their passwords, which poses security threats.

Tags: passwords, grave, email, death, estate planning

Mount Box.net on your desktop

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:03:27 GMT

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Clip Source: blogs.cybervenuthomas.com

Mount your Box.net account on your desktop

If you’re one of the many people who’ve taken advantage of Box.net’s free gigabyte of online storage, you can make your Box.net account more accessible by mounting your gig of space on your desktop.

Uneasy Silence has a tutorial for mounting the Box.net drive on your Mac, while the Techie buzz weblog has a tutorial for mounting the drive on a Windows computer. If you’re an avid Box.net user, this should make accessing and managing your online files a bit easier. Then again, if you don’t use Box.net, you can get over 2 gigs of storage with Gmail Drive and a Gmail account. Thanks Keith!

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Tags: technology, box.net, web 2.0, backup, free, online storage, how to

Carbonite - Online Backup --- Cheap!

Sat, 15 Jul 2006 03:09:53 GMT

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Clip Source: www.carbonite.com

	Monthly Pricing Plans
	1 GB	5GB	10GB	20 GB	40GB
Carbonite	$5	$5	$5	$5	$5
xDrive	$10	$10	$20	$40	$50
iBackup	$10	$10	$20	$50	$50
Intronis	$10	$30	$50	$99	$198
Spare Backup	$10	$18	$28	$48	$88
Data Deposit Box	$10	$22	$37	$67	$127
Backup Solutions	$15	$25	$25	$37	$100
Connected	$15	$25	$25	$50	NA
@backup	$15	$50	$65	$110	NA
Iomega	$15	$42	$102	$167	$333
Prices based on public web sites 4/4/06

Unlimited storage capacity
Automatically finds all your data files -- photos, documents, music, emails, everything
Always on – just connect to the Internet
Set and forget – just start Carbonite and relax
Instantly detects and backs up changed files
Never slows down your computer or Internet
Exclude files you don’t want to back up
Strong encryption for super security
Backs up approximately 2GB per day
over DSL or Cable

Automatically restores files to their original folders
Restores to any PC
Restores everything or just selected files or folders
Simple – restores using Windows "My Computer"
Restores at 10-15GB per day over DSL or Cable

Easy to Install

Carbonite installs with one click. Sit back and relax while Carbonite automatically finds all your data files, encrypts them, and backs them up over the Internet to our secure servers. Big companies always back up their data off-site, and now you can too.

Simple to use!
Nothing new to learn. Carbonite just looks like another disk drive on your computer with a copy of all your data

in their usual folders.

Always on!
Carbonite works wherever and whenever
you’re connected to the Internet.

Tags: backup, file storage, online backup, pc backup