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June 09, 2005
HD DVD-R
Peace talks aside, it looks like Toshiba is forming an offensive in FORMAT WARS EPISODE II with the promise of a 15GB recordable HD DVD by next spring. The discs will be released along with the first HD DVD recorders, as well as computers with built-in HD DVD-R drives. Toshiba has also said it will introduce an HD DVD-RW disc in the spring as well. This announcement comes as a response to Sony's recent introduction of re-writable Blu-ray discs, which they have already begun selling.
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160 GB Notebook Hard Drives
Drive manufacturer Seagate has recently announced a new line of high-capacity hard drives, including one 2.5-inch 160 GB model. The drives are intended for use in laptops and small form-factor PCs, and implement perpendicular recording technology, which allows for large increases in data storage by aligning the bits upright instead of flat on the disk. The new hard drives are expected to be available in the first quarter of next year.
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IE Playing Catch-Up
In a move to try and regain some of the market share it has lost to Firefox and other alternative browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer has introduced tabbed browsing via an updated version of the MSN Search Toolbar released Wednesday for IE 6. In past weeks, Microsoft has made promises of tabbed browsing appearing in IE 7, but has not gone any further than suggest that the feature could be achieved through toolbars as well. It should be interesting to see whether this re-gains any market share for Microsoft, but we can probably assume that overall browser security is more important than tabbed browsing to most people.
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