Who has your back?
What do Apple, AT&T, Myspace, Verizon and Yahoo! have in common? Little regard for protecting their customers from governmental abuse of power.
Storage Bits
Storage is what makes a computer your computer. Robin Harris writes about storage and other tech with a focus on the SOHO/SMB market. And fun stuff, too, like PS3 supercomputers and Google's technology.
Robin Harris
Robin Harris has been messing with computers for over 30 years and selling and marketing data storage for over 20 in companies large and small.
Ricardo Bilton
Ricardo Bilton writes for ZDNet's The ToyBox.
Latest Posts
New kids on the Blox
A new scale out storage company has come out of stealth mode this morning. Exablox is announcing advanced, low-cost, scale out storage that is optimized for small and medium businesses.
Thunderbolt at the 2013 NAB Show
Thunderbolt continues to gain vendor support. That is good news for pro users.
20Gbps Thunderbolt isn't twice the bits
An Intel technical marketing guy at NAB 2013 spilled his guts on the 20Gbps Thunderbolt upgrade. Here's the scoop.
Movie film era draws to a close
Fujifilm recently announced that it was ending production of its most popular line of motion picture film products. The more than 100 year reign of the modern storage medium is slowly ending.
Hard drive prices (and innovation) decline
The price hikes from the Thailand flooding in late 2011 are fading fast. So are increases in drive areal density. Is stagnation the new normal?
Are 5 PC vendors too many?
Critics for years derided Apple's strategy of vertical integration. But with Microsoft and Google taking a similar tack, do we still need independent PC manufacturers?
What will the new Dell look like?
Dell — #3 in PCs — is in play with three bids on the table to buy the company. What are the buyers planning to do?
Could drive vendors end transient drive failures?
Drive vendors have complained for years that half of all "failed" drives have no problems when tested. Maybe they need to build better drives. Here's a suggestion.
Will hybrid notebooks save Windows 8?
Will $1,500 hybrid notebooks save Windows 8? Of course not. Even $600 hybrid notebooks might not.