Digital money: store of value or illusion?
Digital coinage like Bitcoin can't do everything a physical coin can do, but that's not stopping people from giving up real money for them. Or are they trading one fake currency for another?
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.
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Why tablets are winning
I had a hulking, 45-pound quad-core Mac Pro for years. But my little, 3-pound i7 MacBook Air has faster Geekbench scores and feels snappier. This is why tablets are winning.
Data scientists: Hype or help?
Scale matters. Massive data — especially streaming data — requires its own ecosystem. It's not just small data made bigger.
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.
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?