Flash isn’t living up to the hype

Not so far Flash drives have been rocketing up the hype cycle for the last year, helped along by credulous gadget sites and misleading performance numbers. But the free ride is coming to an end. Over on Storage Bits (see Flash gets a fight from disks and Hybrid...

Build a $50 DVD burner

Tired of your slow notebook burner? Want to rip a lot of CDs – as I have in the last week? Or maybe you’ve decided that, really and truly, you are going to get serious about backing up important data. Adding an external burner – especially for...

The Google power perspective

The CEO of a startup told me yesterday that their data mining software is so efficient that it cuts the processing time of a terabyte of data by 75-80%. Surely, he said hopefully, the energy savings alone would drive customer adoption. I don’t think so He got me...