Sony has announced development of a blue-laser-based optical disc system for data storage and says it should be available by the end of this year. The system, which has yet to be named, is technically ...

Every company has a need to back up their critical data in case their original is lost or corrupted. This need of archiving gave birth to the external data storage industry. Many leading industrial ...

I preface this by saying this is of purely historical interest in that no conceivable implementation would be competitive with even a modest USB stick today, but I had the thought that with a suitably ...

Olympus and Fujifilm announced a new storage format for digital cameras yesterday, called xD-Picture Card, which can hold up to 8GB and is less than one inch square. Of course the first ones will only ...

It's probably difficult to imagine a time when data storage wasn't simple, seamless and instantly available in the palm of your hand. With smartphones, cloud services, sleek portable devices and ...

Chemists at Case Western Reserve University have found a way to possibly store digital data in half the space current systems require. From supercomputers to smartphones, the amount of data people ...

By Shashwat Chauhan (Reuters) -Shares of data storage companies such as Seagate and Western Digital have sharply outperformed ...