gigabytes
Here’s what our web addiction looks like in 2016
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We’re on pace to generate 1.3 zettabytes of data in 2016, about four times more than we create today, according to the latest data out from Cisco. To put that in perspective, Cisco helpfully tells us that’s more than 38 million DVDs streamed in an hour. Or, you can think...
Is the Digital Music Revolution Really Ruining Sound Quality?
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It seems like every advance in digital music brings with it a debate about whether the latest format degrades quality in exchange for convenience. This was true when CDs first came onto the scene, and it's probably even more true today with MP3s and their digital audio brethren. Heck, even...
For iPad And Mobile Devices, a 'Port' out of the Norm
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The pocket-size USB flash drive has become nearly ubiquitous in the PC world, for moving files among machines and for adding extra storage. But it can’t be used with most tablets because they lack standard USB ports. [ See post to watch video ] Now, there’s a special, modified, pocket...
Yandex.Disk Wants To Give iCloud, Skydrive and Dropbox A Run For Their Money In Russia
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Yandex may be in line to become the default search engine on devices that Apple sells in Russia. But for now it’s engaging in a little competition with Cupertino, and others. Today the Russian search giant is launching its own answer to iCloud: a free web-based storage product it’s calling...
Hackers leak Symantec source code after failed $50,000 extortion sting
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A group of Anonymous hackers leaked what appears to be stolen source code from the antivirus company Symantec Monday night, following a month of fruitless negotiations. Symantec admitted yesterday that it’s been involved with a sting operation by law enforcement centering on a $50,000 extortion attempt from the hackers, who...
Researchers Build Hard Drive of Future With Frickin’ Lasers
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An international team of researchers has reinvented storage, using lasers to change the polarization of an iron and gadolinium subtrate. Image: University of York A team of researchers from across Europe and Asia have demonstrated a way of using laser heat to store data rather than magnetic fields, potentially increasing...
New Mac details leak: MacBook Airs with more RAM, crazy expensive Retina MacBook Pros
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As eager developers and journalists line up for Apple’s WWDC keynote this morning, some intriguing new details about Apple’s Mac hardware announcements have leaked out. Among the scheduled hardware upgrades, Apple will offer the MacBook Air with up to 8 gigabytes of RAM and a 512 gigabyte SSD for...
Verizon Overhauls Its Rate Plans, Focusing on Shared Data
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In a major shakeup to how it handles its billing, Verizon Wireless plans to start charing customers almost exclusively based on how much data they are using, rather than on the amount of phone calls or text messages sent. The plans, known as “Share Everything,” allow users an unlimited number...
AT&T gets into shared data: 'Mobile Share' plans coming late August
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Just over a month after Verizon announced Share Everything, AT&T is getting into the burgeoning shared data game (as it's been saying it would) with Mobile Share, a tiered set of plans that allow subscribers to split a single bucket of gigabytes across up to ten devices with unlimited...
AT&T Says Throttling of Unlimited Data Users Done on Case-by-Case Basis
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Last week, a firestorm erupted over the publicization of AT&T policies that can result in users on grandfathered unlimited data plans seeing their data speeds throttled after burning through as little as 2 GB in a month. Early reports on the policy, which went into effect last October as intended...
Google driving towards the cloud?
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Speculation is rife that Google is on the verge of launching a cloud-based storage system with 5 gigabytes available for free....
From gigabytes to petadollars: copyright math begets copyright currency
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Photo illustration by Aurich Lawson American law sets the maximum penalty for pirating a single song at $150,000. Zillow, meanwhile, tells me that five bedrooms and a pool can be had for $142,000 just west of Scottsdale. When Phoenix McMansions can run you less than a filched copy of...
Google Drive Is Live With 5GB Of Free Storage And Google Docs Hookup
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You can now try Google Drive, Google’s Dropbox competitor, at drive.google.com. UPDATE – The app is now available for download and I installed it, creating a folder on my computer that acts as a GDrive sync area. All of my Google Docs appeared as “icons” in the folder. And I...
HP’s NFC-Equipped Ultrabook Comes to Market
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You might recall that at the Consumer Electronics Show this year, Ultrabooks were all the rage. You might also remember that a couple of those laptops managed to stand out from the crowd — including Hewlett-Packard’s Envy Spectre 14, which goes on sale today. Showgoers were abuzz about the glossy,...
Laser-switched magnetic storage is 1,000 times faster than current hard drives
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Hold onto your hats: An international team of scientists working in England, Russia, Switzerland, and the Netherlands have completely rewritten the rules of magnetic storage. Instead of switching a magnetic region using a magnetic field (like a hard drive head), the researchers have managed to switch a ferrimagnetic nanoisland using...
Top that, cable! Verizon offers 300 Mbps home broadband
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Bored with your 100 Mbps connection? Verizon plans to offer customers up to 300 Mbps down via its FiOS fiber service next month. That’s double Verizon’s current top speed of 150 Mbps down and a slam against cable companies trying to compete with Big Red. Current cable technology tops out...
Pogoplug now powers 1M personal clouds, announces retail expansion and Softbank mobile partnership
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Who needs Amazon’s cloud storage when you can just turn your own hard into a cloud-enabled device? That’s the question Pogoplug has been asking consumers with its family of personal cloud devices, which can make any hard drive accessible from the web, and it seems the company has struck a...
HelloFax Creates HelloSign - A Free Digital Signature Service
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The founders at HelloFax needed a simpler way to help customers get their documents signed. And so they developed a digital signature tool. In short time, they realized they had stumbled into a new space. The young YCombinator startup found that digital signing of documents was not just a feature...
Google Drive vs. the competition: pricing plans and perks, compared
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Sometimes a table says a thousand words. Now that Google has finally announced its cloud service, Google Drive, we're sure more than a few of you are crunching the numbers in your head in an attempt to figure which is the best deal. Far be it for us to...
Dropbox: disruptor or flash-in-the-pan?
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As Dropbox brings out a new photo upload capability to make it easier to move digital photos from smartphones to cloud, the debate as to whether Dropbox itself is the next big disruptor or just a feature to be acquired or co-opted flared anew. By all accounts, Dropbox provides a slick way...
Verizon launches 'faster than wired' broadband for the home
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Verizon Wireless is making good on that name, aiming to rid your home of those ugly, ugly wires. The carrier wants to substitute them with the not-exactly-subtle, bucket-sized antenna you can see on the right. Its HomeFusion service aims to replace DSL-connected domiciles, with Verizon reckoning its own wireless...
AT&T shared data plans launching late August starting at $45 per smartphone
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AT&T on Wednesday announced its new shared data plans, ranging from 1 gigabyte to 20 gigabytes of cap space, and starting at $40 for 1 gigabyte of data plus an additional $45 per smartphone....
Google Stores, Syncs, Edits in the Cloud
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For years, some people who wanted to store files on remote servers in the cloud have been emailing the files to their Gmail accounts, or uploading them to Google’s lightly used Google Docs online productivity suite, even if they had no intention of editing them there. Now, Google is formally...
Facebook Opens Up Hardware World With Magic Hinge
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Amir Michael, the engineer who leads Facebook's hardware design team (Photos: Wired/Jon Snyder) Imagine that your laptop display weighs 800 pounds. But you can still open it and close it and re-open it as you like, gently pushing it to just the right angle. And when you let go, it...
Barnes & Noble offers to repartition Nook Tablet storage, concedes you may need more than 1GB
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Are you one of the many infuriated with Barnes & Noble over how it partitioned the storage on the Nook Tablet -- leaving you just 1GB for you own files? Well, it looks like the company has learned from its mistakes. While only about 5GB is free to load...
Microsoft Research just exploded the world record for data sorting in a 60 second window
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Microsoft Research is claiming victory in the MinuteSort test, posting a score that they say essentially triples the previous title-holder, a 2009 Yahoo team. MinuteSort is just that, a test of how much data you can sort in a minute. Obviously, this is a critical function, as ‘big data’ becomes...
The FBI Is About To Launch A New Unit That Wants To Spy On Skype Conversations
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The FBI is in the process of launching a new surveillance unit to help the bureau snoop on conversations that take place on Skype and other wireless communications, CNET reports. The new unit has a very unassuming name: the Domestic Communications Assistance Center. CNET parsed through government documents and interviewed...
High Definition Video Clogs Corporate Networks
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Increasingly, corporate bandwidth is being chewed up by streaming media and peer to peer networks. Screenshot: Wired If you could somehow peek inside the pipes of your typical corporate network, you’d see a whole heck of a lot of streaming video and P2P filesharing. That’s what network scanning company Palo...
Comcast suspends data caps... for now
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City Year Comcast is getting rid of its 250GB monthly bandwidth caps as it trials new approaches to traffic management. First imposed in 2008, the caps were designed to limit usage by the most data-hungry Comcast customers, a segment the company said consisted of less than 0.01 percent of...
Cisco predicts mobile data traffic to increase 18-fold over next five years
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Cisco has today released a report on the future of mobile data usage over the next five years and inside are some bold predictions. The company predicts that total global mobile data traffic will increase 18-fold by 2016 when it will reach 130 exabytes. That's over 139 billion gigabytes,...
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