Memory capacity sparks a technical revolution

And the ordinarily mundane storage sector is revitalising all sorts of other areas. Recently, Toshiba launched an 0.85-inch hard drive. What possible use could this have, I hear you ask? Well, the drive is designed to be incorporated inside the new generation of mobile phones. Toshiba and others hope mini- drives will replace the more expensive and lower capacity flash memory in handheld computers and mobile phones. Their drives will

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Fayed wins injunction against BBC: A high court judge has ordered the BBC to pull a TV investigation into Mohamed Al Fayed’s tax affairs after granting the Harrods owner an 11th-hour injunction. Fayed blocks BBC tax probe Multimillion dollar TV brand targets children worldwide: Fox Kids has unveiled a corporate revolution that will result in children in countries as far apart as Israel and Brazil feasting on an action-adventure diet

Bluejacking awareness approaching 10 per cent?

In other words, it’s the context and the location that matters – getting Bluejacked at the shops is “ok”, it’s SMS spam as you’re having dinner which is a bigger pain. While 82 per cent of 500 respondents they surveyed outside two major London stations said that unsolicited commercial messages sent to their mobiles would be unacceptable, “68 per cent would welcome the opportunity to receive targeted promotional messages or