Cornice shrinks its portable drives
News Cornice's newest line of portable drives boosts memory while shrinking in size. Upgrades to Cornice's Dragon series feature 8GB and 10GB of storage, up from 4GB and 6GB, and have slimmed down to the size of a book of matches, the company said.
[January 3, 2006, 9:20]
Seagate unveils 12GB minidrive
News Seagate and Cornice both launched new compact hard drives on Monday that offer contrasting approaches to storage on mobile phones of the future. Seagate offered the device with the highest capacity, while Cornice has opted for a trade-off between...
[February 13, 2006, 17:20]
4GB mobile phone just around the corner
News Fresh from reaching a partial settlement with rival Seagate, Cornice has launched a 2.5cm disk drive that will fit easily into mobile phones, GPRS devices or very small MP3 devices but has a substantial 4.0 GB capacity.
[July 19, 2005, 14:25]
Hard drive 'crash guard' pioneered
News Minidrive specialist Cornice will unveil a new 3GB, 2.5cm-diameter hard drive at next month's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) offers more shock resistance and uses less battery life than its predecessors.
[December 15, 2004, 13:05]
Tiny-drive maker fights back against Seagate
News Cornice, a maker of tiny disk drives, has counterpunched one of the industry giants that slapped it with patent-infringement lawsuits earlier this year. Cornice on Wednesday said it filed counterclaims against Seagate Technology in the US District...
[August 19, 2004, 11:40]
Tiny hard-drive firm secures large investment
News Cornice said on Wednesday that it has received $51m (£27.89m) in a second round of venture financing, bringing the total to $81m. With the additional financing and very high, sustained interest in the Cornice Storage Element from leading electronic...
[February 5, 2004, 9:45]
Start-up creates tiny hard drives for gadgets
News Cornice wants to take the hard drive out of PCs and put it into your camera. The first products will hit shelves this quarter, according to Cornice. The Cornice drive is essentially a minimalist hard drive that has been shorn of any materials not...
[June 4, 2003, 7:28]
Rivals line up behind iPod
News Cornice also hopes its drives will rock the music-player market. In a number of months, we're going to be announcing more MP3 customers," Cornice spokesman Phil Gomes said. Cornice has launched a 1-inch drive, which is being used in MP3 players...
[October 23, 2003, 11:15]
Samsung shows off hard-drive based mobile
News The internal drive comes from Cornice. Other manufacturers will also come out with hard-drive phones and even video cameras with mini drives over the next year, said David Feller, vice-president of marketing at Cornice.
[December 7, 2004, 8:50]
Toshiba unveils mini microdrive
News In the summer, however, Cornice, a start-up in Colorado, came out with a 1.5GB microdrive that costs less than Hitachi's small drive. Samsung has put Cornice's drive into a music player that takes up less space than those from Dell or Apple and a...
[December 11, 2003, 14:25]
Drive doldrums cost jobs
News In addition to difficult market conditions, one issue roiling the disk-drive industry is a set of lawsuits against start-up company Cornice. Seagate last Friday said that it has also filed a patent infringement complaint against Cornice with the US...
[July 5, 2004, 11:05]
Magicstor puts 4.8GB in one-inch drive
News Hitachi and start-up Cornice make one-inch drives. Cornice recently announced a 2GB one-inch drive. China-based GS Magicstor unveiled a one-inch hard drive that can hold up to 4.8GB of data, the highest capacity yet packed into a drive that small...
[January 8, 2004, 9:20]
Flash memory flares up
News Competition is coming in the form of mini-hard drives from companies such as Hitachi and Cornice. The digital home is here, and the early beneficiaries are the makers of removable flash memory cards. Companies that provide portable storage such as...
[January 16, 2004, 16:05]
Toshiba pins high expectations on minidrive
News At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, Toshiba's Storage Device Division is showing off 2GB and 4GB hard drives that measure 0.85 inch across, slightly smaller than the drives currently made by Hitachi and Cornice.
[January 8, 2004, 11:41]
iPod crash protection patent published
News Start-up drive maker Cornice has discussed plans for a 3GB, 1-inch drive whose read/write arm physically locks when the drive isn't in use. Apple is eyeing a technology that could make the iPod more likely to survive a fall.
[December 24, 2004, 8:50]
Toshiba turbocharges tiny drive
News Startup Cornice has a created a 1-inch drive that can store 1.5GB of data, and it says a dozen companies have plans to use its drive in various devices. Toshiba has increased the capacity of its small hard drive for portable electronics devices.
[November 5, 2003, 15:55]
Microsoft dominates first day of 3GSM
News The competition between manufacturers to cram the most information possible into a mobile phone grows more intense, as Seagate and Cornice both launch new products The 3GSM World Congress kicked off in Barcelona on Monday with a swathe of...
[February 14, 2006, 12:10]
Apple sends out iPod Mini
News Cornice, which makes a hard drive that competes with the one the Mini uses, said Tuesday that its drive is powering several new devices, including the Wi-Fi-equipped Aireo from Soniqcast, Digitalway's MPIO HD200 and Nextway's NHD-150D.
[February 18, 2004, 10:00]
Free Software is dead!
Blog The software I used was Cornice, a cross-platform image viewer written in Python. Long live free software! Last week I gave a workshop on Markdown, the lightweight markup language used for writing for the web (the S5 presentation is available for...
[September 25, 2009, 12:59]
Toshiba unveils hard drive for mobile phones
News Toshiba's 0.85-inch drive is slightly smaller than the one-inch drives produced by Hitachi, Cornice and China-based Magicstor, and will initially hold 2GB to 4GB, the company said. Toshiba on Thursday said it is aiming its newly unveiled mini hard...
[January 8, 2004, 12:50]
