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Benefit discs threaten new data scare
News The Department for Work and Pensions on Monday was awaiting the return of two discs, potentially full of benefits claimants' data, that left its offices a year ago. A DWP spokesperson told GC News that it was investigating claims that an ex...
[December 4, 2007, 7:37]
Sony debuts blue discs
News Sony debuted on Monday optical storage discs that use blue-laser technology to hold more data and that offer improved durability. The new product is similar to the consumer-oriented Blu-ray storage discs, which Sony has been piloting in Japan.
[April 27, 2004, 9:25]
HMRC offers £20,000 for return of lost discs
News The government is offering a £20,000 reward to anyone who finds the missing discs from HM Revenue & Customs containing 25 million child-benefit records, after the initial police search failed to find them.
[December 5, 2007, 14:08]
Philips' blue lasers shrink discs
News The drive uses 3cm discs that can store up to 1GB of data. Blue lasers have shorter wavelengths than red lasers, which are used in current optical CD drives to read data off discs. Optical drives and discs are less expensive than the flash memory...
[June 20, 2002, 13:59]
Find My Discs
Downloads Find My Discs can help you scan all your data CD/DVDs and Music CD, store the directories/files name. You can find your discs in one second. Never spend hours to dig your discs again! It also supports full text search for your various format of...
[February 8, 2008, 7:00]
AOL discs heat up on eBay auctions
News AOL's program discs -- those persistent CDs that seem to never stop arriving in your mailbox -- are making the jump from junk to jewel. Touting the launch of version 8.0 of its online service, AOL has released a series of collectible discs sporting...
[October 24, 2002, 9:49]
Prices to rise for CD-R discs
News Summertime, and the living is pretty expensive if you need to buy CD-recordable discs Wholesale prices for CD-recordable discs will spike this summer, a new report asserts, though the effects should be short-lived.
[May 10, 2001, 9:42]
News Burst: Massive storage discs on Ricoh's radar
News Japanese electronics giant Ricoh has inked a deal to develop next generation optical storage technology capable of holding 50-140Gb or around 30 times more than a DVD. Constellation 3D formed the strategic alliance with Ricoh to develop its...
[August 15, 2000, 9:26]
TDK cracks 200GB Blu-ray discs
News In an announcement on Thursday, the company also said it would start shipping 50GB recordable and rewritable Blu-ray discs next week. Previously, TDK's Blu-ray discs had a capacity of 25GB per layer, but it has now managed to raise this to 33GB.
[September 1, 2006, 15:10]
Massive storage discs unveiled
News At a heated press conference at the DVD Summit in Dublin Monday, a little known storage company announced aggressive plans to produce discs that look like CDs but can store up to seven full length movies -- around 140GB of data.
[April 18, 2000, 15:19]
Pioneer sets recordable DVD ball rolling
News On Friday Pioneer announced the world's first recordable DVD player, a move that could push forward the digital discs' replacement of traditional video recording technology. The player and DVD discs will be launched in North America and Europe next...
[November 26, 1999, 8:38]
Taxpayer to foot bill for HMRC disc search
News The taxpayer has been landed with a £473,544 bill for the hunt for the missing HM Revenue & Customs data discs. The Metropolitan Police Service mounted a months-long search for the data discs, containing 25 million child-benefit records, after they...
[July 21, 2008, 8:27]
LxClone
Downloads LXclone is a binary - copy-program for data media / discs. It offers professional opportunities to copy disc drives (Imaging), even discs in use can be cloned. Data recovery of damaged discs With LXclone data on damaged disc can be recovered easily.
[July 7, 2006, 11:38]
Royalty dispute confuses CD copy-protection
News A dispute over royalty rights on copy-protected CDs and other types of music discs is helping stall the release of some new music technology, and could result in record labels owing tens of millions of dollars in back payments to music publishers.
[January 13, 2004, 11:40]
PCs: CD and DVD Drives
White Papers PCs treat compact discs and DVDs as data suitcases, letting the user store and transport mammoth amounts of large files: digital camera photos, audio books, home movies, and digital music, to name a few.
[October 17, 2007, 1:00]
Bacros virus targets hard-drive destruction
News Like pixie boots and Bros, some things are better off left in the 1980s - like viruses that spread via floppy discs and tried to wipe hard drives. Unlike the average virus which spreads over email, IM or networks, Bacros is going back to the old...
[October 14, 2004, 17:15]
CD-RW drive squashes in more data
News Plextor has announced a new CD-RW drive that can squeeze 40 percent more data into standard blank discs. Such "compressed" discs may not be playable on CD drives, however. For some time now, enthusiasts have been able to squeeze in between 10 to 20...
[April 15, 2003, 10:51]
Music industry sounds off on CD burning
News CD burning contributed to a surge in music piracy across the globe in 2001, with sales of pirated discs jumping an estimated 50 percent from the previous year, according to an industry report released Tuesday.
[June 12, 2002, 12:22]
HMRC data breach fiasco disks appear on eBay
Blog At least somebody has a sense of humour about the absolute farce of the UK Government losing discs holding the personal details of 25 million UK citizens. The discs briefly appeared on eBay listed as "Two CD-R's - Have data on them - some sort of...
[November 21, 2007, 13:21]
New DVD spec gains speed
News A DVD industry group is pushing a new specification that will cut recording times on DVD+R discs. The DVD+RW Alliance, a group of companies advocating the DVD+RW format for recording and rewriting files onto DVD discs, announced the 4X DVD+R...
[August 9, 2002, 9:31]
