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Cap'n Magneto
Downloads Cap'n Magneto is a comic-book graphic adventure game for the Macintosh. In it, you are Captain Lance Magneto, pulled to a crash landing on an alien planet by a strange force from an ancient relic, the Crown Of Control, wielded by an...
[March 20, 2005, 7:00]
Can Magneto repel Microsoft's mobile rivals?
News Imagining Magneto The OS, code-named Magneto, is the latest in a string of software releases that highlight Microsoft's attempts to take on rivals including PalmSource and Nokia. As for what's in Magneto, handheld enthusiast sites have offered some...
[May 9, 2005, 19:00]
7Gb MO could make DVD-RAM redundant
News A new magneto-optical specification could cut off DVD-RAM at the pass. Tentatively named AS MO (Advanced Storage Magneto-Optical), the spec is for a 6-7Gb 5.25-inch disk cartridge and has the backing of nine top names in entertainment and data...
[February 20, 1997, 10:21]
Five years ago: 7Gb MO could make DVD-RAM redundant
News A new magneto-optical specification could cut off DVD-RAM at the pass. Tentatively named AS MO (Advanced Storage Magneto-Optical), the spec is for a 6-7Gb 5.25-inch disk cartridge and has the backing of nine top names in entertainment and data...
[February 17, 2002, 6:01]
Toshiba touts data density record with new drive
News Additionally, the new drive comes with so-called tunnel magneto-resistive (TMR) recording head technology, rather than giant magneto-resistive (GMR) recording head technology. Toshiba says it has earned the right to say it's more dense than its...
[June 5, 2006, 9:25]
UK memory breakthrough raises questions
News The company says that its other main innovations, a hybrid silicon/magneto-optical storage device and special materials for writing to magneto-optical discs, will be significant for DVD and CD-ROM media.
[February 13, 2001, 16:45]
Panasonic puts PD drive into notebook
News The Japanese giant today released the CF-62, a flagship for its PD drive which combines a quad-speed CD-ROM drive with a 650Mb magneto-optical drive. It will market the unit as a platform for CD-ROM pre-mastering, DTP and graphics file transfer...
[August 5, 1996, 15:38]
Big Head Zed
Downloads His employee and second cousin Zorp pulled the wrong lever, and a thousand magneto balls crashed to the decks. Zed makes his living cleaning magnetos: large spheres used to power spaceships. Guide Zed through 120 levels of six spaceships and save...
[December 6, 2004, 16:28]
Enigmo 2
Downloads Along the way, the player must toggle switches, deactivate force-fields, use magneto-spheres to attract charged particles, and perform many other feats of Newtonian physics. Enigmo 2 is a 3D puzzle game where the player constructs mechanisms to...
[October 13, 2007, 8:00]
Microsoft adds wireless to Pocket PC
News The OS overhaul will occur in the next version of the operating system, code-named Magneto, due out next year. Magneto, the next version of Microsoft's Pocket PC OS, is expected to include improved phone features, such as more intuitive dialling...
[June 12, 2003, 9:03]
MediaWrapper
Downloads MediaWrapper supports CD, Zip, DVD, Jaz, EZ, Magneto Optical, SuperDisk, SyJet, SyQuest. MediaWrapper 3 automatically lists and labels disk contents. It's great for backups, mp3 disks, photo disks or any media where you need the contents...
[July 27, 2003, 8:00]
Five years ago: First DVD drives mean business
News Hitachi said today that it still plans to release DVD drives to PC OEMs by year-end, saying that the roadblocks faced by Sony, Philips and others in home user systems will not apply to drives targeting the replacement CD-ROM and magneto-optical...
[September 2, 2001, 8:00]
Five years ago: Compaq's super-floppy faces tough trek
News Three models in Compaq's Deskpro 4000 business desktop line will ship with the LS-120 drive, a combination of orthodox floppy and magneto-optical technology that directly competes with Iomega's wildly successful 100Mb Zip cartridge drive.
[August 15, 2001, 8:00]
DVD to drive optical market skywards
News Frost & Sullivan believes that the market will be completely reinvented in that time with magneto-optical growing moderately in sales but losing optical drive share to CD and DVD. Already accounting for 12 million units and a value of $1.65 billion...
[June 30, 1997, 16:07]
14.1-inch screen notebooks due June
News Options include a magneto-optical drive and an IC card reader. The firm's Mirage mobile PC will sport the huge screen with a 1,024 x 768 resolution to deliver a viewing experience not too far short of a 17-inch CRT monitor.
[May 2, 1997, 15:20]
The atoms went marching in one by one
News So far, that's nothing new -- the NIST scientists acknowledge that such a "magneto-electrical trap" has been devised before. As interest in nanotechnology peaks, government scientists are claiming a significant breakthrough with the ability to make...
[May 16, 2003, 9:19]
Five years ago: IBM plans first USB PC for October
News The system will also feature dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs) up to 512Mb, choice of S3 Trio 64V+ or Matrox Millennium graphics and choice of PD CD-ROM/rewriteable magneto-optical drive or standard CD-ROM drive.
[August 1, 2001, 8:00]
Quantum ships first Ultra ATA hard drives
News Also new is a version of the 5.25-inch Quantum Bigfoot with magneto-resistive (MR) heads. Storage specialist Quantum today announced the first hard drives that host the super-fast Ultra ATA interface.
[October 25, 1996, 10:02]
Steorn's free energy seems curiously expensive
Talkback High-field temperature-dependent magnetic and magnetotransport characterizations are performed at the Laboratory of Magnetometry and Magnetotransport.Facilities include a Vibrating Sample Magnetometer, VSM, under maximum field of 1.5 T (low...
[August 23, 2006, 10:45]
Fujitsu promises 170GB notebook hard drives
News The technology, called "current perpendicular to plane," improves on the current giant magneto resistive head technology. Fujitsu has developed new hard drive technology that may help to stem the expected slowdown in the rate of growth for hard...
[May 13, 2002, 9:02]
