US Report: SyQuest Orders Mass Layoff
News Disk-drive maker SyQuest Technology will lay off 50 percent of its approximately 2,000 employees, in a restructuring that will result in the closure of its Fremont manufacturing plant in California. SyQuest also announced that revenues for the...
[August 10, 1998, 9:40]
SyQuest Plans March UK Release For Zip Killer
News SyQuest says it shipped close to 50,000 SparQ drives and 90,000 SparQ cartridges in the October-December first quarter of volume shipments in the US. SyQuest alleges Iftikar made use of SyQuest proprietary technology at Castlewood.
[February 2, 1998, 11:09]
Comdex: SyQuest SparQ Stalks Zip Drive
News SyQuest's SparQ (pronounced 'spark') with its book-sized case, protruding rubber-feet and cartridge viewing window, even looks a lot like the Zip except that it follows Henry Ford's dictum by only being available in black.
[November 20, 1997, 9:33]
SyQuest Sues Nomai, Iomega Flies High
News SyQuest has been in a tailspin for a while now, while the company it once dwarfed can seemingly do no wrong. In the latest chapter of the Shakesperean tragedy, the loss-making Californian company today filed suit against French firm Nomai for...
[January 29, 1997, 17:13]
Iomega To Buy Syquest
News Drive manufacturer Iomega confirmed it will purchase the intellectual property, inventory and fixed assets in the US of rival Syquest for $9.5m (£5.7m). Syquest filed for bankruptcy in November. Syquest Malaysia's assets are being offered for sale...
[January 14, 1999, 6:35]
Iomega Sues SyQuest Over Patent Violations
News The Zip drive maker has filed a suit with a US District Court, alleging struggling SyQuest infringed patents and trademarks relating to read/write protection and Jaz cartridge design. Iomega last week said it is evaluating a consumer class suit...
[July 30, 1997, 15:33]
News Burst: Syquest Lays Off 950
News The storage maker also said that revenues for the quarter ended June 30 would be smaller than they were in the previous quarter, and operating losses would be larger.
[August 10, 1998, 6:00]
Martin Veitch's Weekend Comdex Analysis
News A précis of their articles: Microsoft's partners showed Windows CE 2.0 handhelds; Intel showed nothing; Iomega showed a tiny disk; SyQuest showed a Zip-killer. The good news is that SyQuest is back in the ring.
[November 22, 1997, 7:00]
VirtualLab Data Recovery
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[September 15, 2006, 0:01]
Andrew Graham Joins UK's Booming Plasmon
News Graham, a widely respected veteran of SyQuest, Iomega, Escom, Sony and Merisel, joins after Plasmon recently completed its first year as a public company on the London Stock Exchange, making a £896,000 profit on sales of £26.1 million.
[July 15, 1997, 10:51]
Five Years Ago: Hard Drive Makers Hatch Huge New Year Plans
News Removable cartridge hard drive maker SyQuest will finally release the 1.3Gb SyJet drive in January. Seagate will in January add 3.2Gb and 4.3Gb 3.5-inch hard drives to its Medalist line. The products have average seek times of 12ms.
[October 14, 2001, 7:30]
Hard Drive Makers Hatch Huge New Year Plans
News Removable cartridge hard drive maker SyQuest will finally release the 1.3Gb SyJet drive in January. Seagate will in January add 3.2Gb and 4.3Gb 3.5-inch hard drives to its Medalist line. The products have average seek times of 12ms.
[October 14, 1996, 14:03]
Nomai Says Iomega Zip Tests Weren't Fair
News Both Nomai and Iomega have in the past had legal disputes with SyQuest. Iomega recently obtained a restraining order preventing Nomai distributing its XHD cartridge aimed at Iomega's Zip drives, after claiming that the XHD could damage the drive...
[December 8, 1997, 9:46]
Iomega Shares Take A Dive
News At the same time, Iomega faces stepped-up competition from Syquest Technology Inc.and Nomai, a French disk maker that recently convinced a U.S.district court to lift a temporary restraining order against sales of the company's Zip-compatible...
[February 23, 1998, 11:23]
Comdex Fall: The Circus Is In Town
News While Comdex '97 will miss out on key new CPUs and Oses, there remains much to whet the appetite: a new generation of colour CE 2.0 handhelds, FireWire Village, new storage products from Iomega and SyQuest.
[November 17, 1997, 10:49]
Epson Joins Zip Parade
News Syquest seems to have given up on a direct battle; the 120Mb LS-120 camp's design is more expensive to manufacture and is too closely identified with Compaq for some OEMs' comfort. The Japanese giant's ZIP-100 is identical to the Iomega version...
[July 25, 1996, 16:17]
Quotes Of The Week, November 17-21
News SyQuest's Steve Jamieson puts his company's new SparQ in front of Iomega's Zip. The intelligent network mode - the idea that the network knows you - and the adoption of this technology is driven by increasing returns.
[November 24, 1997, 11:47]
