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Nuggets: Zip Challenger From Datek
News Issuing a rather hopeful challenge to the likes of Iomega's Zip drive, Datek has launched a new removable media hard drive for the Mac. The Orb SCSI drive uses 3-1\2 inch removable media -- spooky similarity to Zip disks -- with a hefty 2.2GB...
[December 3, 1999, 12:08]
Zip Repair Pro
Downloads Repair corrupt Zip files quickly and easily. Zip Repair Pro creates an error free backup of your original .ZIP file for instant access. Fix CRC errors, open .ZIP files that will not open, repair corrupted spanned zip disk sets.Version 4.2.0.717 may...
[November 14, 2007, 8:16]
PKWare Adds Selective Intelligence To Zip
News PKWare, the company behind the ubiquitous zip compression software said on Tuesday it is adding a selective compression tool for administrators so they can reduce their processing overheads by setting a policy to only compress specific file types.
[March 23, 2004, 13:30]
SyQuest Plans March UK Release For Zip Killer
News Touted as a competitor to Iomega's huge-selling Zip removable storage drive, the SparQ (pronounced 'spark') packs 1Gb cartridges into a design closely resembling its rival's product. SyQuest says it shipped close to 50,000 SparQ drives and 90,000...
[February 2, 1998, 11:09]
Public Enemy Prefers Zip To MP3
News The album, "There's a Poison Goin On," will be available in the Zip-disk format from the record company's Web site, and Atomic Pop anticipates retail outlets Circuit City Stores and J & R Music will offer it on Zip disk as well.
[June 7, 1999, 9:42]
Nomai Says Iomega Zip Tests Weren't Fair
News 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 mechanism. Responding today, Nomai said said the tests were conducted by a...
[December 8, 1997, 9:46]
OR Slams Iomega Over Zip Claims
News Mike Dalton, European director of marketing for OR, forecast it would be impossible for Iomega to fit a Zip into the notebook format and criticised the firm for not providing details of power consumption and form factor in its announcement.
[November 7, 1996, 11:09]
PKWare Stretches ZIP Protection
News The company that invented Zip compression, PKWare, has announced the European launch of a programme that may encourage companies to exchange information using the encrypted SecureZip format. The PartnerLink programme allows organisations who buy...
[April 18, 2006, 13:50]
Iomega Plans Zip For Notebooks
News The 12.7mm high Zip design will be aimed at mobile PC integral drives and expansion bays, Iomega said. Zip has already announced a 15mm internal drive aimed at expansion bays, saying it will release products in the first quarter of 1997.
[November 7, 1996, 10:41]
PC Card Connects Zip Drives To Notebooks
News PC Card specialist Portable Add-ons (PAO) has released a new line of low-cost products including one for linking mobile PCs to Iomega Zip and Jaz drives. PAO's Basics range is kicked of with a SCSI card and game port card and PAO says all cards in...
[January 13, 1997, 15:44]
Epson Joins Zip Parade
News The Japanese giant's ZIP-100 is identical to the Iomega version except for the different colour and badge. Iomega is expected to release a 200Mb version of the Zip late next year. Iomega can seemingly do no wrong, and who would bet against it...
[July 25, 1996, 16:17]
Auto-ZIP Mail Attachments To Reduce Costs And Improve Productivity
White Papers This paper describes MaX Compression tool, C2C developed for precisely the reason that the decision of how and when to zip an attachment should be a system function not a user function. C2C believe the strength of MaX Compression is in the speed in...
[May 1, 2004, 0:00]
Rivals Link Up On Zip Standards
News Two specialty software makers have patched up a dispute that threatened to undermine the popular Zip file compression format. PKWare, the company that created and published the Zip standard, announced late on Wednesday that it is including its new...
[January 23, 2004, 9:20]
Iomega Cuts US Zip Drive Prices
News Zip drives currently cost from about £112 + VAT on the street in the UK so a similar cut would mean a sticker price of about £83 + VAT if Iomega replicates the pricing policy here. Iomega has sold over five million Zip drives globally.
[April 1, 1997, 16:44]
Iomega May Not Ship 200Mb Zip In 1998
News Randy Scott, product line manger for Zip in Europe, said Iomega announced the 200Mb version of the Zip two years ago and already has working product in its labs. Separately, Scott said Iomega was making good OEM inroads with its 15mm Zip drive for...
[February 16, 1998, 15:36]
Does Zip Have A Future?
News Iomega has launched a new Zip 750 drive in a version that supports USB (universal serial bus) 2.0 connections and plans to unveil a FireWire model at next month's Apple Expo in Paris. Zippier Zip When available, the FireWire Zip 750 will sell for...
[August 15, 2002, 10:43]
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]
Comdex: Iomega Expands Zip And Pushes PDA Storage
News At Comdex, the company showed a 250Mb version of the 'Zip' drive that has become a 19 million sales hit over the last couple of years in its original 100Mb capacity. Iomega said the SCSI version will offer faster performance than the 100Mb Zip SCSI...
[November 17, 1998, 8:27]
120Mb Floppy Camp Ready To Head Off Zip
News Iomega's huge-selling Zip doesn't support standard floppies and also has a smaller capacity of 100Mb per cartridge. Another spokesman for an LS-120 booster who requested anonymity, said: "Zip is not backwards compatible with floppy and you really...
[February 18, 1997, 16:30]
PKWare Stretches ZIP Protection
Talkback Since, their advanced encryption version has reach the application fusion, can we expect an (Beta) user version; less features?
[April 18, 2006, 14:09]
