In the two years since Iomega launched its REV drive technology, the 35-GB disks have become a viable option over optical drives for backing up servers in small offices. Having delivered 1 million disks, the company is now preparing a portable external device that will let customers load up to eight cartridges in a

Perhaps the biggest threat to Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod and the portable music player industry is a device already nestling in a billion pockets: the mobile phone.

Sales of cell phones that can store and play back music are climbing, raising hopes among handset producers like Sony Ericsson and Motorola Inc. that

With the addition of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and The Colbert Report to Apple’s iTunes earlier this week, available video content has gone from weekly programming to daily content. The importance of this move, says one industry analyst, should not be overlooked as Internet video begins to mature.
 
“What

The Arab world is lagging behind in the digital revolution, with Internet users making up less than four percent of its population, according to participants in a telecommunications development conference in Doha.

"The Arab presence on the Internet is almost zilch ... not more than a few websites providing information or personal

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs reported Wednesday (March 8) at the Optical Fibers in Communications (OFC) conference that is has achieved 100-Gbit/s Ethernet signal transmission over 400 km using dispersion-compensated fiber.

Bell Labs Director Martin Zirngibl said a hybrid amplifier using both erbium-doped fiber and Raman amps was used, achieving

SAP AG will launch a new version of its supply chain management suite in June, the German business software maker said Thursday.
 
The new version of mySAP Supply Chain Management (SCM) Version 5.0 comes with industry-specific functions, strengthens demand-driven fulfillment networks, links service and product supply chains and enables companies

The NBA champion San Antonio Spurs recently overhauled their backup infrastructure, deploying a disk-to-disk system to slash backup times from two days to just three hours.
 
Tod Caflisch, the Spurs' IT director, tells Byte and Switch that the seeds of the storage revamp were sown back in 2002, when the

The unfolding debit card scam that rocked Citibank this week is far from over, an analyst said Thursday as she called this first-time-ever mass theft of PINs "the worst consumer scam to date."

Wednesday, Citibank confirmed that an ongoing fraud had forced it to reissue debit cards and block PIN-based transactions for

KARACHI, Mar 10: Habib Bank Limited on Friday signed an enterprise agreement with Microsoft Pakistan for using cutting edge and innovative technology to ensure security in bank transactions and develop effective systems for the organization.

Habib Bank CIO Yousuf Nasir and Microsoft Gulf general manager Charbel Fakhoury signed the agreement.

Charbel Fakhoury

Design software maker Adobe Systems Inc. expects to see increasing revenues from the sale of its flagship products for use on mobile phones, its president and chief operating officer said on Thursday.
 
"We expect mobile to increasingly contribute to the company," Shantanu Narayen told Reuters in an interview in Finland