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Beyond batteries: Long-lasting fuel cells are the future
Whether you're talking on a cell phone, listening to tunes on a media player or typing on a notebook, it's a good bet that the device's battery won't last as long as you'd like. However, that will change over the next few years, as fuel cells designed to power mobile gear start to become common. More..

12 great gadgets for the digital nomad
Calling all digital nomads -- you may not be wearing a dark suit, a tie and shiny shoes, but you're out there with at least a full day of work to get done. Chances are that, more times than not, your workspace is a table at Starbucks, a hotel lobby couch or a client's lunchroom. In other words, you labor where and when you can, without the kind of resources that a more office-bound employee can call upon. More..

A tech tourist's guide to Beijing
Welcome to Beijing! Technologically, Beijing is a city at a crossroads. It is the capital of the world's largest mobile phone and Internet user markets, and its universities, especially Tsinghua University, produce some of the world's top technology minds. At the same time, Beijing cannot compare to its Asian neighbors, namely Tokyo, Seoul and Hong Kong for Internet and telecom services, such as 3G. More..

Apple shows off first China store, divulges retail plans
Apple allowed a sneak peek at its flagship store in Beijing on Thursday, along with a glimpse of its China strategy. More..

EMC merges home backup with cloud-based storage
The fruits of three EMC acquisitions are coming together with integration of home storage and online backups via the Internet “cloud.” More..

Building a new data center? Think WAN
Practically every company I talk with is consolidating data centers, constructing new ones, or both. These aren't the old "glass house" models of the 1980s and 1990s: They're next-generation designs with racks of blade servers, virtualized clusters and storage-area networks. More..

OnStor upgrades clustered NAS gateway
OnStor ships next generation of its clustered NAS gateway. More..

IBM and Sun each claim to develop 'first' 1TB tape drive
Both IBM and Sun this week claim to have developed the "first one terabyte storage tape drive," but Sun will get its drive on the market a little bit sooner than IBM. More..

Tape storage, high and low, gets more dense
Two classes of tape storage are jumping to higher densities this week, potentially saving time and money at enterprises as well as small and medium-size businesses. More..

RIM BlackBerry How To: Back Up and Restore Handheld Data
Anyone who has ever experienced the pain of losing all the data on a PC or handheld intimately knows the value of backing up personal information, whether it's an iTunes music collection, digital photo album or address book. This can be easier said than done, but BlackBerry users are in luck: The handheld data backup and restore process for Research In Motion (RIM) smartphones couldn't be simpler when you use the BlackBerry Desktop Manager software, which ships with every new RIM device. MORE ON BlackBerry BlackBerry Bible: Everything You Need to Know About Your RIM Smartphone Should BlackBerry Users Demand Overtime Pay? Some Lawyers Say Yes Free BlackBerry Downloads You Don't Want to Miss BlackBerry How To: Insert, Format and Use microSD Memory Cards More..

ONStor debuts ultra-fast, scalable NAS gateways
Network-attached storage vendor ONStor this week mixed scalability and performance with the introduction of a new line of NAS gateways. More..

Verizon aims FiOS TV at small, midsize businesses
Verizon is ramping up its competitive battle with cable companies by offering its fiber optic television services to the small and midsize business markets.  More..

Overland snaps up Snap Server
Last week saw the latest in a series of product trades as Overland Storage acquired the storied Snap Server line of network attached storage devices from Adaptec for $3.6 million. More..

Sun expands storage lineup
With many organizations scrambling to meet exploding demand for storage capacity without constantly expanding their IT staffs, Sun Microsystems continues to push open-source software as a solution, along with a new series of storage arrays and a hybrid server-storage platform. More..

Microsoft to release new 'Essential' servers in November
Microsoft plans to release a new Windows server OS aimed at midsized businesses as well as the next version of its small-business server software worldwide on Nov. 12, the company said Monday. More..

Blockbuster withdraws offer for Circuit City
Blockbuster has pulled its offer to buy Circuit City after finally getting the chance to look at the retailer's books. More..

Gartner: Seven cloud-computing security risks
Cloud computing is fraught with security risks, according to analyst firm Gartner. Smart customers will ask tough questions, and consider getting a security assessment from a neutral third party before committing to a cloud vendor, Gartner says in a June report titled “Assessing the Security Risks of Cloud Computing.”  More..

HP adds deduplication
HP last week introduced not just one, but two data deduplication technologies that let IT reduce the amount of data they back up. More..

Nirvanix puts NAS in the cloud
Network storage developer Nirvanix has developed cloud-based NAS - a plan which lets users connect systems to Internet-located storage nodes via NFS, CIFS or FTP. More..

$1.3 billion spent on storage power and cooling, IDC says
The cost of providing power and cooling to all the world’s spinning disk drives exceeded $1.3 billion in 2007, IDC says in a new report. More..

Kepler space telescope to be a storage hog
NASA mission to find Earth-like planets must store, analyze 100,000 new photos every half hour.  More..

Dell adds storage, disaster management services to portfolio
Dell on Monday announced it was adding customizable storage and disaster management services to build out its services portfolio, which it began revamping last year. More..

Flash storage gets enterprise attention as prices decline
It seems everyone is talking about flash memory, a type of solid-state storage that offers faster and more energy-efficient performance than rotating disk drives. The downside is that it's about 20 times more expensive than high-performance Fibre Channel drives, but that's where the popularity of USB sticks and the iPod comes in. More..

Apple Store to open in San Antonio this Saturday
Apple's newest retail store opens at the North Star Mall in San Antonio, Texas this Saturday, June 28, 2008. The store will open to the public at 10:00 AM. More..

Why open source & the Internet must play a role in medicine
It would be nice if medical professionals never lost patient information. But unfortunately, doctors and other healthcare specialists are only human. And the running cliché that doctors' handwriting is hard to read is often repeated for a reason. During his presentation at the Red Hat Summit in Boston, Dr. John Halamka, CIO of Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discussed four key reasons why medical records should be stored online. Storage, compliance, patient access and community are among the ( supremely productive) Halamka's supporting reasons for his claim that online medical records will ensure a national standard of healthcare. More..