Sandisk SlotMusic: album de musica en tarjetas de memoria.
The Inquirer.es 20081006
Sandisk SlotMusic: álbum de música en tarjetas de memoriapor : Juan Ranchal: 22 Set 2008, 10:59Respaldado por cuatro grandes discográficas, el fabricante californiano inventor de las tarjetas de almacenamiento flash, ha anunciado un nuevo soporte físico para comercialización de música. ¿Podrá reemplazar al CD Audio o acabará siendo otro formato minoritario por el empuje de Internet?SlotMusic es en esencia una tarjeta de memoria flash con 1 Gbyte de capacidad en formato microSD, que incluye un álbum de música con pistas codificadas en MP3 a 320kbps. Grandes cadenas minoristas como Wal-Mart y Best Buy han firmado contratos con el fabricante para comercializar estas uni
How to Buy a Rewritable DVD Drive.
PC World.com 20081006
IntroductionAll the talk about the next wave of optical formats--Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD--might make you think that the venerable DVD-Rewritable drive is passé. Not so fast: DVD burners, and the media you use with them, remain a vastly less expensive option for writing discs than those costly new formats. Plus, you can get superior performance from a dedicated DVD burner: The write speeds top out now at 20X. Rewritable DVDs advantages over CD-R are long established: Single-layer DVD media lets you store up to 4. 7GB on a disc, while dual-layer (also referred to as double-layer, for the DVD+R format) media lets you pack up to 8. 5GB on a single disc. Like CD-RW drives, rewritable DVD drives s ...
Hard Disk Drive Power Consumption Measurements: X-bits Methodology Indepth.
Xbit Laboratories.com 20081006
Hard disk drive storage capacity and performance are traditionally considered to be the main parameters of a hard disk drive that are worth paying special attention to. Of course, both these parameters, especially the second one, have a lot of different aspects that we can look at, but in most cases, the hardware editors’ attention is given solely to these two things. Such hard disk drive characteristic as power consumption has long remained unattended. You may think that it is pretty insignificant: what can a dozen watts really do for the system, if a contemporary graphics card or CPU consume more by a factor of 10x? However, this assumption is erroneous. First of all, power consumption discussions have become very acute among hardware manufacturers lately. For example, the new Energy Star 4. 0 standard indicates that the hard disk drive should consume 7W at the most in idle mode, which is 14% of the total PC power consumption (taking into account advanced CPU power saving modes, 14% of the total office PC power needs in idle mode may be not that much in the end). There are a lot of factors affecting it: environmental concerns, the lack of energy systems power capacity in industrially developed countries, intention to lower power bills… of course, these savings are tiny within a single computer environment, but if we remember that a single office building these days may contains hundreds and hundreds of machines, the end numbers may be pretty significant. Secondly, and it is more important for us, hard disk drive power consumption equals its heat dissipation, heat dissipation determines its temperature provided all other conditions are equal, and HDD temperature is directly representative of the mean time before failure. For example, if you check out a pretty well-known study made by Google Called "Failure Trends in Large Disk Drive Population" (PDF file, 242KB), you will see that the probability of the new …
eBay despedira al 10% de su plantilla para reducir costes.
El Pais.com 20081007
El portal de subastas en Internet eBay eliminará unos 1. 000 puestos de trabajo, alrededor del 10% de su plantilla, y reducirá el número de empleados temporales, así como el de ofertas de empleo disponibles, en un intento de simplificar su organización, mejorar su estructura de costes y fortalecer la competitividad de la compañía. Por esta causa, eBay prevé incurrir en una carga extraordinaria bruta de entre 51,5 y 59 millones de euros, que será contabilizada principalmente en el cuarto trimestre de 2008. Estamos realizando movimientos agresivos para forta ...
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