Lucas Mearian - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Lucas Mearian

Article | 18/05/2007 Mobile phone card stores 4,000 photos or 2,000 songs

Samsung Electronics Co. Thursday announced that it has developed an 8GB micro memory card for smart phones.

Article | 13/03/2007 Seagate debuts the world's most secure laptop drive

Seagate Technologies Monday announced the availability of the first laptop hard drive with native encryption capabilities, which is aimed at protectin...

Article | 1/03/2007 Technology uses bacteria for data storing

A Japanese university announced scientists there have developed a new technology that uses bacteria DNA as a medium for storing data long-term, even f...

Article | 14/02/2007 64 DVDs on a disc: holographic storage to ship

InPhase Technologies announced Monday it will start bulk shipments of the industry's first holographic disc drive this July in a format able to store ...

Article | 9/01/2007 CES - SanDisk unveils digital flash DVD player for TVs

SanDisk has unveiled an industry initiative to create a new USB storage device that allows users to move digital content from their PCs to their telev...

Article | 14/11/2006 The 300GB DVD debuts

Hitachi Maxell this week plans to demonstrate a 300GB version of a holographic optical disc that will be available to select customers in the entertai...

Article | 2/11/2006 SNW - Symantec unveils range of updated software

Symantec Wednesday announced support for Microsoft Windows Vista in its next generation of Backup Exec, Ghost Solution Suite and AntiVirus software.

Article | 23/08/2006 The lighter side of USB thumb storage

As the replacement for the venerable floppy disk, USB flash memory drives are one of the few areas of IT that have a pronounced sense of humor.

Article | 3/05/2006 Porn industry may be decider in Blu-ray, HD-DVD battle

Just as in the 1980s, when the Betamax and VHS video formats were battling it out for supremacy, the pornography industry will likely play a big role ...

Article | 2/03/2006 Google Earth's photographer builds out infrastructure

The company responsible for those cool satellite images accessed by millions of Google Earth users said this week that it has almost completed an enor...

Article | 12/01/2006 Maxtor to ship 500GB backup hardware for Macs

Maxtor announced Wednesday that it will be shipping a backup device for Apple Computer hardware that can store up to 500GB of data and offers manageme...

Article | 9/05/2005 Missing backup tapes spur encryption at Time Warner

Time Warner this week said it will "quickly" begin encrypting all data saved to backup tapes after 40 tapes with personal information on about 600,000...

Article | 18/04/2005 Symantec CEO outlines plan for Veritas

Symantec CEO John Thompson said this week that soon after his company merges with Veritas Software, customers can expect to see a new consumer-grade d...

Article | 10/03/2005 EMC targets SMB market with new packages

EMC announced a new line of bundled networked storage packages targeting the midsize enterprise and small-to-medium-size business (SMB) marketplace th...

Article | 19/02/2003 Western Digital unveils ATA disk with SCSI speed

Leveraging an economy of scale built on the manufacturing of 40 million disk drives per year, Western Digital said Monday that it has developed an ATA...