IBM's Green File Sharing Optical Network
Published on March 3, 2008 to NetworkingIBM today unveiled a prototype of a new technology that it said could send eight terabits of data per second using the power of a 100-watt lightbulb. Read more
Motorola To Become Two Different Companies
Published on March 26, 2008 to Cell PhonesChicago (IL) - Motorola announced today that it will spin off into two separate publicly traded companies - one for its mobile phone division and one for its other operations, like broadband and TV. Read more
SentrySafe Shows Off Almost Nuke-proof Hard Drives And Data Vaults
Published on January 6, 2008 to SecurityDo you want to protect your data from dust, water and ohh maybe an occasional conflagration? Read more
Google's Book Scanning Proceeds One Page At A Time
Published on April 28, 2008 to Using the InternetAnn Arbor (MI) - Librarians in 28 libraries are busily scanning old dusty books one monotonous page at a time for Google's Book Search. Read more
How The RIAA Tracks File Sharing at Colleges
Published on May 14, 2008 to Business & LawAn anonymous RIAA representative has come out detailing the organization’s methods in seeking out file sharers on college campuses in the United States. In many ways the method is almost identical... Read more
Seagate and IOGear's Mobile Hard Drives: Different Form Factors, Different Prices
Published on January 25, 2005 to Notebooks and LaptopsSeagate wants to get some of the USB flash drive market with its 1" 5 GB hard drive. IOGear claims its Combo 1.8" Ion Drive with 40 GB of capacity is what the mobile professional really wants. Are either of these devices what you really need for data dumps from one PC to another? Read more
Get In Sync with File Syncing Software
Published on February 13, 2008 to Software MiscellaneousThere are a lot of different tools to synchronize folders across different locations - but some are better than others. Read more
Sony and JVC Take Different Tacks in the High-End Camcorder Gamut
Published on May 19, 2004 to Digital Still CamerasTwo high-end camcorders from JVC and Sony address the same user market at a pricepoint of more than $4,000, but utilize different sensor technologies. Sony's DCR-VX2100 is based on the DV standard with three primary sensors, while JVC's GR-PD1 utilizes only a single CCD sensor. THG determines which approach reigns supreme. Read more
How To: Tips for Fixing XP File and Printer sharing
Published on January 6, 2004 to NetworkingUsers of WinXP and Win2000 frequently can connect to the Internet, but have problems getting File and Printer sharing to work properly. Sometimes it doesn't work at all, sometimes only some machines on a network can share, and sometimes machines can share, but only in one direction. Read more
Video File Formats 101
Published on September 11, 2008 to Digital Entertainment MiscellaneousSwimming in a soup of confusing video codecs? Learn to compress and watch efficiently with our guide to video file formatting. Read more




