What is the perfect gift for someone obsessed with Lego bricks and the Boston Red Sox? It would be easy to assume I was describing myself, but this time I’m talking about my 9 year old son. But both of us enjoyed his big birthday gift this year, a Lego model of Fenway Park! No, […]
Archives for January 2009
Microsoft Wants To Tag The World
Microsoft’s brightest announcement at CES 2009 is pictured below. What is it, you ask? Why it’s a tag! You know how graffiti artists “tag” signs and billboards? Microsoft wants to break into that game, too, but in a legit way. See, they’ve also introduced tag reader software for mobile devices at gettag.mobi, including an iPhone app, […]
Email Archiving 101 Webinar, January 8
Are you interested in learning the basics of email archiving? If so, I’ll be presenting a webinar on January 8, 2009, intended to introduce the topic to newcomers to the field! Register online at Contoural’s web site! E-mail Archiving 101: A Non-Technical Person’s Overview of How E-mail Archiving Works and How to Pick the Right […]
EMC Makes Iomega Relevant Again
Pity poor old Iomega. The company responsible for hot products like the Zip drive and coulda-beens like the Clik drive was stumbling in the early part of this decade, unable to distinguish itself from all of the other providers of commodity external storage devices for consumers. Although the company had built the Zip into a […]
I’ll Have Two Platters of Sheer Storage Madness, Please!
The inexorable march of areal density continues with this week’s release of two breakthrough two-platter hard disk drives: First up is Seagate, with their next-generation 3.5″ “7200.12” drive family. Boasting 500 GB per platter, the drives are initially offered in 500 GB, 750 GB, and 1 TB versions, but we expect a 1.5 TB three-platter […]