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Researchers at Microsoft and Mitsubishi are developing a new touch-screen system that lets people type text, click hyperlinks, and navigate maps from both the front and back of a portable device. A semitransparent image of the fingers touching the back of the device is superimposed on the front so that users can see what they’re touching.

Learn more about this at Two-sided Touchscreen

Identity theft remains a major concern for many people, and it is not always clear how best to protect your online accounts, passwords, credit cards, and other personal information.

Now you can use an IronKey to protect this information. Not only does it encrypt your data, but it also safeguards the credentials that identify you in today’s digital world. It uses state-of-the-art password management, encryption and authentication to secure your passwords and online accounts.

Find out more at Ironkeyn

After months of silence, Microsoft finally coughed up details Tuesday about its plans for the first update to Windows Vista, saying the service pack will arrive in the first quarter of next year.

As for what’s in the Vista update, it’s mostly a collection of existing fixes and tweaks aimed at improving stability and reliability of the operating system, which went on sale to consumers in January.

Hmm. Find out more at Vista service pack in ‘08

Nokia has unveiled four new entertainment devices that also work as cell phones.

Nokia took the wraps off its N81 multimedia computer with two versions: an 8GB model and one with a microSD expansion slot that can accept cards up to 4GB.

Read more at New Nokia

By Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com
Thursday, August 09 2007 04:05 PM

On one hand, NAND flash–the kind of flash found inside digital cameras and MP3 players–is crushing the competition, Eli Harari, CEO of SanDisk, said on Wednesday at the Flash Memory Summit.

NAND has made 1-inch hard drives obsolete. Then it is on to 1.8-inch hard drives and possibly larger 2.5-inch notebook hard drives, Harari said.

Read more about this at Is flash memory facing a crisis?

By Erica Ogg, CNET News.com
Wednesday, August 15 2007 03:48 PM

Overall, consumers rated their satisfaction with the maker of their PC 3 percent worse than last year, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI).
Apple is still the leader in terms of satisfaction with service and products, but its overall ranking dropped by five percentage points this year.

Find out more at Customer satisfaction down among PC buyers

Data is the backbone of every organization. Whatever business you are in, enormous amounts of data are needed every day to keep it running. If you also consider that data volumes are increasing by 80 percent a year, it is clear that it must be protected against a variety of threats.

Read about disk-assisted data protection at Data protection

By Robin Harris

Most of data loss is due to system and hardware problems… Data loss is painful and all too common. Why? Because your file system stinks. Microsoft’s NTFS (used in XP & Vista) with its de facto monopoly is the worst offender. But Apple and Linux aren’t any better.

Learn more about this at Data at risk

August 8, 2007 – Kingston Technology Company, Inc. today announced it is expanding its line of Secure Digital™ High-Capacity (SDHC) memory cards with the introduction of a 4GB miniSDHC card, available in Class 2, 4 and 6 speed ratings. The higher capacity and faster speeds offered by Kingston® miniSDHC cards make them ideal for supporting new, smaller-profile multifunction phones and digital devices able to take advantage of the advanced expansion memory platform.

Read more about this at Kingston adds miniSDHC to SDHC Flash family

betanews.com - Last November, we reported on Fujitsu’s efforts to overcome a curious problem with the physics of hard disk drives: storing magnetic data at densities that are smaller than the grains of the underlying ferromagnetic medium should physically allow. The company’s solution involved a combination of lasers to locate precise locations on the drive, and also to pre-heat data spots to make them more conducive to holding data at precise locations.

Find out more at Fujitsu working on new hard drive technology