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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

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

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

Comment: Never thought this could happen! Cool…

A genetically engineered microbial protein could mean better data storage.

By Amitabh Avasthi

By using lasers to etch data onto microbial proteins, researchers at the University of Connecticut may have demonstrated a way to produce rewritable holographic memory. Holographic memory stores data in three dimensions instead of two and could make data retrieval hundreds of times faster. The first holographic-memory systems have recently come to market, but they do not yet feature discs rewritable in real time.

Learn more about this at Rewritable Holographic Memory

Singapore, July 18, 2007 – Springboard Research today announced that is has released its latest Webcast detailing the “Top Ten Trends in Enterprise IT” that technology vendors can expect to see in the next 12 to 18 months.

The predictions (in-depth coverage of each prediction is provided in the Webcast) are:

1. Consumer technology will influence Enterprise IT

2. Web 2.0 hype to continue

3. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to become broadly accepted

For further information, go to Springboard Research: Top 10 Trends

Portable hard drives from Apricorn, Logitech, and Microsoft use both fingerprint recognition and data encryption technologies.

Agam Shah, IDG News Service
Friday, 22 June 2007

Fingerprint readers have been offered as PC peripherals since the late 1980s, but have never caught on, says Jim Wayman, a biometrics expert. That didn’t sway Apricorn Inc. from releasing Aegis Bio, a new portable biometric hard drive that accesses encrypted data after validating a fingerprint.

Find out about this at Keeping Data Secure with Biometrics

Good info for mac users =)

Following my inability to get a straight answer on the question “Do I need to defrag my Mac?” I decided to find out for myself. I did a bit of research and there was certainly two sides to the argument.

Read the good stuff at Need to defrag a Mac?

A step-by-step guide for action when you think your disk has crashed. A bit on the techie side, but it’s good knowledge to have at any rate.

Read the steps at Surviving a disk crash

Article by Bill O’Brien 

One of the cheapest ways to speed up your PC is to optimise the memory. So make the most of your PC’s RAM, whether or not you add new modules.

More for the technically inclined at Getting more out of your RAM

Music engineer Dave Rat switched to Seagate Pushbutton Backup External Hard Drives and Maxtor OneTouch™ III Turbo Edition storage solutions to ensure that every live song from the band’s current tour was securely stored, backed up and safely transported.

Read more at Seagate Customer Stories - RHCP