Data Recovery News

Despite mocking note, BotVoice.A’s “brainless vandalism” can be spread only through p-to-p networks or storage devices

By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
July 05, 2007

A newly identified malicious program not only messes up its victims’ computers, it taunts them too. The program, called the BotVoice.A Trojan was first spotted by security vendor Panda Software last week. It is a Trojan horse program, which the victim must download first. But once installed, it gets nasty.

Read more at Talking Trojan says ‘bye bye’ to victims’ data

Eric Lai
Computerworld

Updated: 09 Jul 2007

The official launch of 11g is set for next Wednesday, July 11, in a New York City ceremony overseen by Oracle president Charles Philips.

Publicly, Oracle has for the most part avoided specifics, saying that 11g will offer improvements in high availability, performance, scalability, and manageability.

Tidbits it has revealed include free migration and management tools that will let administrators oversee non-Oracle databases at the same time they manage their Oracle ones. Oracle has also said that 11g will have new compression technology that could potentially reduce customers’ storage demands by two-thirds, the ability to store unstructured data faster than traditional file systems, and better partitioning.

Read more at: Will Oracle Database 11g rope in customers?

Robin Harris
July 5th, 2007

What is the primary determinant of drive life? I’ve read the latest research and talked to insiders. There are so many variables that the best answer is just . . . luck. Why is that? Is there anything you can do?

Read this article at Disk drive life depends on… luck

Wed Jul 4, 2007 10:28PM EDT

By Baker Li and Rhee So-eui

TAIPEI/SEOUL (Reuters) - A new generation of super-thin, power-sipping displays is making its way to the market, stretching battery lives to new limits and perhaps one day posing a challenge to heavier, energy-gobbling LCDs.

Read more about this at New generation of lighter displays

By Robin Harris, Special to ZDNet Asia
05 July 2007

Flash drives only look like disks. In fact, nothing works the way you’d think. Flash is really different from magnetic recording, and those differences have a big impact on flash drive performance. How well vendors manage flash oddities has a huge impact on performance and even drive lifespan.

Find out more at Five things you never knew about flash drives

GARDEN CITY, NY, January 8, 2007 – TDK exhibited its latest Blu-ray Disc innovations, breakthrough media storage solutions and award-winning packaging at the 2007 International CES, at the Las Vegas Convention Center, January 8–11, 2007 (TDK booth #N215). The company is highlighting its remarkable 200GB blue laser disc technology, the most advanced optical media ever developed.

Read more at tdk.com: 200GB Blu-ray disc

By Reuben Lee on 11 September 2006

With so many different models available and tons of unfamiliar specifications to consider, finding the right DVD recorder can be quite overwhelming, even for the more savvy shopper.

Find out how at Seven tips on buying a DVD recorder

By Eric Auchard, Reuters
June 29, 2007

Western Digital Corp. has agreed to buy component maker Komag Inc., in the latest move to consolidate the disk drive industry, for about $1 billion in cash, the companies said on Thursday.
 
Read more at eweek.com: Western buys Komag

Nothing can be more frustrating than turning on your Mac only to find that it won’t start up. Instead of seeing the Finder, you see a blue or gray screen, an icon of a broken folder, a kernel panic, a flashing question mark, or a computer that just sits there. What can you do? Don’t worry. It could be a simple issue that you can fix yourself.

Further information at Your Mac won’t start up

By Lynn Tan, ZDNet AsiaFriday , June 29 2007 03:04 PM

Mobile device users will have to wait at least another five years before they can hope to cut the electricity power cord and have their laptops or cell phones charged wirelessly, says an IDC analyst.

Read more at Want wireless power? Not so fast.