Via David Overton , there's a preview of Microsoft's " SeaDragon " technology which is a way to do deep zooming on images over the Internet and streaming exactly the right amount of data into the browser for whatever zoom level you're at. The effect is sort of like Google Earth...
SanDisk is now up to 72Gb with the SSD SATA 5000 - directly equivalent to what many servers have in the form of SAS or SCSI drives, which come in 74Gb capacity. However, imagine how many of these little cards (5mm thick x 1.8 inches wide) you can fit into the space of a standard 3.5" hard drive...
In February, while discussing Tape vs. Hard Drive backup, I speculated that if [wikipedia:Moore's Law] continued to hold, then magnetic media would be obsolete within 5 to 6 years. Then, in April, I blogged about the new 32Gb solid state memory drive being supplied in some laptops and revised my...