February 27, 2004
PC World: How Many Hard Drives Do You Need?
Hitachi sees a bright picture for the future of its hard drive business, a sizable portion of which was purchased just over a year ago from IBM, thanks to the increasing demands for physically small, high-capacity drives for use in consumer electronics equipment.
EE Times: Efforts on to squelch China's wireless encryption plans.
A number of key U.S. government and industry bodies are behind an effort to squelch a proposed Chinese wireless encryption standard that they believe will undermine the World Trade Organization's crucial trade efforts with China.
PC World: Overeager Spam Filters Cause Headaches.
Major ISPs are struggling to protect their customers from a growing wave of spam, but overzealous blocking can be a nuisance too, as several small ISPs have found. Technicians for TDS Telecom, a Midwestern ISP, scrambled last week when America Online began blasting back all e-mail to AOL subscribers from TDS's 100,000 subscribers.
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