Out of what little we know of the next version of Windows, this feature might just be the most interesting yet. A team at Microsoft is hiring developers to work on adding native support in... More...

PC World, Britain's largest chain of computer superstores, will not reorder any more floppy disks after the current 10,000 are sold. With 155 stores across Britain and nearly 50 more elsewhere in Europe, spokesman Hamish... More...

Losing track of secrets is getting to be a nasty habit at the United States' leading nuclear weapons lab. For the third time in just eight months, classified disks have been reported missing at Los... More...

Clearly it isn't difficult to get old information off second hand harddisks; with the price of hard drives so low it would seem far more sensible to ship 2nd hand PC's with new hard drives... More...

The results of a study by O&O, published today, show that there are still serious problems with both private and business users' handling of secure data deletion and the resultant data protection issues. For example,... More...

IBM has quietly issued a patch to fix a problem with Hitachi hard disks on some of its ThinkPad models. The patch is for several models that use a particular 60GB Hitachi hard... More...

Seagate announced a new range of 10,000rpm hard discs, called Savvio, at the Intel Developers' Forum (IDF) yesterday. The new range is based on a 2.5 inch form factor. The drives have a 40 per... More...

Thanks to James from ieXbeta for the heads up The Windows XP startup disk allows computers without a bootable CD-ROM to perform a new installation of the operating system. The Windows XP... More...

Ripped from Windows 2000 Mag . IBM introduced three new hard disks in its Deskstar and Travelstar product lines. According to IBM, its new Deskstar 120GXP offers 120GB capacity with the industry's... More...