Data Recovery in the Event of a Hard Drive Failure

I ran across an article from the New York Times regarding the hows and how much of texting via your flavor of mobile carrier. While the article is a little technical, it explains why it costs the carriers virtually nothing to carry your sms messages. It raises the question of why the carriers have doubled the cost of texting over the last 3 years. 

You can read the full article here. It will be interesting to see how the class action lawsuits turn out. 

 To Your Success, 

 Tim

We all know devices continue to get smaller. And they continue to do more. I, like millions of others, carry a device that is cell phone, computer, instant messenger, and email reader all rolled up in one small package. One of the issues with these devices however, has been the limited amount of storage capacity. Most of these devices utilize SSD, or solid state drives. This type of storage has typically been expensive, and limited in storage capacity. Until now.

 Toshiba recently announced the availability of a 512 GB SSD drive. That's half a TERRABYTE! That's probably more than 50 percent of the computers on the market right now. While this may not seem like headline news, it is a big step in the area of storage. I would be looking for more devices that will "do it all" and will truly hold everything you need while you are away from the office. Read about it here. 

 To Your Success, 

 Tim

Microsoft released Windows 7 in beta form last month. Then they closed the beta, then opened it again. For those that don't know, Windows 7 is Microsoft's latest operating system, set to replace Vista. 

I have downloaded it myself, and we run it at our office in a "virtual" window. I am fairly impresed so far. It has great promise. 

Please DO NOT RUN THIS SOFTWARE IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT! What this means is you should not install this software on any computer that you don't want to lose data on. You should expect to lose data on any machine you put this on. After all, it's beta. That means testing mode. If you want to try it out, the link is here. 

 To Your Success, 

 Tim

July 1st is the day that the Windows 7 Beta will begin shutting down every two hours. Which is Microsoft's way of telling you to go get the Windows 7 Release Candidate(really, you should have done it quite a while ago). 

Just to make sure you don't get to keep Windows 7 Release Candidate for free either, it will begin shutting down every two hours or so about a year from now. Remember, Windows 7 is scheduled for public release on October 22nd. 

 To your success, 

 Tim

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