Fifty years ago this month, a team of sweaty, grunting technicians lugged a 2,000-pound crate the size of a refrigerator out of the bowels of IBM and into a waiting truck. Thus, the world's first hard ...

Throughout the history of computers, one aspect has plagued and restricted its growth more than any other: permanent storage. From the very first computers that used punched cards and tape for input ...

Sony Corp. has unveiled its first hard-disk drive-based digital music player to bear the Walkman name. The device was launched on Thursday as the Walkman brand marked its 25th anniversary. The NW-HD1 ...

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. will soon begin selling its first hard disk drives based on perpendicular recording technology, the company said this week. Perpendicular technology was ...

Infineon Technologies AG is delivering what it claims is the industry’s first hard disk drive read-channel integrated circuit (IC) using 0.13-micron process technology, the company said in a statement ...

AMSTERDAM--Sony unveiled its first MP3-compatible, hard-disk Walkman music player on Tuesday in an attempt to recover ground lost to Apple Computer's iPod. The world's biggest consumer electronics ...