Sony intros Hi-MD drive for PC
Sony Japan introduced a USB Hi-MD drive for PC. The unit allows users not only to play audio, but also to store data on Hi-MD’s. The device is backwards compatible with regular MDs and can store up to 305 MByte on a disc. There were few details available for this product, but it appears the drive connects via USB1 and not USB2 mode.
Sony offers the USB Hi-MD for about $160.

First Intel dual-core PCs to ship on Monday
- New supercomputer to track climate change
- PSP owners gobble up Memory Sticks
- IBM may fix slump by firing 10,000 - analyst
- Skype nears 100 million downloads
- 'Minority Report' interface created for US military
- City of Munich picks its Linux distro
- PC Market grows 11 percent, Gateway third largest PC builder in the US
- NASA fuels shuttle for first time in more than two years
- Computer-generated gibberish submitted as paper, accepted
Ruby, the ultra compact Tablet PC
- Cisco to buy Topspin for $250 million
- New Firefox, Mozilla versons plug critical security holes
- IBM signs $125 million deal to build nationwide speed trap
- US researchers turbocharge Wi-Fi roaming
- DisplayBank: Global PDP shipments reached 1.3 million panels in 1Q05
- Taiwan DDR2 testing capacity to lag demand 50 percent in 2Q
- ATI RS482 and RC410 to arrive in June
- Adobe to acquire Macromedia in $3.4 billion deal
- Intel dual-core PCs hit the market
Sponsored
See more
Latest news
Miscellaneous Previous news
Partners




