Feng Jun, president, Beijing Huaqi Information Digital Technology, is probably the best salesman in his 1,900-person company even today. The ebullient man is ever ready to display video clips and music in his Aigo wristwatch. When he talks about the Aigo digital camera, he would quickly plucks the latest model off his belt to demonstrate its "supreme" qualities. After that, he conjures ...

Floppy disks The commonest type of magnetic disk is the 3.5 inch floppy disk. You can read data from and write data on to a floppy disk, and they can be moved between computers and usually store up to 1.44 Mb. They have three main uses: to transfer small files of data from one machine to another to back up important small files that are stored on your hard disk to store restricte...

Intel Tuesday confirmed that it is close to unveiling a new line of solid-state drives for laptop and notebook PCs that will feature a storage capacity up to 160GB. An Intel spokesman said that the chipmaker will introduce 1.5-inch and 2.5-inch solid state drives offering between 80GB and 160GB diskless storage during the second quarter of 2008. The spokesman declined to provide further details a...

The Department of Health (DH) said on Friday it was working closely with the police to locate a USB flash drive (a removable electronic storage device) containing personal information of 700 patients found missing on April 18. A doctor at the government-run Child Assessment Centre in Tuen Mun found the device missing on April 18 and reported the case to the police on April 22. Meanwhile, the Hos...

The Olympics Logistics Center (OLC) for the 2008 Beijing Games has handled more than 3 million articles since it opened last year. And there have been some interesting deliveries. The largest delivery was a 58.75 cubic meter keel block, and the longest were 10.9-meter canoes and kayaks, according to the center. A special delivery of unusual size was an 8.8 cubic meter trampoline, while the smal...