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When the hard drive was first introduced on September 13, 1956, it required a humongous housing and 50 24-inch platters to store 1/2400 as much data as can be fit on today’s largest capacity 1-inch hard drives. Back then, the small team at IBM’s San Jose-based lab was seeking a way to replace tape with a storage mechanism that allowed for more-efficient random access to data. The question was, how to bring random-access storage to business computing.-JHU
UK-based social shopping startup Crowdstorm is creating a buzz of its own right now. It recently announced the public beta to the world at large on its blog.
Crowdstorm was founded and funded by Philip Wilkinson (creator of the shopping comparison site Kelkoo UK) and Christopher Scollo (formerly VP of Technology at Ciao.com).
“Crowdstorm takes the experience of online shopping one step further by helping people find what to buy through buzz and recommendations from friends, as opposed to knowing exactly what you want already and just looking for the best price. It was something I always wanted to do at Kelkoo but the market was never ready, but with more people now being experienced online and using social networks, the opportunity is definitely here for us to pioneer the social shopping space.”
technorati tags:TechcrunchUK, SocialWeb, Networking, Shopping
Skype Video For Macs Launches Today
Skype is launching Skype Video for Macs today (look for version 2.0 on this download page). Skype Video for Windows has been available since last December.
technorati tags:Techcrunch, Skype, Mac, Voip
