Apex is please to include data transfer from the Zeiss Visupac 5.25" Magneto Optical Disks to Hard Drive or DVDs.

A solution to transfer data and files from 9.1GB 8.6GB or 5.2GB Magneto Optical Disks to CD, DVD or Hard Drive is now available from Apex Technology. This includes disks by Sony, HP, Verbatim, and others. These disks were typically written using Sony Magneto Optical drives such as the SMO-F561 drive which are no longer manufactured. Disks can be format using DOS, Apple Mac OS-9 OS-X OS-8, Windows, FAT as well as other file systems.

Hitachi, the inventor of the DVD camcorder, launches 2 new DVD models - the DZ-GX5020E (which replaces the Hitachi DZ-BX35E DVD cam corder) and DZ-GX5100E (replaces DZ-GX3100E DVD cam). They feature a 1 second quickstart, and improved optical zooms. They include recording and playback with Hitachi’s DVD Multiformat+ drive.

SC101T - Netgear's new Network Storage unit supports two Sata Serial ATA hard drives and a gigabit ethernet interface. The Unit offers mirrored network drive for central shared storage of digital content primarily aimed at home and small business users. The hard disk drives may be of any size for future proofing the unit.

Dell has announced a global carbon-neutral initiative that plants trees for customers to offset the carbon impact of electricity required to power their computer systems. A customer donation of $2 for a notebook and $6 for a desktop will go toward the planting of trees.

Internet fraudsters have stolen around $1.1m from account holders at Swedish bank Nordea. The theft took place over three months.The criminals obtaining login details using a malicious program that claimed to be anti-spam software.

Sun Solaris is planned to incorporate Logical Domains for its Sparc-based servers allowing them to run multiple copies of the Unix based OS in separate partitions. Sun also intends to incorporate a feature like LDoms the open-source Xen hypervisor, in its "Galaxy" line of x86 servers in 2007. Xen is incorporated into Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server and soon to be in Red Hat's Enterprise Linux 6.

iDefense the provider of security intelligence and analysis is to offer $8,000 - $12,000 reward for vulnerabilities found in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Windows Vista.

Seagate will be debuting a Maxtor OneTouch III Mini Edition for the Mac at Mac-World this year. The device will be available in 80GB 120GB and 160GB capacities and include backup software.

LG have produced a dual-format DVD player which will play the Sony backed Blu-ray discs and the rival Toshiba-led HD DVD discs. A welcome solution to a public confused by HD DVD or the rival Blu-ray format.