A 0.85-inch hard disk drive (HDD), the first hard drive to deliver multi-gigabyte date storage to a sub-one-inch from factor, developed by Japan’s Toshiba Corporation. the manufacturer expects to start sampling the new drive in the summer of 2004 and to start mass production in autumn 2004, at an initial monthly production capacity of two to three hundred thousand units. — AFP
New iPod mini
A new iPod mini displayed at Macworld show in San Francisco. Several new products including the new iLife 4 software and the Mini iPod were announced at the event. — AFP