The reason why smartphones are subsidized by carriers in return for long-term contracts is that smartphone users are widely recognized as heavy data users and bring a higher life-time value to carriers.
Now one of the major manufacturers of data recorders says the company will look to extend their battery life to give authorities more time to find them after a crash.
As Big Data becomes a fixture of office life, companies are turning to tracking devices to gather real-time information on how teams of employees work and interact.
Started in late 1998, the space-alien hunt has recruited the owners of 2.5 million PCs, tapping their machines' idle processing time to search small chunks of radio telescope data for patterns that might signal intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos.
Another issue is that our insatiable demand for more storage leads to denser storage technologies on media that has a finite life and also leads to our using data and hardware formats that may last for an even shorter time than the media.