Coughlin Associates provides market and technology analysis (including reports on several digital storage technologies and applications and a newsletter) as well as Data Storage Technical Consulting services.

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Forrester Research, a technology analysis firm, recently projected that 1.2 million digital readers would be sold in the U.S. in the fourth quarter.

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Tom Coughiln of Coughlin Associates and Jim Handy of Objective Analysis, two market and technology analysis firms who write blogs on the Forbes web site have initiated a survey of digital storage end users.

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Chad Nusbaum, co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program at the Broad Institute, says that he thinks of the technology as being akin to digital photography: it was adopted because it was small and fast, but there was always the potential that it would replace film.

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