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One of my friends told me that scientists have developed a new optical disc that can supposedly store up to 1.6 terabytes. After telling me this, he joked, “Should I start thinking about packing-up my brand new Blu-ray player?”

Technology always changes and I am sure it will again, I thought to myself. So, I decided to dig deeper and gather some facts about this new SUPER disc.

As it turns out, my friend was correct, researchers at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia hav… Continue

With the economic downturn, more and more folks are resorting to either pirating software or buying pirated software! A recent article I read indicates that software piracy which was already a major problem is rapidly growing. This mounting problem is also holding back the economic resurgence.

2008 saw a 41% increase in worldwide PC software piracy and with the economic conditions deteriorating even more in 2009, I am fairly confident that we will see an even higher number by the end of this ye… Continue

Last weekend my cousin came to visit and wanted to take a tour of Acutrack to see what we do. During the tour, when I was showing him how our zero inventory, positive cash flow providing, on-demand CD/DVD production model works, he noticed a back up CD for Panda Software and immediately exclaimed, “Hey, I just got a CD exactly like that one. You guys make those here?!?”

After I told him that we not only make the back-up CDs for Panda Software but also manufacture, store and fulfill their retail… Continue

It's interesting how dynamically the software world is changing - both in the digital download space and the retail space. Someone at lunch asked me today if I thought the optical disc (i.e. CDs, DVDs, etc.) business is going to fizzle out soon. I believe that on the retail entertainment side, it will probably slow down a bit because of the economic conditions and because of the prevalence of digital downloads especially for music; but on the software side, I think we will see a surge - especial… Continue