An hour or two after we closed for press yesterday, IBM Corp’s AdStar unit was preparing to announce a breakthrough with the potential for significantly extending magnetic recording data storage technology: the new discovery is reported in a paper to appear in the August 20 issue of Science magazine, which embargoes information until the date of publication, so you’ll have to wait till at least this Friday, all IBM is saying till then is that the focus is on an extension of imagnetoresistive head technology.
