Bytes Bits and Megabytes

Axway MailGate Enhances Email Data Leak Prevention with Digital Rights Management for Attachments.
Network Weekly News; 11/23/2009; 1191 words; ...information-rich files in excess of five megabytes. MailGate's incorporation of DRM into...customers. PDF documents are protected by 32-byte passwords, established by the sending...prevention. This means enterprises can rest a bit easier knowing their most sensitive information...

QWEST NOW OFFERS PENASCO HIGH-SPEED INTERNET OPTION.(Business)
Taos News (Taos, NM); 11/19/2009; 591 words; ...their data needs up to (seven megabits per second)," the release states. Eight bits are in a byte, so a megabit per second translates to 0.125 megabytes per second. Qwest's HSI customers also get Microsoft Internet Live, Family Safe...

WD(R) Enters Traditional Enterprise HDD Market With First SAS Product.
PR Newswire; 11/3/2009; 1102 words; ...for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity...Gb/s) = one billion bits per second. (Logo: http...

International travel can mean huge iPhone bills
Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 9/29/2009; 832 words; ...cheap smorgasbord of bits and bytes becomes a pricey a...which gives you 20 megabytes of data at $1.25 per megabyte. That compares to nearly $20 per megabyte if you don't have...up a third of my 20 megabytes in an hour by checking...

Toshiba adds 32nm mSATA and half-slim solid state drive modules; 30GB and 62GB small footprint SSD modules enable smaller form factor notebook, mobile and embedded storage systems.
M2 Presswire; 9/22/2009; 1287 words; ...sequential read speed of 180 megabytes per second (MBps...drive supports 28-bit LBA (Logical Block...mode commands and 48-bit LBA mode commands...1,073,741,824 bytes. Usable capacity may...1,000,000,000 bits. Read and write speed...in this context, 1 Megabyte or MB = 1,000,000 ...