The Belgian federal government will quietly introduce a tax on rewritable CDs May 1, the office of the country's minister of economy confirmed. Officially called a "compensation for personal use," the ...

The number of useful storage options is ballooning, but there are only so many drive bays in a PC to put them into. A solution for conserving bay space is Evergreen's FireLINE External CD-RW drive for ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. If the new 52X CD drives could actually write at 52X ...

Back when blank CDs cost a whopping $5 each and 4X CD-R drives were the top of the line, it was hard to imagine the compact disc ever taking the place of the floppy disc. But now that blank CDs cost ...

Pinnacle Systems has acquired VOB Computersysteme, a privately held company based in Dortmund, Germany, that specializes in writable CD and DVD products and technology. The deal is said to be worth $7 ...

If the new 52X CD drives could actually write at 52X speeds over an entire disc, you'd be able to duplicate a 650MB CD in about 1 minute 20 seconds. But the units reviewed here are constant angular ...