"bytes" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used to refer to a unit of information or data storage. For example, "This file is 134 megabytes in size."
Researchers at Alexa Internet estimate that the whole internet consisted last summer of three trillion bytes of information, about the total capacity of 5,000 CD-roms - which is compact enough to be accommodated on a single state-of-the-art server computer.
To build ever cheaper sensors, graviton uses technology known as MEMS (short for microelectromechanical systems), devices built with techniques developed in semiconductor manufacturing.The tiny sensors are, in essence, microchips that convert analogue data about anything physical pressure, light, gas, genes into bits and bytes which they communicate wirelessly to a network.
Finance, all bits and bytes, is at heart a tech problem, the Valley believes, and will be solved by tech companies, not the lumbering banking gerontocrats.This is not just intemperate youth speaking.
For the first few months, he mumbled something about the core competency of newspapers and magazines being their well-honed ability to spread the word around the world overnight via print, not bits and bytes.
Along with billions of other bytes from other storage discs, it is now herded through a tunnel called a storage switch.
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Around the world, biology laboratories are now pumping out literally terabytes (trillions of bytes) of information every month, swamping themselves in a sea of indigestible data.Mr Gerstel believes data-swamping is unique to biology.
Ahead of the crowd, Bill Gates located the sweet spot in the business of bits and bytes: as the provider of a "platform".
More than half the zillions of bits and bytes of information on the World Wide Web are collected together on one particular PC.
With Windows, its rulers control the largest, richest digital territory: a software platform on which others can build, with its say-so, applications out of bits and bytes.
And with its new platform for mobile advertising, called iAd, Apple has started to make money from all the data it collects.Some firms will make a living based entirely on mining "data exhaust", the bits and bytes produced by other activities.
