Sentence examples for bytes of information about from inspiring English sources
After almost a year of dribbling out bits and bytes of information about a collaboration with Palm Inc., Sony announced this week that its sleek, new personal digital assistant would go on sale next month.
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.
Fewer than 20 firms work behind the scenes to collect, massage and transmit billions of bytes of information about publicly traded companies every day.
For instance, Phish concerts at Live Phish Downloads generally take up three CD's once uncompressed (about 2 gigabytes, or 2 billion bytes of information).
(Data storage is measured in bytes. The letter N, for example, takes 1 byte to store. A gigabyte is a billion bytes of information).
Hard disks for personal computers can store up to several gigabytes (billions of bytes) of information.
DNA can hold 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (aka a quintillion) bytes of information in a cubic millimeter.
A 10 °C difference in temperature produces enough electricity to transmit 13 bytes of information per second.
Nor is there any sign that the missing bits and bytes of information might have fallen into the wrong minds.
Such a density achievement would make it possible for the company to manufacture a version of its tiny one-inch Microdrive that would store six billion bytes of information, compared with its current capacity of up to one billion bytes.
