These logs, which store data about which cellular sites phones connect to, are known as historical cell-site records.
And Oracle seized the commercial advantage created by I.B.M.'s research on relational databases, which store data in tables for easy access and manipulation.
The company also benefited from a steep increase in sales of flash memory, which stores data even when the power is off.
In its early years, Tandon made magnetic recording heads for disk drives, which store data for computers, and graduated to disk drives.
Unlike CDs and DVDs, which store data bit by bit on their surfaces, holographic discs store data a page at a time in three dimensions, enabling huge leaps in capacity and access speed.
The chip, also known as a solid-state hard drive, competes with similar chips from Samsung, which store data in gadgets such as Apple's iPod nano and iPhone.
That gave Intel — under siege from Japanese companies in the market for memory chips, which store data temporarily — the breathing room to risk making the jump to microprocessors, which process data and serve as the brains of personal computers.
With its seemingly unlimited supply of capital, Samsung has moved from making memory chips, which store data, to more profitable logic chips, which serve as the brains of computers.
That's because SanDisk is the world's biggest supplier of flash memory products, which store data in such devices even when their power is turned off.
