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Iomega tries to put back the zip with bigger disks

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Troubled storage solutions provider Iomega hopes to recapture its lead in the desktop storage market with the launch of a 750-megabyte Zip disk this summer, followed by a disk capable of storing 20 to 30 gigabytes next year.

President and chief executive Werner Heid said 25 per cent of the United States workforce would be mobile by 2004.

Many of these workers would need high-capacity portable storage.

'Mobile users are also facing the higher possibility of data loss due to computer viruses and system thieves.

'That's why they need more protection for their valuable master copies of their crucial, irreplaceable information,' he said.

The company foresaw removable hard-disk drives becoming more popular.

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