The world’s dominant hard drive manufacturer will begin offering
flash -based solid state disk (SSD) drives next year. Seagate told Cnet
that the drives will be offered to enterprise customers
Friday, October 10, 2008 11:48
...Processor, memory and storage upgrades are a given to maintain hardware competitiveness. New SSDs follow flash memory price drops and are necessary at least for the Macbook Air and are much more inter...
Friday, October 10, 2008 10:01
You can purchase an EeePC with up to 20 GB NAND flash storage space, but if that isn’t enough, you can always upgrade to a larger drive. And fortunately, SSD drives have come down far enough so you d
Thursday, October 09, 2008 16:53
...tion, the manufacturer said. There is also a USB port to interface with a standard USB hard drive or USB flash drive to playback personal media stored on the hard disk, including home movies, personal...
Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:20
Adobe has issued a “critical” security alert to
users of its Flash player. The company warns people that hackers can
mislead people into clicking on link that can then remotely control
Wednesday, October 08, 2008 15:25
...many individuals who use this file type regularly. Another new feature of the DSi is the on-board flash memory that can be used when downloading and storing files from the DSi Shop. This featur...
Wednesday, October 08, 2008 11:35
Imagine effortlessly walking up stairs while carrying a
hundred pounds. Well you don’t have to imagine anymore because a
Japanese company will start leasing a powered exoskeleton that w
Wednesday, October 08, 2008 03:08
...e than one million units in less than one year. 1993: AMD launches Intel 486 processor clone Am486. NOR Flash joint venture with Fujitsu founded. 1994: AMD lands major long-term deal with Compaq to ...
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:35
...enses. This particular lens also lets me take shots in relatively dark lighting situations without flash – a situation that happens quite often as I’ll detail in upcoming articles in this series...
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 05:47
...finitely doesn’t disappoint. This PCI
Express card contains 160 gigabytes and up of insanely fast flash
memory and will turn your computer into a monstrous photo and video
editing beast. ...
Friday, October 03, 2008 22:41
...usiasts and gamers will be able to benefit from the massive bandwidth of the card, Fusion IO says. NAND-flash based solid state disks (SSDs) are considered to be the best choice for PCs that rely on ...
Friday, October 03, 2008 12:36
...d video. The 5800 is equipped with a 3.2 megapixel camera with a high-quality lens optics and a dual-LED flash for low-light conditions. Its music player matches the iPhone, minus "iPod" nametag. It "...
Thursday, October 02, 2008 19:51
...s 480x320 in the iPhone) , a 3.2 megapixel camera with video recording capability (640x480) and dual-LED flash , a stylus, video-out support and a replaceable battery. The design of the device is alway...
Thursday, October 02, 2008 13:54
... now also has a video camera that sees in both visible and infrared spectrum. Video is recorded to flash cards in a DVR mounted in the “glove compartment” of the trike. Simpson told us the...
Wednesday, October 01, 2008 18:21
How would you like to ride a motorcycle in your
backyard without pissing off your neighbors? That’s exactly what a new
electric motorcycle from Zero Motorcycles claims to do as it combi
Wednesday, October 01, 2008 13:29
... deal of
a lifetime when he won an eBay auction for a Nikon CoolPix digital
camera. The camera’s flash memory was filled with top secret documents
and pictures apparently from MI6, the Britis...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 19:20
...or the iPhone/iPod
touch has been seeded to developers. But don’t get too excited: There
is no sign of Flash support, a background notification feature for
applications or copy-and-paste support. I...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 13:24
Super Talent Technology, a manufacturer of flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, has launched a pair of new affordable SATA-II SSDs. Super Talent's MasterDrive SSDs are offered in 64
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 09:19
Sandisk today released a 16 MB microSDHC flash memory card, which would put any cellphone that supports microSDHC cards into the same storage capacity league as Apple’s iPhone. And while future T-Mob
Monday, September 29, 2008 17:21
Toshiba has announced enhancements to its line-up of NAND-flash -based solid state drives (SSD) with the addition of a 256 GB SSD and the launch of a series of small-sized Flash Modules for netboo
Monday, September 29, 2008 08:43
Toshiba is planning to advance all its NAND flash process technology to the 43nm node in the first quarter of 2009 and will phase out the current 56nm process in a bid to counter falling prices,
Thursday, September 25, 2008 09:24
...ther one that prevented Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters to be entered into text fields in Flash objects. The browser is now able to store user profiles within an AFP directory. Firefox...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 14:31
ThermalTake’s Xpressar system is part computer
case and part refrigerator, but is it actually better than water
cooling? The company claims the system can lower temperatures 20
degrees Celsius mo
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 23:50
The NAND flash spot market has been active so far this week, with more orders than before, on higher prices, according to InSpectrum. Compared with closing prices on Friday, September 18, the ASPs
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 15:53
Pretec, a maker of flash memory cards for devices like digital
cameras, is back to the "bigger is better" motto with its unveiling of
64 GB and 100 GB CompactFlash cards. The company al
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:48
... InDesign CS4, which enables designers to export files to XFL (or SWF) to manipulate the document within Flash CS4. InDesign and Photoshop sell for $699 each (standalone version, upgrades from $...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 00:34
...e Pentax K2000 DSLR system consists of the new K2000 body, an 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AL lens and AF200FG Auto Flash . Pentax says this system will be a fit for DSLR beginners, offering features like a 10.2 ...
Monday, September 22, 2008 13:34
.... One video shows a man singing Koran phrases while playing a musical instrument and another video flash es several cartoon drawings of the prophet. This isn't the first time a country has banne...
Monday, September 22, 2008 13:08
...
announced a new media format that will be compatible with PCs,
cellphones and other portable devices: Flash memory cards will soon be
sold with preloaded, DRM free music. Los Angeles (CA) – There ...
Monday, September 22, 2008 00:51
... second series of ads actually showed Gates, Seinfeld and the little boy in the family hovering around a flash ing screen. The boy in an excited tone asks out loud, "Woah! When is this goin...
Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:16
...
While the global memory chip market is experiencing a slump currently, a large quantity of fake NAND flash is showing up in the China market with the bulk available as Samsung-branded chips, accor...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:05
...ities for some and that may be especially
the case for Samsung, who launched a hostile bid to take over flash
memory card maker Sandisk. The bid represents at 73% premium over
Sandisk’s current mar...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 21:42
...USB memory stick. Utilizing Sentinel the iPhone acts just like a memory stick. Since the iPhone’s NAND flash memory is bulk MLC NAND and not especially fast. However, MokaFive said that it has optim...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 16:27
...d that new Zunes will be available in new colors, in addition to the black color model announced for the flash -based Zune 16 GB and the HDD-based Zune 120GB model. New colors available for the Zune 16...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 14:20
...ll we see an extension of the relationship with Intel (which not only supplies processors, but also NAND flash memory for the iPod) – which would mean that the Air’s SSD capacity should be 80 GB and/o...
Monday, September 15, 2008 10:16
.... There's also a scene with the son, Gates and Seinfeld. They're hovering around a monitor that's flash ing pretty, bright colors. We don't see what's on the screen, but the son asks, "Woa...
Friday, September 12, 2008 12:06
...ent I would disagree with. Samsung says that mainstream SSDs will be enabled with multi-level cell (MLC) flash technology (also used by Intel’s SSDs), which should bring prices down dramatically. Prio...
Thursday, September 11, 2008 15:37
...hat he believes an improvement is only likely if someone exits the market. This also applies to the NAND flash market, Chen added.
More here at Digitimes. ...
Thursday, September 11, 2008 09:07
... fact, American Technology Research analyst Shawn Wu says that the favorable deals Apple gets from NAND flash memory makers allows the company to swallow price cuts without any impact on margin. He e...
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 17:42
Two days ago in San Diego, Plastic Logic wowed
DEMOfall 08 attendees with its full-page electronic reader that was as
thin as a pad of paper. Available next year, this reader can easily
disp
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 17:15
...320 pixel color screen on the inside and an additional 128x160 pixel screen on the outside. The embedded flash memory has been doubled to 128 MB. The storage capacity can be increased through a separa...
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 13:44
...tive has been overrated in some cases. The iPod was not the first MP3 player, the nano was not the first flash -based player and the touch was not the first MP3 player that had Wi-Fi built in. Apple’s ...
Tuesday, September 09, 2008 21:50
Zooming out of the of Sheraton San Diego parking lot in his new Chevy Z06, Pete Tenereillo is a prime target for a speeding ticket, but he isn’t worried. Tenereillo is the founder of Trapster.
Tuesday, September 09, 2008 20:14
... 120 GB model and a massive 240 GB version. But Toshiba’s
HDD storage division is feeling the heat from flash memory as both
Microsoft and Apple are not buying all hard drive models anymore – and
S...
Tuesday, September 09, 2008 16:48
... some of the spotlight from new iPods, Microsoft carefully timed the announcement of its hard drive- and flash -based Zunes as well as upgraded Zune software and new service features. Visual updates in...
Tuesday, September 09, 2008 12:20
...me with 30 GB or 80 GB capacity. Replacing the 80 GB Zune is a 120 GB model, which sells for $250. The flash -based Zune will get a slight redesign, a storage upgrade and a slight price cut. The 4 GB...
Monday, September 08, 2008 20:22
Hard drives will be relegated to the pasture as flash
drives take center-stage in the enterprise, according to flash card
maker Fusion-io. Today, at Demofall 08 in San Diego, company re
Monday, September 08, 2008 19:08
...n the hardware that is inside your PC,
then there is a good chance you have thought about purchasing a
flash -based solid state disk drive for your next notebook or desktop
PC. As we are getting clo...
Monday, September 08, 2008 15:13
...00 hard drives in your hand?
At the Demo fall conference in San Diego, Fusion IO announced a new
flash -based card that can transfer at 1.5 GB/s. The modular card has
one-third of a tera...
Monday, September 08, 2008 14:52
...emory industry in Taiwan have indicated that SanDisk is approaching customers for possible sales of NAND flash in wafer or die form. The strategy is said to be driven by sluggish demand that has aggra...
Monday, September 08, 2008 08:41