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Walton Chaintech Adds New SSDs for Industrial Market

Walton Chaintech, a manufacturer of memory modules and graphics cards, has recently announced a new lineup of 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch SATA II solid state drives, which come as part of the company's APOGEE series. The newly announced drives have been designed for the industrial market segment, providing an impressi...

3 September 2008
06:08 GMT

The ASA Bans iPhone 3G Commercial

The ASA has concluded that the iPhone cannot access websites which use Java or Flash, despite Apple's claim that "all parts of the internet are on the iPhone". Two members of the public complained about the TV advert, therefore prompting the ASA to tell Apple UK to stop airing the ad."Two viewers believed t...

27 August 2008
22:16 GMT

Micron Announces New e-MMC with 32GB

Yesterday, Micron, one of the worldwide leading providers of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced its latest e-MMC embedded devices. With 32GB, Micron's latest product, which is fully compliant with MMC standards, provides the highest densities available on today's market.The company also announced t...

14 August 2008
07:56 GMT

Adobe Brings the Olympics to the Web

Adobe will make available some of its high-end technologies, such as Flash and Flex, to offer a full Internet coverage of the Olympics in China and Macau. The company has partnered with CCTV.com, the enterprise that has the online video rights to the Beijing Olympic Games. While the Chinese company will allow users t...

5 August 2008
04:16 GMT

Materials Used to Make CDs Perfect for High-Capacity Memory Sticks

Forget about transistor based flash memories, say researchers working for the flash memory chip maker Numonyx; future ultrahigh-capacity solid state information storage devices are most likely to be made out of the same materials used to manufacture CDs and DVDs. It may be just a matter of time before nonvolatile mem...

16 July 2008
10:11 GMT

Edge Tech Introduces New Secure Flash

The latest flash memory device to come from Edge Tech is called the DiscGo Secure Guardian. We all know the US Government imposes certain rules and regulations when it comes to data encryption; well, the Guardian surpasses them by using a 256-bit AES hardware encryption. Amongst its most interesting features is the d...

7 July 2008
06:26 GMT

Adobe Opens Up the World of Flash Sites

Flash sites are very popular in the advertising and marketing world, but although you end up with a great looking site, you also end up with an "unsearchable" one. Search engines such as Google or Yahoo are unable to crawl flash sites, making it practically invisible to the rest of the world. Adobe has recently annou...

2 July 2008
06:53 GMT

More Affordable SSDs from OCZ

As we already stated a couple of times now, Solid State Drives are the way of the future, even if most of us still have to wait a while until the cost per gigabyte becomes more affordable. Until that happens, we can only hope that the technology is going to advance and will eventually improve the lifetime of the flas...

1 July 2008
10:49 GMT

Explosive Mixtures: JavaScript, XHTML and CSS Based Menus

The navigation system features and the functionality of websites represent the key to having more visitors and to assuring clear directions of browsing for relevant pages or content. Practically, the menu of every website could be regarded as a "door" opener for visitors who want to get to pages situated on a certain...

11 June 2008
11:05 GMT

How Flash Memory Works

Flash memories are solid state electronic devices with random access memory capabilities used for fast digital information storage. They are used in a wide range of applications, such as storing BIOS routines in typical digital computers, as medium capacity hard drives for digital cameras or as memory cards for lapto...

31 May 2008
05:55 GMT

Seagate to Release SSD and 2-TB HDD in 2009

Seagate, one of the leading manufacturers of storage solutions, is seriously considering getting more involved in the SSD market. The company plans to introduce its first SSD storage next year, but the products will not be meant for the consumer market. Along with the release of its first SSD drives, Seagate also pla...

30 May 2008
07:13 GMT

Verizon Now Offers Qwickie Games

Verizon Wireless announced today that its subscribers will be able to enjoy a new collection of Flash-based games gathered under the name of "Qwickies". These are actually mini-games offered in collaboration with Nickelodeon Kids and AddictingGames, a leading online game provider. From now on, Verizon's ...

28 May 2008
12:28 GMT

Flashes on the Moon: 100 and Counting

Only two and a half years ago, if you had claimed to have seen a flash of light on the surface of the Moon, you would have been quickly catalogued as a lunatic. I guess NASA has a lot of lunatics working for it, as it claims that since 2005, it has observed at least 100 flashes of light being produced on the surface ...

21 May 2008
10:53 GMT

Microsoft Not Replacing Adobe Flash with Silverlight

Microsoft is not replacing rival RIA technology Flash from Adobe with its own equivalent Silverlight across the entire span of its web properties. But this is merely a temporary situation representatives from the Redmond company explained. The question is of course focused on why isn't Microsoft completely embra...

12 May 2008
10:56 GMT

Sienna Miller Flashes Again

Sienna Miller definitely needs to make some major changes in her life as soon as possible. The sexy British exhibitionist, who has long and rich history of flashing various private body parts on camera, has done it again. Only yesterday, Miller - who is currently spending her holidays to the States with her boyfriend...

15 April 2008
06:53 GMT

Adobe Overstates Its Intentions with the iPhone

Tuesday saw Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen saying that Apple's iPhone was getting flash from the San Hose-based software company. That, of course, was an overstatement, as Adobe also needs Apple's approval and guidance to do it.This is Adobe's position on Tuesday: "We are also committed to bringing the Fla...

22 March 2008
08:52 GMT

Ultra-Fast, High-Capacity, Non-Volatile RAMs with Quantum Dots

There are basically two types of random access memories currently marketed all over the world. The Flash memories, most commonly known as portable memory sticks and dynamic random access memories, those used in personal computers. Both types have disadvantages, however they complement each other. For example, Flash m...

22 March 2008
05:41 GMT

Analyst: Lacking iPhone Flash Shouldn't Bother Apple

Following reports that Apple's iPhone may indeed sport some sort of Flash support on behalf of Adobe, analysts are stepping into the spotlight claiming that the missing feature isn't really bad for Apple's image, even though Steve Jobs has claimed numerous times that their smartphone brings the "real I...

19 March 2008
11:34 GMT

Adobe Thinks iPhone Flash Is Doable

Adobe's Chief Executive, Shantanu Narayen, has recently been quoted as saying that having downloaded the iPhone SDK, the company can confirm the upcoming availability of a Flash Player for the iPhone, which is to be distributed through the iTunes App store. The App Store is an exclusive iPhone 2.0 software featu...

19 March 2008
05:25 GMT

Solid-State Drives Get Astounding Failure Rates Inside Notebooks

Solid-State drives are touted as being the best storage alternative when it comes to mobile computing. They are light, take up less power and are not easily damaged by mechanical shocks. Just as the vast majority of notebook users fell in love with the miraculous storage solution, a report emerging from Avian Securit...

18 March 2008
10:48 GMT

Microsoft Licensed Adobe Flash Lite and Reader LE

Adobe Systems Incorporated has just announced that Microsoft has licensed Adobe Flash Lite software, Adobe's award-winning Flash Player runtime specifically designed for mobile devices, to enable web browsing of Flash Player compatible content within the Internet Explorer Mobile browser in future versions of Mic...

17 March 2008
10:12 GMT

Apple's CEO Doesn't Like Adobe's Flash

The latest CNN reports (via techcrunch.com) say that liar-liar-pants-on-fire Apple CEO Steve Jobs isn't very happy with Adobe's flash tech, as far as his iPhone is concerned. And for good reason too, as it slows it down dramatically. This would imply that Adobe came up with a "middle" solution, which Adobe,...

6 March 2008
06:02 GMT

50% Price Drop in Order for iPods and iPhone

Last year, the price for NAND flash memory dropped by as much as 60 percent, automatically plummeting the prices for devices that used them. As technology evolves adding price for different aspects, the same process is likely to be repeated this year, by almost the same margin.Analysts believe that "prices of NAND fl...

22 February 2008
08:58 GMT

Deja-Vu: Britney Not Wearing Panties, J.Lo in Labor...

You have to agree with me when I say that there are some stars out there who simply have no imagination whatsoever. As in, nothing. Nada. Zip. I'm talking about those ladies who at one point decided they really enjoy being talked about (in the media, that is) for doing one thing and one thing alone - and have be...

20 February 2008
11:05 GMT

Skyfire Browser to Bring Real Web Experience on Mobiles, for Free!

Skyfire Labs, Inc. announced at the DEMO 08 conference the release of the Skyfire mobile browser, set to bring the real PC web experience on mobile phones. The new browser will allow smartphone users to interact with basically any Web page that integrates any Web technology, including advanced Ajax, dynamic Flash, J...

29 January 2008
04:56 GMT

Silverlight, Microsoft's Flash Killer, to Be Served Automatically to All Windows Users?

As far as multimedia experiences and rich interactive applications for the web go, until now Adobe's Flash has become the general standard. With an install base rather the same size as that of the Windows operating system, Flash is nothing short of ubiquitous. But Microsoft also has something up its sleeve, name...

22 January 2008
03:12 GMT

Intel and STMicro Joint Venture Delayed for Lack of Cash

Numonyx, the Flash joint venture between Intel, Francisco Partners and STMicroelectronics has been rescheduled for March 28, 2008 due to the companies' facing "significant turmoil" in the financial markets.The decision has been confirmed by all the chip manufacturers involved in the Numonyx project. The origin...

27 December 2007
09:08 GMT

CoCo Fully Shows Us Her (Huge) Boobs...'Cause Christmas Is Coming...

I have no idea why I'm so surprised at this photo - but nevertheless, I must once again state that CoCo has left me speechless. I mean, speechless with wonder and awe and whatever else you can think of in terms of words that express surprise. Really, really big surprise - if you know what I mean. I also think th...

20 December 2007
05:25 GMT

Toshiba, to Join the 128 GB Solid-State Drive Startup

Toshiba has just announced that they will start manufacturing solid-state drives for their notebook PCs based on flash memory cells. The company unveiled their 32GB, 64GB and 128GB versions to be produced in three different form factors (embedded module, 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch sizes). Solid-state drives are the alter...

10 December 2007
04:47 GMT

One Terabyte Drive, Small Enough to Fit Into Your Pocket

A group of scientists at Arizona State University have managed to obtain a new and efficient type of solid-state storage memory that is alleged to be not only cheaper but also much more efficient than the current NAND pieces. This memory storage is powered by an undisclosed type of nanotechnology, which allows the cr...

6 December 2007
08:49 GMT

Ho, Ho, Ho! Creative Rolls Out 32GB Zens, In Flash!

The giant Creative recently celebrated selling its 25 millionth digital music player and this is the second time the company is announcing good news. Crave reports about Creative's plans to pop out both 32GB and 2 GB flavored ZEN players. The player's internal memory is going to go from hard disk to pure f...

3 December 2007
14:11 GMT

Microsoft's Flash Killer Grows Up - Silverlight 2.0

Microsoft's Flash killer is all grown up now, and as such the company introduced Silverlight 2.0, the successor of Silverlight 1.1. Well, the fact of the matter is that Silverlight 2.0 is nothing more than a rebranding. Tim Sneath, Microsoft resident group manager for client platforms, revealed that, in an effor...

30 November 2007
02:51 GMT

Underwater Light from the New SeaLife Digital Pro Flash

SeaLife, makers of an affordable amateur-oriented underwater camera, have announced a new waterproof flash model that will shed some light when you're playing Jacques Cousteau. Such a unit becomes a must in underwater photography, especially when diving to higher depths. The new unit is compatible with any SeaLi...

20 November 2007
06:54 GMT

Web-Based Yahoo Messenger to Get Webcam Support

The web-based version of Yahoo Messenger is often described as the best alternative to the downloadable instant messaging client as it allows the users to communicate with friends and family without installing any software. Following the recent improvements included in the Windows version of YM, the Sunnyvale company...

2 November 2007
05:24 GMT

Google Tests Flash-Based Search Engine

Google is now testing a flash-based search engine which shows thumbnails of the results in the right part of the SERP. Although I can see the reasons for implementing flash into a search engine, it looks pretty well but some of the users might encounter difficulties while using the technology. I'm not sure that ...

26 October 2007
06:38 GMT

Toshiba Goes For 30nm Technologies

Flash memory chips are very popular nowadays and they are used in many commercially available applications, ranging from music players to cameras and dedicated storage devices like memory sticks or being used to improve the qualities of other computer hardware parts as is the case with the hybrid hard disk drives.As ...

9 October 2007
04:12 GMT

Seagate Starts Shipping Hybrid Hard Drives

The hybrid hard disk drives, HHDs for short, are looking like the best solution nowadays when users are kind of fed up with the slowness of the traditional hard disk drive, HDDs for short, while also being shy from the extravagant price tags that come with the new storage devices, the solid state drives. As a middle ...

8 October 2007
08:35 GMT

Opera Mobile Brings Flash Support to Handsets

The most popular browser for handsets, Opera Mobile, has just been upgraded to version 8.65. The greatest thing about this evolution is that the software now supports Flash Player 7, which brings mobile phone Internet even closer to what PCs are capable of bringing.The list of improvements that this new version of Op...

3 October 2007
05:48 GMT

Flash Player 9 Update 3 for Linux

Adobe Labs announced yesterday yet another prerelease version of their award winning Flash Player 9 Update software, for Linux, Windows and Macintosh. This new beta version brings a lot of features and improvements over the previous releases, such as:■ Support for H.264 video and HE-AAC audio codecs.■ M...

2 October 2007
02:59 GMT

The Deadly Light of Sex

They may look like little living lanterns that bestow a fairytale atmosphere on rural landscape during summer months, but a new research made at Tufts University has found a dark side behind the magic show of the fireflies. The researchers found that even if fireflies waste little energy to produce the flash signals,...

26 September 2007
04:11 GMT

Flash Based Mobile Security to the Max

IronKey announced the launch of a data storage device which is compatible with new portable security enhanced flash memory USB, the IronKey: Enterprise Special Edition, that comes with advanced security features that make it the perfect choice for use in sensitive information areas like the government, military and e...

22 September 2007
07:24 GMT

Corsair Intros The Flash Drive With Built-in Display

As flash memory drives are very popular nowadays, manufacturing companies are facing stiff competition on a market almost saturated with different brands of products, from the simplest ones that are featuring only the basic storage function, to more complex devices that offer native encryption support or a host of ot...

22 September 2007
04:44 GMT

Hybrid Hard Drives - Not for This Windows Vista

Hybrid hard drives had at one point the potential of becoming mandatory for all laptops labeled with the Windows Vista Premium logo. But apparently the momentum behind the intimate integration between Microsoft's latest operating system and hybrid hard drives has warren out even before the products managed to de...

21 September 2007
09:24 GMT

Phase-change Memory, 1000x Faster Than Flash

While NAND flash-based memory chips are very popular these days as they offer pretty high data transferring rates along side medium sized storage capabilities, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania claim that they can do better with a new type of non-volatile memory technology that is more than 1000 times f...

18 September 2007
03:47 GMT

SanDisk Under The Looking Glass

After big names on the computer industry market encountered problems with the antitrust regulations and the state bodies that were designed to enforce them, it is the turn of another company to face a looming probe. While Intel and Microsoft are the traditional accused parties in just about every antitrust case in th...

15 September 2007
07:21 GMT

BiTMICRO Launches a 416GB Solid State Drive

BiTMICRO Networks announced today the launch of a new rugged solid state drive from the E-Disk Altima family of products that comes with amazing storage capabilities of 416GB and unprecedented levels of performance and reliability. BiTMICRO is one of the companies that pioneered storage solutions like IDE/ATA, SCSI, ...

11 September 2007
10:06 GMT

SST Launches The Smallest Microcontroller for Mobile Devices

Silicon Storage Technology, better known as SST, is a computer hardware manufacturing company which is specialized in flash memory technology and related products. Today, the SST company announced the launch of a new flash memory microcontroller which will be part of the popular and widely used family of SuperFlash-b...

10 September 2007
05:56 GMT

Toshiba and SanDisk Arguing About Simple Matters

Toshiba and SanDisk formed a partnership over eight years ago in an attempt to stay competitive on the fast growing and very volatile flash memory market. As the global demand for flash based memory solutions is increasing it put strains over the supply chain and flash manufacturers are trying to meet the demand by i...

8 September 2007
07:16 GMT

Hynix Storms The NAND Industry

Nowadays NAND based memory chips are found in almost every electronic device from music players to data storage solutions and computers, so the entire NAND memory manufacturing industry is experiencing another booming expansion after a few months of shipments decline and uncertainty. The currently adopted NAND fabric...

7 September 2007
05:22 GMT

Fast and Rugged Flash Drives from OCZ

It looks as if the flash drive market is in full swing as more and more USB compatible flash data drives are appearing from a variety of manufacturing companies. From the simple and basic products to the fully rugged and fast offering, the entire market is booming and producers are trying to make the best of it. One ...

6 September 2007
08:47 GMT




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