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NoScript 2.3 Available for Download

It did not take long for the developer of NoScript to come up with a new release, as version 2.3 of the extension is now available for download. The current version moved through two release candidates, adding one new feature and further refining the program. New stuff available in this release is a new blob: &ldquo...

13 February 2012
08:20 GMT

Macronix Releases MX30LF SLC NAND Chips of 512 Mb and 1 Gb

There is a new line of single-level cell NAND Flash memory chips running about, one that Macronix International has just officially announced. The first-generation MX30LF Single-Level Cell (SLC) NAND Flash family, built with a 75 nm floating gate technology, has been formally revealed and is made up of two members,...

10 February 2012
16:41 GMT

No Flash for Google Chrome on Ice Cream Sandwich

Google’s just announced Chrome browser for devices running under Android 4.0 or newer will not enjoy the benefits of Flash, Adobe has confirmed. This is in line with what Adobe revealed last year, namely that it would no longer develop the Flash Player for mobile devices. Chrome for Android Beta does not of...

8 February 2012
13:03 GMT

SanDisk Speaks of 19nm Technology, Bets Much on It

Though CPUs are still at the 32nm node, NAND Flash memory is actually further along, something SanDisk intends to make the best of. SanDisk is one of the better known makers of NAND Flash products, such as memory cards, flash drives and SSDs. It so happens that the company has begun production of memory based on t...

30 January 2012
14:41 GMT

NAND Flash Prices Slide Down a Bit

2012's first couple of weeks have passed so, naturally, market watchers looked at what has been happening on the NAND Flash storage market.Apparently, product vendors decided to wait until after the Chinese New Year before committing to more orders.That allows NAND Flash chip prices to fall slightly, or so Digit...

18 January 2012
16:37 GMT

Download NoScript 2.2.6

Giorgio Maone has recently released a new version for his Firefox add-on, NoScript. The new build is 2.2.6 and it was launched with only one release candidate paving its path. There aren’t too many changes since the release of the previous version, which had no less than three release candidates to solve vario...

13 January 2012
08:01 GMT

NoScript 2.2.5 Released

It took only three release candidates for the developer to come out with the stable version for NoScript 2.2.5. All the features you’ve been accustomed to have been preserved and there is no addition in the extension. As all the effort invested to reach this version number was to eliminate bugs and improve co...

4 January 2012
05:43 GMT

iPhone 5: More Storage, Battery Life, Speed Thanks to Anobit

Apple’s $500 million acquisition of NAND Flash designer Anobit will translate into a number of key improvements for the next generation of iPhones, including increased storage capacity, faster access of music and video, a slimmer design, and perhaps even a slimmer price tag. All this according to an analysis b...

23 December 2011
14:31 GMT

Adobe Flash Player 11.2 Beta 3 Available for Download

Adobe released today the third beta for their Flash Player, incrementing the build number to 11.2.202.160. There aren’t too many details about this release, but the one thing that’s for sure is that this beta provides access to the Flash Player 11.2 runtime for all supported desktop environments (Windows...

22 December 2011
10:14 GMT

Apple Buys Flash Company Anobit for $500 Million - Report

The rumored Apple-Anobit acquisition is indeed going down, according to an Israeli newspaper that reports on the $500 million buyout today.Via All Things D comes word that Apple and Anobit have signed the papers by which the Cupertino giant gains full access to the latter’s flash memory technologies.Apple relie...

20 December 2011
08:27 GMT

CFA Announces 125 MB/s XQD Memory Card, Uses PCI Express

There is a new type of memory card in town, one that puts a large emphasis on transferring data as fast as possible, faster than all the existing CompactFlash cards. As one can easily guess, the CompactFlash association is responsible for the appearance of the new card. Then again, it would be more appropriate to ...

8 December 2011
02:59 GMT

Occupy Flash Wants Everything Free of Flash

Adobe's Flash player is something people are divided on, but those who are against the existence of the animation program/plugin just got a lot more verbose, or at least part of them did. One would think a random program on the Internet wouldn't cause quite this level of animosity, but it looks like Adobe...

21 November 2011
16:51 GMT

Firefox with Native Android UI Supports Adobe's Flash

Mozilla is moving towards putting in place a Native Android UI for its Firefox browser for the mobile operating system, and has just announced a new advancement in the area, courtesy of implemented Flash in the UI. Many of those who have been using Firefox on Android device have been asking of the inclusion of Fla...

17 November 2011
12:41 GMT

Adobe Drops TV Flash Player as Well

We already mentioned that Adobe had quit making Flash for mobile devices and, sure enough, things didn't stop there, as Adobe just decided to drop TV flash as well. Whether or not this is an indication that Flash player will totally disappear eventually, it is clear that TVs won't see much of it anymore. ...

10 November 2011
09:38 GMT

Steve Jobs' 'Thoughts on Flash' Come Back to Haunt Adobe

People close to Adobe say the company’s development plans for the future do no include Flash for mobile platforms. Instead, the company behind Photoshop will be increasing their investments in HTML5, just like Steve Jobs predicted in April, 2010.The announcement was revealed to ZDNet, with Adobe reportedly sayi...

9 November 2011
08:19 GMT

SoundCloud Debuts Very Slick Pure-HTML5 Waveform Player

SoundCloud is one of the first big music sites to offer a true HTML5 alternative and you should be very glad that it does. The site debuted its standards based HTML5 widget which, while doesn't replace the older Flash-based one completely, is a true alternative and even a better looking one. The new HTML5 widge...

7 November 2011
10:00 GMT

MOSAID Reveals World's Fastest NAND Flash Memory

Saying that a product is the best at something is a bold statement, but MOSAID is mostly justified in its claim that the 256Gb HLNAND2 (HyperLink NAND) is the fastest in the industry. After all, a chip that can work at 800 MB/s is not about to go by unnoticed, especially with a capacity of 256 Gb. The HLNAND2, as ...

4 November 2011
04:35 GMT

ADATA Sends Out New microSDHC Memory Cards

World-class developer of memory products, ADATA announced that it had finished making a new bunch of small memory cards for smartphones and anything else that can read microSDHC. They are five in number, with capacities of 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB, respectively. Their greatest asset is the UHS-I (Ultra ...

27 October 2011
08:58 GMT

Flash Player 11.2 Beta

Three weeks after Adobe Flash Player 11 rolled out, the company releases the first beta for their cross-platform, browser-based application. The release is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Flash Player 11.2.202.18 brings to the table fully multi-threaded video decoding, which ...

27 October 2011
05:09 GMT

New Smart Modular Enterprise SSD Works at 500 MB/s

Coming to offer a new product with a name that plays tricks on one's eyes and tongue, Smart Modular Technologies built a new solid state drive, one that it aimed at the enterprise sector. Solid state drives may not be too common on the enterprise front, but, as in every other eligible area of the IT industry, th...

15 September 2011
10:48 GMT

Sony SxS PRO Memory Card Is a Super-Fast 64 GB Model

Sony is building on its reputation as purveyor of all sorts of hardware products by bringing forth, according to reports anyway, a new memory card that is both very capacious and very fast. If anything can be said about memory cards, it is that they are very varied, not just in terms of capacity and pricing, but ...

9 September 2011
08:57 GMT

Toshiba Announces WiFi-Equipped 8GB Memory Card

Toshiba is known for many things, from full-fledged PCs to batteries, and it looks like its IFA exhibition will be varied indeed, even including a special memory card of the SDHC variety.The IFA 2011 trade show in Berlin, Germany will take place between September 2 (tomorrow) and September 7.This means that many IT ...

1 September 2011
05:11 GMT

Kingston Expects Good Things of Its NAND Business

There is much that can be said about the NAND Flash market segment, as can be discussed about a myriad of other things, but, this once, Kingston is taking its turn at the metaphorical microphone.Kingston is one of those IT companies that has a big stake in the semiconductor market, and this extends to both DRAM and ...

12 August 2011
10:34 GMT

Spansion Takes NOR Flash Memory to 4 Gb for the First Time

NOR Flash memory might not exactly be widespread, or even well known, but Spansion definitely took it one step further now that it put its 65nm MirrorBit technology to good use.NOR Flash memory may not be very well known, especially on the consumer market, but it can be quite often found in automotive applications a...

9 August 2011
09:17 GMT

Kingston Releases Media Card Reader with SuperSpeed USB 3

Kingston is already widely known as a maker of storage and memory product, and having just brought out the HyperX line of SandForce-based SSDs, the outfit decided to deliver another item, one that is more of an accessory than anything else.Kingston has a fairly solid collection of NAND Flassh-based storage products,...

2 August 2011
04:53 GMT

Green House Creates Metal-Clad, Sturdy Flash Drives

The already large collection of flash drives has now grown by one series, as Green House stepped forward and covered quite the sizable range of capacities, even some that might look out of place in this day and age.The NAND Flash storage technology, like any others, will, eventually, be surpassed by some new inventi...

13 July 2011
08:56 GMT

Unclear Whether Or Not Memory Prices Will Recover

There are things that can always be guessed at based on existing data, but it looks like the DRAM market is one whose outlook has companies divided between the optimistic and those not very so.Many users might not have made a habit of keeping tabs on the financial aspect of the IT market, but the fact remains that t...

6 July 2011
09:13 GMT

Samsung's 2011 LCD and Flash Demand Is Weak

Reports and rumors always emerge in regards to the probable marketing performance of a company or product, and it looks like Samsung is one of the latest to come under this type of scrutiny.Samsung may be seeing great results form its tablet initiative, but its other business outlets don't seem to be doing as w...

5 July 2011
03:59 GMT

DRAM Makers Refuse to Let prices Go Any Lower

Even as demand continues to be weak for DRAM, makers of such memory solutions decided they can no longer reap any sort of benefit from letting prices slide any lower than they already are.It really does look like the DRAM market has still not recovered much, something that, one might say, makers of such chips figure...

1 July 2011
09:17 GMT

Google Swiffy Converts Flash Animations into HTML5

There's been a lot of talk about Flash versus HTML5. While Adobe is trying to appease everyone and not start a format war, there is a clear need for Flash content to be displayed on devices that don't support it, which is why there are several projects that aim to convert Flash files into standard formats l...

30 June 2011
07:31 GMT

64 GB Delkin Memory Card Operates at 95 MB/s

Samsung may have covered the market of mobile devices when it unveiled its newest microSD card, but Delkin is the one who developed a product for photo cameras and video camcorders.End-users will have possibly spotted a certain bit of news trumpeting the fact that IBM created a new storage technology that, while not...

30 June 2011
05:44 GMT

Samsung MicroSD Card for Smartphones Stores 32 GB

Even as it releases one new product and update after another, Samsung invested enough time, effort and resources into creating a memory card aimed at fourth generation smartphones.Samsung has been releasing hardware products and consumer electronics for quite a while now, so it has an established portfolio.One facet...

30 June 2011
03:03 GMT

100 Times Faster than Flash, IBM Shows 'Instantaneous' Memory

NAND Flash memory is, at the moment, seen as the fastest storage solution on the IT market, but IBM decided it would make short work of that very technology by inventing something that seriously trounces the competition. Currently, the PC storage solutions market is divided between hard disk drives and NAND Flash...

30 June 2011
02:34 GMT

Kingmax Steps in With Its Own Large-Capacity MicroSD Card

It appears that cramming as much capacity as possible inside tiny packages has become quite the trend nowadays, with Kingmax now stepping forward to provide a sort of alternative to what most consumers might be used to.Nowadays, there are so many mobile devices on sale that it is practically impossible to count them...

25 May 2011
08:06 GMT

New Class 10 MicroSDHC From Kingston Is Fast and Capacious

Kingston is known for making all sorts of storage solutions, so it is no surprise that it would come out and reveal a new one for mobile devices, especially one with the high specifications implied by its rank on the Class rating system.When it comes to mobile devices, especially smartphones, storage space has to co...

24 May 2011
07:57 GMT

SanDisk Buys Maker of SSDs

While HDD makers are buying each other off, it looks like operations of this sort are happening on the SSD market as well, with SanDisk now announcing that it has stuck a deal with Pliant Technology.SanDisk is already known as a worldwide supplier of NAND Flash storage solutions, but it looks like it wants a more ac...

17 May 2011
03:54 GMT

Desktop Memory Shortage Possible in the Second Half of 2011

When it comes to predictions in a certain field of the IT market, those directly involved with it have just as much say, if not more, than market analysts, and it looks like one such prediction was made by Transcend.The thing about the NAND Flash and DRAM memory markets is that they are often taken together and spok...

12 May 2011
10:40 GMT

Three New Team Group Industrial SSD Lines Debut

The thing about storage units is that they are used in pretty much every device out there that has any measure of sophistication, if only so that the OS/program run by it can be stored on it, and Team Group has just delivered three new industrial-oriented. NAND Flash-based solutions.NAND Flash storage devices have p...

11 May 2011
08:26 GMT

Google's Instant Previews Tips for Webmasters of Sites with Flash Content

Google Instant Previews have been an interesting addition to the Google search experience and have proven quite useful in some occasions. Since introducing them, Google has expanded the feature, for example by adding support for videos and Flash content. However, Flash content can still be a problem and Google is now...

6 May 2011
11:41 GMT

SanDisk Creates 19nm-Based 64 Gb NAND Flash Memory

To some, it might feel that the 20nm manufacturing process started to be used just yesterday, but it looks like an even more advanced node has been developed, courtesy of SanDisk. NAND Flash memory became important when it started to be used in mobile devices, like phones and handsets. Still, the real push came wh...

21 April 2011
02:28 GMT

Toshiba SmartNAND Is ECC Embedded MLC Flash Based on 24nm

It looks like, disaster or no disaster, the semiconductor industry is going forward, with Toshiba now announcing that it too has advanced to a better, 2xnm process, at least for its newest collection of MLC NAND Flash memory.Both DRAM and NAND, and the semiconductor segment as a whole, are expected to actually flour...

6 April 2011
08:22 GMT

Scribd's HTML5 Reader Rolls Out to 20 Million Embedded Documents

Scribd is taking the final step towards moving to a HTML5 based document reader. Introduced last year, it is now becoming available as an embeddable tool. What's more, all documents embedded around the web will be upgraded to the new HTML5 reader."Today, we are announcing the roll-out of HTML5 code for all websi...

18 March 2011
09:52 GMT

Transcend SSD with USB 3.0 Available for 169 Euro Pre-Order

With Flash storage getting more and more popular and widespread, it is not surprising to hear that more SSDs, in this case from Transcend, have made their way to the market, especially when they have one of newest and fastest connectivity capabilities in the industry.Transcend has been dealing in various types of st...

16 March 2011
04:40 GMT

Japan Quake Also Affects NAND Flash Market

It appears that the worldwide market for NAND Flash memory chips did not get away unscathed after the natural disaster that struck Japan last week and left very serious problems in its wake.No doubt people will have already learned of the natural disaster that took place in Japan last week, namely an 8.9-magnitude e...

14 March 2011
07:28 GMT

New Technology Significantly Speeds Up MRAM Chips

Although MRAM has been around for a while, this type of memory has been unable to reach the high speeds associated with its volatile memory counterparts, but this is going to change in the future as scientists have uncovered a way to significantly speed up its data transfer rates. Unlike DRAM and SRAM, Magnetic Ra...

11 March 2011
04:41 GMT

Micron Assures 25nm NAND Has no Reliability Problems

Some end-users may be aware of the fact that makers of SSDs have begun to move to more advanced NAND Flash chips, and after some issues with lower capacities and performance, Micron decided to come forth itself and dispel certain concerns.Some time ago, OCZ was the first company to announce transition from 3Xnm proc...

22 February 2011
10:33 GMT

Mushkin Not Moving Its NAND to the 25nm Process Just Yet

While most people may see transitions to new process nodes as only beneficial, Mushkin does not share this opinion, being of the reported opinion that it has no real reason, yet, to advance to the 25nm technology.Consumers may be aware of the fact that some makers of NAND Flash storage have started to move their pro...

21 February 2011
03:22 GMT

Corsair Also Moves Its SSDs from 34nm Chips to 25nm

OCZ may have been the first out with the announcement that it was moving its SSDs to 2Xnm process technologies, but Corsair is not really that far behind, having made a similar decision.Advancing to a new manufacturing process, for solid state drives, means improvements to pretty much every feature, except (maybe) d...

19 February 2011
03:39 GMT

OCZ Claims to Be the First SSD Maker to Move to 2Xnm NAND Flash

Since new process technologies have been announced over the past months, makers of Flash-based storage units have been moving on to better chips, and OCZ just announced it has moved all its SSDs to the 2Xnm process.Solid state drives have been gaining traction quickly because, despite being less capacious and much m...

16 February 2011
05:14 GMT

SandForce Controllers Used in Silicon Power's Fast V20 SSDs

Since solid state storage is bound to go only forward and progressively eat away the share of HDDs (hard disk drives), Silicon power decided to enhance its portfolio by bringing out the V20 line. Some end-users may have heard or read about how SandForce managed to sell over 1 million SSD controllers over the course ...

15 February 2011
10:59 GMT


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