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• 15 March 2012

• News: Toshiba to launch SD memory cards with 90MBs write speeds this year

  Toshiba will launch high-speed SD memory cards this year in Japan and abroad that can read data at up to 95MB per second and write at 90MB per second.

• News: Western Digital's new Thunderbolt hard drive now available

  Western Digital on Thursday revealed that its new My Book Thunderbolt Duo, a two-drive desktop RAID array equipped with Thunderbolt connectivity, is now available for purchase for $600 (4TB capacity) and $700 (6TB capacity).

• 14 March 2012

• News: Samsung 'sole supplier of Retina displays for new iPad'

  LG and Sharp failed to meet Apple's quality requirements for its new iPad leaving Samsung as the sole supplier of Retina displays for the device, an analyst has claimed.

• News: Keeping Windows 8 in sync with SkyDrive

  Windows Live is no more. Long live Microsoft Account.

• News: Apple's Mac Pro users clamor for hardware upgrade

  Ardent users are clamoring for quick upgrades to Apple's Mac Pro, while an unstable hardware timetable for the high-end desktop has raised concerns about the company's commitment to professional users.

• News: Arm targets 'Internet of Things' with new low-power chip

  British chip maker Arm Holdings, has taken the wraps off a new energy-efficient microprocessor, which the company claims could pave the way for the "Internet of Things".

• News: PCIe SSD consortium, product test lab created

  The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is forming a consortium charged with developing an interoperability test suite for Non-Volatile Memory Express Consortium (NVMe) PCIe-based solid-state devices (SSDs).

• News: Remains of the Day: Myths and legends

  The new iPad gets a legendary first unboxing, the rumored iTV is spotted overseas, and Microsoft has created a magical new touchscreen. The remainders for Tuesday, March 13, 2012 are the stuff that dreams are made of.

• News: Samsung makes $9.7bn from Apple

  Samsung is raking in around $9.7 bn from one its main rivals Apple, according to a report by the Daily Mail.

• News: Taiwan's AU Optronics found guilty in LCD price fixing scheme

  A U.S. federal jury on Tuesday convicted Taiwan's AU Optronics of taking part in a worldwide price fixing scheme on LCD panels that raked in at least US$500 million from U.S. companies and customers including Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard.

• 13 March 2012

• News: US, other countries file trade complaint against China

  The Office of U.S. Trade Representative, along with officials in the European Union and Japan, have filed a trade complaint against China over what they're calling unfair export restraints on rare earths and other elements used in the manufacturing of mobile phones, laptops and MP3 players.

• News: Apple's Retina-ready Web update reveals the pixels behind the magic

  If you know anything about the new iPad, it's probably that the third-generation model of Apple's tablet will sport a so-called Retina display--a screen with pixel density so high that the human eye can't discern the individual dots in normal use. Old iPad apps will look fine on the new iPad, but only apps that update with Retina-quality imagery can fully exploit the updated screen. Apple already updated almost all of its own apps, and now it's updating its website with Retina-ready graphics, too.

• News: Chip market poised for 'rebound' in 2012

  After several years of sluggish sales, the semiconductor industry is on the verge of a rebound, according to market research firm Gartner.

• Opinion: Microsoft Develops a Faster Touchscreen With Only One Millisecond of Lag

  Touchscreens are supposed to offer us the most direct finger-to-screen interaction with our devices, but have you ever noticed that it takes a split second for something to actually happen?

• News: iPad to push global demand for flash memory through '15

  The Apple iPad is expected to dominate the worldwide demand for NAND flash in media tablets at least through the year 2015.

• News: ARM upgrades Cortex-M0 processor for low-power applications

  ARM has introduced a new chip design, the Cortex-M0+, which will be used to control or monitor objects like interactive fridges, car engine systems, smart lighting and medical monitoring equipment. The 32-bit processor uses about one-third of the energy used by existing 8- or 16- bit processors, according to ARM.

• News: National Geographic moves media archive to cloud

  The National Geographic Society is in the process of uploading its backup and archive to a public cloud service.

• 12 March 2012

• News: Storage software sales hit all-time record highs

  The sales of storage software in 2011 produced record revenues of more than $14 billion, IDC said.

• News: 5 Ways to Prepare for Big Data With Scale-Out NAS

  As enterprises seek to move into the big data world--digitizing paper documents and saving email communications, Word docs, Excel files and all sorts of other unstructured data with the hopes of mining them for actionable business intelligence--they need to address a big problem up front: storage.

• News: Intel: Optical cables for Thunderbolt coming this year

  Optical cables for Thunderbolt ports that enable faster data transfers over longer distances on computers such as Apple's Macintosh will be available later this year, Intel said Monday.

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