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• 23 November 2011

• News: Western Digital hard-disk drive takeover approved, with conditions

  Western Digital will be allowed to take over Hitachi’s hard disk drive business, but only if it sells off a 3.5-inch hard disk drive production plant.

• News: 2012: The year of 'big data'

  With the amount of information created and replicated expected to surpass 1.9 zettabytes in 2011, now is the time for enterprises to start using big data technology, according to analyst firm, IDC Australia.

• 22 November 2011

• Opinion: BoardX Stacks the Deck Against Arduino

  Arduino is a great microcontroller, but when you want the ability to easily scale your project or exchange components quickly, that's where BoardX really starts to shine.

• News: Dell PowerEdge servers get AMD's new 16-core chips

  Dell on Tuesday said it has upgraded its PowerEdge servers with the just-released 16-core Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices.

• News: Skip data tiering, go directly to all-SSD storage, Forrester says

  Companies may want to skip using a tiered storage architecture and move directly to an all-solid-state-drive (SSD) architecture, according to a new report from Forrester Research.

• News: Apple to return to nVidia graphics processors for 2012 MacBooks - report

  Apple could be about to switch back to nVidia GPUs for its next generation of Macs, according to reports.

• News: Small PC makers hiking PC prices on hard-drive shortage

  The early brunt of a hard-drive shortage resulting from widespread flooding in Thailand is falling on small PC makers, who are raising computer prices to stem losses.

• News: 7 hot storage startups to watch

  From storage for virtual machines to cheap all-flash hardware, here are seven movers and shakers in the network storage market today.

• News: Qualcomm's Mirasol reflective color display debuts on Korean e-reader

  Qualcomm's long-awaited Mirasol reflective color screen technology is on the market, in an e-reader that launched in South Korea on Tuesday.

• News: Nanya fires back at Elpida with patent complaint

  Nanya said on Tuesday it has filed a patent infringement complaint in the U.S. against Japan's Elpida, further escalating the legal battle between the two DRAM makers.

• News: Nanya fires back at Elpida with patent complaint

  Nanya said on Tuesday it has filed a patent infringement complaint in the U.S. against Japan's Elpida, further escalating the legal battle between the two DRAM makers.

• News: S3 Graphics loses a patent fight with Apple

  The U.S. International Trade Commission has determined that Apple did not infringe technology patents owned by S3 Graphics and ended its investigation of the matter, the ITC announced Monday.

• 21 November 2011

• News: A high-tech pioneer reflects on the digital revolution

  The man who led the design and development of the first microprocessor 40 years ago said at the time he didn't foresee the extent of the digital revolution he was helping to create.

• News: EMC adds Linux support, metering to Atmos cloud software

  EMC today announced its first upgrade to the Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform, adding metering capabilities and support for Linux.

• News: Oracle: HP paying Intel to keep Itanium going

  Hewlett-Packard has secretly contracted with Intel to keep making Itanium processors so that HP can maintain the appearance that "a dead microprocessor is still alive", and make money from its locked-in Itanium customer base and take business away from Oracle's Sun servers, Oracle said in a court filing on Friday.

• 18 November 2011

• Opinion: Meet Cotton Candy, the Dual-Core Android USB Device

  We all know that Android is flexible enough to be put on phones, tablets, laptops, and TVs. FXI, a technology lab based in Norway, decided to add USB drives to Android's host of platforms.

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• 17 November 2011

• News: iSuppli drops 2011 semiconductor forecast on slow Q4

  An industry analyst firm has lowered its forecast for the worldwide semiconductor market for this year because of declining revenue in the fourth quarter.

• Opinion: Build Your Own Tesla Turbine out of Hard Drive Platters

  What do you do with your old hard drive after you replace it with a new one? SBTroy over at Instructables has managed to add a couple of more years to a hard drives life by converting a bunch of hard drive platters into a 15,000 RPM Telsa Turbine.

• News: LCD, e-ink challenger Mirasol will be on devices in months

  Most tablets and e-readers today use LCD or e-ink technology, but a new challenger that promises sharp color and reduced screen power consumption could be used in devices in a matter of months.

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