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- 09 January 2012
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News: Lenovo unveils new IdeaTab tablet, S2 smartphone
Lenovo unveiled at CES the IdeaTab S2 10, a 10-in. tablet that weighs just 1.1 pounds, and latest S2 smartphone
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News: SSD prices will fall below $1 per GB in 2012, says IDC
The price for SSDs (solid state drives) that are going into PCs are expected to fall below US$1 per gigabyte during the second half of 2012, further boosting adoption, market research company IDC said on Monday.
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News: Samsung's New Optical Smart Hub Wirelessly Streams DVDs
Samsung has come up with an interesting approach to wireless NAS and media playback on tablets and smartphones. At the Storage Visions conference in Las Vegas today, Samsung took the wraps off of its Optical Smart Hub SE-208BW, a wireless hub that distinguishes itself in several ways. First and foremost: It has a built-in 8X DVD burner. Yes, it has a disc drive to give you a way to use all of those movies and TV shows you still have on DVD.
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News: Cloud Services Emerge as CES Trend
Lenovo and Acer are following software giants such as Apple, Google and Microsoft into the cloud with services that make your music, videos, photos, and documents available instantly across all your devices. The two computer makers separately announced new online personal data storage services at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which officially opens Tuesday.
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News: MediaTek lays groundwork for gigabit WLANs
Semiconductor company MediaTek has introduced a system-on-a-chip (SoC) that will be used to power wireless routers based on the 802.11ac wireless networking standard, which promises gigabit speeds, the company said on Monday.
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News: MIT Chip Models Human Brain Synapse
Forget artificial intelligence; researchers at MIT say they've figured out how to mimic the way a real brain works.
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News: Hard Drive Makers Slash Warranties
In a bid to save money or redirect funds to product development, Seagate and Western Digital are cutting hard drive warranties -- in some cases from five years to one.
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News: Falling memory prices may bring irritating, intrusive devices
Everyone likes it when prices fall, right? But there may be a point when flash memory gets too cheap for its own good.
- 07 January 2012
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News: Fusion-io to cut flash storage latency again
Fusion-io previewed a technology on Thursday that gives server CPUs more direct access to stored data, apparently achieving I/O performance far beyond that found in typical data centers.
- 06 January 2012
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News: NetApp becomes latest vendor to raise disk drive prices
NetApp announced it will raise the price of disk drives in its storage systems from 5% to 15% in the wake of Thailand's flooding, which affected the world hard drive supply.
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News: Microsoft aims Windows 8 storage at enterprise data centers
Windows 8 includes a storage scheme suitable for business deployment that can treat hundreds of disks as a single logical storage reservoir and ensures resiliency by backing up data on at least two physical disks.
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News: Three Benefits of Windows 8 Storage Spaces
Small and midsize businesses often can’t afford file servers, and struggle with the best way to provide their users with enough space to store data and keep it safe from hardware failure. Windows 8's new feature called Storage Spaces has three benefits: bringing the safety of RAID to the desktop, creating an expanding space to store files, and providing these features at lower cost than other hardware options.
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News: Rockchip aims for Android 4.0 tablets under $100
A company making ARM processors used in inexpensive Chinese tablets hopes to make a splash in the U.S. and Europe this year and drive down prices of Android 4.0 tablets to under US$100.
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News: Marvell unveils first PCIe scalable NAND flash controller
Marvell today unveiled a new solid state storage controller that can be used to create PCIe-based flash cards that scale up in performance and capacity using commodity hardware.
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News: Sony to launch flash cards with 125 Mbps write speeds
Sony said Friday it will begin selling memory cards with write speeds of 125 Mbps, the fastest in the industry, from February.
- 05 January 2012
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News: Intel to make a major mobile push at show
Intel will make a major mobile push at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show, where it will likely announce smartphone customers and show off a Windows 8 tablet with its upcoming Atom chip code-named Clover Trail, a person familiar with the company's plans said.
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News: DRAM oversupply adds salt to wounded market
The DRAM market, already suffering from low demand, now faces an alarming rise in inventory that threatens to further sink the industry.
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News: Marvell's new chip fills Google TV void left by Intel
Marvell was set to announce a new ARM-based chip for televisions on Thursday that will run Android and Google TV software, filling a void left by Intel's decision in October to depart the TV market.
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News: Samsung to build new NAND flash factory in China, production in 2013
Samsung Electronics will break ground on a new NAND flash factory in China this year, a spokesman said Thursday, moving production closer to where many advanced devices are manufactured.
- 04 January 2012
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News: China wants Western Digital to address monopoly concerns
Western Digital's planned acquisition of Hitachi's hard drive business may have hit a snag: China's anti-monopoly regulators want the company to address concerns about the buyout.
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