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- 16 December 2011
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News: ITV implements new data storage platform
ITV is building a new data storage and management platform with EMC as part of its business transformation project.
- 15 December 2011
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News: Intel reorganizes mobile business to speed and improve development
In a reorganization of its mobile business, Intel said Wednesday it has formed a new group, called the Mobile and Communications Group (MCG) that will focus on phones, tablets, and other mobile devices.
- 14 December 2011
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News: SSD shipments leap 66% in Q3, revenue doubles
The Computerworld (US) story, "SSD shipments leap 66% in Q3, revenue doubles," posted to the wire Tuesday, incorrectly identified the number of shipments of solid-state drives in the third quarter of 2011 and the third quarter of 2010. The second graph has been changed on the wire and now reads as follows:
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News: Hitachi-LG Data Storage execs plead guilty to price fixing
Three executives at Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) have agreed to plead guilty and serve prison time in the U.S. for their participation in a series of conspiracies to rig bids and fix the prices of optical disk drives sold to large computer makers, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday.
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News: Pogoplug reveals Series 4 cloud storage device
Pogoplug in November unveiled its cloud storage service called Pogoplug Cloud, a new addition to the company's hardware line that features products for setting up your own cloud storage device. On Wednesday, Pogoplug revealed the latest version of their hardware, the Series 4.
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News: China beefs up its HPC training
China can use its power of government control to bring major changes quickly, and it is moving to expand parallel programming training to help its supercomputing efforts.
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News: Nvidia: Gaming systems to reach 'tens of teraflops' by 2019
Graphics processor maker Nvidia expects gaming systems will reach a performance of "tens of teraflops" by the end of the decade, and be capable of displaying real-time visuals as good as the pre-rendered cut scenes found in games today, according to company CEO Jen-Hsun Huang.
- 13 December 2011
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News: Hitachi-LG Data Storage execs plead guilty to price fixing
Three executives at Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) have agreed to plead guilty and serve prison time in the U.S. for their participation in a series of conspiracies to rig bids and fix the prices of optical disk drives sold to large computer makers, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday.
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News: Hitachi Unveils Laptop Hard Drive
Due to a reporting error, the Computerworld (US) story, "Hitachi Unveils Laptop Hard Drive," posted Tuesday, incorrectly identified the Ultrastar C10K900 hard drive as a drive for laptops. It is a drive for servers and storage arrays in data centers. The headline and first and second grafs have been changed as follows:
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News: SSD shipments leap 66% in Q3, revenue doubles
SSD shipments rose 66% between Q3 2010 and this year, and revenue from PC SSD sales and enterprise systems more than doubled.
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News: Converging SAN traffic in the data center
Most organizations today use dedicated storage networks in the data center, but the concept of leveraging converged network infrastructure to provide organizational storage services is gaining steam.
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News: Hitachi GST unveils new 2.5-in hard drive; delays Western Digital deal
The new 2.5-in Ultrastar C10K900 hard drive, targeted at data center use in servers and storage arrays, is also available in 600GB, 450GB and 300GB versions.
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News: Tech stories of 2011: Jobs, Android and Anonymous rank in top 10
In 2011, the increasingly mobile and socially networked world of technology became more intertwined than ever with politics and the law. Patent wars shaped competition in tablets and smartphones, hacktivists attacked a widening array of political and corporate targets, repressive regimes unplugged citizens from the Internet, and the U.S. government moved to block the giant merger of AT&T and T-Mobile USA. With the passing of Steve Jobs, the world lost a technology icon who redefined the computer, entertainment and consumer electronics industries. These are the IDG News Service's picks for the top 10 technology stories of the year:
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News: TwinStrata integrates storage gateway with OpenStack-based clouds
Enterprises can now use TwinStrata's CloudArray to access storage capacity hosted in OpenStack-based clouds, the company said on Tuesday.
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News: China approves conditionally Seagate acquisition of Samsung HDD unit
China has approved Seagate Technology's proposed acquisition of Samsung Electronics' hard disk drive (HDD) business, but with conditions, including measures to minimize potential price increases after the deal, the country's Ministry of Commerce said on Monday.
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News: Google Doodle Celebrates the Co-Creator of the Microchip
Today's electronics-themed Google Doodle celebrates the life of Robert Noyce, the co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel who came to be known to many as the "Mayor of Silicon Valley."
- 12 December 2011
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News: SandForce releases SSD controller for the cloud
SandForce today announced its newest NAND flash controller that is aimed for use with SSDs in cloud computing systems because it has twice the error correction capability for data resilience.
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News: Intel lowers Q4 revenue over hard-drive shortage
Intel warned on Monday that fourth-quarter revenue will be lower than anticipated due to a hard-drive shortage. The chip maker now anticipates quarterly revenue of US$13.7 billion, down from a previous n estimate of $14.7 billion.
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News: Quad-Core Phones: What to Expect in 2012
One of the big mobile buzzwords of 2011 was “dual-core.” Dual-core processors became the standard for high-end smartphones, starting with the LG Optimus 2X in January. In 2012, however, it’s going to be all about quad-core. But other than having double the cores of this year’s smartphones, what exactly is a “quad-core” processor and what this mean for the smartphones of 2012?
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News: TSMC breaks ground on final phase of chip factory
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) broke ground Friday on the third and final phase of its "Fab 15" chip factory, with the newest phase geared to make power-efficient and high-performance microprocessors using 20-nanometer production technology.
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