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Windows Phone 7 Start screen As predicted, Microsoft today unveiled Windows Phone 7, the next-generation smartphone operating system serving as the successor to and rebranding of the company’s Windows Mobile software. One of the softw…

After Western Digital and its 2 TB Caviar Green, Samsung announced its similar product known as Spinpoint F3 Ecogreen. Of course, performance levels are a bit down when compared to non-Ecogreen HD, however, this new Samsung HD spinning at 5,400 rpm wants to provide a storage capacity as silent as possible with the lowest power consumption. [...]

If manufacturers of consumer grade RAM chips have been facing serious problems during the economic slow down, the main players in the field have pushed R&D Labs to accelerate developments of some technologies to be ready to come up with new products as soon as the global economy would have recovered. The main goal being [...]

It would have happen in a record time, while 3D TV was only a project 18 months ago, it now starts to be reality as Samsung announced the launched of mass production of its dedicated LCD display to be installed in forthcoming 3D TV models< Depending on the price, backlighting will be either based on [...]

In order to stop current lawsuits initiated constantly by Rambus, Samsung decided to pay 900 million USD. This jackpot will be splitted for 200 million USD in shares, 200 millions USD cash when the contract will be signed and then 25 million USD every semester for the next 5 years. For such price, Samsung will [...]

This is it. All major SSD manufacturers have released firmware update offering TRIM function to their SSD models. The last one was Samsung, and new firmwares are now available. Unfortunately, the upgrade procedure requires to entirely erase all data on the price, so backup first.So, now Apple does not have any remaining reason for not supporting [...]

A little behind the majority of its competitors (OCZ, Gskill, Intel…), Corsair has issued a firmware for its SSD containing the Samsung controller that brings the support of TRIM. To recall, it acts a SATA command that allows the computer to indicate to the disc controller the sectors to be completely erased so as to avoid the [...]

Last year the company Valens Semiconductor presented in January its HDBaseT technology which had the goal of conveying uncompressed HD video, sound and Internet between various devices related to the television set, the Blu-ray reader, home cinema and professional video devices. Making of the new while using the old, this technology uses RJ45 Ethernet cables to transmit the data at [...]

Samsung announced to have started mass production of Flash NAND MLC chips featuring 3 bits per cell and engraved at 30 nm. The availability of 3 bit instead of 2 on the current MLC doubles the density of chips by 50%. The thinner engraving will offer identical storage capacity in smaller format, or larger space for [...]

A article published in Korea Times makes heavy charges against Apple. Today, thanks to the colossal sales of the iPhone and iPod, the company has become one, if not the largest purchase,r in the world of flash memory chips. The volumes are sufficient so that the company obtains very privileged conditions and that the size of its [...]

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