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The rumor mill has been churning on this one for the last few days, but it’s now as official as it’s ever apt to get: Apple has decided to splash out the $500 million to buy Israeli flash-chip outfit Anobit. The fabless designer of MLC NAND flash chips should be a good fit, given Cupertino’s [...]
A pair of spacecraft rocketed toward the moon Saturday on the first mission dedicated to measuring lunar gravity and determining what’s inside Earth’s orbiting companion — all the way down to the core. “I could hardly be happier,” said the lead scientist, Maria Zuber. After two days of delays and almost another, “I was trying [...]
Roughly a month ago we brought you an early preview of the OCZ Vertex 2 Pro SSD. This uber-fast product was supposed to be part of a new series of drives based on controllers from start-up SandForce. However, as we recently learned OCZ decided to scrap the Vertex 2 Pro altogether …
ASUS and hard-core enthusiasts have long been partners in crime and with the Republic of Gamers series of boards; ASUS has attacked this lucrative nice market with both guns blazing. Names like Rampage and Maximus have come to the forefront of the motherboard world to compete with the likes of …
While AMDs 785G chipset was a welcome refresh to the integrated graphics landscape, it was just an hors d’oeuvre to whet our collective appetites for the main course, the AMD 800-series. Well, it’s time to tuck in because the AMD 890GX and SB850 chipsets bring forth major …
CaseCrown Faux Suede Zip Sleeve is available on Amazon for $12.21. If you’re looking for something a little different to keep your iPad in, I have just the thing. It’s the CaseCrown Faux Suede Zip Sleeve. On the outside it is soft as suede and very stylish. Perfect slim protection …
For the last couple of years, Dell’s foray into the small-form-factor desktop market was its successful mini-tower (with the emphasis on “mini”) Studio Hybrid. But with Dell’s latest small-form-factor entry, the Inspiron Zino HD, out goes the vertical mini-tower and in comes the horizontal square–7.8-inches wide …
Boom. Out of nowhere, Sony Ericsson’s just announced two new smartphones. BGR reports that the company has put out a press release for the Xperia X10 Mini and Mini Pro. Some information about the Mini leaked out earlier, but the Mini Pro is pretty much a total surprise. The Mini will launch in black, pearl [...]
SanDisk today introduced the new SanDisk iNAND Embedded Flash Drives (EFD) with support for the e.MMC 4.4 specification. Based on 3-bit-per-cell (X3) NAND flash technology, the drives offer up to 64GB of capacity in a single device, and can be used for boot, system code and mass storage functions. SanDisk iNAND EFDs are specifically designed [...]
LiMo Foundation, a global consortium of companies from throughout the mobile industry, today announced new LiMo compliant handsets from manufacturers ELSE, NEC, and Panasonic Mobile Communications. These models bring the number of LiMo devices announced to date to fifty. The LiMo Foundation is still around and is not backing down to the Android platform just [...]