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Toshiba spends $1B on 30% of SanDisk production capacity

Brenda Stokes, Oct 20th 2008 Discuss [0]

Anyone else feel like companies are buying up other companies left and right? Well, Toshiba has just announced that they bought 30% of the production capacity of SanDisk's NAND flash memory. And the price tag? $1 billion! Initially, Toshiba wanted to buy out SanDisk. Samsung made a bid as well. But now with Toshiba's input, SanDisk will be able to make flash memory faster and cheaper. Read The Full Story

Eye-fi gets Twitter

Brenda Stokes, Oct 10th 2008 Discuss [0]

Eye-fi is already a well known product. Their SD card already has an added geotracking function that makes it so you can automatically associate any pictures taken and then put on the card with the location they were taken in. Read The Full Story

USB Liquid Flash Drive keeps thumb drives interesting

Brenda Stokes, Oct 7th 2008 Discuss [1]

There's a seemingly endless supply of gimmicky USB thumb drives out there these days but this one is just too cool to ignore. It's pretty standard in the specs department but it can house liquid and not break! Available from CNK Promotions, this USB thumb drive has an acrylic casing that is hollow, making it perfect for filling up with a brightly colored liquid. You can order the drive with a logo of your choosing, as well. And with storage space of up to 8GB you can pack away a lot of information in one very small, very cool-looking device. Read The Full Story

Samsung 50nm 2GB DDR3 chips are industry’s smallest

Chris Davies, Sep 29th 2008 Discuss [0]

Samsung have taken the wraps off of the industry's smallest 2GB DDR3 memory chips, built using 50nm processes, which allows for 60-percent higher productivity than DDR2 chips of an equivalent density. It opens the door for up to 16GB RIMMS (Registered In-line Memory Modules) that save 40-percent of the power required for the same RIMM based on 1GB DDR3 chips. Read The Full Story

Electric Field RAM memory could be faster, more energy efficient

Chris Davies, Sep 26th 2008 Discuss [0]

Japanese scientists have discovered a method of changing magnetic domains - such as those used in RAM and hard-drives - using magnetic fields rather than the current process of electromagnets, in a system that could see storage become faster and more energy efficient. Magnetic domains, tiny regions inside magnetic materials that behave as individual magnets and can be flipped from north to south, are currently manipulated by an electromagnet, encoding binary 1 or 0. With the new system that electromagnet is bypassed: applying voltage to a nearby electrode creates an electric field that shifts the domains. Read The Full Story

SanDisk announces 16GB microSDHC and Memory Stick Micro

Brenda Stokes, Sep 25th 2008 Discuss [0]

SanDisk will soon be announcing their largest mobile phone storage capacity to date with their 16GB microSDHC and Memory Stick Micro (M2). And with a release date in October for the U.S., Europe and Asia, they're just in time to bring the recently announced T-Mobile G1 up to a level playing field with the iPhone 3G in terms of storage capacity. These new higher capacity memory cards are intended to fall in line with the numerous features available on today's handsets. Where there are more features, there's more need for storage, so SanDisk is keeping with the times. But these cards are not just meant for mobile phones. In fact, they can be used in GPS and video cameras as well. Read The Full Story

LG DP889 is Digital Picture Frame, DVD player in one

Brenda Stokes, Sep 3rd 2008 Discuss [2]

If you are an all-in-one device fiend, this digital picture frame and DVD player in one should whet your appetite for gadgets. The LG DP889 packs in multiple features making for a well rounded device that can show off your photos and play your favorite movies. Read The Full Story

SanDisk Extreme III 30MB/s SDHC cards launch

Chris Davies, Aug 27th 2008 Discuss [0]

SanDisk have announced their latest high-speed SDHC memory cards, the Extreme III 30MB/s edition. As the name suggests, the cards are now capable of 30MB/s data transfer rates, up 50-percent on the previous generation. Sizes will include 4GB, 8GB and 16GB. Read The Full Story

Kingston 8GB microSDHC memory card

Chris Davies, Jul 15th 2008 Discuss [0]

Storage manufacturer Kingston has announced a new microSDHC card, which packs 8GB and supports up to 4MB/sec transfers. Intended for use with media files on cellphones and other mobile devices, it can also be used in full-sized SDHC slots courtesy of the card adaptor. Read The Full Story

Sony Memory Stick Micro 8GB finally arrives

Chris Davies, Jul 9th 2008 Discuss [1]

Sony have announced their largest capacity Memory Stick Micro card yet, offering 8GB of storage on the frankly tiny chip. The M2 card doubles the previous maximum storage, meaning mobile users (the format is common in Sony Ericsson cellphones) can store over 2000 128kbps MP3s or over 5,000 5-megapixel photos. Read The Full Story

Fujifilm 310x CompactFlash is world’s fastest memory card

Chris Davies, Jun 18th 2008 Discuss [0]

Another day, another "World's fastest"; this time it's the turn of Fuji, who are frothing with excitement over their new CompactFlash card. The 310x version offers pro-photographers (because it's most likely they who will take advantage of such things) the fastest sustained write speed of any memory card currently available. Requiring a UDMA compatible digital SLR or camcorder, the new card boasts a write speed of 46.5MB/sec. Read The Full Story

SanDisk Extreme III PRO-HG Duo: 30MB/s data for DSLRs

Chris Davies, May 30th 2008 Discuss [0]

If SanDisk continues their current naming pattern, they might soon run out of space to print on their memory cards; the company has just announced its fastest ever Memory Stick, the SanDisk Extreme III Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo. Available in 4GB and 8GB capacities, the card's claim to fame are its 30MB/s read & write speeds. That makes the Extreme III particularly suited to high-resolution DSLR cameras and HD camcorders. Read The Full Story