Last week, hard disk manufacturing plants in Thailand shut down due to flooding. Affected facilities include two Western Digital plants, which they estimate could be offline for up to eight months. These two plants produce approximately 60 percent of their products. (A third plant in Malaysia is unaffected by the floods.) Seagate has two Thailand […]
Ever wonder what happened to those guys who found an iPhone 4 prototype in a German beer garden in California last year and sold it to Gizmodo for $5,000? Yesterday, the tale reached a conclusion as Brian Hogan and his friend Sage Wallower both pleaded no contest to misdemeanor theft charges. The two receive one […]
Electronics Weekly announces a new memory technology in development by HP. The memristor (memory resistor) wafers are expected to be ready to market as a substitute for flash storage within the next 18 months. With continued development, the memristors ultimately serve as a replacement for conventional DRAM and SRAM. Senior Fellow at HP, Stan Williams, […]
Confrontational advocate of the open source computing model, Richard Stallman, blogged his own version of a eulogy for Steve Jobs last week. As a line item in his political notes section of his personal website, Stallman wrote, “Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their […]
Now that Apple officially announced the next iPhone revision, we can finally put an end to months of rumors and guesses about the handset itself. Judging by the lack of discussion in the press, most people apparently feel there’s nothing more to say about the addition of Sprint as a carrier offering the iPhone, too? […]
It’s not news that movie studios leverage 3D as a profit boosting tool, with theaters currently charging about three dollars extra per ticket for the privilege of viewing a given production with artificial depth added (often more than can be said about the characters in the script). Now, Sony proposes ending the standard practice of […]
Electronic Arts announces a new partner for their latest installment of the popular Need For Speed racing games, Sports Illustrated. More specifically, Sports Illustrated swimsuit models. Need for Speed: The Run, scheduled for a November 15 release, features Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover models Irina Shayk and Chrissy Teigen in a race from San Francisco to […]
The Lawrence Berkeley National Lab has made a breakthrough resulting in longer-lasting lithium-ion batteries. Berkeley says the key is in the creation of a new polymer binder surrounding silicon particles that make up the anode of the battery. In existing li-on batteries, the silicon is surrounded by a binding material such as PVDF, mixed with […]
Solid state drive maker OCZ introduces a new product, the Synapse Cache SSD. This drive, available in a 64 GB or 128 GB version, is used with existing hard drives in a PC. Dataplex caching software included on the drive copies data from the hard drive to the SSD as needed for fast access and […]
The just released, and extremely long, 2011 Cisco Connected World Technology Report illustrates how deeply ingrained the internet is with a young person’s daily life. This study surveys 2,800 professionals and college students 30 years old or younger from 14 different countries. Nearly half of respondents (62 percent of employees surveyed and 55 percent of […]
