Samsung news from FierceCIO

There is a channel shortage of larger capacity hard disk drives (HDD) for laptops and it looks like it will continue through the third quarter, at least. Ironically, the genesis for the tight supply... Read more...

On Thursday, Samsung Electronics unveiled the first hardware-based self-encrypting solid-state drive (SSD) in the world. Data is transparently encrypted as it is written to the SSD--which will be... Read more...

Amid continued steep declines in the price of flash memory chips, the cost of solid-state drives (SSD) is expected to achieve price parity with that of current generation of hard disk drives within... Read more...

The move to support digital photo frames appears set to cross a critical mass, with Samsung introducing a line of processors specially designed for digital photo frames. Indeed, Samsung--the maker of... Read more...

Intel has unveiled a new solid state drive (SSD) in the form of the X25-E Extreme, which is even faster than the X25-M which was released in September. The folks over at the Tech Report got their... Read more...

SanDisk, on Wednesday, announced a new flash memory management system called Extreme Flash File System (ExtremeFFS) that it claims can work up to 100 times faster than the existing generation of... Read more...

Samsung and Sun Microsystems announced on Tuesday that they have co-developed a new 8 Gbit single-level-cell (SLC) flash memory for use in solid-state drives (SSD). According to the companies,... Read more...

A group of six major vendors have announced the creation of a patent alliance to ensure that companies are able to access WiMAX technologies at predictable costs. Called the Open Patent... Read more...

Samsung plans to launch a 256 GB solid state disk before the end of this year. A prototype sporting the same 2.5-inch form factor as the hard disk drives traditionally utilized in notebook

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Open-source software may be a blessing in disguise for IT offices that are forced to tighten their belts because of economic woes. "The economic slowdown in the United States may actually boost... Read more...