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Kingston 128GB Solid State Drive Hits Oz
Kingston Digital has launched the second-generation SSDNow V Series of solid state drives in Australia.


Save On Adobe With Lexar
Customers purchasing Lexar memory cards will receive discounts and free trials of Adobe software applications.


Harvey Norman Spend Millions On IT & Online
Harvey Norman who last week announced a 40% downturn in profits is tipping several million dollars into new software in an effort to link their global operations to a common system.


Westpac Forecasts Interest Rates To Rise 3%
The Chief Economist of the Westpac Bank, Bill Evans has forecast that interest will rise to 6% from the current rate of 3%. He also predicts that the Australian economy will perform below average over the next 18 months and that unemployment will hit 7.5% by the middle of next year.


Kingston Ships HyperX SO-DIMM For Netbooks
Kingston Technology, today announced the release of a high-performance 2GB HyperX SO-DIMM specifically targeted to owners of netbook computing devices using the Intel Atom processor.


SanDisk Secret Revealed Following $5.8b Takeover Bid
The secret behind the US$5.8 billion hostile takeover attempt of SanDisk by Samsung is out following revelations that SanDisk has developed powerful new chip technology that could transform portable computing.


Say Happy Birthday
50 years ago today Texas Instruments engineer Jack Kirby changed the world forever when he invented the worlds first integrated circuit on a silicon processor.


Samsung Warns Of NAND Flash Drought
According to overseas report, Samsung is warning that there may be a NAND flash memory drought after Apple placed a massive order.


HP Invents Super Memory Module
According to a report in techworld.com, Hewlett-Packard (HP) researchers have discovered the existence of a "memristor," the fourth circuit element in electrical engineering.


Kingston Launches USB Flash For Business
The new USB flash drive from Kingston is targeted at business users, offering storage capacities up to 8GB and software which allows users to work across multiple PCs by syncing files, email and Internet settings on the drive itself.


Kingston Debuts Affordable 8GB USB Flash
USB flash drives have become a popular method of quickly transferring data from one PC to another. Now Kingston has introduced an entry-level range which makes large capacity drives more affordable for consumers.


SanDisk Goes For The Jugular Over Ripped Off Flash Technology
Flash memory maker SanDisk has gone for the jugular of several competitors which the company claims are ripping off their technology. Among the companies being sued are LG, Imation, Verbatim, PNY and Kingston.


Kingston Turns 20 And Aims For The Aussie Market
Kingston has recently celebrated its 20th Anniversary and has told media representatives from all over the Asia-Pacific region that it will now be focusing more on its memory modules and flash products, and will be looking at increasing its market share in Australia.


Kingston Unveils First DDR3 Memory Modules
Kingston announced its first, low-latency PC3 1375MHz DDR3 HyperX memory module, making it the first company to drive memory benchmarks and gaming further and faster than ever before, the company claims.


Kingston Goes Mobile With Memory
Flash memory and memory module manufacturer, Kingston Technology, claims the future for the memory market is in flash, with the increasing demand for an all-in-one mobile device with music, video and data storing and playing capabilities.


Tomato Flash Set To Be Squashed By Samsung And SanDisk
An unknown Taiwanese flash memory card player is bragging that it can take on giant memory manufacturers like Samsung, Toshiba and SanDisk and beat them in the Australian market. Called Tomato Flash, the brand has not been able to secure any mass retailers to sell their products in Australia however a few bottom end IT resellers are stocking the product. An unknown Taiwanese flash memory card player is bragging that it can take on giant memory manufacturers, Samsung, Toshiba and SanDisk and beat them in the market. Called Tomato Flash the brand has not been able to secure any mass retailers to sell their products in Australia however a few bottom end IT resellers are stocking the product.


IBM Announces Very Fast Memory To Replace Flash
IBM in partnership with Macronix and Qimonda have developed a new form of memory that is up to 500 times faster and much smaller than flash memory.


Nintendo Wii Won't Have A Memory Problem
SanDislk has announced a special edition of memory for the new Nintendo Wii. The product will be launched in Australia in December.


Grunt Needed To Run Vista
Are you ready for Vista, Microsoft's new operating system that, with luck, will launch in 2007? To make life easier, Microsoft has launched a guide as to which PCs work and which fail the Vista test.


Flash Fire
Led by the growing popularity of camera phones, the market for flash cards is on fire and expected to grow in value from $8 billion in 2003 to more than $27 billion by 2008, according to market analyst Semico Research.


SanDisk Takes On Sony
SanDisk has hit the E3 show floor in LA, with several new memory cards for use in Sony’s PSP hoping, in part, to muscle aside Sony’s Universal Media Disc as the platform for viewing video on the portable gaming device.


Samsung Execs Jailed Over CE Price Fixing
The US Government has netted over a billion dollars in fines and jailed 3 Samsung exectives following an investigation onto CE DRAM Memory price fixing.


Samsung Flash Drive Soon
Samsung Semiconductor will begin production of its NAND flash-equipped hybrid hard drive for notebook computers during the fourth quarter.


SanDisk And Samsung Start Memory War
Samsung Electronics has been dumping NAND flash with its customers since late February amid competition from SanDisk who this week rolled out several new products in Australia.


Verbatim’s Smart USB Drives
Armed with a 32 bit ARM-7 microprocessor Verbatim's new Pro line of Store ‘n’ Go line of USB flash drives are pitched at IT Pros, content developers and demanding users.


LaCie Offers 8GB USB Key
Portable memory is the big thing and this device is bigger than most LaCie has introduced a a credit-card sized USB with capacities running up to 8GB.


SanDisk Introduces Entertainment Flash Memory Cards
At the CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment 2005 trade show, SanDisk announced a new SanDisk technology called TrustedFlash.


Sony Memory Top Up
Sony Australia has introduced the 2GB Memory Stick PRO Duo (high speed) and 4GB Memory Stick PRO (high speed) to its flash media family.


Faster Transfers From SD Cards
Kingston Technology’s new Secure Digital (SD) Cards promise 133X super-fast transfer rates of larger size files and capacities of 512MB and 1GB.



 



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