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Disk-Drive Makers Keep on Racing To Raise Capacity

Some dueling disk-drive makers are claiming new records for storing data, extending a technology that is celebrating its 50th anniversary in Silicon Valley this week.

A unit of  Hitachi Ltd. plans to announce today that its researchers have demonstrated the ability to store 345 gigabits — or billions of bits — of [...]

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Apple forges path to digital living room

CNET Coverage:   Movies can be downloaded in near-DVD quality, Jobs said during his presentation at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Consumers with broadband speeds of 5 megabits per second will be able to download movies from iTunes in 30 minutes, he added.

Apple also plans to introduce a product in the first quarter [...]

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Apple unveiled several new iPod models, including a matchbook-sized player and an iPod with greater capacity. The company also announced several enhancements to iTunes, including movie downloads and videogames.

Apple introduces the New iPod 

Apple Unveils the New iPod shuffle

Apple Introduces the New iPod nano

Apple Announces iTunes 7 with Amazing New Features

 

 

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SanDisk Introduces 4GB miniSDHC Flash Card for Mobile Phones

Industry’s Highest Capacity Card For Cellphones Will Enable High-Resolution Photography, Digital Video, Music, Games and Data Storage 

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 12, 2006–SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK – News) today announced a 4-gigabyte (GB)(1) miniSD High Capacity (SDHC(TM)) flash card at the CTIA Wireless Show, where the company is exhibiting in Booth #1147. SanDisk Press Release [...]

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Samsung develops new memory chip

SEOUL, South Korea – Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday unveiled a new type of memory chip that it said will allow digital devices to work faster by saving new data more quickly.

The phase-change random access memory, or PRAM, chip is nonvolatile, meaning it will retain data even when an electronic device is turned [...]

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