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Thursday, September 02, 2010
Samsung has today unveiled its latest ambitious digital imaging products in support of the company?s goal to become a top three player in the market by 2012.
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Among other products, Samsung has officially unveiled the Samsung GALAXY Tab (Model: GT-P1000) Android 2.2 tablet device at IFA 2010.
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Panasonic is showcasing its range of 2D and 3D products at this year's IFA, Europe's leading consumer electronics fair from September 3 - 8 in Berlin.
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CyberLink collaborates with Carl ZEISS AG at IFA 2010 in Berlin, Germany to demonstrate ZEISS? next-generation cinemizer eyewear using CyberLink?s playback software, PowerDVD 10.
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DivX and Yamaha today announced at the IFA trade show the worldwide launch of Yamaha DivX Plus HD Certified Blu-ray players.
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Zoran is demonstrating its latest 3D, Internet Connected DTV and Blu-Ray platforms for global consumer electronics manufacturers at IFA 2010 in Berlin.
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Movie server maker Kaleidescape today announced the
availability of a free app for iPhone that simplifies the
movie-shopping experience for Kaleidescape customers.
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Panasonic today highlighted several announcements that will
foster the next wave of professional 3D production.
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At today's inaugural Global Technology Conference,
GLOBALFOUNDRIES revealed the latest details of its progress in
technology development for the 28nm technology generation and
beyond.
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Microsoft proves the the mouse is alive and well by unveiling
the Arc Touch Mouse, the first mouse designed to flatten for
portability and pop up for comfort.
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Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 has finally released to
manufacturing (RTM). While the final integration of Windows
Phone 7 with Microsoft's partners? hardware, software, and
networks is underway, the work Windows Phone team internal
engineering team is largely complete.
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Samsung today introduced its latest wireless universal serial
bus (USB) solution, developed using Ultra Wide Band (UWB)
technology.
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Elpida Memory and Spansion today announced they have created
the industry's first charge-trapping 1.8 V, 4-gigabit SLC
(Single Level Cell) NAND Flash memory.
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Philips is unveiling a range of advanced consumer products
that help people enjoy a healthier and better life in a simple
way, this year at the Internationale Funk Ausstellung (IFA),
taking place in Berlin from September 2-8.
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IBM claims that the new version of its mainframe will be
powered by the world's fastest computer chip clocked at 5.2GHz.
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Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Apple unveiled a snazzier line of its iPod on Wednesday, with new designs for every model of the popular media device in hopes of kick-starting holiday sales. The company also announced the new Apple TV.
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Sony kicks off IFA 2010 with 3D extravaganza featuring Sir
Howard Stringer and Lang Lang. The company announced many new
products under the '3D world created by Sony' moto as well as
the 'Qriocity' network service platform.
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Sony is hoping to spur sales ahead of the holiday shopping season with the release of new electronic readers with touchscreen control.
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Panasonic today debuted its first Full HD 3D Blu-ray Disc home theater systems.
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Motorola today introduced MILESTONE 2 enhanced with MOTOBLUR.
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Developers who are members of Palm's Early Access program can now download the first early access release of webOS 2.0.
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Today, Samsung brings a global effort to the U.S. to help developers, content providers and application enthusiasts join the Smart TV era, and transform the viewing experience at home.
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SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES AG, a global market leader for machines and equipment for optical storage media, sees significant growth in the global Blu-ray market.
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Starting from this month, Buffalo will start shipments of the "BP3D-PI6U2-BK" portable Blu-ray disc drive to the Japanese market. The USB 2.0 drive supports 6x BD-R recording as well as reproduction of Blu-ray 3D content.
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Sony is expected to announce a new music and video download service linking a range of its devices, the Financial Times said on Wednesday.
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HP today enhanced its portfolio of mini notebook PCs with new
products for the consumer, business and education markets. The
company also revealed new consumer notebook PCs that fuse
advanced technologies with stylish designs.
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Samsung today announced the launch of the SF series of
ultra-portable notePCs and NF series netbooks.
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MSI has followed up the recent release of its Fuzion series
mainboard by upping the ante with the release of the 870A
Fuzion Power Edition mainboard that features AMD 870 and SB850
chipset and support for AMD?s full line of Phenom II, Athlon
II, and Sempron processors in Socket AM3, including the 140W
high-consumption Phenom II X6 series.
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Sony today announced that Sony would invest approximately 40 billion yen into Sony Semiconductor Kyushu Corporation's Kumamoto Technology Center, to increase production capacity for "Exmor" and "Exmor R" CMOS image sensors.
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Corsair today announced the launch of the Gaming Audio Series HS1 USB gaming headset.
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The workstation market posted another round of solid numbers in the second quarter of 2010, but that growth is expected to slow in Q3, according to Jon Peddie Research.
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At today?s inaugural Global Technology Conference, GLOBALFOUNDRIES showcased the first open-access 28nm Analog/Mixed-Signal (AMS) production design flow development kit.
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At this year's Internationale Funkausstelung (IFA) in Berlin, LG will showcase a mix of home entertainment and business products as well as the SMART TV concept - a set that mixes connectivity to the Internet with ease of use.
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Hynix Semiconductor has entered into a joint development agreement with HP to develop memristor technology in ReRAM (Resistive Random Access Memory), a next generation memory product.
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This November, Xbox 360 owners will be able to alter their controller with the Xbox 360 Wireless Controller with Play & Charge Kit ? with Transforming D-pad.-
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IBM today broadened its family of four-socket servers with the introduction of the IBM System x3755 M3 rack server equipped with the new AMD Opteron processor.
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The DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C) consisting of nine developers of DVD technology and formats has revised its worldwide patent licensing program beginning on and after January 1, 2010, including offering a new license agreement, which offers reduced royalty rates on certain products and additional licensing options.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Beginning today, the Samsung Epic 4G, America?s first 4G-capable phone with a full QWERTY keyboard and Super AMOLED touchscreen, is available in all Sprint retail channels, including Sprint.com, Telesales (1-800-SPRINT1) and U.S. retail partners, RadioShack, Best Buy and Walmart.
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Onkyo's newest Blu-ray player, the BD-SP808 will offer BLOCKBUSTER On Demand.
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SanDisk the sub-$100 Sansa Fuze+ (plus) portable MP3 player.
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Canon announced today that it has successfully developed the
world's largest CMOS image sensor, with a chip size measuring
202 x 205 mm.
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Seiko Epson Corporation today announced that it has developed
and begun volume production of the world's first reflective
high-temperature polysilicon ("reflective HTPS") TFT liquid
crystal panels for 3LCD projectors. The new panels, which
measure 0.74 inches on the diagonal, support full
high-definition (1920 x 1080 pixels) content.
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Toshiba announced that it today started mass production of
NAND flash memories fabricated with 24nm process technology.
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Hotmail is making it easier for you to stay up-to-date and be productive on your phone. Starting today, you can get your
email, calendar, and contacts pushed automatically to your
phone using Exchange ActiveSync (EAS).
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AMD today announced that a number of technology partners soon plan to release an inexpensive Single Link DisplayPort-to-DVI adapter.
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Google unveilled a new feature to its Gmail service that aims
to separate a user's important emails from the ones that do not
get read often.
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Today Microsoft announced the first official Bing for Mobile
Android App available to Verizon customers.
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As of November 1, 2010, Microsoft is increasing the price of an
Xbox LIVE for some members. This price increase only affects
Xbox LIVE Members in Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom or the
United States.
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GIGABYTE today launched the latest in-house designed GIGABYTE
GV-R577SL-1GD, featuring GIGABYTE?s own Ultra Durable VGA
Technology and silent-cell cooling design.
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Monday, August 30, 2010
AMD plans to eliminate the "ATI Radeon" co-branding the company has maintained since its acquisition of ATI.
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With the new Sandy Bridge line of processors approaching, Intel Corp. on Thursday reduced the price of its Core i7-950 and Xeon W3550 CPUs by almost 50%.
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As preposterous as it might have seemed 5-10 years ago, Samsung Electronics is on track to catch up with Intel in terms of total annual revenues for semiconductors and will most likely become the world's largest IC maker before the middle of this decade.
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3PAR's board of directors has finally determined that the unsolicited proposal by Hewlett-Packard Company to acquire all of 3PAR's outstanding common stock at $30 per share constitutes a "superior proposal".
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Microsoft's Live Sync cloud computing application will be renamed to Live Mesh beta, the company announced.
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The Alpha release of the next major version of Fennec is now available for Android and Nokia N900 users to download and test.
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Interval Licensing LLC ("Interval"), a Paul G. Allen company, filed a complaint today in the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Washington against major internet search and e-commerce companies alleging that they have infringed on four patents held by Interval.
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Infineon Technologies AG and Intel have entered into a definitive agreement to transfer Infineon's Wireless Solutions (WLS) business to Intel in a cash transaction valued at approximately US Dollar 1.4 billion.
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Friday, August 27, 2010
3PAR on Friday accepted Dell's increased offer to acquire the storage leader for $24.30 per share in cash, or approximately $1.6 billion, net of 3PAR's cash.
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At the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam from September 10-14, 2010, Fraunhofer researchers will showcase how 3-D movies can be transmitted via Internet and digital television channels such as via satellite.
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LG Electronics will reveal new 3D Blu-ray Disc players, 3D home theater AV products as well as a smart TV equipped with Google's Android operating system in the coming IFA 2010 (Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin), the largest trade fair for consumer electronics in Europe.
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IBM today announced new POWER7 systems designed to manage demanding workloads and emerging applications, including a high-end system that offers markedly better energy efficiency than competitive systems from HP and Oracle.
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The failure of Solid State Drives (SSD) to catch on in mainstream PCs has spurred leading Hard Disk Drive (HDD) maker Seagate Technology LLC to once again to turn to the Hybrid Hard Drive (HHD) as a way to bring flash-memory-based storage to the notebook market.
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Google launched a website on Thursday for users who want to sift through news, comments and other information on the Internet in real time.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Samsung Electronics America today announced two new lines of multi-function monitors (MFMs) offering consumers a computer monitor and HDTV in one.
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Corsair today announced the general retail availability of the Professional Series Gold AX1200, AX850, and AX750 power supply units.
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MPEG LA announced today that its AVC Patent Portfolio License will continue not to charge royalties for Internet Video that is free to end users (known as "Internet Broadcast AVC Video") during the entire life of this License.
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Netflix today announced the availability of its free Netflix App for iPhone and iPod touch, allowing Netflix members on plans starting at just $8.99 a month to instantly watch a selection of TV episodes and movies streamed to their iPhone or iPod touch at no additional cost.
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Asus announced a new portable CD/DVD burner that combines attractive aesthetics with all these optical media features demanded by portable PC users in a single slim, USB-powered package.
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AMD released a new version of the ATI Catalyst drivers, the ATI Catalyst 10.8 Software Suite.
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Sony today introduced the new 3D BRAVIA NX810 HDTV series for the U.S. market as well as the HX80R and EX30R LED Backlight 3D HDTVs and six new Blu-ray players / burners with support of both 3D and BDXL (100GB BD-R) for the Japanese market.
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Apple will likely show off a new line of iPods on September 1, as speculation mounts the company may also unveil plans to begin a TV project.
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Starting today, Gmail users will be able to call any phone right from Gmail, as Google tries to compete Web calling service Skype and other operators.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Last week Yahoo! began transitioning certain back-end functions for Yahoo! Search over to Microsoft?s search platform. Today that the transition of organic search between Yahoo! and Microsoft is complete, Shashi Seth, senior vice president of Yahoo search products, said in a blog post.
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Microsoft talked about the newly designed Xbox 360 console at the Hot Chips symposium held this week at Stanford University. The provided details on energy-efficient 45nm CPU with integrated GPU chip that powerd the game machine, compared to the 65nm chip that powered the previous Xbox 360.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Roxio today ushered in a new era in personal media with the release of Creator 2011, the world?s first digital media suite to offer a comprehensive feature set for capturing, editing, creating, and sharing personal 3D photos, videos, and projects.
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Toshiba is reportedly working on new 3D Tvs that won't require special glasses.
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WD today introduced its new WD Livewire Powerline AV Network Kit, a HomePlug AV compatible solution that enables consumers to use their existing electrical outlets to extend secure and reliable high-speed Internet connections throughout the home.
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Today at HOT CHIPS 22, AMD will reveal new details on its two next-generation x86 processor core implementations, including AMD's approach to high-performance, multi-threaded computing, as well as a sub-one-watt capable low-power design.
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Sharp is expected to release new 3D devices later this year that will allow users to enjoy 3D video without glasses, as well as audio and text.
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NTI introduced NTI Shadow 5, the latest version of the Continuous Data Protection (CDP) software series designed for Mac users.
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Sony today introduced two new α cameras (models SLT-A55V and SLT-A33) that adopt Sony’s newly-developed Translucent Mirror Technology, which achieves the high level of auto focus speed for both still image and movie shooting.
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Intel, Nokia and the University of Oulu officially opened the Intel and Nokia Joint Innovation Center today. It will employ about two dozen R&D professionals and become the latest member of Intel's European Research Network, Intel Labs Europe.
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Intel announced today that a dozen of new netbooks based on its new mobile dual-core Intel Atom processors are available in stores today.
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Monday, August 23, 2010
AMD today announced the appointment of Donald Newell as vice president and Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Server. Newell had been working 16 years with Intel in the development of both SoC and server platform architecture innovations.
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For those who follow PlayStation 3 discussions, it would have been hard to miss the discussion about a new "jailbreak" for PS3.
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Saturday, August 21, 2010
CyberLink announced Power2Go 7, the next version of its disc burning software.
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Nokia today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Motally Inc., a privately-held US-based company.
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At this year's IFA, being held from the 3rd to the 8th of September in Berlin, Verbatim will be showcasing its latest storage productsin Hall 12 stand 118.
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Samsung announced its new 2.5-inch external hard disk drive (HDD), the S2 Portable 3.0.
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Sony has developed the 'single wire interface technology', a hybrid transmission technology which facilitates both data and power transmissions through a single cable.
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Panasonic announced today that the company will move a part of plasma display panel production facilities at its third domestic PDP plant in Amagasaki City, near Osaka, to Panasonic Plasma Display (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (PPDS) in Shanghai, China, to better respond to robust demand for flat-panel TVs in China.
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Intel and Micron Technology this week announced the delivery of 3-bit-per-cell (3bpc) NAND flash memory on 25-nanometer (nm) process technology, producing the industry's highest capacity, smallest NAND device.
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Seagate and Samsung have entered into a joint development and licensing agreement to develop controller technologies for solid state drive storage devices.
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At gamescom 2010, the world?s largest consumer-oriented games showcase, Microsoft premiered the first wave of Xbox LIVE games launching on Windows Phone 7 this holiday.
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Sony's PlayStation 3 system will be offered with 160GB or 320GB Hard Disk Drives (HDD), offering more capacity to download games and entertainment content from PlayStation Network.
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Panasonic expanded its line of Full HD 3D VIERA Plasma TVs with the launch of the Panasonic VIERA GT25 Series of Full HD 3D Plasma TVs.
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Technology licensing company Rambus Inc. and NVIDIA have signed a patent license agreement related to certain memory controllers.
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Toshiba has utilized a self assembly mask and successfully fabricated the first 2.5 terabits per-square-inch class bit
patterned media (BPM) with a practical servo pattern. The company has also confirmed servo-control operation of a recording head flying over BPM with self assembled dots.
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SANYO late last week introduced a new Full HD (1920 x 1080 30p) Pocket-Size Dual Camera, model VPC-PD2BK, with embedded software for easy use and sharing on social networks.
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