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The Sony Xperia XZs is now available for preorder. (Source: Sony)

Sony Xperia XZs will go on sale April 5th

The Xperia XZs is now available for preorder on Amazon and will go on sale April 5th. Priced at $699, the Xperia XZs pairs an impressive camera with outdated internals.

Sam Medley, 03 Apr 2017 17:09

Nikkei reported on Friday that U.S. private equity firm Silver Lake and U.S. chipmaker Broadcom offered Toshiba about 2 trillion yen ($18 billion) for the unit. (Source:The Korea Herald)

Apple, Amazon and Google among companies bidding for Toshiba's NAND unit

Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun Daily reported on Saturday that US tech firms Apple, Google and Amazon have joined the bidding war over Toshiba's NAND unit, which accounts for 20 percent of the NAND market.

Isaac Brown, 03 Apr 2017 14:27

Google Calendar available on Apple iPad March 2017

Google Calendar hits Apple's iPad

This well-known app by Google is now available for the iPad and allows its users to search their calendar from the home screen with Spotlight Search, also having many more useful features currently in the pipeline.

Codrut Nistor, 31 Mar 2017 16:10

iOS 10.3 is now available for download. (Source: Apple)

Apple iOS 10.3 now publicly available

The update brings a shift to Apple's new APFS file system, which should increase overall system performance and better allocate storage space. There are a few other changes as well.

Sam Medley, 27 Mar 2017 23:26

Intel's Optane Memory is coming to consumer markets in bite-size capacities. (Photo source: Intel)

Intel Optane storage coming to consumer markets

The fast storage solution will be available in 16 GB ($44) and 32 GB ($77) capacities. Their primary use seems to be as a fast cache drive for a larger SSD or HDD.

Sam Medley, 27 Mar 2017 20:25

Micron quarterly revenue up 58 percent YoY

The rising demand for DRAM and NAND flash components have boosted Micron from red to black with profits reaching 894 million USD in the last quarter alone.

Allen Ngo, 26 Mar 2017 03:44

128 GB Lexar JumpDrive Tough ruggedized flash drive

Lexar JumpDrive Tough ruggedized flash drive now available

This USB 3.1 flash drive was created to tackle tough environments and various hazards, being available in 32 GB, 64 GB, and 128 GB capacities. The price starts at $19.99 USD and goes up to $59.99 USD.

Codrut Nistor, 23 Mar 2017 14:55

QNAP TS-453Bmini Vertical NAS with Intel J3455, 4K output and transcoding

QNAP TS-453Bmini vertical NAS now official

This Intel Celeron J3455-powered NAS for home users comes in two variants (4 GB and 8 GB RAM), offering support for up to four 3.5-inch/2.5-inch drives and featuring two Gigabit RJ45 LAN ports, AES-NI hardware encryption, 4K output/transcoding, and more.

Codrut Nistor, 08 Mar 2017 10:15

Amazon acquires Thinkbox

This company that provides tools for media and design content creation has been founded back in 2010 and now is on its way to join Amazon Web Services, not long after AWS launched the Chime videoconference call service.

Codrut Nistor, 07 Mar 2017 20:30

Samsung V-NAND flash memory chips, Samsung leading the flash memory market March 2017

Samsung still leading the NAND flash market

Despite its serious problems with the Note 7, Samsung managed to increase its lead in the flash memory market, its sales exceeding $14 billion - almost twice as much as Toshiba.

Codrut Nistor, 06 Mar 2017 19:45

Microsoft OneDrive for Kindle Fire and Fire phone, OneDrive unlimited accounts reduced to 1 TB storage limit

Microsoft phases out OneDrive unlimited storage

Since some Office 365 subscribers who received limitless OneDrive storage used their cloud space to store movies, TV shows, and other similar files, Microsoft is now placing a 1 TB limit on all previously unlimited accounts.

Codrut Nistor, 05 Mar 2017 22:15

QNAP TS-1685 Super NAS for business with Intel Xeon D processor and 16 drive bays

QNAP intros TS-1685 16-bay Super NAS

This new business-class NAS features a Xeon D processor by Intel and up to 128 GB DDR4, offering support for twelve 3.5-inch hard drives and four 2.5-inch SSDs, as well as six M.2 SSD slots.

Codrut Nistor, 05 Mar 2017 16:05

Lexar and SanDisk to launch world's first UHS-III MicroSD cards this quarter

While the Lexar Professional 1000x will focus on higher raw transfer rates, the SanDisk Extreme will favor a wider bus for more simultaneous read/write access.

Allen Ngo, 02 Mar 2017 08:31

Embattled chairman Shigenori Shiga was brought into the top role last year after a $1.3 billion accounting scandal in 2015. (Source: Reuters)

Toshiba may sell off most of its flash-memory chip business

The Japanese company is in a desperate financial situation after years of costly acquisitions in an effort to become the leader of the business industry. As a result, they may have to sell off their entire NAND memory business to remain afloat.

Isaac Brown, 15 Feb 2017 02:25

The GPD Win is a 5.5" Windows 10 PC aimed at gamers on the go. (Source. GPD.hk)

GPD updates Win mini PC

The pocket-sized PC gets some notable improvements, including a faster Intel Atom processor and a higher quality keyboard.

Sam Medley, 15 Feb 2017 01:04

The Shield Pro has 500 GB of internal storage and support for microSD cards. (Source: NVIDIA)

NVIDIA Shield Pro now available

For $299, the Shield Pro brings much more storage (500 GB) and support for microSD cards. However, the Pro is equipped with the same Tegra X1 processor as the entry-level Shield TV.

Sam Medley, 02 Feb 2017 21:47

Toshiba to sell part of its memory business

Due to the cost overruns expected to reach several billion dollars incurred by its US nuclear business, the Japanese company is spinning off part of its flash memory division and selling a stake in the resulting business.

Codrut Nistor, 28 Jan 2017 22:40

Samsung posts major revenue and profit growth for Q4 and full-year 2016

One phone does not make a company. Despite setback with the Galaxy Note 7, Samsung recorded a massive jump in profits for FY 2016.

Sam Medley, 24 Jan 2017 17:03

Toshiba N300 6 TB high-reliability hard drive for NAS

Toshiba unveils 4 TB and 6 TB N300 hard drives

The N300 high-reliability hard drives feature a generous 128 MB data buffer, offering a sustained data transfer rate of more than 200 MB/s. The 6 TB model has a 4 TB sibling as well.

Codrut Nistor, 24 Jan 2017 16:21

Seagate BarraCuda Pro 10 TB hard disc drive, Samsung shuts down Suzhou manufacturing plant

Seagate shuts down its plant in Suzhou

The world's largest hard disk maker is going through a global business restructuring plan and, due to a slowing market, recently announced the plan to shut down a manufacturing plant and to cut over 6,500 jobs worldwide.

Codrut Nistor, 17 Jan 2017 16:20

Samsung Chromebook Pro closeup, one of the many Samsung products that got awards at CES 2017

CES 2017 | Samsung wins 120 awards

Next to quite a few media and industry awards, Samsung received no less than 34 CES Innovation Awards at this year's edition of the Las Vegas technology show, including a Best of Innovation award in the video display category.

Codrut Nistor, 09 Jan 2017 09:07

SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I card Premium Edition that meets the Application Performance Class 1 or A1 requirement of the SD Association’s SD 5.1

SanDisk unveils the world’s first Application Performance Class 1-compliant microSD card

The 256 GB SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I Premium Edition memory card is optimized for smartphones, being the first one compliant with the A1 specifications. This product will hit the market this month for $199.99 USD and can manage up to 1,500 random reads and 500 random writes per second.

Codrut Nistor, 06 Jan 2017 11:10

QNAP CES 2017 flyer, QNAP Thunderbolt 3 NAS and

CES 2017 | QNAP announces Thunderbolt 3 NAS and other new storage solutions

The Thunderbolt NAS introduced back in 2015 has been updated with Thunderbolt 3 connectivity, but QNAP has also unveiled a NAS with optical disc drive compatibility, as well as a few other new products.

Codrut Nistor, 05 Jan 2017 20:55

Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate GT world's largest flash drive with 2 TB capacity

Kingston unveils world's first 2 TB flash drive

Dubbed Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate GT, this impressive flash drive has a shock-resistant zinc-alloy case, offers USB 3.1 speeds, and will hit the market next month in 1 TB and 2 TB variants.

Codrut Nistor, 04 Jan 2017 13:50

QNAP TS-831X quad-core business NAS with 8 bays

QNAP announces TS-831X quad-core NAS

This new cost-effective NAS for businesses has eight hot-swappable bays, up to 16 GB of memory, and uses a quad-core AnnapurnaLabs Alpine processor. It also features a hardware-accelerated encryption engine, SSD caching, and two built-in 10GbE SFP+ ports.

Codrut Nistor, 19 Dec 2016 19:40

ADATA announces 2 TB Ultimate SU900 MLC SSD

ADATA announces 2 TB Ultimate SU900 3D NAND MLC SSD

The Ultimate SU900 will utilize a brand new SMI 2258 controller with capacities starting at 256 GB for 109 Euros. Sequential read and write rates cap out at 560 MB/s and 525 MB/s, respectively.

Allen Ngo, 16 Dec 2016 03:04

Analysts expect SSD prices to rise next year

Both MLC and TLC SSDs could rise by as much as 10 percent due to growing demand over traditional HDDs in consumer electronics.

Allen Ngo, 06 Dec 2016 07:05

Samsung 3D V-NAND memory chips, Samsung leading the NAND memory market

Samsung dominates the NAND flash market

Earlier this year, Samsung expanded its 3D NAND flash memory manufacturing facilities in China and South Korea, also starting to manufacture 64-layer NAND flash memory chips earlier this month.

Codrut Nistor, 05 Dec 2016 15:05

The 4TB 850 PRO should offer better performance and reliability than the existing 4 TB 850 EVO. (Source: Samsung)

Samsung to release 4 TB 850 PRO SSD at CES 2017

Samsung has announced the release of a 4 TB 850 PRO SSD for January 2017.

Douglas Black, 04 Dec 2016 18:02

Intel's "3D Xpoint" technology uses a framework of tiny wires to signify 1's and 0's via electrical resistance (Source: Micron, Intel)

Intel to delay release of super-fast Optane SSDs into 2017-2018

The Optane SSDs, many times faster than current NAND-based SSDs, were originally slated for a 2016 release. Intel will no longer confirm an exact release date, but has hinted we may have to wait until 2018 for a full-scale release.

Douglas Black, 03 Dec 2016 06:53

Seagate Duet external hard drive with Amazon Drive cloud support

Amazon and Seagate unleash an external hard drive

The Seagate Duet external hard drive only offers 1 TB of internal storage and uses USB 3.0 connectivity, but comes with one free year of Amazon Drive Unlimited Storage and automatic cloud backup support, all for just $99.99 USD.

Codrut Nistor, 02 Dec 2016 11:45

The internal hard drive is the only major component that can be replaced by the end user. (Source: iFixIt)

Teardown reveals Microsoft Surface Studio has limited user upgradeability

Most major components are soldered on and cannot be replaced. However, the device appears to be fairly repairable.

Sam Medley, 29 Nov 2016 22:15

Qwiklabs online learning platform joins Google Cloud

Google Cloud acquires Qwiklabs

This startup founded in 2012 that offers lab-learning environments joins Google to enhance user training across all products on Google Cloud, including Google Cloud Platform and G Suite.

Codrut Nistor, 22 Nov 2016 12:25

Symantec acquires LifeLock

This corporate purchase is worth $2.3 billion and, according to the two companies involved, its target is "to form world’s largest digital safety platform for consumers and families."

Codrut Nistor, 21 Nov 2016 09:45

Adata announces waterproof SD700 external SSD for 120 Euros

The small and extra-durable external SSD utilizes USB Type-C for transfer rates of up to 440 MB/s with compatibility across PCs, Macs, and Android devices.

Allen Ngo, 19 Nov 2016 05:55

Plextor EX1 external SSD with USB Type-C coming this month

The external SSD will be compatible with both PCs and Android with storage capacity options ranging from 128 GB up to 512 GB.

Allen Ngo, 18 Nov 2016 05:58

iFixit's teardown shows that repairs will be very difficult. (Source: iFixit)

iFixit's teardown of Macbook Pro 13" with Touch Bar reveals differences, difficulties

The new Macbook Pro 13" with Touch Bar has markedly different internals from its non-Touch Bar brother, including changes that make it horribly difficult to repair.

Sam Medley, 16 Nov 2016 20:28

Google Play Music relaunch November 2016 with

Google Play Music relaunches

The music streaming service by Google now relies on machine learning to create and curate playlists, also adding offline playing capabilities. Google Play Music also gets an overhauled home screen.

Codrut Nistor, 15 Nov 2016 15:03

Seagate launches high capacity 5 TB 2.5-inch external HDD

Seagate launches high capacity 5 TB external HDD

The Backup Plus Portable will be the world's largest capacity 2.5-inch external HDD at the consumer level when it launches next month for about $190 USD.

Allen Ngo, 15 Nov 2016 06:49

Microsoft updates Arrow Launcher and OneDrive

The personal launcher for Android gets a few new features and efficiency improvements, but the service once known as SkyDrive receives new capabilities as well, mainly related to photo sharing and editing.

Codrut Nistor, 14 Nov 2016 18:55

Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch gets beta-stage Samsung Pay support

Samsung Pay Beta hits the 3G/4G Gear S2 and Gear S2 Classic

The cellular versions of both the Samsung Gear S2 and the Gear S2 Classic get beta-stage support for the mobile payment service in the US three months after their regular variants.

Codrut Nistor, 14 Oct 2016 19:30

Amazon Music Unlimited streaming service launches in the US

Amazon launches Music Unlimited streaming service

This new on-demand music streaming service features "tens of millions" of songs and starts at $3.99 USD per month (when used exclusively with an Amazon Echo device).

Codrut Nistor, 12 Oct 2016 16:55

Spotify new design 2016, Spotify might buy SoundCloud

Spotify might acquire SoundCloud

The two companies are said to be in advanced talks, but there is no official confirmation yet. Spotify would benefit from SoundCloud's rich indie collection, but there could be more to such a deal.

Codrut Nistor, 29 Sep 2016 22:15

Google Play Music now available in India

Almost five years after the music store went live in the US, Google finally releases Play Music on the Android dominated Indian market.

Codrut Nistor, 28 Sep 2016 16:15

Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge get September update on T-Mobile with Samsung Cloud features

T-Mobile Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge get Samsung Cloud and the last security update

The new firmware contains the September Security Maintenance Release, but it also delivers the Samsung Cloud features like sync for photos, videos, and other files.

Codrut Nistor, 28 Sep 2016 11:05

Samsung: NVMe SSDs are the future

According to Samsung the SSD market is changing fast right now. In 2017 the faster NVMe PCIe SSDs are supposed to be more important then the older AHCI SATA III based SSDs.

Benjamin Herzig, 26 Sep 2016 17:10

Samsung 960 PRO and 960 EVO NVMe SSDs available in in 250 GB, 500 GB and 1 TB variants

Samsung 960 PRO and 960 EVO SSDs coming next month

These two new drives offer capacities between 250 GB and 1 TB (960 EVO) and 2 TB (960 PRO), being expected to hit the market next month starting at $129.99 USD and $329.99 USD.

Codrut Nistor, 21 Sep 2016 14:55

Oracle acquires cloud access security broker Palerra to boost its cloud security offerings

Oracle acquires Palerra

Founded in 2013, Palerra will join Oracle to help them extend the Oracle Identity Cloud Service with an innovative Cloud Access Security Broker. However the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and until it closes, both companies will operate independently.

Codrut Nistor, 19 Sep 2016 10:15

Storage

Intel SSD 600p 512 GB Review: The Entry-Level NVMe SSD

Sony Xperia XZs will go on sale April 5th

Apple, Amazon and Google among companies bidding for Toshiba's NAND unit

Google Calendar hits Apple's iPad

Apple iOS 10.3 now publicly available

Intel Optane storage coming to consumer markets

Micron quarterly revenue up 58 percent YoY

Lexar JumpDrive Tough ruggedized flash drive now available

QNAP TS-453Bmini vertical NAS now official

Amazon acquires Thinkbox

Samsung still leading the NAND flash market

Microsoft phases out OneDrive unlimited storage

QNAP intros TS-1685 16-bay Super NAS

Lexar and SanDisk to launch world's first UHS-III MicroSD cards this quarter

Toshiba may sell off most of its flash-memory chip business

GPD updates Win mini PC

NVIDIA Shield Pro now available

Toshiba to sell part of its memory business

Samsung posts major revenue and profit growth for Q4 and full-year 2016

Toshiba unveils 4 TB and 6 TB N300 hard drives

Seagate shuts down its plant in Suzhou

Samsung 960 Evo and Samsung 960 Pro SSD Review

CES 2017 | Samsung wins 120 awards

SanDisk unveils the world’s first Application Performance Class 1-compliant microSD card

CES 2017 | QNAP announces Thunderbolt 3 NAS and other new storage solutions

Kingston unveils world's first 2 TB flash drive

QNAP announces TS-831X quad-core NAS

ADATA announces 2 TB Ultimate SU900 3D NAND MLC SSD

Analysts expect SSD prices to rise next year

Samsung dominates the NAND flash market

Samsung to release 4 TB 850 PRO SSD at CES 2017

Intel to delay release of super-fast Optane SSDs into 2017-2018

Amazon and Seagate unleash an external hard drive

Teardown reveals Microsoft Surface Studio has limited user upgradeability

Google Cloud acquires Qwiklabs

Symantec acquires LifeLock

Adata announces waterproof SD700 external SSD for 120 Euros

Plextor EX1 external SSD with USB Type-C coming this month

iFixit's teardown of Macbook Pro 13" with Touch Bar reveals differences, difficulties

Google Play Music relaunches

Seagate launches high capacity 5 TB external HDD

Microsoft updates Arrow Launcher and OneDrive

Samsung Pay Beta hits the 3G/4G Gear S2 and Gear S2 Classic

Amazon launches Music Unlimited streaming service

Spotify might acquire SoundCloud

Google Play Music now available in India

T-Mobile Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge get Samsung Cloud and the last security update

Samsung: NVMe SSDs are the future

Samsung 960 PRO and 960 EVO SSDs coming next month

Oracle acquires Palerra

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