Samsung Electronics has informed downstream customers it will start reducing its supply of NAND flash chips to them from July as its key customer Apple has placed a large batch of orders, according to sources at the company's customers. Read more

Super Talent has announced that the company will, for a limited time, bundle its line of MasterDrive MX SSDs with a free CD containing the Ubuntu Desktop Edition Linux OS and the OpenOffice software suite. Read more

After reviewing recent DRAM price trends in both the spot and contract markets, memory-specialist research firm InSpectrum noted that the relative stable pricing could not justify recent claims that a batch of 80 million (in 1Gb equivalent) 68nm-made DRAM chips from Samsung Electronics were defective, as such a volume would be sure to affect both DRAM markets in a noticeable manner. Read more

The Solid State Drive will completely replace the traditional hard drive in the coming ten years. This is the conclusion we’re drawing as the capacity of flash drives goes up and their prices come down. Read more

Olympia (WA) - Small USB thumb drives are great for most people, but they cause headaches for government agencies handling sensitive information. Read more

Lite-On IT, the largest Taiwan-based maker of half-height (H/H) optical disc drives (ODDs), witnessed its monthly shipment volume of Blu-ray Disc (BD)-ROM drives increase from less than 10,000 units in the fourth quarter of 2007 to an expected 40,000-50,000 units in March 2008, according to industry sources in Taiwan. Read more

EMC has sent a revised buyout proposal to Iomega, which the company apparently is willing to accept. Read more

At Macworld 2008, Newertech announces a new USB 2.0 Universal Adapter for all bare metal external hard drives: No case required. Read more

If January is any indication, 2008 will be a good year for data backup hardware, with the debut of Apple’s Time Capsule, and its 1 day old competitor, Data Robotics’ DroboShare. Read more

Apple tries to take the pain out of backing up data with its new Time Capsule device. Essentially a package that combines a hard drive with an AirPort Extreme 802.11n base station, Time Capsule enables Apple users to backup data from every Mac in a hou Read more

Las Vegas (NV) - Ok so this isn’t anything new, but we hadn’t yet seen the ATi TV Wonder 600 in action until last night. The small USB stick pulls over the air HDTV and regular television signals from any coaxial antenna. So you can easy hook it up to Read more

Fremont (CA) - Remember when 1 GB USB flash drives were all the rage? Well Corsair is laughing at those measly drives by rolling out two 32 GB drives. The Flash Voyager and its more studier cousin, the Flash Survivor, both sport 256-bit AES encryption. Read more