Chris Preimesberger

Samsungs semiconductor division announced Sept. 5 that it is shipping 1GB and 2GB samples of MoviNAND—an embedded combination of NAND flash memory, a multimedia card controller and onboard firmware—to some of its mobile-product OEMs. “MoviNAND solves a dilemma faced by many of our mobile customers: how to put a large amount of NAND flash in […]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Is it possible for a cyber-terrorist to hack into a city’s water distribution system and poison thousands? Or disrupt air traffic communications to cause two airplanes to collide? Or create a surge in the power grid that would leave millions of people in the dark? These are the types of questions pondered […]

Mozilla released Beta 2 of its upcoming Firefox 2 browser for developer review Aug. 31, emphasizing that it is being made available for testing purposes only. The release contains a number of new features, as well as some enhancements to look and feel. “Firefox 2 Beta 2 is intended for Web application developers and our […]

Data storage hardware and software maker EMC maintains a narrow overall lead in the worldwide external disk storage systems market, but Hewlett-Packard has caught up and the two are almost tied for No. 1 in market share, according to second-quarter data released Sept. 1 by IDC. EMC led the worlds top disk storage vendors with […]

Digital recording media maker TDK claimed to have reached a landmark on Aug. 31 in the development of recordable media by announcing the prototype of a 200GB Blu-ray laser disc. A 200GB Blu-ray laser disc doubles the capacity of TDKs existing 100GB Blu-ray prototype. One of TDKs new 200GB blue laser discs could store approximately […]

Fujitsus U.S. subsidiary Aug. 30 introduced two new mobile hard disk drives with perpendicular magnetic recording—a feature that lets a disk greatly increase its capacity for data. The two new additions—the first mobile disks with PMR in Fujitsus product line—are the MHW2160BH series, a 160GB, 2.5-inch SATA (Serial ATA) model featuring PMR technology; and the […]

Digital tape storage manufacturer Tandberg Data announced Aug. 30 that it is acquiring a competitor, U.S. data storage company Exabyte, for $28 million in cash and stock. In the transaction, Oslo-based Tandberg Data will pay $22 million in cash at the closing of the deal, which is expected to take place in Q4. The merged […]

AT&T revealed late Aug. 29 that an undisclosed number of unauthorized persons had illegally hacked into one of its computer systems and accessed the personal data—including credit card information—of about 19,000 customers who had purchased DSL equipment through the companys online store. The unauthorized electronic access took place over the weekend of Aug. 26-27 and […]

Data storage supplier OnStor introduced a new enterprise package Aug. 28 called the Pantera Clustered NAS system, which the company claims undercuts the price of similar midrange products from competitor Network Appliance by 50 percent. Naming competitors names in specific product announcements may be a new marketing trend. The week of Aug. 21, IBM took […]

Amazon Simple Storage Service, launched last March by the online retail giant primarily for software developers to stow their Web applications, is filling up its servers in only its sixth month of availability, a company spokesperson told eWEEK Aug. 25. S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service), headquartered in Seattle, Wash., has tabulated more than 800 million […]