Apple Computer Inc. unveiled an eagerly-anticipated iPod mobile phone with a touch-screen today, priced at US$599 ($878) for 8 gigabytes of memory, pushing the company’s shares up as much as 8.5 per cent.
Chief Executive Steve Jobs said the iPhone, which also will be available in a 4-gigabyte model for US$499, will ship in June in the United States. The phones will be available in Europe in the fourth quarter and in Asia in 2008.
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Consumers’ ability to store video, photos, music and other valued data will reach new heights as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today announced the industry’s first terabyte (TB) hard drive. Delivering superior performance and reliability, as well as capacity, Hitachi’s 1TB hard drive meets the needs of consumers who want to create, share and store their digital information, and lots of it. Hitachi’s Deskstar® 7K1000 will begin shipping to retail customers in the first quarter of 2007 at a suggested retail price of $399 (USD), or 40 cents per gigabyte (GB). This new consumer-friendly price makes ultra-high storage capacity more affordable and accessible than ever before.
The Time Warner division Warner Bros. has said that they would introduce a high definition DVD disc that can hold films and TV shows in rival and incompatible formats.
The company claims that they have developed a “Total HD Disc” which would solve their problem of choosing between the rivals HD DVD and Blu-Ray format.
Sony is the driving force behind Blu-Ray format while Toshiba is developing and promoting the HD DVD format.
Both the media requires their own players which are totally incompatible with each other. This new media from Warner would solve the problem for the customers who can buy a single DVD which would work on both the players.
Ron Sanders, President of Warner Home Video said in a statement: “The Total High-Definition Disc allows consumers to fully embrace high-definition viewing. Warner Bros. was a force in creating the current market dominance of the standard DVD, and we hope that THD will make it easier for the average consumer to enjoy this next level of technology.”
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The relationship aims to experiment with the introduction of virtual worlds and 3-D environments into the multi-channel retailing environment. As retailers focus on improving the customers’ experience, connecting the virtual world with the real world to solve business problems can create a richer, more immersive experience for Circuit City’s customers. This work is an extension of IBM and Circuit City’s existing systems collaboration. December 12, 2006IBM, Macronix and Qimonda Introduces Flash Memory Killer
The advancement heralds future success for “phase-change” memory, which appears to be much faster and can be scaled to dimensions smaller than flash – enabling future generations of high-density “non-volatile” memory devices as well as more powerful electronics. Non-volatile memories do not require electrical power to retain their information. By combining non-volatility with good performance and reliability, this phase-change technology may also enable a path toward a universal memory for mobile applications. |
Scientists from IBM, Macronix and Qimonda today announced joint research results that give a major boost to a new type of computer memory with the potential to be the successor to flash memory chips, which are widely used in computers and consumer electronics like digital cameras and portable music players.