• Intel forms flash gang of five • The Register

    When a group of cutthroat competitors decide to collaborate it can only mean one thing, there’s a lot of money to be made. Intel is forming up a group to set standards for PCIe based SSD products for Enterprise and Data Center computing. To me this is a dead giveaway we will see a flood…

  • Angelbird to Bring PCIe SSD on the Cheap and Iomega has a USB 3 external SSD

    Some announcements last week from a company named Angelbird and the old stalwart Iomega. SSDs are the storage technology du jour and everyone wants to differentiate their offerings especially as more and more flash chips become more and more alike in speed and performance (3 manufacturers now are all neck in neck in terms of…

  • 64 GB Coming to SD Cards, USB Drives

    Samsung’s product development just won’t quit. What new devices await us in 2011? Will we see usb flash drives hit 64Gbytes? Will flash memory prices start to fall? Will SSDs become ubiquitous? With 3 manufacturers hitting the same feature size simultaneously it’s very likely.

  • May the SandForce be with you • The Register

    Just a quick link to a Press Release from the makers of the most popular highest performance disk controller for Solid State Drives. Higher speeds and more throughput make SSDs even more attractive to the Enterprise data centers and they mean faster laptops and desktops for us all.

  • October 6, 2010 | BI Incorporated

    “We believe the issue is resolved as we have expanded the database threshold to more than 1 trillion records. In the meantime, we are working with Microsoft to develop a warning system on database thresholds so we can anticipate these issues in the future.” via October 6, 2010 | BI Incorporated. This is the key…

  • Microsoft GPU video encoding patent could hurt creatives | Electronista

    A few years ago nVidia opened up its video cards to software programmers to write applications that could re-use the video card to perform other tasks. One of those tasks useful to an average person is to speed up converting videos from one format to another. Now Microsoft is saying they invented the idea and…

  • Personal data stores and pub/sub networks – O’Reilly Radar

    My data belong to me not to the services I decide to participate in. But that’s not how the services do things generally. What would an ideal world look like where I could keep all my personal profile information in one spot and subscribe to services through that hub?

  • Intel Debuts New Atom System-on-Chip Processor

    Intel Atom and FPGAs in the news. I hope a product using the Intel Stellarton cpu sees the light of day.

  • Custom superchippery pulls 3D from 2D images like humans • The Register

    I like to follow the developments in re-configurable computing, primarily anyone that uses FPGAs in their products. Here’s an interesting research project that uses an FPGA as a core part of it’s architecture. And the application is pretty cool too.

  • The Ask.com Blog: Bloglines Update

    Is RSS consumed from a ‘standalone’ RSS reader a evolutionary dead-end for consuming content? Well, what do you think?!