Lucas Mearian - Author - Good Gear Guide

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Article | 22/05/2013 Google Drive updates Android UI, adds document scanning

Google's Drive cloud storage service has been retooled for Android users and is now capable of capturing a document by converting a photo of it to tex...

Article | 30/04/2013 Samsung builds chips to supercharge your smartphone

Samsung began production of the industry's first ultra-high-speed, 4Gbit, LPDDR3 mobile memory, which it says has performance levels comparable to the...

Article | 27/03/2013 Samsung uses Qi charging for Galaxy S4, but sees A4WP as the future

While Samsung's latest smartphone, the Galaxy S4, uses the Qi standard for wireless charging, the company will continue to push the Alliance for Wirel...

Article | 23/10/2012 Apple announces hybrid drive technology in Macs

Apple announced it will be including hybrid drive technology in its new iMac and Mac mini desktops, which will offer flash-like performance with up to...

Article | 13/09/2012 Why no wireless charging in the iPhone 5?

Apple is one of only two notable vendors missing from supporting the industry standard for wireless charging. So while its new, smaller connector m...

Article | 10/09/2012 Western Digital releases samples of its thinnest hybrid drive for Ultrabooks

Western Digital announced what it said is the industry's thinnest hybrid drive for Ultrabooks, a 5mm-thick model that has 500GB capacity.

Article | 10/07/2012 Under competitive pressure, Dropbox doubles capacity, not prices

Under pressure from Google Drive and other industry heavyweights, Dropbox announced it is doubling the capacity of its Pro 50 and Pro 100 online stora...

Article | 15/06/2012 Hybrid drives already passe, as SSD sales skyrocket

Hybrid drives, which combine NAND flash with spinning disk, are selling like molasses compared to SSDs and SSDs with cache, according to IHS iSuppli. ...

Article | 8/06/2012 Toshiba touts industry's densest SSDs, doubles performance

Toshiba Storage Products today announced a new line-up of solid-state drives (SSDs) using the industry's smallest lithography process to date -- 19 na...

Article | 4/06/2012 HP releases 100TB/hr backup system

HP today announced new deduplication solutions for its StoreOnce Backup product line, including the B6200, that enable 100TB/hr backup performance. ...

Article | 4/06/2012 Toshiba says new SSDs have double performance, densest memory

Toshiba today announced a new line of solid-state drives that use 19-nanometer process technology, the smallest circuitry to date.

Article | 28/10/2011 LSI to buy flash controller maker SandForce

Fabless semi-conductor maker LSI Corp. today announced it will acquire SandForce, the leading maker of flash memory controllers for enterprise-class a...

Article | 8/10/2011 Imation launches line of NAS appliances for nearline, offline storage

Imation, a vendor of removable storage medium that includes hard disk drives and magnetic tape, today announced its first network-attached storage app...

Article | 8/10/2011 HP set to release NAND flash replacement in 18 months

A Hewlett-Packard senior fellow this week told attendees at the International Electronics Forum 2011 in Seville that his company will have a new non-v...

Article | 5/10/2011 Cloud storage arrays to generate $1.45B in 2015

Worldwide revenue from vendors selling external disk storage subsystems for cloud-based systems will grow from $267.4 million this year to $1.45 billi...