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Netflix planning switch from Silverlight to HTML5
- Netflix has been working toward transitioning away from Silverlight to HTML5, it recently indicated on its technology blog. With Silverlight's biggest customer fleeing the web-based video plug-in scene, the imminent demise of browser plug-ins like Adobe Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight…
IBM to invest $1 billion in flash storage research and development
- Solid state drives could soon become a staple in the enterprise sector thanks to a recent commitment from IBM. Big Blue announced plans yesterday to invest $1 billion in the research and development of flash storage to help design and…
Adobe issues emergency Flash update, warns of active exploits on Windows and OS X
- Adobe has released a patch for two Flash player vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited against Windows and OS X users to install malware on their systems. The first of them, CVE-2013-0633, works by tricking Windows users into opening a…
Tuesday tech deals: 480GB OCZ Solid 3 $280, 1 year XBL Gold $35
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TigerDirect offers the OCZ 480GB Solid 3 Series SSD, model no. SLD3-25SAT3-480G, for $329.99. This $50 mail-in rebate cuts it to $279.99. With free shipping, that's $0.58/GB and the lowest total price we could find $50, although we saw it for $10 less in December (since expired)...
Lacie's XtremKey USB 3.0 touts 230MB/s transfers, rugged design
- Lacie has expanded its rugged storage line with a new portable flash drive that offers more strength and speed than the company's previous offerings. Constructed out of Zamak (zinc alloyed with aluminum, magnesium and copper), the XtremKey USB 3.0 can…
Engineers use heat to create 100-million-cycle flash memory
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Engineers at Macronix, one of the world's largest flash memory makers, have reportedly developed a new technology that can extend the life of NAND cells by more than a thousand times by simply applying heat. Most of today's flash modules fail after cells have been programmed...
Google improves Flash sandbox, Chrome safer than ever
- Google silently rolled out an update to Chrome which featured an unusual change, apparently one worthy of an announcement on the Chrome Blog: improved Adobe Flash plug-in sandboxing. The company claims its new method of fortifying Flash makes Adobe's plug-in…
Samsung SSD 840 series now available, Assassin's Creed III bundled with Pro variant
- Following its introduction over a month ago, Samsung's SSD 840 series is finally available from retailers like Amazon and Newegg, including the standard and 'Pro' variants. We reviewed the later back in September and found it to be a solid…
Singapore agency unveils 5mm-thick 1TB hybrid storage drive
- The Data Storage Institute (DSI) of Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR) has announced a new ultra-thin high-density hybrid hard drive that bests a recently unveiled Western Digital product. In what is said to be the smallest and…
SSD shipments soaring despite weak ultrabook performance
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With prices falling well below $1 per gigabyte, many enthusiasts can finally justify the luxury of running their operating system and applications off flash storage. SSD shipments have climbed sharply this year, with each quarter topping the previous period by millions of units...
Samsung creates flash-friendly, open source file system: F2FS
- Samsung codesmith Jaegeuk Kim has submitted a new "flash-friendly" file system to the Linux Kernel tree. The new file system, coined F2FS (flash-friendly file system), is actually open source and is the embodiment of Samsung's efforts to develop a file…
Embedded Flash puts Windows 8 users at risk until Oct 26
- Are you running the Windows 8 RTM yet? If you are, you may want to be careful out there, suggests Ed Bott from ZDNet. Internet Explorer 10's embedded Flash component suffers from a number of critical vulnerabilities which allow hackers…
WOF: Do you carry a USB drive every day? If so, what's on it?
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With flash storage being more affordable, compact and rugged than ever, it seems common for people to routinely carry a USB drive -- or six, in the case of our news editor Rick, who runs a PC repair business. Naturally, most of his drives contain bootable utilities, operating system installers...
Microsoft and Adobe release a slew of critical security updates
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Microsoft and Adobe have unleashed a series of software updates today, plugging a ton of security holes. The latest Patch Tuesday consists of nine bulletins including five rated as critical and four deemed important. One of the bulletins, MS12-060, addresses a flaw in all...
Adobe to disable new installs of Flash on Android starting tomorrow
- Adobe surprised many late last year when developers were notified that the company no longer had plans to develop future builds of Flash Player for mobile browsers. Instead, they would be focusing all of their attention on HTML5 and other…
Version 22 of Chrome delivers more secure Flash support in Windows
- Google has released version 22 of their popular Chrome web browser and while it doesn’t come with a huge list of changes, there are a couple of features to get excited about if you are concerned with security. Google has…
OCZ reportedly in acquisition talks with Seagate, Micron
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Rumors are circulating that OCZ is in talks with several industry giants about a potential buyout. According to Fudzilla's unnamed industry sources, Seagate is a likely buyer and would pay over $308.5 million, OCZ's Nasdaq value before the rumor was published...
Corsair launches range-topping Force Series GS SSDs
- Corsair has added a new member to its Force family of solid-state drives. The Force Series GS combines the current-generation SF-2281 controller with Toggle DDR NAND to create its fastest SSD yet, achieving maximum random 4k write performance of up…
No Flash in Android 4.1, no new installs for any version after August 15
- Flash support is set to end on Android after Adobe announced on its official blog that it has no plans to release a certified Flash build for Google's imminent Android 4.1 Jelly Bean mobile OS. What's more, the company actually…
Firefox 14 now available for Android through Google Play store
- The latest version of Mozilla’s popular mobile browser is now available for download in the Google Play store for Android devices. Firefox 14 isn’t filled to the brim with new features but there is enough on tap for most users…
Germany increases tax on flash storage by roughly 2,000%
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Germans can expect to pay a hefty premium on USB drives and memory cares as the nation raises taxes on flash storage by roughly 2,000%, according to Heise Online (translated). ZPÜ, the office tasked with setting levies against blank media, has reportedly increased the taxes...
Large SSD makers want to smother small players by cutting prices
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Although SSD prices have fallen rapidly over the last three years, they haven't fallen rapidly enough some might say. According DigiTimes' all-seeing, ever-elusive "industry sources in Taiwan," many large players concur with that sentiment -- albeit for reasons none too charitable...
Seagate: Flash memory isn't a threat to conventional disk drives
- Bored on this relatively uneventful Monday? Click on over to Forbes and read their nine-page interview with Seagate CEO Steve Luczo, who touched on everything from the Thailand floods, network-attached storage, future technologies like HAMR, industry consolidation, upcoming challenges and…
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