Flash storage makers are in trouble

Some product types and technologies come and go within a few years, but NAND Flash memory is one of those inventions that has already lived a long time and will continue to do so for years.Toshiba is particularly enthused about the long way that the NAND Flash memory market ...

The IT industry is a place where many companies call each other to court, but at least two such names are putting some effort into avoiding the possibility entirely. To get right to the point, Spansion and SK Hynix have entered a cross-license agreement that covers all their ...

The company is working closely with CreateJS to help Flash developers -- and Adobe itself -- move to Web standards. The technology dovetails with an upcoming Flash Pro CS6 feature, too. [Read more]

Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2 arrived today. But starting in August, Adobe will require programmers to share 9 percent of app revenues when making "console-quality" Flash games. [Read more]

It looks like current marketing conditions and customer preferences are creating a fairly clear picture of the future, as far as the NAND Flash memory market is concerned anyway. Digitimes has published its most recent report regarding the likeliest evolution of the NAND Flash chip storage segment. ...

Say what?! It's true: the super-cute and super-tiny DataTraveler 109 can be yours for 11 bucks out the door. [Read more]

The memory specialist says its RAIDDrive Upstream will transfer a gigabyte of data per second and could ship by April. It's showing the device at CeBIT. [Read more]

It was just yesterday that we wrote about Patriot's newest solid state drives and, now, the company has also been found to have created a new flash drive unit.The IT player has officially introduced the Supersonic Boost XT USB 3.0 flash drive, the sort of NAND Flash-based storage device ...

New Comscore stats get pressed into service as Exhibit A to sound alarm over the future of Google's social network. I'm not buying it. [Read more]

Have you ever wondered what separates an enterprise SSD from a consumer-oriented drive? How about SLC and MLC flash (and a corresponding price gap)? We explore the differences with Toshiba's MK4001GRZB SSD, an obviously enterprise-oriented powerhouse.

Even as the company redirects efforts to HTML5 and narrows Flash's scope, it's also promising investments in Flash for 5 to 10 years. [Read more]