Elpida Develops 7GHz 2Gb GDDR5 Chip

From X-bit Labs: Elpida Memory, a leading global supplier of advanced dynamic random access memory (DRAM), has announced that it had completed development of a high-density, high-speed, low-power consumption 50nm process 2Gb GDDR5.

Elpida’s new 2Gb GDDR5 chip can work at up to 7Ghz...

SanDisk SD card can store data for 100 years

From InfoWorld: SanDisk on Wednesday announced a Secure Digital card that can store data for 100 years, but can be written on only once.

The WORM (write once, read many) card is "tamper proof" and data cannot be altered or deleted, SanDisk said in a statement. The card is designed...

Hundreds Wait in Line as iPhone 4 Goes on Sale in Japan

From PC World: The iPhone 4 went on sale in Japan on Thursday morning, as Japanese customers who waited in long lines became among the first to purchase the latest smartphone from Apple.

Hundreds of people waited in lines outside a Tokyo store owned by operator Softbank Mobile and...

Microsoft confirms Canvas, video tags for IE9

From CNET News.com: Microsoft released the third platform preview for Internet Explorer 9 Wednesday, officially confirming support for two important pieces of the HTML5 standards puzzle.

Internet Explorer 9 will support the Canvas graphics technology and the video and audio tags...

Facebook blocking parts of Twitter's FB app

From CNET News.com: A new feature within Twitter's Facebook app that let users find who among their friends has a Twitter account has been put on ice by Facebook.

The feature would cull through Facebook contacts and compare the list of names to users on Twitter, offering up things...

DXG Unveils $80 720p QuickShots Camcorder

From PC World: DXG has announced the DXG-5B6V, a $80 camcorder capable of shooting video at 720p resolution.

Equipped with a 5 megapixel 1/3.2-inch CMOS sensor, the DXG-5B6V can shoot 1280-by-720 video at 30 frames per second. Movies are saved to SD cards as H.264 AVI files, which...

Verizon Introduces the Newest Motorola Droid

From PC World: Verizon on Tuesday introduced the newest Droid and the second from Motorola, but some Android fans may be disappointed to learn that it won't ship with the latest operating system or the newest Flash Player.

The Droid X will ship with Android 2.1, which will be...

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