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August 16, 2008

Internet Traffic Up At Travel Sites

Americans may be taking fewer summer vacations this year, but you would never know it from their Internet activity. Travel sites that focus on ground travel and cruises saw traffic jump 10% to 12.7 million visitors in July and...

Video Game: Nintendo Wins Console Top Spot In July with Wii and DS. Activision Stars with Guitar Hero

Nintendo's Wii game machine claimed the top spot in the console wars in July, selling 555,000 units and garnering a 49% share of the market, according to NPD Group. Nintendo's DS handheld outsold even that, giving the company the...

August 15, 2008

Can Intel Really Innovate, AMD Wonders

A few days before Intel's bi-annual developer conference (IDF), AMD hosted a conference call today to give its version of the "distorted" information its rival will "boast" next week. During the call, AMD took aim particularly at Intel's IDF...

Misperceptions Begin To Dog Flash Memory Chips

Flash memory drives have big ambitions. They hope to elbow aside traditional hard disk drives to become standard equipment in tomorrow's laptop computers – taking charge of a huge market in the process. Today, price is a hurdle. They...

August 14, 2008

EcoRAM: Spansion Moving Away From Commodity Business With Price Lower Than DRAM. Plans Licensing EcoRAM (video)

At the Q&A session yesterday, Spansion CEO Bertrand Cambou (pictured) shed more lights on the company's bet on EcoRAM that will help the Sunnyvale, CA, based company move away from the commodity business of NOR Flash memory into premium...

Social Media is Core to Dell's Marketing Strategy! (video)

Earlier this week, at Dell's business notebook launch event in San Francisco, I spoke with Andy Lark (pictured) who runs the computer maker's corporate marketing about its communication strategy. And not to sound too pessimistic for my colleagues in...

Spansion Low-Power EcoRAM: Hard Drive Capacity at DRAM Speed. Not an SSD. Targets Search Engines, Databases... (video)

At the Flash Memory Summit "Green Flash" panel earlier this week, Spansion VP Jan Silverman (pictured) gave a bit more details on his company's new low-power Flash Memory dubbed EcoRAM, that was announced last month and is expected to...

August 13, 2008

Sandisk CEO Q&A: Recalls How Intel Missed Opportunity To Dominate Flash Memory Market. Hard Drive Makers Not Have To Worry Yet, Future of Flash is 3D And More (video)

After Eli Harari keynote, the Sandisk CEO went on with a short Q&A session. On his motivation of creating the first flash memory and thus founding Sandisk over 20 years ago after leaving Intel: " Solid state disks replacing disk...

NAND Flash Celebrates 20th Anniversary. May Have Another 10 Years, Inventor Says! (video)

NAND flash is the hot memory technology "du jour". Its chips sit at the heart of digital cameras and many iPods. But in the next decade it will be eclipsed by something new, says Eli Harari, an industry pioneer...

New Markets Could Turn Flash Business From Famine To Feast

The flash memory business remains in a deep downturn. But new markets could turn famine into feast – and upset several large established industries – such as book and movie publishing – in the process. So says Eli Harari...

August 12, 2008

Dell Says Flash Adoption Is Rapid. And So Is Competition! (video)

The hype surrounding the use of flash memory in personal computers remains high, but so is market adoption at companies such as Dell. This according to Paul Prince (pictured), chief technology officer of enterprise computing at computer maker Dell....

Flash Memory Summit vs MemCon: An Industry Event, Just About Flash

Just a couple weeks after MemCon, it's time yet for another memory focused event this week i.e. the Flash Memory Summit also happening in Santa Clara. My Colleague Mark Boslet and I will be at the show, so expect...

August 11, 2008

Entrepreneurs Praise Blogosphere Power To Boost Web Traffic (video)

So how do you boost traffic to your web site when you are a cash-strapped start-up? From the entrepreneurs on the Churchill Club's start-up panel hosted by venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki (pictured), social media and bloggers are the way...

Convertible Notes: The Best Kept Secret To Fund a Start-Up (video)

"Convertible Notes" is the main take-away from today's Churchill Club event titled "Startup or Hunker Down? What’s Happening With Tech Startup" through the experiences of 5 entrepreneurs. Richard Archuleta, CEO, Plastic Logic Rousseau Aurelien, CEO, Second Rotation Susan Coelius-Keplinger,...

Dell President Confirms Launch of Music Players, Phones, MIDs, UMPCs (video)