Another interesting feature is the Pencast PDF, which Livescribe created using Adobe Flash technology.
Combining the highly robust solid-state flash technology, with sturdy aluminum casing, the FastKey ensures your data is as safe as it is mobile.
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The company already has a major stake in the digital video industry, given that its Flash technology powers a growing percentage of the Web's video.
And, Apple aside, its Flash technology is actually available on 20 million smartphones, and the company expects it to reach 200 million smartphones and tablets by the end of this year, Adobe says.
Another area that should bear fruit in the next two years, says Mehrotra, is 3D flash technology, which yields denser, more robust chips by stacking memory cells and enabling further miniaturization of functionality.
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Built from the highest quality components, it employs synchronous NAND flash technology capable of more than twice the performance of the average asynchronous SSDs, delivering the best speed and performance available in flash-based storage for both uncompressed and compressed files.
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This last week saw some interesting announcements representing the implementation of technologies that will enhance hard disk drive and flash memory technology in 2013 and beyond.
The HipZip's biggest competitors are MP3 players that use flash card memory technology instead of disks.
The company will accomplish this with advanced flash management algorithms using RAID 5 technology and a proprietary flash memory controller while providing acceptable flash endurance.
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Flash is the technology underpinning the BBC's iPlayer application.
Flash memory and emerging technology non-volatile memory solutions are remak the face of enterprise storage.
In other words, consumers have to pay about seven times more to expand their music selection with flash-based memory technology.
In short, flash is a better technology that now has become cost effective enough to be adopted on a mass scale.
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For infrastructure, the rise of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) and advances in technology like flash storage continue to disrupt the very large enterprise IT industry.
Grandis makes a non-NAND flash solid state storage technology called spin-transfer torque RAM (STT-RAM) that stores information via the direction of magnetization in a spin-polarized electron current.
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Betting that Flash was a declining technology, Apple chose instead to support HTML5, the next version of the standard programming language for describing the content and appearance of web pages.
The change comes in the wake of a vicious public relations battle between Apple and Adobe, creator of a widely used technology called Flash that manages video and animations on many websites.
In addition, the Drobo 5N, much like its sibling Thunderbolt-powered solutions the Drobo Mini and 5D, utilizes Drobo's Data-Aware Tiering capability, which intelligently uses high-performance flash (SSD) technology to accelerate performance of the storage array, allowing applications such as Adobe Lightroom and Apple iPhoto or iTunes fast access to data.
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The first is another proprietary technology, called Flash-OFDM, made by a firm called Flarion.
Consumer devices use common digital storage technology such as flash memory, hard disk drives or optical discs.
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Existing storage companies are trying to shift from older technology to use flash.
The Archos G9 Android-based tablet computers contain Momentus Thin (7 mm thick) hard disk drives from Seagate Technology rather than flash memory for long term storage.
This means that flash memory devices using this technology could have storage capacities of over 200 GB for the price of 64 GB today, by about 2016.
Fusion-io is known for its high performance PCIe storage products and IO Turbine is offering technology for using flash storage for caching data in a virtualized enterprise environment.
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Ms. Hummel is afraid that the Windows technology is a flash in the pan given her recollection of Microsoft's feeble attempt to take on Apple's iPod with its Zune portable digital-music player.
Consumer-grade MLC flash memory are used in the Skyhawk by creating controller technology that can increase the effective endurance life-time of the flash memory cells.
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WD's innovative hybrid technology pairs MLC NAND flash storage for fast SSD-like data throughput and instant-on responsiveness with magnetic disks for efficient, high-capacity storage.
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Storage giants like EMC and Seagate Technology are also eyeing flash.
Seagate Technology recently announced a higher flash capacity hybrid drive with twice the flash storage capacity inside the HDD compared to their prior generation product.
Also modern enterprise storage technology, whether it is flash memory, HDDs or magnetic tape include new power saving features to minimize the costs of storage.
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