The HipZip's biggest competitors are MP3 players that use flash card memory technology instead of disks.
These devices use flash memory to create a rugged and low power internal storage.
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Asian suppliers say it will be cheaper than the 16- and 32-gigabyte models and use flash memory.
Existing storage companies are trying to shift from older technology to use flash.
But marketers also can use Flash cookies to track what you do online.
Back in 2006 or so when the current generation of tablet computers were first introduced it was widely expected that these devices would use flash memory.
The new app doesn't use Flash, given its absence on most up-to-date versions of Google's mobile OS, instead using HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) to deliver your weekly doses of Doctor Who.
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The OEM business is expected to remain strong for the rest of the year, driven by new product cycles from manufacturers of smartphones, tablets, e-book readers and other mobile Internet devices that use flash-based storage solutions.
In a recent report by research firm IHS iSuppli, the sale of solid-state NAND flash drives are projected to increase by 400% in 2011 driven by increasing adoption of tablets which primarily use flash memory for data storage.
He says use of Flash can cut battery life in half.
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The increased use of flash memory storage has lead to new storage interfaces that can take advantage of the higher data rates that NAND flash based digital storage can provide.
Our ability to take photos and erase them, to change ringtones, or to acquire digital music is the direct result of the use of flash storage over the past quarter-century.
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The use of flash memory enables social networking companies such as Facebook to retain acceptable response to traffic-heavy social networking and is behind a great many new cloud based services.
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Thus a 5, 400 RPM HDD can use the flash memory for speeding performance while providing as much as 30% higher storage capacity for a given number of active disk surfaces than a 7, 200 RPM drive.
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Make sure you update the version of Flash for whichever browsers you like to use at Adobe Flash browser alternatives.
As prices have dropped, the technologies have become more accepted, major vendors like EMC have entered the market, and the number of flash startups and the use cases that can justify flash have both grown.
During pet detection, detection of people's faces, and use of the flash are not available.
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However, this will of course work only if they use the same flash card format that your camera supports.
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Hallier says Show Media is close to inking a deal with a bank that might use it to flash updated CD rates in real time.
Increasingly, PCs are being supplanted by tablet computers which use NAND or flash memory chips rather than hard discs found in desktop and laptop computers.
Computer architectures will benefit from the use of more flash memory.
Businesses use a type of flash that's faster, lasts longer and is harder to manufacture than consumer-oriented hardware, he points out.
Fusion Drive adapts to the way you use your iMac and automatically moves the files and apps you use most often to flash storage to enable faster performance and quicker access.
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Although in decline over the last year or so notebook computer makers appear to be poised to offer thin and light weight, reasonably priced products that provide performance and power use like those of flash memory devices with the storage costs of hard disk drives.
The HDD companies, Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba are participating in better management of storage device energy use, as are flash manufacturers such as SanDisk, Samsung and Toshiba and many flash based storage equipment suppliers such as Skyera, Smart Storage Systems and Virident.
The product is Intel's first SSD to use the latest 20nm NAND flash memory jointly developed by IM Flash Technologies (IMFT).
It's refreshingly easy to use: just raise the flash head to switch on... then turn off again by lowering when the flash isn't needed.
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