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  After months of beta testing and release candidates, Adobe has finally released Flash 10.1 for Windows, Mac and Linux OSes. The new update brings a lot of things like improved performance, H.264 video decoding, multi-touch support, better power management and Mac-specific updates. The Mac version is now a Cocoa app that takes advantages of [...]

  With the turmoil going on between Apple and Adobe, this should come as a respite for the Flash software maker. At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Zedomax stumbled upon a prototype Android tablet at the Adobe booth. The prototype seemed to run Android OS 2.1 but more importantly, ran Adobe’s Flash and [...]

  UPDATE: Adobe CEO responds. Apple CEO, Steve Jobs has posted his thoughts on Adobe Flash, which lists down six simple reasons “Why Apple doesn’t allow Flash”. The post goes down highlighting the flaws in Adobe’s Flash but the most important reason Jobs claims that using Flash to develop iPhone OS apps “ultimately results in [...]

Dell might have only one phone in its portfolio right now but the recent leak by Engadget proves that more phones are in the offing. The slides received by them reveals four new phones, of which three runs on Android. The Smoke is a QWERTY candybar that tries to please the business suit clad crowd. [...]

  Samsung has announced the industry’s first 20nm-based NAND flash chips aimed to use in SD memory cards and embedded memory solutions. Samsung says memory cards based on this process tech give faster write and read speeds. Samsung had created 30nm-based NAND flash a year before and today these 20nm MLC NAND touts to give [...]

  Apple may downplay Flash by not supporting it but Adobe claims iPhone and iPod touch users think otherwise. According to their in-house data and visits to Adobe.com, more than 7m attempts to download flash were initiated by iPhone / iPod touch users in December alone. This number is more than double than what Adobe [...]

  Intel and Micron’s joint venture, IM Flash Technologies (IMFT) has achieved a major breakthrough by developing the world’s first 25nm-based NAND flash. Using the 25nm process technology, Intel believes the NAND can give consumer electronics manufacturers a way to integrate larger amounts of storage in a cost-effective manner. Intel and Micron has developed an [...]

  Apple’s iPhone, iPod touch and even the recently announced iPad excel as far as web surfing is concerned but it’s an indigestible fact that all these revolutionary devices do not have Adobe Flash support. Now with the launch of iPad, Adobe has responded to bring Flash support albeit by way of apps only. Flash [...]

  Toshiba has pulled out an industry first by unveiling a 64GB embedded NAND flash memory module. The new modules are fabricated with 32nm process technology and embeds sixteen 32Gbit (or 4GB) NAND chips to achieve huge storage in a small 30 micrometers thick profile. The chips also integrate a dedicated controller, has a sequential [...]

  Samsung is trying to strengthen its position in the NAND memory market by starting mass production of industry’s first 30nm-based 3-bit Multi Level Cell (MLC) NAND chips and 30nm-based asynchronous DDR NAND flash. Samsung claims the 3-bit MLC NAND increases the efficiency of the data storage by 50 percent compared to current 2-bit MLC [...]

  Samsung has developed the world’s thinnest multi-die memory package that is just 0.6mm thick and packs a whopping 32GB of storage. The new memory package is 40 percent thinner and lighter compared to the conventional memory packages stacked with eight chips. The ultra-thin package consists of eight dies (chips) of 4GB NAND flash that [...]

  RIM produces one of the world’s best e-mail devices but fizzles out when it comes to web browsing. Though the experience is much better now, the Blackberry browser still can’t match its competitor’s mobile browsers. Apparently, this is going to change as BGR has learned that RIM is working to bring full Flash and [...]

  The ailing Motorola is all gearing up for its revival. BGR sources have spilled a bit too much about the future handset developments. Apparently, we have got couple of Android phones, a high-class Aura like phone in the offing and two phones canned from the portfolio. So here it goes. A horizontal QWERTY slider [...]

Toshiba has announced to ship its high density NAND flash chips fabricated with 32nm technology soon. Samples of 32nm based 16Gb (2GB) and 32Gb (4GB) flash chips are available now which can be used to integrate in memory cards, USB drives and other embedded products. The 32Gb chip will first be applied to memory card, [...]

  According to a report by ThinkEquity Partners, Apple is gobbling down quantities of NAND flash memory which could jack up the flash memory prices. Apple’s craze to get their hands on the memory has apparently resulted buying all the Samsung’s memory inventory up to April 2009. Though it could be a boon to the [...]