GLG News by DVD Replication Volume Trend Experts (North America)

Time IS running out on The Newspaper Game Zell is Asking the LA Times Experts to Tell Him How To Make It Work-The Smart Play, but Are There Too Many Fredoes in The City Room?

ABC is taking away exclusive first run rights from its Affiliates... This programming is being handed over to the local cable company and effectively bypassing local broadcasters.   Who needs Affiliates when the local cable company will do..?

*  A start-up company, Pliant Technology announced a solid state flash drive for enterprise  applications  *  Pliant joins companies such as STEC in bringing flash memory to enterprise applications that require high throughput such as transaction processing  *  In...

* Sandisk announced that they will start shipping 3-bit per storage cell NAND flash memory in March or April, 2008 * Currently the densest flash memory is 2-bit per cell multilevel cells (MLC) * The technology was co-invented with long-time Sandisk partner, Toshiba * The technology will be...

* Encryption is used by many people and organizations to hide their information from unauthorized access  * Researchers at Princeton University were able to demonstrate a technique for finding the encryption key for software-based encryption programs  * With the encryption key these researchers...

*The HD DVD Format, promoted by Toshiba and several other consumer electronics companies has been competing with the Blu-ray format for the next generation of HD video distribution  *Just before the CES in early January Warner announced that they were pulling their titles from the HD DVD format...

Management is out of touch with market(s)... Management is old school and has bad attitude... Things can be turned around...

It was only a matter of time before Google took the next step in bullying the market place...  I call it the Microsoft syndrome and if lawmakers and law enforcers ignore it the same things that Microsoft tried to get away with so to will Google ..

This issue needs new regulation and laws.  Government hasn't kept pace with the internet

* Yoichiro Tanaka, senior manager of Toshiba’s Storage Device Division gave a talk at an IDEMA Japan event  * He disagreed with three analysts that spoke before him that HDDs were threatened by flash memory  * While Tanaka-san recognized the important role that flash memory provided for mobile...