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

* 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...

* Hitachi announced a 2.5-inch form factor disk drive with single drive capacity of 500 GB—the highest so far in this form factor  * Hitachi added another disk (3 total) and heads to achieve this with a resulting drive thickness that is 3 mm thicker than the industry standard 2.5-inch for laptops...

Who's In Charge At Yahoo?  Is Anyone Surprised By What Is Happening?  What Went Wrong?  It's Time For A Reality Check!

AT&T and other hardwire giants are not doing what is necessary to make their resourcescompetitive. By not adapting they invite misery and the end result is that someone else is going to do it for them. Unless there is a change in the mind setof these entrenched old world executives they are always...

* Just before the start of the CES in January 2008 Warner Brothers announced that they were dropping support for the HD-DVD format * The company announced that the would begin exclusive new releases in Blu-ray format later this year (after May 2008) * In announcing the decision Barry Meyer, Chairman...