GLG News by PC Storage Device Purchasers and Sellers

* HP hailed Intel’s entry into SSDs announced at the IDF in August  * HP announced that they have selected Samsung SSDs for their virtualization blade server system  * The Samsung SSDs in this application replace 2.5-inch hard disk drives  * HP says that use of SSDs in this application...

Apple launched its new family of MacBooks to great fanfare at its Cupertino, Calif. headquarters Tuesday. After the initial flurry of speeds and feeds, here are some thoughts about the new lineup and what it means for the industry. Nvidia's Big Win. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based graphics chip...

Intel (NSDQ:INTC) is ratcheting up the pressure on the hard drive industry with the introduction of new enterprise-class solid-state drives. Intel on Wednesday unveiled its new Intel X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive, aimed at the server, workstation, and storage system market. The processor and...

Intel (NSDQ:INTC) beat Wall Street expectations with a 12 percent jump in third-quarter profits over the same period last year, but CEO Paul Otellini on Tuesday cautioned investors that the turbulent economy meant the world's leading microprocessor manufacturer is having difficulty projecting...

You Can Touch This Touch screen devices have become all the rage. They're pretty, offer a wide screen and pack enough high-speed connectivity to download content in a flash. Research In Motion (RIM) Ltd. this week joined the touch-screen party with the BlackBerry Storm. But the Storm...

* TDK is the last independent HDD head supplier. * In order to remain competitive to vertically integrated HDD companies TDK must push magnetic recording technology.  * At the CEATEC conference in Taiwan TDK announced technology with a magnetic recording areal density of 803 Gbpsi.  *...

Thirty percent of U.S. consumers who purchased the Apple iPhone 3G ditched their previous wireless carrier to go with AT&T, the iPhone's exclusive stateside carrier, according to a new report from the NPD Group. In the report, NPD Group, a wireless market research firm, said carrier defectors made...

* Hoya is a major manufacturer of glass and supplies many of the glass substrates used in mobile hard disk drives.  * In addition to substrates Hoya manufactures some hard disk media as well.  * Showa Denko has been a customer of Hoya for media substrates and is the largest...

* Fujitsu is the sixth in unit shipping volume of HDD companies making 2.5-inch drives for notebook, consumer and enterprise applications.  * Fujitsu is one of the oldest companies in the HDD business and has been responsible for much technology innovation in the industry.  * Reports abound...

* Metadata is information that describes the contents of a piece of data or content  * Standards that make metadata created in one device readable in another device are in their infancy  * Most metadata today must be entered manually but this takes more time than most people can afford ...