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A new kind of flash memory technology with potentially greater capacity and durability, lower power requirements, and the same design as flash NAND is primed to challenge today's solid-state disk products.

Many people today are slaves to the beeps, vibrations, buzzes and rings of their digital devices. The problem is more than a matter of habit. A clinical psychologist says technology addiction is changing our relationships to each other and the world.

Stony Stevenson writes 'Researchers in the US have developed a microchip fan with no moving parts that operates silently and generates enough wind to cool a laptop computer. The solid-state fan, developed with support from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), is touted as the most powerful and energy efficient fan of its size. The device produces three times the flow rate of a typical small mechanical fan and is one-fourth the size. The technology has the power to cool a 25W chip with a device smaller than one cubic-cm and can someday be integrated into silicon to make self-cooling chips, according to the researchers.' of this story at Slashdot.

The technologies we rely on, both new and old, are now very effective tools that both governments and private firms are using to gather, analyze, store, and sell information about our private lives, habits, purchases, whereabouts, and even thoughts and beliefs. But some of this invasion of privacy pays a welcome dividend in convenience and power in our own lives. Where do we draw the line, and how can we use this potentially-invasive technology for our benefit, without sacrificing our private lives to commerce? on this exclusive OSNews article...

An anonymous reader writes 'Douglas Merrill, Google Inc.'s chief information officer, is charged with answering that question. His job is to give Google workers the technology they need, and to keep them safe — without imposing too many restrictions on how they do their job. So the 37-year-old has taken an unorthodox approach. Unlike many IT departments that try to control the technology their workers use, Mr. Merrill's group lets Google employees download software on their own, choose between several types of computers and operating systems, and use internal software built by the company's engineers. Lately, he has also spent time evangelizing to outside clients about Google's own enterprise-software products — such as Google Apps, an enterprise version of Google's Web-based services including e-mail, word processing and a calendar.' of this story at Slashdot.

Storage provider Western Digital is set to begin shipping 640-Gbyte 3.5-inch hard drives, known as the WD Caviar SE16.The new high-capacity drives are based on the 320GB-per-platter technology the company introduced in January. The new platform was designed for cool and quieter computing. Wester...

The concept of virtualization is so relatively new that there's a lot of uncertainty as to just how and where to implement security. 'The debate goes back and forth; like any technology, you can argue that virtualization makes things more secure or less secure,' said Kevin Epstein, vice president of products for Scalent Systems.

Former star investment banker Frank Quattrone announced that his next venture will be the Qatalyst Group, a technology-focused merchant banking group.

Feature-complete version of Windows Server 2008 virtualization technology made broadly available to customers and partners. - - - REDMOND, Wash. - March 2008 - Reaching the next major milestone in vir... [WebWire - Wednesday, March 19, 2008]

Plustek today unveiled several new OpticFilm scanners, the 7300, 7500i SE, and 7500i AI, three consumer models that feature a scan resolution of 7200 by 7200 dots-per-inch. In addition to offering four-scan multisampling and a multi-exposure engine, the 7500i models feature SilverFast's Infrared Smart Removal of Defects technology, which removes de...