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An executive of Korean-based Hitachi-LG Data Storage Inc. (HLDS) has agreed to plead guilty and to serve time in a U.S. prison for his participation in a series of conspiracies to rig bids for the sale of optical disk drives, the Department of Justice announced today.
According to the four-count felony charge filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, Senior Sales Manager Woo Jin Yang, also known as Eugene Yang, conspired with others to suppress and eliminate competition by rigging bids for optical disk drives sold to Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP). Yang participated in the conspiracies at various times between approximately August 2006 and June 2009. Under the plea agreement, which is subject to court approval, Yang has agreed to serve six months in prison, to pay a $25,000 criminal fine and to cooperate with the department’s ongoing investigation. HLDS is a joint venture between Hitachi Ltd, a Japanese corporation, and LG Electronics Inc., a Republic of Korea corporation.
“Today’s charges demonstrate the Antitrust Division’s commitment to prosecute and deter conduct that harms American businesses and consumers,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Joseph Wayland in charge of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. “The division will continue to pursue those who participated in these bid-rigging and price-fixing conspiracies so they are held accountable for their actions.”
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HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and now a Western Digital company) today announced the storage industry’s first technology demonstration of a 12 gigabit per second (12Gb/s) SAS solid state drive (SSD), representing the next performance step in the evolution of SAS, the preferred interface technology for enterprise servers and storage solutions. HGST is participating in the 12Gb/s SAS demonstration at the SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase on May 9, 2012, at the Hyatt Hotel in Santa Clara, Calif.
SAS SSDs and hard disk drives (HDDs), with their rich SCSI heritage, continue to be the building blocks of choice for enterprise and cloud storage. Enabling next-generation storage solutions, 12Gb/s SAS is a broadly supported industry standard as it delivers twice the throughput compared to today’s 6Gb/s SAS solutions, while maintaining established enterprise protocols and attributes. It is also backward compatible with 6Gb/s SAS for investment protection in current SAS infrastructures.
One of the enterprise features of today's SAS drives is a second interface port that provides additional bandwidth to the drive. With 12Gb/s SAS on each of these ports, the drive can transmit and receive data at a rate of 12Gb/s, resulting in a total available interface bandwidth of 4.8GB/s per drive. With this speed, enterprise and cloud datacenters will be able to reduce latency by harnessing the ultra-high performance of SSDs or by improving the performance of large-scale HDD infrastructures.
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Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. today unveiled the BDR-2207, Pioneer’s most powerful and full-featured drive. The internal SATA drive can read and write to all BDXL disc formats, including BD-R and BD-RE triple-layer 100GB media, BD-R quad-layer 128GB media, as well as conventional recordable Blu-ray Disc (single-layer 25GB media and dual-layer 50GB media). In addition, the drive features PowerRead and Pioneer’s PureRead2, Auto Quiet mode, QuickStart, and Peak Power Reducer technologies.
The BDR-2207 is packaged with CyberLink software that gives users the ability to play standard Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D titles on correctly configured computers, as well as author and record high-definition Blu-ray Disc content and standard-definition DVD content.
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PNY worldwide leader in USB flash drives, PNY technologies, the leading manufacturer in memory products have released a new and exciting Key Attaché USB Flash drive, the latest addition to their popular Attaché range. The Key Attaché drive delivers convenient and portable access to your important files and documents. Its compact size and one of a kind design sets it apart from the rest. It also aims to be the lowest priced USB drive ever offering the ultimate in data storage without burning a hole in your pocket.
Keeping in mind the fast paced and busy lifestyle of today's modern crowd, PNY's Key Attaché USB flash drive combines innovation with unsurpassed functionality to offer the next level in storage devices. The drive features a special lanyard hole that can be attached to keys or the wallet or any other accessory of choice. It effectively serves the dual purpose of being a trendy and fashionable key ring while offering mobility of data and information. The unique and eye catching design makes it a visual delight that complements and reflects the style and personality of the user. The Key Attaché drive comes in two flattering duo-colors: Turquoise/White and Grey/White.
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Aleratec today announced its new RoboJet Disc AutoPrinter with Continuous Ink System, a robotic disc printing system powered by Epson technology that prints up to 100 professional-quality Blu-ray, DVD or CD discs unattended, and has a high capacity ink system that saves time and money.
Simply load up to 100 inkjet-printable discs in the RoboJet’s disc autoloader and start fully automated disc printing runs. For added convenience, blank inkjet-printable discs can be added and completed discs can be removed while a job is in progress.
The RoboJet Disc AutoPrinter features a continuous ink system. It runs on inks formulated by Epson for the highest quality results when used with the Aleratec RoboJet Disc AutoPrinter. Its six-color process produces photo-quality images with 5,760 DPI resolution, and its high-capacity ink wells allow users to print as many as 1,800 images from a single filling. (Actual yields will vary depending on usage and print patterns.)
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LG Electronics (LG) announced the beta opening of LG Cloud service on May 1 with the aim of providing seamless connectivity and streaming access to all digital content across various electronic devices. Although cloud is today's hottest IT buzzwords, LG Cloud is the first that allows users to manage and consume all types of content on "three screens" which includes Android smartphones, PCs and smart TVs (including but not limited to CINEMA 3D models) without a separate set-top box.
To use the service, users need to download the LG Cloud app from Google Play or LG SmartWorld app store from their Android smartphones, LG SmartWorld store from their LG Smart TVs or the LG Cloud website (www.lgecloud.com) from their PCs or laptops. LG's Cloud service automatically synchronizes smartphone content with the cloud server and the user's PC and TV. Photos and videos taken with the smartphone can be viewed and streamed to the PC or TV almost instantaneously. Videos edited on a PC can be uploaded to LG Cloud for viewing seconds later on a smartphone. Unlike other cloud services, there's very little waiting or lag time since the content is streamed to the TV, PC or smartphone, not downloaded first.
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ADATA Technology today announced the addition of New York Knicks’ Jeremy Lin to its NBA Flash Drive line. Lin will join a line-up that includes products featuring Boston Celtics’ Paul Pierce, Chicago Bulls’ Derrick Rose, Los Angeles’ Kobe Bryant, Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade and LeBron James, New York Knicks’ Amar'e Stoudemire, Oklahoma City Thunder’s Kevin Durant and Orlando Magic’s Dwight Howard.
Officially licensed by the National Basketball Association (NBA), these NBA flash drives are a fusion of high-adrenaline sports and technological accessories. This new model utilizes a USB 2.0 interface and has increased the capacity to 8GB.
Waterproof up to a depth of one meter, the NBA Flash drives feature the team jersey which is easily removed to access the drive itself. The rugged rubber body is designed to take the knocks that come from mobile and athletic lifestyles and is also stain resistant allowing you to easily wipe off any dirt or marks.
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Embedded System Expo (ESEC) Japan 2012 will hold during May 9th to May 11th in Tokyo, and KINGMAX will demonstrate its series of industrial grade of FLASH storage products—SSD(Solid Sate Drive), memory cards, DRAM and embedded memory--on the booth WEST11-65. Leveraging more than 20 years of DRAM and FLASH expertise in R&D and manufacturing, KINGMAX will present a complete series of industrial solution which is not only at latest specification but also has been undergone strict reliability test and verification to ensure the most stable quality.
KINGMAX Group is the world first memory module manufacturer owning IC packaging and testing facilities, and has long been committed to the innovation of the best memory module solutions. Leveraging years of R&D and manufacturing competency, KINGMAX first-launched Industrial products include three categories: Industrial Storage, Industrial Memory and Embedded Memory. First, KINGMAX will exhibit a series of industrial SSD, including SATA III and SATA II SSD—both withstand wide operation temperature（-40℃～85 ℃）. KINGMAX will also release mSATA SSD and Half-Slim SSD for Ultrabook and small form factor embedded systems.
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CyberLink Corp., an innovative solution provider for the connected digital lifestyle, today launched its new Media Suite 10 - a collection of 11 of CyberLink’s industry-leading multimedia software offerings, including the latest versions of No. 1 Blu-ray and media player PowerDVD, award-winning video editor PowerDirector, Power2Go burning software and the newly launched video and photo organizer MediaShow Through Media Suite 10’s intuitive PowerStarter navigation interface, consumers can easily launch different programs to organize, playback and edit movies, videos, music and photos, as well as burn & backup media files.
“As the creation and distribution of consumer-generated digital media becomes more ubiquitous, so does the need for a powerful suite of affordable and feature-rich applications for consumers,” said Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink. “Our new Media Suite 10 provides everything users need to easily create, edit, share and store digital media content at a fraction of the cost of what they would pay for other solutions. In addition, users benefit from the integration of best-in-class software in a manner that redefines the media suite category.”
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SMART Storage Systems, an innovative and rapidly emerging enterprise SSD technology provider, today announced the CloudSpeed 500 Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gb/s solid-state drive (SSD). Leveraging cost effective consumer grade multi-level cell (MLC) Flash, CloudSpeed 500 is an enterprise-class SSD that delivers the high-performance and endurance required in enterprise server environments at consumer MLC value, fundamentally changing the total cost of ownership (TCO) for cloud storage and server applications.
With the rise of social networking and other cloud computing services, data creation and the need to access data in near real-time has grown at an unprecedented rate. This has led enterprise organizations to utilize SSDs in order to meet the throughput levels necessary to work with an ever-increasing data-set. In the past, enterprise organizations turned to client-class SSDs leveraging consumer MLC Flash because they provided significant performance improvements over traditional hard disk drives (HDD) at a lower cost than higher-endurance SSDs utilizing single-level cell (SLC) Flash. However, client-class SSDs are designed for read-intensive environments and quickly wear out in typical cloud storage and server mixed workload environments. This has forced IT managers to use a consumption model, resulting in the need to replace an SSD multiple times within a typical warranty period, driving up TCO.
