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	New AMD desktop chips make overclocking affordable Advanced Micro Devices' latest A-series quad-core desktop processors balance the need for speed with price -- they run at up to 4.2GHz, but can be overclocked to 6.5GHz with liquid nitrogen cooling, the company said. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed VDI Performance: Conquer the Challenges, Reap the Benefits Join Tommy Walker, Lead Global Architect at VMware, and Eric Carter, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Riverbed Technology, as they discuss how to reap the advantages of VDI with LAN performance. Learn more. In this Issue Toshiba to sell own hybrid drive for laptops Toshiba new external drive: How small can it go? Two factories, two fates: Foxconn and Sharp Apple's iPhone 5 Lightning connector spawns accessory delays World Tech Update, September 27, 2012 Touchscreen LTE-ready mobile hotspot to be offered by AT&T Toshiba to sell three 4K TV models in 2013 RIM developer faithful find hope in BlackBerry 10 revival Oracle likely to announce Exadata sequel soon New DDR4 spec sets stage for new DRAM in computers Hitachi targets 2015 for storage medium that lasts 100M years RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hortonworks Live Webinar Series: The Future of Apache Hadoop Hadoop has evolved rapidly to become the leading platform for managing, processing and analyzing big data. Join us in this 4-part series with the core committers of the Apache Hadoop projects to gain insight into Pig, Ambari, Zookeeper and YARN. Learn use-cases and best practices on how to get started with Hadoop and live Q&A. Register now! Toshiba to sell own hybrid drive for laptops Toshiba plans to release its own hybrid hard drive, which will combine 8GB of NAND flash with 32MB of RAM in a drive that will have a total of 1TB of capacity. Read More Toshiba new external drive: How small can it go? Toshiba released what it said is its smallest external hard drive, the Canvio Slim, which comes with only USB 3.0 and not Thunderbolt. Read More Two factories, two fates: Foxconn and Sharp A massive Foxconn complex gobbles up land and workers, while a Sharp plant fades quietly away Read More Apple's iPhone 5 Lightning connector spawns accessory delays A long Apple certification process for iPhone accessories is delaying the release of docking and power accessories with Lightning ports to connect directly with the iPhone 5, which started shipping last week. Read More World Tech Update, September 27, 2012 Coming up on World Tech Update today 4K TVs prepare for sale, Barnes & Noble updates its Nook, driverless cars hit the road and Google the sea to its maps. Follow WTU and host Nick Barber on Twitter @nickjb @worldtechupdate Read More WEBCAST: T-Systems Charting a Course for Realizing Business Value in the Cloud Cloud is not simply about delivering IT services. Rather it is about vesting the organization with the agility it must have to respond to challenges and opportunities at the speed of business. Tune into this live webcast - Thursday, October 18, 2012, 2:00 PM, EDT - to learn how to blaze your own pathway to enterprise applications in the cloud. Learn more. Touchscreen LTE-ready mobile hotspot to be offered by AT&T AT&T will exclusively offer the first touchscreen-enabled mobile hotspot, the new MiFi Liberate, for use with its emerging LTE network, the carrier announced Thursday. Read More Toshiba to sell three 4K TV models in 2013 Toshiba is planning three models of 4K TV in 2013. The TVs, which feature a picture with four times the resolution of today's high-definition sets, will go on sale in 2013, the company said in Tokyo on Thursday. Read More RIM developer faithful find hope in BlackBerry 10 revival BlackBerry app developers see turnaround for RIM, thanks to upcoming UI improvements and new development options Read More Oracle likely to announce Exadata sequel soon Many signs suggest that Oracle is about to introduce a next-generation version of the Exadata database machine, the first and apparently most successful of its "engineered systems" that combine Oracle software with servers, networking and storage. Read More New DDR4 spec sets stage for new DRAM in computers The final specification of DDR4 DRAM, which will help PCs run faster through more power-efficient data transfers, was published Tuesday. Read More Hitachi targets 2015 for storage medium that lasts 100M years Hitachi has developed a glass-based data storage medium that is highly heat and water resistant, capable of holding data for hundreds of millions of years, and says it may be able to bring it to market by 2015. Read More
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