Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
We already have 256GB SSDs coming from Samsung by the end of the year, and Toshiba has promised 512GB SSDs next year, so the battle between storage formats shows no signs of slowing down.
Pioneer says it will “present the details of this research at the International Symposium on Optical Memory and Optical Data Storage 2008 (ISOM/ODS2008)” event in Hawaii from July 13.
Maybe this technology is what the next Xbox is waiting for – a Blu-ray compatible technology that gives 400GB of space to boot!
The next consoles aren’t due until around 2010, so the chances are strong this is the kind of technology we’ll see included as standard, leaving today’s Blu-ray discs to bite 16-layers (or more!) of dust.
Still I think SSDs are strong in our future, too. Ashes to ashes, plastic dust to plastic dust. (Albeit much harder to scratch these days) optical technologies? Methinks it might well be SSDs or bust!
Or will we be in holographic storage territory by then?
David Bass
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