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Telstra adds one million mobile services, but Sensis plummets

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.

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Samsung unveils 1.8-inch, 64GB solid state hard drive

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Samsung has announced a 64GB, 1.8-inch flash-solid state drive (SSD) at its annual Mobile Solution Forum in Taipei.

Featuring NAND flash memory with no moving parts, flash-SSDs are shock-resistant while faster and quieter than traditional hard drives. They also consume less power, making them well suited to portable devices.

The new flash-SSD is based on an eight gigabit, single-level-cell (SLC) NAND - which provides significantly higher performance over conventional SSDs. The read and write performance of the new SLC flash-SSD have been increased by 20 percent and 60 percent respectively over the 32GB flash-SSD Samsung introduced last year.

Besides the use of the 64 GB flash-SSD for notebook PCs, 8 to 16GB flash-SSDs will become viable solutions for use in personal navigation systems and digital camcorders, as will hundred GB-level flash-SSDs for use in the server market.

Samsung plans to start mass production of the 1.8-inch-type 64GB flash-SSD in the second quarter of this year. The SSD market is expected to reach US$200 million in 2007 and increases to US$6.8 billion by 2010.

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