Apple’s iPhone 5 Is Pried Open and Its Profitable Secrets Start Bursting Out

Is Apple curtailing the parts it buys from Samsung? Maybe.
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Apple Joins the Flash Madness Club With Anobit Deal

Flash memory has some troubles that an Israeli company call Anobit appears to know how to solve. Apple is the world’s biggest consumer of flash memory, so naturally it appears to have consumed Anobit.
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Eye-Fi Partners With SanDisk to Expand European Distribution

The Mountain View, Calif., start-up, whose chips bring wireless capabilities to standard digital cameras, will tap the flash memory giant to help sell its cards in Europe.
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Seven Questions for Asheem Chandna of Greylock Partners

Asheem Chandna is a director in the Greylock-backed Palo Alto Networks, the fast-growing network security start-up that just hired away the CEO of Verisign.
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HP’s TouchPad Teardown: Its Deepest Secrets Revealed

The release of Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad tablet — its answer to Apple’s iPad — may not have brought out many consumers lining up to buy it. But it did bring out the gearheads wanting to take it apart, see what’s going on inside and make an educated guess on what it cost to build.
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Samsung’s Chromebook Torn Down, Costs $322 To Make, iSuppli Says

The first Google Chromebooks go on sale Wednesday. Research firm IHS iSuppli has taken apart Samsung’s model and learned some interesting things about how they’re made, and what they’ll cost, and what happens when PC makers build machines without Windows in mind.
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SanDisk, Seagate Debate Data-Storage Future

Many questions have been raised by consumers’ shifting focus to smartphones and tablet-style PCs. Sanjay Mehrotra seems to like answering them a bit more than Steve Luczo.

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Flash Memory Continues Growth By Shrinking

Many consumers have gotten accustomed to the benefits of flash memory, the chips used to store images, music and other data in pocket-sized gadgets. More technology improvements are on the way–the latest sign that small is beautiful in Silicon Valley.

Live from Apple’s “Let’s Rock” Event: iPod Updates, Games, Nano Video Cameras

Apple has sold some 225 million iPods to date, making it one of the most popular electronic devices ever. And it’s sure to sell even more after the updates the company announced at this morning’s event in San Francisco. Among them: Larger, cheaper iPod touches and nanos with cameras and FM radios.
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Live from Apple's "Let's Rock" Event: iPod Updates, Games, Nano Video Cameras

Apple has sold some 225 million iPods to date, making it one of the most popular electronic devices ever. And it’s sure to sell even more after the updates the company announced at this morning’s event in San Francisco. Among them: Larger, cheaper iPod touches and nanos with cameras and FM radios.
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Sambus?

So Much for SamDisk

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