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Atta boy,
Cowon. Before we Americans even had a chance to forget about the O2's
Korean introduction and the overseas
hands-on, the outfit is going ahead and bringing the unit to US soil. Hailed as the company's first flash memory-based PMP with a 4.3-inch widescreen display, this simple-yet-classy media player packs an SDHC expansion slot and a Power Management System that helps it eek out 18-hours of audio playback and 8-hours with video; you'll also find a revamped user interface and world class codec support. Those who've discovered their dream machine can snap one up now from JetMall, Amazon, NewEgg or a variety of other e-tailers for $219.99 (8GB), $249.99 (16GB) or $299.99 (32GB).
Cowon brings the flash-based O2 PMP stateside: starts at $219.99 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by Jonathan Schwartz on under land speed record, fitting backdrop, financial services executives, memory worth, market turmoil, global financial services, technical perspective, storage memory, flash storage, secd, performance market, system solar, market advantage, leventhal, thoms, |
I remember a dinner I had a while back with the CEO of a global financial services firm. As one of his first acts as CEO, he'd cancelled an enormous outsourcing contract, and I'd asked him why - his response has stuck with me. "Banking is a technology business. Pure and simple. I can't win if I don't have my own team."
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Independent of his views on outsourcing, I've heard the same point made by many (but not all) financial services executives - banking (like big swaths of telecommunications, media and retailing) has become a technology business, where every ounce of performance and differentiation matters. Even, and especially, in the midst of market turmoil.
Which is a fitting backdrop for a joint press release we just issued with Intel - in which we achieved a land speed record - a million messages per second, running the Reuters Market Data System on Solaris 10 for Intel silicon (see release for details). To our colleagues at Intel and Thomson Reuters... thank you! Performance = market advantage, energy savings, or datacenter consolidation - or all of the above. Customers get to pick.
And following up on my last post on the impact of flash memory and ZFS on the world of datacenters, our own Adam Leventhal has added a far more fulfilling technical perspective in Communications of the ACM: Flash Storage Memory.Worth the read...
Tagi: land speed record, fitting backdrop, financial services executives, memory worth, market turmoil, global financial services, technical perspective, storage memory, flash storage, secd, performance market, system solar, market advantage, leventhal, thoms,
Posted by Jonathan Schwartz on under land speed record, fitting backdrop, financial services executives, memory worth, market turmoil, global financial services, technical perspective, storage memory, flash storage, secd, performance market, system solar, market advantage, leventhal, thoms, |
I remember a dinner I had a while back with the CEO of a global financial services firm. As one of his first acts as CEO, he'd cancelled an enormous outsourcing contract, and I'd asked him why - his response has stuck with me. "Banking is a technology business. Pure and simple. I can't win if I don't have my own team."
![]()
Independent of his views on outsourcing, I've heard the same point made by many (but not all) financial services executives - banking (like big swaths of telecommunications, media and retailing) has become a technology business, where every ounce of performance and differentiation matters. Even, and especially, in the midst of market turmoil.
Which is a fitting backdrop for a joint press release we just issued with Intel - in which we achieved a land speed record - a million messages per second, running the Reuters Market Data System on Solaris 10 for Intel silicon (see release for details). To our colleagues at Intel and Thomson Reuters... thank you! Performance = market advantage, energy savings, or datacenter consolidation - or all of the above. Customers get to pick.
And following up on my last post on the impact of flash memory and ZFS on the world of datacenters, our own Adam Leventhal has added a far more fulfilling technical perspective in Communications of the ACM: Flash Storage Memory.Worth the read...
Tagi: land speed record, fitting backdrop, financial services executives, memory worth, market turmoil, global financial services, technical perspective, storage memory, flash storage, secd, performance market, system solar, market advantage, leventhal, thoms,
Posted by Jonathan Schwartz on under land speed record, fitting backdrop, financial services executives, memory worth, market turmoil, global financial services, technical perspective, storage memory, flash storage, secd, performance market, system solar, market advantage, leventhal, thoms, |
I remember a dinner I had a while back with the CEO of a global financial services firm. As one of his first acts as CEO, he'd cancelled an enormous outsourcing contract, and I'd asked him why - his response has stuck with me. "Banking is a technology business. Pure and simple. I can't win if I don't have my own team."
![]()
Independent of his views on outsourcing, I've heard the same point made by many (but not all) financial services executives - banking (like big swaths of telecommunications, media and retailing) has become a technology business, where every ounce of performance and differentiation matters. Even, and especially, in the midst of market turmoil.
Which is a fitting backdrop for a joint press release we just issued with Intel - in which we achieved a land speed record - a million messages per second, running the Reuters Market Data System on Solaris 10 for Intel silicon (see release for details). To our colleagues at Intel and Thomson Reuters... thank you! Performance = market advantage, energy savings, or datacenter consolidation - or all of the above. Customers get to pick.
And following up on my last post on the impact of flash memory and ZFS on the world of datacenters, our own Adam Leventhal has added a far more fulfilling technical perspective in Communications of the ACM: Flash Storage Memory.Worth the read...
Tagi: land speed record, fitting backdrop, financial services executives, memory worth, market turmoil, global financial services, technical perspective, storage memory, flash storage, secd, performance market, system solar, market advantage, leventhal, thoms,
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As NAND flash memory continues to shrink in size, problems with reliability and endurance continue to grow, and manufacturers say they may not be able to produce any more generations. That's forcing solid-state memory makers to look for alternatives.
Tagi: state memory, memory makers, flash memory, solid state, endurance, reliability
