Samsung prepares 16Gbit flash memory

Samsung has announced that it has begun customer testing of the world's first 16Gbit NAND flash memory, using an ultra-dense 50nm process technology. The first samples have a multi-level cell (MLC) designed with a 4KB page size designed to improve both read and write performance: by superseding the conventional 2KB paging system for MLC NAND flash Samsung has doubled read speeds and increased write speeds by 150 per cent. The company believes that the introduction of 16Gbit and higher density flash memories will accelerate the adoption of non-volatile memory applications such as flash-based solid state disks. ...more

Verizon sues Vonage over VoIP

You know that a technology is about to take off in a big way when the patent lawsuits start to fly. So it is with VoIP. Vonage Holdings has admitted that it has been served with a patent infringement lawsuit, along with its wholly owned subsidiary, Vonage America, filed by Verizon Services and Verizon Laboratories relating to VoIP technologies. ...more

If you think I'm sexy...

A new phenomenon is burning through the Web in the US. Amihot.com gives users the opportunity to post their mug shot on the site and let others vote them "hot" or "not". ...more

Alert: Chancellor extends tax relief on IT investment another year

In his budget speech this afternoon, Chancellor Gordon Brown has extended tax relief on IT investment. In his speech Brown said `A total of more than 3 million businesses will now also qualify for 100 per cent allowances for investment in I.T. ...more

New Bagle variants await instructions for control

New Bagle variants have been discovered and while they don't spread, they're just as dangerous as their mass-mailing siblings. Kaspersky says it has seen large numbers of the new Bagles and reports 15 variants of this latest version, differing in most part in the way they are packed, rather than the virus contained within. But F-Secure says there are at least two new variants of the Bagle worm. ...more