Western Digital and SanDisk Corporation announced that the two companies are collaborating on a project that will attempt to bring hybrid storage devices to the market, combining SanDisk’s flash memory technology and WD’s hard drive technology. According to information released so far, SanDisk is supplying a SanDisk iSSD storage device for the WD Black solid state hybrid … [Read more...]

Brother Industries Ltd. announced on April 15 that it will buy the document imaging business of Eastman Kodak Co., including scanner operations, for about $210 million. Brother and Kodak have signed a preliminary contract for the purchase, that will be carried out if Brother wins a court-supervised auction for the business, as Kodak is currently in a court-led rehabilitation … [Read more...]

Sharp Corp. has said it will supply Samsung Electronics Co. with energy-saving, high-performance IGZO (Indium- Gallium-Zinc Oxide) panels for laptop PCs. It will manufacture 11.6-inch IGZO panels for Samsung at its mainstay production facility in Kameyama, Mie Prefecture, Japan, and plans to begin shipments as early as summer.The deal is expected to help give a boost to the … [Read more...]

Sony Corp. and Olympus Corp. established “Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.” on April 16,  aiming to align Sony’s cutting-edge electronics technologies in areas such as imaging with Olympus’  manufacturing and R&D expertise in the area of medical products, including lenses and optical technologies. The new company plans to establish a new medical and imaging systems … [Read more...]

Adobe dropped a bomb at its IMAX conference in Los Angeles on May 6th, where it announced that it plans to abandon its Creative Suite desktop software and transition completely to the subscription-only Creative Cloud. Adobe also said that it plans to continue selling the CS6 hardcopies for now, but anything more than bug fixes and OS compatibility or CS7 was highly unlikely. … [Read more...]