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Winter-Summer in Jackson Hole
It is somewhat ironic that the world bankers met this week at one of the world’s most beautiful places, amidst a turbulent time in the financial markets. This video provides scenes from the Jackson Hole, Wyoming area. In a sense, this video, which juxtaposes shots filmed in the winter and the summer, is a metaphor for…
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A Battery Makes a Dumb Alarm Smart #CES2015
Why spend $100 for a new smoke detector that will alert your smart phone when it needs a new battery? The people behind Roost say just replace the dumb battery with their intelligent battery, which includes processing power with various wireless sensors to communicate the status of the smoke detector. For $35, their smart battery,…
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Beaming in Some Big Announcements
With its announcement of a 16 Terabyte drive using three-dimensional Vertical NAND Flash memory (3D V-NAND). Samsung had a visible (and floating in its booth) proof point that flash memory is to the point where it is competitive with hard-drives for many applications. Anders Graham, SSD Product Marketing Manager, points out that one of the…
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Great Memories of a Person Critical to the Success of the Flash Memory Business
Flash Memory Summit Technical Chairperson, Brian Berg, interviews some of the team that was responsible for creating the first flash disk drive. Eli Harari, founder and former CEO of SanDisk, along with Firmware Engineer, John Magnan and engineer and current SanDisk CTO, Kevin Conley, discuss the important contributions Bob Norman made to this effort. Norman…
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Liberating Music and Video
“We want to liberate people’s music,” said Keith Valory, CEO of Plex. Keith was referring to the relatively new music features Plex introduced to their popular personal media server software. Like the video and photo aspects of their product, consumers are able to consume music on virtually any device, wherever they are, and they are not…
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Detecting Break-Ins Before They Happen
It’s a given that a connected alarm system can be set up to notify a homeowner when an intruder has broken a window or pried open a door. That’s great, but the window is still broken. Myfox, a European company, which made its U.S. debut at CES 2015 has a better idea; sound an alarm…
