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You can now pick up a 16GB SanDisk microSDHC for $100

SanDisk emailed me yesterday and told me that their huge capacity 16GB microSDHC card was now available for US$99.99. SanDisk is the first card maker to get cards with this high capacity out in stores. They promptly sent me a card to evaluate with my latest mobile devices that arrived...

Tags: Card, SanDisk Corp., Flash Memory, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-11-11

The best way to download photos from your digital camera to computer

With multiple generations of digital cameras in use in my household, memory card readers are our method of choice for downloading photos. I find it much easier to pop the memory card out of a camera and into a card reader than keeping track of all those camera cables....

Tags: Memory Card, Digital Camera, Photograph, Camera, Computer, Memory, Flash Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Janice Chen, Card, SanDisk Corp., SD Card

Blog posts 2008-10-24

Samsung says it is no longer interested in SanDisk

Samsung has abruptly dropped its $5.8 billion bid for the memory card-maker SanDisk. In a letter to SanDisk's board, Samsung Electronics CEO Yoon Woo Lee wrote that the recent quarterly results heightened concerns about SanDisk's ability to weather a protracted downturn in the memory industry and the...

Tags: SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Memory Industry, EE Times, Flash Memory, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-10-22

SanDisk Sansa View (16GB)

SanDisk Sansa View (16GB)SanDisk SansaI am a boomer and I prefer the larger mp3 player to the tiny ones because I can SEE IT. It's tactile footprint is perfect for me. Different strokes for different folks. I have seen the tiny mp3 players and they're impossible for...

Tags: Flash memory, Digital music, Digital media, Sandisk Sansa, SanDisk Corp., Sandisk Sansa View, MP3

Discussion threads 2008-10-17

SanDisk's music on flash gamble - will it work?

SanDisk's music on flash gamble - will it work?MP3 files are small enough to downloadBut I wonder if something like this might work better for movies. Probably never happen, though, because it would be too difficult to apply the draconian DRM required by the MPAABuy the whole album?I'd say...

Tags: Consumer electronics, Digital media, MP3-Files, whole album, music, DVD, SanDisk Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

SanDisk's music-on-flash gamble - will it work?

SanDisk and several record companies are announcing a new way to buy MP3s: slotMusic. They are loading the music on flash memory - micro-SD cards it looks like. Will this work? Compared with downloadable MP3s, there are a couple of advantages. First, you get...

Tags: Record Company, SanDisk Corp., Media, MP3, Apple iTunes, Music, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-09-22

microSD music: Are we regressing?

With all of this hoopla surrounding SanDisk's announcement of slotMusic, a product conceived in conjunction with record labels that involves DRM-free MP3s on (SanDisk's) microSD cards, I'm not convinced that we've actually advanced, technologically-speaking. TechCrunch's Michael Arrington has a few choice words for SanDisk and its...

Tags: SanDisk Corp., MicroSD, Music, Flash Memory, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-09-22

What memory technology is Samsung after?

Samsung Electronics recently made public its $5.8 billion offer for SanDisk, a major manufacturer of memory cards. There are plenty of possible business motives behind this bid including the hefty royalties that Samsung pays to SanDisk to use its flash technology, and SanDisk's strong retail brands and distribution. But I'll...

Tags: 3D, NAND Flash, SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., NAND, Technology, Toshiba Corp., Cell, Chip, Flash Memory, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-09-22

News to know: Windows 7; Tech economy; Samsung eyes SanDisk; NetSuite

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 hits Milestone 3 Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer VMware's Datacenter OS: Windows isn't the competition ...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., NetSuite Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-17

SanDisk plays hard to get as Samsung (and maybe Toshiba) eye takeover

SanDisk plays hard to get as Samsung and maybe Toshiba eye takeoverSound familiar?like Yahoo?Toshiba - what a deal!Express distribution of US military secrets. OK, so the Soviets got our submarine silencing technology, but there are no more Soviets. There are plenty of other would-be adversaries and a...

Tags: Flash memory, Storage, eye takeover, Toshiba Corp., Soviet, SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

SanDisk plays hard to get as Samsung (and maybe Toshiba) eye takeover

Samsung is making a hostile bid for SanDisk for $26 a share in cash, or almost double SanDisk's current stock price. SanDisk promptly said no to Samsung's overtures. And why not? Toshiba may be interested too. In a letter to SanDisk's board, Samsung CEO Yoon-Woo Lee said:...

Tags: SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Toshiba Corp., Flash Memory, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-16

SanDisk Cruzer Titanium Plus (4GB)

The 4GB SanDisk Cruzer Titanium ($50) is a new kind of flash drive that offers an automated online backup each time it's attached to a computer with an Internet connection. This model looks almost exactly the same as the original Sandisk Cruzer Titanium, but this one lets you perform automatic...

Tags: Backups, Flash memory, Microsoft Windows, Cruzer Titanium, SanDisk Cruzer, BeInSync, SanDisk Corp., backup, software

Product reviews 2008-08-18

SanDisk reports loss; stock takes beating after-hours

SanDisk reports loss; stock takes beating after-hoursYawn...Well you almost managed to finish a blog without somehow mentioning iPhone, but you couldn't quite manage it. Sure the iPhone must be responsible for the downturn in memory card sales, heck they sold a million of them. Who cares if Nokia sold almost...

Tags: Flash memory, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, S3 Inc., SanDisk Corp., Apple iPhone, virus, stock

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

SanDisk reports loss; stock takes beating after-hours

Shares of SanDisk are getting clobbered in after-hours trading, down more than 13 percent after the company reported a net loss of $68 million, or 30 cents per share, and a one percent drop in revenue for its second quarter. A surprised Wall Street had been expecting earnings of 13...

Tags: Card, Phone, Memory Card, SanDisk Corp., Stock, Cell Phone, Flash Memory, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Amid April slowdown, SanDisk rolls out mobile phone storage

SanDisk on Tuesday announced mobile phone storage cards available in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB versions. The rub: SanDisk has already warned that business has slowed so it's unclear whether folks will buy premium storage for mobile phones. At the JP Morgan technology conference Monday, SanDisk CEO Eli...

Tags: Card, Mobile, SanDisk Corp., Storage, Cell Phone, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Modu claims lightest mobile phone; Will you buy it?

Modu on Tuesday touted its Guinness World Record for the lightest mobile phone--weighing in at 1.41 ounces--but is that a reason to buy it? The question is largely academic since modu--an Israeli company founded by Dov Moran, who sold msystems to SanDisk--launched just a month ago. However,...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, SanDisk Corp., Cell Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-25

SanDisk flash drive to offer automatic Web storage

SanDisk flash drive to offer automatic Web storageThoughts from a heavy flash drive userAs someone who has used portable flash drives heavily over the past few years, this service appeals to me. I have had numerous devices spontaneously fail, and having an automatic backup of my data and applications...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., USB flash drive, SanDisk Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-01-02

NBC to provide TV shows for SanDisk service

NBC to provide TV shows for SanDisk serviceNBC selling stuff for donwload? I wonder if thye make any money from it?In light of the WGA strikes this is pretty absurd.RE: NBC to provide TV shows for SanDisk serviceThe shows should be free. You're already paying for the set top...

Tags: TV & Home Theater, Network technology, NBC, SanDisk Corp., TV-shows, disk

Discussion threads 2007-12-12

Microsoft's Zune bizdev head counter-challenges my offer to shave my head

Microsoft's Zune bizdev head counter-challenges my offer to shave my headcheck?I dont think Bach specifically said anything about being #2, I believe that was Bloomberg's interpretation. This is Bach's quote .. ``When we're done with the holiday, people will look and say, `There's Apple and there's Microsoft,''' he said. ``The...

Tags: Microsoft Zune, Bach, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-10-12

Microsoft's Zune bizdev head counter-challenges my offer to shave my head

Yesterday, via e-mail, Zunecorps blogger Charlie Curran sent me an e-mail saying that Microsoft's head of business development for Zune Bill Wittress had a counter-offer to my open challenge to Microsoft president Robbie Bach to shave my head if Microsoft is ranked #2 in personal digital media player PDMP units...

Tags: SanDisk Corp., Problem, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Bloomberg L.P., Bill Wittress, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Blogging, Sales Force Management, Sales, Online Communications, Internet, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-12