HDD: a price decline? Not before two years...

A study of iSupply indicates that trays hard drives prices still remain quite high and this until 2014.

According to the recent study of IHS iSupply, prices of hard drives trays should not fall before 2014! The rates indicated in the press release correspond to an average unit price, regardless of the sold disc storage space. In the third quarter of 2011, the average price of a hard disk was established around $ 51. With a bond of $ 10, it had risen to $ 61 in the fourth quarter to continue momentum and achieve $ 66 for the first quarter of this year. Between March and June, the average price is stagnating and loses $ 1 to $ 65.

For your information, the study also gives the figures for the number of units delivered worldwide for this year. In the first quarter of 2012, he was taken primarily from manufacturing plants in Thailand not less of 145 million hard drives and about 159 million for the second quarter and forecast for the third quarter about 176 million units.

The floods in Thailand are passed and plants are distributed, but prices fell so far. The study explained in part this state of affairs by the concentration of the two leading manufacturers of hard disk drives, Seagate and Western Digital, but also by the contracts in the long run to high prices when the plants had not yet fully resumed their activities. These contracts are signed at this price because OEMs fear a problem of supply for the manufacture of their products. With all these conditions, it seems difficult to quickly lower the price of hard drives trays and says iSupply, it is not close to arrange...

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YouTube celebrates 7 years with new record figures

The platform of sharing and dissemination of videos on the internet, YouTube, celebrated Sunday its 7 years of existence and advance records figures.

Well Yes, it's been already 7 years videos YouTube hosting site has emerged. It was in May 2005 under the leadership of three former PayPal employees who simply wanted to share videos with their loved ones, indeed the first shared video on YouTube was one of the creators of the site who commented on his visit to the San Diego Zoo.

Then everything dissolves very quickly, the hearing took off quickly with 8 million videos viewed by day in December 2005 and 15 million in July 2006. In October 2006, the site is bought by Google for the astronomical sum of $ 1.65 billion and the site knows now considerable success is not disavowing.

To cite a few towering figures, YouTube attracts each month 800 million visitors to its pages representing 3 billion hours of video views, and every minute is not less than 72 hours of videos which are sent to the servers of the firm of Mountain View.

Of course, it is everything and anything, especially anything else, but at least there are for all tastes and all. Who has also never recovered from old cartoons or emissions generic completely forgotten, or a good old video clip well kitsch and rotten but who scored our childhood, hum?

Find below a video published on the official blog YouTube tracing seven years of significant events throughout the history of the California company.

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Firefox may blow, it will be still funded by Google for 3 years

The agreement between the Foundation Mozilla and Google on Firefox is renewed for the next three years.

With declining usage statistics, Firefox saw his very lucrative contract with Google threatened. Especially that Chrome, the browser by Google himself, him file the train (and would have even exceeded it some figures). A reminder, Google is the primary source of income of the Mozilla Foundation, that it pays to install by default its search engine in the browser to the red panda.

Knowing that the contract between the two came to term last month, we we were uneasy future of Mozilla, whose leaders remained tranquil. And they were right because one learns that the contract with Google has been renewed for the next three years. However, we do not know on what basis, and it would be logical that Google has been hard in case, negotiating his contract down given that Firefox is less used.

"Under this multiannual agreement, Google Search continue to be the search engine by default of hundreds of millions of Firefox users around the world" said Gary Kovacs, CEO of Mozilla. Without this agreement (which represented 86% of the turnover of the Mozilla Foundation in 2008), it is the death in the medium term of Firefox which could be signed.

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M - Disc: a storage medium that is 1,000 years?

Millenniata, a small American company, comes to associate with the Korean giant LG for the implementation of a whole new storage media is to take a very long time. M-Disc is a very close optical drive from the traditional DVD. Same capacity (4.7 GB), it reads on any type of DVD player. Except that its design allows it to withstand extreme conditions for 1,000 years!

On a M-Disc, the data are "engraved on inorganic materials, which cannot be overwritten, erased or corrupted by natural processes", says Millenniata site. His writing is done via a specific writer who "alter physically recording layer by creating real holes".

As a result, the M-Disc are therefore not rewritable. If the storage size is currently limited to 4.7 GB, the US firm plans to support densities of most important engraving for his support in the future. Finally when it comes to price, the cost of returns is logically important, since it was announced 3 $ $ (a little less than 2.10 euros) exhibit. Here's a short video demonstrating the reliability and soundness of the M-Disc.

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Tom's Hardware: IBM PC celebrates 30 years

Our colleagues of Tom's Hardware published today a retrospective on one of the elephants of the computer: IBM PC, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year."August 12, 1981, 30 years ago, IBM launched the model 5150 PC, a computer that was to become the first of a (very) long list." Small introspection of the various components constituting the venerable ancestor... »

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75 Microsoft Store will open in 3 years

Microsoft unveils its intentions regarding the opening of a large number of stores to his effigy in the United States and around the world.

 

After the Microsoft Store opened online by the software giant, the time had come for Microsoft to open retail outlets with gable on street to distribute its products and highlight those of its partners. If currently there are 11 Microsoft Store installed at the four corners of the United States, the firm intends to accelerate implementation of stores everywhere in the world, with 75 openings planned in the next three years. A card even released by Microsoft with respect to the United States with a hook that leaves no room for doubt as to his intentions: "we will accelerate our Stores".

And indeed, the difference is very visible, Microsoft shops will multiply in the coming two to three years. As for the rest of the world, it is also part of the plans of the American company with numerous openings planned in Europe and Asia, as well as emerging markets. The idea behind these outlets is designing stores that will offer a shopping experience original and able to "bring the Microsoft DNA", as Apple was able to do so through and its famous Apple Store, real points of all Mac fans rallying and other iBidules. This little game here, Apple has led a beautiful start, already more than 350 shops in the world and the schedules of openings loaded.

Expected now to see what will be precisely the countries by opening Microsoft Store outside the United States, and exactly how many shops should open their doors.

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