The winter of 2006 should have been a happy time for gamers.  Two new consoles launched, and a third, already established, had released its first marquee title (Gears of War).  Unfortunately, a sinister figure appeared amidst the holiday festivities, with the production-“Grinch” limiting the number of consoles to go around.  As a ...

 Samsung has been doing tricks with flash memory all year. Early in 2006 at CeBIT the company demonstrated its 32 GB hard drive made entirely from solid state NAND flash memory. The device uses a 50 nanometer architecture and was shown off at CeBIT in a laptop. The storage device inside that laptop has already been introduced to the public, ...