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Small form factor hard disk drives offer numerous benefits for both notebook manufacturers and users. When compared with the more traditional 2.5-inch form factor, 1.8-inch HDDs consume far less power extending battery life and allow for thinner and sleeker chassis – a substantial benefit for consumers who travel frequently with their notebook PCs. Toshiba’s Storage Device Division pioneered the 1.8-inch form factor and, to date, leads the industry with 61 per cent market share in the 1.8-inch HDD market- over twice as much as its nearest competitor.
“For today’s tech savvy consumer, design and aesthetics have become just as important as technology features and functionality,” explained Martin Larsson, Vice President and General Manager, Toshiba Europe Storage Device Manager. “Subsequently, product designers actively search for the components that can deliver outstanding performance without compromising the product’s overall design and shape. The success of our portfolio of 1.8-inch HDDs for consumer electronics is testament to this.”
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11 June, 2008
Toshiba Europe Storage Device Division, the world leader in high performance, small form factor hard disk drive (HDD) technology, today launched two new 1.8-inch HDDs. The 160GB MK1617GSG and 80GB MK8017GSG both offer high performance notebook PCs the substantial storage boost required to support consumers’ growing consumption of digital media on the move.
Across the globe, internet users are turning to digital media as their primary medium for information consumption and entertainment. Recent reports have claimed that 48 per cent of all internet users include consumer-generated content in their weekly media diet. In addition, 83 per cent of users have accessed video content via their PC with 59 per cent accessing video content at least once a week.
When combined with the widespread availability of high speed wireless internet providers and digital media content providers, consumer interest towards lifestyle orientated notebook PC platforms has grown exponentially. According to recent reports detailing research by leading analyst house IDC, notebook sales in Europe rose by 30 per cent in the first quarter of 2008 when compared with the first quarter of 2007.[2] In the UK alone, laptop sales equated to just over 60 per cent of all computers sold in the first quarter of 2008.
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Manhattan Associates builds momentum in South Africa with retail giant Foschini
June 30, 2008
Global supply chain optimisation provider Manhattan Associates (NASDAQ: MANH) today announced that Foschini Group, one of South Africa’s leading fashion and lifestyle retail chains, has selected Manhattan Associates’ Warehouse Management solution (WMS) for Open Systems, to serve the group’s multiple retail divisions, which span clothing, jewellery, accessories, cosmetics, sporting and outdoor apparel, equipment and homewares.
Price Chopper Selects Aldata G.O.L.D Integrated Supply Chain Suite
London, 1st July 2008
Price Chopper, the 26th largest supermarket chain in the U.S., has selected G.O.L.D. Retail Supply Chain Suite from Aldata, one of the global leaders in supply chain software for retail, wholesale and logistics companies, to centralise merchandising and procurement and to improve replenishment management operations across 116 grocery stores throughout New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire.
Psion Teklogix at SME 2007
Among the highlights on
Psion
Teklogix’s stand at the forthcoming Service Management Europe exhibition (SME 2007)
will be a new lone-worker tracking system.
IT is childs play for K3 at Kiddicare.com
Kiddicare, the largest privately owned UK nursery supplier,
has commissioned K3 to
design and implement an entire
suite of retail management solutions based on Microsoft Dynamics to support ambitious
expansion.
The price is right, and on time at Nisa-Today’s
Nisa-Today’s has cut the time taken to process price changes,
promotions and new stores by
on average 150%, enabling it to further enhance member loyalty and for members in
turn to boost their sales
A-Selver AS selects Aldata to support supply chain and store processes
A-Selver AS, an Estonian
and Latvian chain of supermarkets andhypermarkets
specialising in food products
and convenience goods, has selected Aldata, one of the global leaders in supply
chain software for retail, wholesale and logistics companies to support supply chain
and store operations.
Handheld Europe launches the new M3 eTicket
Handheld Europe today announces
the M3 eTicket™, a new version of the versatile M3+ designed specially for payment
transactions and ticket validations in the public transport sector.
BCP gives retailers the benefits of OLA over Broadband
Retail solutions provider Business
Computer Projects Ltd (BCP) has developed a flexible solution to give retailers
the speed, reliability and financial benefits of using Broadband for online authorisation
(OLA) of card payment transactions and Paypoint Services.
Tier-3 warns over hacking kits for sale on eBay
London, UK, 20th September,
Tier-3, the behavioural analysis
IT security specialist, has warned companies that hacker toolkits - which were previously
confined to specialist hidden forums on the Internet - are now being sold openly
on auction sites such as eBay.
AMidlands Co-operative Society selects Aldata
Midlands Co-op, a successful and growing regional retailer with
over 170 food and non-food stores, is progressing well with projects to improve
support of its retail operations in the UK by implementing new systems to
manage central data, orders,
store inventory, replenishment, point of sale and payments.
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