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Currently, Toshiba and SanDisk jointly own flash memory manufacturing facilities in Mie Prefecture, Japan.

Last month, SanDisk rejected a buyout offer from Samsung. The Milpitas, Calif.-based company has been caught in a brutal downward spiral of flash memory prices and is a laggard in the growing market for solid-state drives–where Samsung is currently the leader.

SanDisk is the largest supplier of retail flash drives in the U.S.

Google also has the luxury of being able to squeeze commissions called traffic acquisition costs, or TACs, paid to partners that carry Google-supplied ads. “Google has plenty of room to squeeze TAC rates, given its market share and positioning. It is unlikely network publishers switch to other providers–and this provides the company with an additional lever that can be used to clamp down on expenses, in addition to headcount reductions (or hiring reductions) that would offset weakness,” he

From Nielsen Soundscan by way of the LA Weekly and Rolling Stone, here are the top 10 vinyl sellers in 2008. I’ve added the years they were originally released, and what I imagine was going through the mind of vinylphiles when they bought it.

Overall, vinyl accounted for a whopping 0.1 of all music sales last year! How long before preloaded microSD cards surpass vinyl to become the third-most-popular music format?

10. Radiohead, OK Computer, 1997. Great prod

This post was updated at 2:30 p.m. PDT with new information about Internet traffic.

But Swedish police are not happy about open anonymous Wi-Fi networks due to concerns about the spread of child pornography and the like.

An estimated 1 in 10 people engage in file sharing in Sweden. The country is also home to the world’s largest BitTorrent sharing site, The Pirate Bay.

A similar effect occurred after The Pirate Bay raid three years ago. Then

Yahoo spokeswoman Kim Rubey declined to comment on the company’s board meetings and a representative for Icahn was not immediately available.

Yahoo spokeswoman Rubey, responded: “Yahoo! has been exploring ways to streamline our processes and bring new agility and efficiency to how we work as an organization. As part of this effort, we have engaged Bain & Co. to help us identify opportunities for improvement. This work is well underway, with the ultimate goal of positioning Ya

The first part would be easy to pass off, but the second part (”seen to be competing with local Australian businesses unfairly”) is more incendiary.

Several Sun Microsystems Inc employees, especially related to the Database Group, have been denied short stay business visas to Australia, over the last few months, as they have been seen to be competing with local Australian businesses unfairly.

It’s also pure conjecture. As Arno admits in the comments, an IRC chat with

Along with Netflix support, Boxee now links up with MTV to pop up music videos for any songs in your library that it can match. There’s also support for YouTube videos that have been encoded in h.264, and new player interfaces for Hulu, CNN, Picasa, YouTube, and Flickr. The updated UI offers slightly more streamlined playback controls, solving one of my big quibbles with the last release, which actually kept you from being to skip around a video’s timeline in Hulu and CBS videos.

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From the moment every student pilot begins training, instructors stress the importance of emergency landings (if the landing is on water, it’s called ditching). Simulated landings due to engine failure are commonplace during flight training, and before a student is permitted to fly solo, he’s required to demonstrate at least minimal competence at them.

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Wireless operators have also been offering unlimited calling plans, which they hope will meet the needs of wireless-only users.

What’s driving the trend? Nielsen says its economics. As more Americans feel the squeeze from the weakening economy, consumers are looking for ways to cut costs. Many see traditional phone service, which averages about $40 a month, as a household expense that can be cut, especially since more than 85 percent of the U.S. population also own a cell phone

“Bruce’s departure was a personal decision and has been planned for some time, with a potential April 1 announcement date, which is within the wry character of Bruce,” Thompson said in a statement to CNET News. “But due to the inherent difficulty in keeping something like this contained, we felt it prudent to move the announcement up.”

iStockphoto founder and former CEO Bruce Livingstone

Thompson will lead iStockphoto and report directly to Getty CEO Jonathan Klein, the