Staples will begin selling disposable discs from Atlanta-based Flexplay Technologies in its 2,000 stores across the country beginning in mid-June. Flexplay has deals with Warner Home Video, New Line Home Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment and DreamWorks to sell new release movies on its disposable discs, according to its Web site.
Flexplay time-limited discs play for 48 [...]

TDK Corp launched the “HS1″ series, a line of 1.8-inch solid state disks (SSD) with the Micro SATA interface, targeting notebook computers and industrial devices.

The HS1 series comes in three models with storage capacities of 16, 32 and 64 Gbytes, respectively. The product uses SLC (single-level cell) NAND flash memory. It is the commercialized version [...]

T-Mobile confirmed its Android phone is still on track, too. Google denied a report Monday that phones using its Android software have been delayed to 2009. The Street reported the delay, citing an unnamed source. But Google denied the report.
“We’re still on track to announce Android-powered phones this year. Some of our partners are publicly [...]

The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), in light of the large market potential of BD products in China, has granted licenses to 11 China-based manufacturers allowing them to undertake R&D, production and marketing of BD discs, players or drives, according to media reports from China.
According to the reports, Masayuki Kozuka, general manager for Matsushita Electric Industrial’s [...]