The Negev gets less than 100mm of rain per year, most of which is washed away in flash floods down mountainsides, so the use of irrigation is not necessarily new.
But the 451 Group's Greg Quick argues that Apple has helped push down flash prices.
Micron said revenue from NAND Flash products were down 4% sequentially, due to a 9% drop in sales volume, partially offset by a 5% increase in ASPs.
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The UE 6.9 brings pretty much the same network coverage, cam, Bluetooth, media capabilities, and on-board memory as the 9.9 but had to forgo the microSD card and flash while dropping down to a 1.9-inch 176x220 262k TFT display in order to slip into that world's slimmest, 6.9-mm, 2.33-ounce dress.
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In the quarter, NAND Flash revenues were down 12% sequentially on an 11% drop in sales volume, a drop the company blamed on a one-time increase in volume in Q3 from the sale of work in process inventories resulting from the restructuring of the IM Flash joint venture with Intel.
The content from each Flash player instance has to be scaled down to the confined dimensions of the mobile browser.
Page turning was slow and was accompanied by a distracting flash of black as the microspheres dived down into their oil-filled nodules before forming new text.
It is 2, 500 times faster than flash, yet it never seems to break down.
Also, Toshiba which makes around 40% of flash around the world, is temporarily shut down to assess damage.
Being hidden away down a side street probably helped 1960s throwback Flash Flash survive intact through the decades when aloof minimalism dictated restaurant design, and resembling an orbiting tortilleria from Kubrick's 2001 wasn't a bankable look.
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Other updates added Wednesday include easy undo for correcting mistakes, pull down to refresh for updating your gaming queue in a flash, and the ability to have a streak of up to 999 drawings (the previous cap was 99).
Intel's shares tumbled in January, when it said lower-than-expected demand for the NAND flash memory chips used in digital media players and other gizmos would weigh down earnings (see "Intel's Stock Slammed"), and investors are counting on Otellini to fix that business.
Falling prices for everything from the DRAM memory used to make PCs run faster to the NAND flash memory powering digital media players--have sent Micron's shares down 59% over the past year and about 74% over the past two years.
Under its shiny new skin, new hardware and software, such as a slimmed down version of Apple's OS X operating system and a flash memory drive, instead of the current iPod's mechanical hard drive, could keep the new device thin and light.
The back of the VX offers a rather minimalistic feel, with the 5-megapixel, rear-facing camera and LED flash on top, HTC logo smack-dab in the center and speaker grille down below just underneath the Beats Audio branding.
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It will work on computers and tablets that support Flash, and for those notable ones that don't, there's a stripped down version for mobiles and iPads that loses the extra interactivity.
There's barely time to understand what's happening before a flash of silver whale's skin breaks the surface, dips beneath a wave and plunges down to the dark fathoms of the North Atlantic.
Rather than begin again, in a flash of thrift and ingenuity, they decided to put the crust on top and serve the tart upside down.
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