New SSD line gets its kicks from the Indilinx Barefoot 3 Series controller.

One thing OCZ had yet to do up to this point was deploy in-house ASIC technology on its Vertex family of solid state drives. That changes with the introduction of the Vertex 450 Series, which OCZ is marketing as a mid-range performer that sits between its value offerings and flagship Vector line. The Vertex 450 Series uses OCZ’s Indilinx Barefoot 3 M10 controller, essentially a newer iteration of the Barefoot controller found in the Vertex 4.

In comparing the two, the Barefoot 3 M10 has a lower clockspeed and supports 20nm NAND flash memory. It also boasts AES-256 encryption, sustained performance across all file types, and a power-optimized clock generator that helps improve yield and drives down cost, the combination of which translates into better overall availability and value for consumers, OCZ says.

The Vertex 450 Series pipes data through a SATA 6Gbps interface at various rates, depending on the capacity. Here’s a breakdown of each one’s performance:

• 128GB: 525MB/s read, 290MB/s write, 75,000 4KB random read IOPS, 70,000 4KB random write IOPS
• 256GB: 540MB/s read, 525MB/s write, 85,000 4KB random read IOPS, 90,000 4KB random write IOPS
• 512GB: 540MB/s read, 530MB/s write, 85,000 4KB random read IOPS, 90,000 4KB random write IOPS

All three drives come with a 3-year warranty, Acronis cloning software, and a 3.5-inch adapter. MSRPs have been set to $130 (128GB), $235 (256GB), and $500 (512GB).

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Display Week 2013, USA: NLT Technologies Ltd (NLT), together with its sales and marketing channels in the Americas, Renesas Electronics America introduced a new Value Series of LCD products.

The new Series is equipped with white LED backlights and built-in LED drivers and are designed for higher volume industrial and commercial applications, such as Kiosk, POS and tablet like devices, with a tailored Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) that broadens NLT’s display solutions for the market.

The company will demonstrate the new Value Series displays, at the Society for Information Display’s (SID) Display Week 2013 taking place at the Vancouver Convention Center, in Vancouver, Canada (booth #301), May 21-23, 2013.

Demonstrations will include the following displays:
* 5-inch WVGA NLB050WV01C-01 with CMOS interface
* 7-inch WVGA NLB070WV01L-01 with LVDS interface
* 7-inch WVGA NLB070WV01C-01 with CMOS interface
* 12.1-inch SVGA NLB121SV01L-01 with LVDS interface
* 15-inch XGA NLB150XG01L-01 with LVDS interface.

Google has announced plans to roll out an update to the iOS version of Chrome that will enable voice searching. The feature will function similarly to Siri on the iPhone, requiring a tap on the microphone to bring up the interactive search interface.

Touch the microphone, say your search query aloud and see your results (in some cases spoken back to you), all without typing a single letter. Try these queries with the update (coming soon to the App Store):

– “How many miles from San Antonio to Dallas?”
– “What’s the weather in Rome?”
– “Who stars in The Internship?”

Google currently includes voice search in its Google Search app through Google Now integration and has also begun offering conversational voice search with the release of Chrome 27.

Google notes that the upcoming iOS update will also bring faster reloading of web pages in addition to implementing an option for third party apps to open links in Chrome and then return back to the original app. The update will be available “over the coming days.”

Last week Apple told the U.S. District Court in California that it planned to add the Samsung Galaxy S4 to its patent lawsuit already underway against Samsung. As promised, Apple today filed a motion (via Foss Patents) that details five different patents that the S4 allegedly infringes on.

The filing includes two Siri-related patents violated by Google Now, Google’s robust voice activated search assistant. Patents ’604 and ’959 cover a “universal interface for retrieval of information in a computer system.”

The other three patents in the filing cover a “graphical user interface using historical lists with field classes (’502),” a “system and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data (‘647).” and “asynchronous data synchronization amongst devices (‘414).” According to Apple, these are all claims that other Samsung devices already violate.

Apple determined that the Galaxy S4 product practices many of the same claims already asserted by Apple, and that the Galaxy S4 practices those claims in the same way as the already-accused Samsung devices.

Samsung and Apple were ordered to narrow the scope of their ongoing legal battle earlier this year and as a result, Apple has stated that it will remove one of the other 22 infringing devices from the lawsuit if it is permitted to add the Galaxy S4.

There will be a hearing to discuss Apple’s newly filed motion on June 25 in San Jose and the lawsuit, which covers newly released devices that were not a part of the original dispute, is expected to go to trial in March of 2014.

Last week we reported on how Nintendo has been taking over the advertising of those making Let’s Plays featuring games from the the Japanese firm, leading to all revenue from said videos heading eastward. Understandably many of the channel owners complained and Youtube has now got back to them. The response is pretty lackluster.

The gist, is that you should know when you’re breaking rights law – though there is no mention of fair use law. “You should ensure that you have all the necessary rights to commercially use all content in a video before you submit it for monetisation,” the statement begins. It also offers some handy “tips,” for you to consider when making a video.

“Check the video game publisher’s license agreement (Terms of Use, EULA etc). Some publishers allow you to use all video game content for commercial use and state that in the license agreement.” It then goes on to suggest that you should receive written permission from the company if you want to monetise your videos that feature content from said firm. With giants like Nintendo, how long does Youtube think a response would take? Days? Weeks? Never?

If a few channel owners owe Nintendo money, this guy owes it a career. Source: Cinemassacre

Youtube then goes on to say that the one big thing you can’t monetise without permission is a “software user interface”. What?

If you do manage to get the “appropriate license,” (language like this shouldn’t be anywhere near a creative site like Youtube) you’ll still need to make a video that’s highly educational or informative and not feature much user interface. Surely if you get the license, you can show whatever you want?

How many hoops does Youtube want you to jump through?