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Digg, the San Francisco-based social media company, is dropping MySQL and instead betting its future on Cassandra, an open-source data store. It’s just the latest sign of the growing popularity of the software, which was developed (and open sourced) by Facebook to search through its inbox. While Facebook has since backed off Cassandra, Digg plans to open source all its work on Cassandra and champion the software’s development and adoption. In a blog post on the Digg blog, John Quinn, Digg’s VP of engineering, writes : Perhaps our most significant infrastructure change is abandoning MySQL in favor of a NoSQL alternative. To someone like me who’s been building systems almost exclusively on relational databases for almost 20 years, this feels like a…

We published about the new MSI U230 back in November, and today it is official, the MSI Wind12 U230 are available now in two flavors, the 033 is powered by an Athlon Neo MV-40 processor with 250GB storage capacity while the 040 gets the Athlon X2 L335 with 320 GB. Successors of the Wind12 U210 , both models sports a 12.1″ HD (1366

File this one under “future toys.” We hear about a lot of these super-low-level advances in processing and storage (whenever I see the word “ holographic ,” I reach for the salt), and while they’re usually at best years away from practice and manufacture, they’re good to keep informed on, if nothing else than as cocktail chatter. “Did you hear about those new nanotube speakers? ” Well. The latest advancement is that IBM is thinking of replacing the conductive copper channels in today’s chips with light. But it’s more than a simple fiber-optic setup or something along those lines; the idea is that a single photon would set off …

Not too sure what took so long for an electronic songbook to be invented despite having the proper technology to do so after all this while - we’re talking about the i-tab which comes with a 5″ touchscreen display which is capable of displaying and scrolling through chords and lyrics in perfect synchronization as you play, functioning as a sort of musical teleprompter for guitar players. Equipped with 4GB of internal storage space, it ought to prove enough to tote around thousands of tabs which can be purchased and downloaded off i-tab online Tab Store. There are now 5,000 tabs available, with another 500 or so being added to that number weekly. Other…

These 1GB lightsaber flash drives may have been imported from Japan and they may light up when plugged in, but they still don’t feel quite right without some woosh-woosh-zzwoommm-zwing sound effects. Worth $20 without those? [ ThinkGeek via Nerd Approved ]

The CompactFlash Association has a brand new 5.0 standard that will increase the addressing from 28-bits to 48, resulting in an exponential gain in the amount of storage. This would mean the new format is capable of hitting 144-petabytes (PB) once flash technology is able to catch up with the new ceiling. Apart from that, pro photographers and videographers are will be able take advantage of new safeguards that is able to guarantee a certain minimum level of performance while preventing dropped frames, especially in HD video. No idea on when CF 5.0 cards will hit the market, but it isn’t going to happen anytime soon. Permalink: CompactFlash 5.0 offers 144-petabyte capacity from Ubergizmo | RSS Sponsor: Win a Fellowes Microshred Paper Shredder!

In not-too-surprising, yet good-to-know-for-sure news, it seems that Samsung is indeed working on a netbook designed around Chrome OS . Now, what exactly that comprises I can’t tell you — my guess is they’re really just getting a cheap netbook ready to go with whatever Google announces when Chrome OS hits prime time. Or maybe they’ll use one of those neat (useless) transparent ones ? The specs are nothing crazy: 3G, 2GB of RAM to start, 64GB or more of SSD storage, probably a 10.1″ screen, and a nice long battery life. The chipset and processor weren’t disclosed, but the source is suggesting a 1.5GHz Snapdragon. I wonder about that — I wouldn’…

What’s Apple’s problem with Flash? Three years after the introduction of the iPhone, Apple’s refusal to include Flash on its soon-to-be-released iPad has sparked another kerfuffle between Apple and Flash maker Adobe Systems. In a lengthy blog post, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch railed against Apple’s Flash avoidance and detailed why Flash has become successful on the non-iPhone part of the web. From its humble start allowing low-bandwidth vector animations on the web, Flash now includes animation, streaming audio, rich interactivity, arbitrary fonts, two-way audio/video communication, local storage, and “enabling the video revolution on the web,” Lynch wrote. The explosion of smartphones and the imminent …

Just like there can never be enough handbags and shoes for women, so the same it is for computer users - you can never have enough storage space. LaCie steps in with their aptly-named 2Big USB 3.0 RAID drive which is able to hit a theoretical throughput speed of 275 MB/s, which is blazing fast by any standards. All you need to do is make sure that you computer is running on a USB 3.0-compatible motherboard or has a PCI-E card. There is no word on pricing or availability where the LaCie 2Big is concerned, but if this is the first effort from LaCie, we can’t help but drool in anticipation of future iterations that will push the envelope even further. Gotta love the design on this device. [ Press…

File syncing and storage startup Zumodrive has raised $1.5 million in funding led by Sherpalo Ventures with Tandem Entrepreneur s and VeriFone CEO Douglas Bergeron participating. We initially reviewed Zumodrive here. While there are a plethora of syncing and storage services available to users, Zumodrive, which spawned from Y Combinator startup Zecter, has a different take on file syncing. Similar to other services, Zumodrive creates a drive on your device that is synced to the cloud. But service has a different twist-the service tricks the file system into thinking those cloud-stored files are local, and streams them from the cloud when …