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Western Digital announced it's now delivering 4TB portable SSDs across its consumer brand portfolio. "This milestone allows us to deliver a new era of solutions with the capacity and performance our customers have been asking for. Our consumer brand products are used by millions of professionals and consumers around the world, and we continue to drive technology forward to deliver the performance, reliability and leading products they demand," said Jim Welsh, senior vice president and general manager of Consumer Solutions Products, Western Digital.

The image is clickable and leads to Adobe's Flash Player EOL General Information Page where netizens are advised to uninstall Flash and fire it into the heart of the Sun. That page repeats Adobe's assertions that the likes of HTML5, WebGL, and WebAssembly "Have continually matured over the years and serve as viable alternatives for Flash content." Throw in the fact that "Major browser vendors are integrating these open standards into their browsers and deprecating most other plugins," and Adobe is content to let Flash become an ex-plugin.

ZOTAC Technology announces an all-new ZBOX Mini PC of the E Series line, MAGNUS ONE. It boasts a high-performance, versatile design made to empower all end-user computing needs. MAGNUS ONE makes its debut with the opening of CES 2021, introducing an all-new vertically-positioned design that supports a desktop ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 30 Series GPU for the ultimate performance.

TEKTELIC and Senet have been working for over 4 years to perfect the deployment of IoT networks and solutions for the best efficiency, high reliability, cost effectiveness and ease of operation. Over the years we have deployed TEKTELIC's Carrier Grade Gateways to support numerous high availability customer networks across the US and elsewhere that have resulted in IoT acceleration and expediency.

The 5G Open Innovation Lab announced it will close its recruiting window on January 22, 2021 for its 3rd batch of early- and later-stage start-ups with a focus on enterprise innovation and 5G-enabled services. "Said Jim Brisimitzis, General Partner of the 5G Open Innovation Lab,"Our program is a catalyst for applied innovation bridging hands-on collaboration between our companies and Partners to push new enterprise capabilities enabled by future 5G network connectivity and edge compute.

In 2020, MioTech successfully expanded its environmental, social and governance data coverage to more than a million public and private companies in the Greater China region. MioTech plans to launch more datasets covering Asian and European markets.

Wireless cellular industry trade association, 5G Americas, announced Igal Elbaz, Senior Vice President, Wireless and Access Technology of AT&T has been re-elected to serve as Chairman of the 5G Americas Board of Governors for 2021. "In his first year at the helm, Igal provided significant dynamic leadership for 5G Americas through the shocking global challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic," said Chris Pearson, President of 5G Americas.

Cloudera announced that Gary Hu has been appointed to the Company's Board of Directors, upon the recommendation of Icahn Enterprises in accordance with the Voting and Standstill Agreement between Cloudera and affiliates of Icahn Enterprises, dated August 12, 2019. Gary Hu replaces Nicholas Graziano who had been an Icahn designee and resigned from the Company's Board of Directors, effective January 7, 2021.

MITRE named Gerald Gilbert, Ph.D., a MITRE Fellow to expand MITRE's quantum science initiatives. MITRE Fellows are a select group of preeminent scientists in their fields who lead critically important programs.

As the investigation into the SolarWinds supply-chain attack continues, cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a third malware strain that was deployed into the build environment to inject the backdoor into the company's Orion network monitoring platform. "This highly sophisticated and novel code was designed to inject the Sunburst malicious code into the SolarWinds Orion Platform without arousing the suspicion of our software development and build teams," SolarWinds' new CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna explained.