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Sherman Black, a senior vice president at Seagate Technology, the leader in hard disk drives, lies awake at night worrying that his teenagers are part of a new generation of computer users who don't care if their data is stored locally or on the Web.

It matters to Black's industry because a growing number of consumers are eagerly eyeing a new wave of solid-state disk drives. Made from arrays of flash memory chips, these new drives are smaller and many times faster than the traditional hard disk disks that read and write magnetic ones and zeroes on a rotating platter.

National Geographic announced Tuesday that it's creating a line of games for PCs, consoles and handheld devices. The games, like the company's trademark magazine and programming, will feature content with socially and environmentally-conscious themes.

National Geographic on Tuesday announced a new twist for the science and educational organization -- video games.

National Geographic Games (NGG) will publish and develop games across major gaming console, handheld, online and mobile platforms. National Geographic also said it will work with premier game publishers and developers to create games based on its core themes and media properties.

The goal is to extend National Geographic's mission of inspiring people to care about the planet and reach a new generation of consumers and families.

Adobe Systems chief executive Shantanu Narayen wants to make it easier for people to watch online videos, play games and use other sophisticated Internet applications on a variety of cell phones and other mobile devices.

And he'd be extremely happy if they were doing that with the help of Adobe's software. Narayen stressed the need for industry collaboration to create a better mobile Web experience in a keynote speech Thursday at the Wireless IT and Entertainment trade show in San Francisco, sponsored by the wireless industry association known as CTIA.

Once you've chosen a codec, you have to choose an encoding tool. In this column, I'll outline the codec-specific and automation-related questions you should ask before using or buying an encoding tool, and then describe the three levels of encoding tools.

DUBLIN, Calif., Jun 23, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Sybase iAnywhere today announced that it has expanded its mobile security portfolio to include handheld antivirus and firewall capabilities. Sybase(R) Information Anywhere(R) Suite's Afaria(R) management and security solution will be enhanced with antivirus and firewall technology, addressing growing concern over an increase in malware, viruses, hackers and spam targeting handheld devices.