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• The Takeaway: SSD prices continue to fall for OEMs

  Average prices for 128GB solid-state drives (SSDs) hit something of a milestone in the second quarter of the year, falling to $50 for PC makers. And 256GB SSDs are now below the $100 mark.

• Apple sets WWDC for June 8-12, again uses ticket lottery

  Apple today announced that its annual developers conference will run June 8-12, and like last year it will assign tickets with a random drawing.

• Facebook's iOS UI development framework goes open source

  Facebook has open-sourced ComponentKit, its React-inspired framework for iOS,

• Objective-C's dip in popularity tied to decline in iPad and iPhone

  The language used for Apple iOS app development drops a notch in Tiobe index

• LSI to buy flash controller maker SandForce

  Fabless semi-conductor maker LSI Corp. today announced it will acquire SandForce, the leading maker of flash memory controllers for enterprise-class and consumer flash cards and SSDs. The buyout catapults LSI into the leadership position in SATA SSD controllers.

• Objective-C, C#, D language: Winners in programming popularity

  Objective-C, used for developing Apple iOS applications, climbs to No. 6 in the monthly Tiobe Programming Community index for most popular programming languages, after being ranked at number 8 a year ago. Also posting gains, C# rose to No. 4, a jump of two spots a year ago, while PHP dropped from No. 4 at this time last year to No. 5.

• Texas Memory Systems challenges high-end hard drives with new flash product

  Texas Memory Systems (TMS), best known for its pricey, yet extremely high-performance NAND flash-based storage arrays, has introduced a new system that it said competes with Tier 1 hard drives on a price-per-gigabyte basis.

• Microsoft pairs Azure cloud with mobile devices

  Microsoft is positioning its Windows Azure cloud service as a platform to provide back-end services for mobile devices, including Apple's iOS and Google's Android.

• Japan quake could hit semiconductor production, prices

  Because Japan produces more than 40% of the world's NAND flash memory chips -- and 15% of its DRAM -- the 8.9-magnitude earthquake that hit today could seriously affect worldwide semiconductor supplies, according to research firms.

• Rhomobile brings iPhone app dev to Windows PCs

  Mobile application development tools vendor Rhomobile plans to unveil on Wednesday an extension to its software-as-a-service platform that will enable developers to build applications for Apple's iPhone via a Windows PC.

• QLD Police Service expands records management capabilities

  Queensland Police Service (QPS) has ramped up its records management capabilities with the expanded roll out to 2000 users of ASX listed Objective’s (ASX:OCL) records management solution.