manufacturing plants

The NBA, for one, is looking to secure enough tape to get through the NBA Finals in June and its planned 3D broadcasts following the suspension of operations at manufacturing plants owned by Sony and others.

You may have noticed that solid-state drives (SSDs), those flash memory-based drives that were touted as an alternative to hard disks, have remained stuck in the 80GB to 160GB size range and the prices are not coming down.

There's a good reason for that.

Starting in early 2009, the price of NAND flash memory took off, almost doubling in price, and proceeded to stop the momentum of SSD as a storage alternative in its tracks.

It's a truism that its nearly impossible to find a way to live without purchasing any goods made by foreign countries.

What about finding a way to live without any goods illegally made by children?

Teenagers in suburban Dayton, Ohio, are heading to community colleges after manufacturing plants closed.