November 09, 2006
Prestigio Technologies Ltd. announced the release of a unique digital product for mobile users -- Prestigio Notebook Pack. The Notebook Pack is a trendy set of eight add-on accessories which make user’s work with a notebook extremely comfortable and drastically expand the notebook’s connectivity options. This sleekly designed set offers an ideal blend of functionality and style, and makes a much desired gift for any mobile user.
November 08, 2006
Hard drive giant Seagate has taken the dramatic step of dropping eSys as a global distribution partner following its alleged refusal to co-operate with an audit of point of sale records. The US-based vendor has already ceased shipments of its products to eSys. Singapore-based eSys was previously Seagate’s largest distribution partner and represented 6% of its revenues — equivalent to a massive US$168m — for the three months to the end of September.
November 03, 2006
The memory card specification competition has raged since the advent of digital cameras up to present-day mobile phone devices. But by 2007, a uniform standard may be in the works, with microSD for mobile phones dominating the entire card-slot mobile phone user market! What makes microSD so attractive that it has mobile phone makers going all out to launch corresponding mobile phones?
November 01, 2006
Lite-On IT communicated that the news article announcing Lite-On IT exiting the consumer ODD business with its own brand on DigiTimes, has lead to an unfortunate misinterpretation of facts. Being the world’s 2nd largest ODD manufacturer, Lite-On IT will definitely not stop ODD products, DVD- and CD burners. The news release on DigiTimes will only affect the company’s standalone DVD recorders product line. The ODD products will follow up the original promotion plan to co-work with the current distributors or retailer channels as usual.
October 30, 2006
Prestigio Digital Media Adapter DMA-301 is an innovative device which bridges the home PC with the existing home TV and audio system via wireless local area network connections. This wireless state-of-the-art product is intended for home users who want to access digital media files through the existing entertainment system, and without drilling holes in the wall for setting up a local network connection.
October 24, 2006
Hitachi GST announced that its Deskstar T7K250 3.5-inch hard drive has been named the “Best Hard Disk Drive 2006” by Computer Shopper magazine in its annual award ceremony held in London. Judged by a panel of storage experts against 11 other Parallel-ATA (PATA) hard disks, the Deskstar T7K250 was declared the best among its peers in reliability, value and performance. It produced the best result in the large file read test and scored consistently well elsewhere.
October 19, 2006
TUL Corporation announced the PowerColor X1950 PRO 256/512MB with ARCTIC COOLING. The X1950 PRO features the first-ever GPU manufactured at 80nm fabrication process and the new CrossFireTM Bridge Interconnect. The new product is targeted at gamers needing a graphics card that runs graphic-intensive games with quiet cooling at a reasonable price.
October 17, 2006
The 16GB JetFlash 2A combines large capacity, performance, and style in a device that slips into your pocket and can help you manage your active work life. Transcend’s 16GB JetFlash 2A is a hi-speed USB 2.0 Flash Drive, thus it has superior Read/Write speeds that is up to 25/20 MB per second. The JetFlash 2A not only performs brilliantly and looks great, it also comes bundled with some very useful software applications that can help you increase your productivity.
October 13, 2006
Seagate announced that it will ship a 1.5 terabyte version of its Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo Edition external hard disk drive. The new drive ships this month for $799.99. The Onetouch III Turbo Edition is pre-formatted for Mac users and comes with FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 interfaces. Inside the drive enclosure are two 750GB hard disk drive mechanisms configured together in a RAID array for a total capacity of 1.5TB.
October 02, 2006
Following the latest trend in personal audio, Canyon Technology unveiled a state-of-the-art Multimedia MP3 Player CN-MPV1. This lightweight and attractive device supports mp3, wma, wav, jpg, amv and txt files. Its 65K colors CSTN display makes it perfect for viewing photos and playing movie files (amv). The super slim housing is made of stainless steel. Canyon claims to be the first vendor to offer such a complete multimedia MP3 Player at an affordable price.