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Creative Zii Is a System-on-Chip

Back in late 2008, Creative put up a teaser site regarding a new product, which the company would announce in the near future. As with most teasers, the site provided little to no indication as to what the purpose of the new product would become or when the company would decide to announce it. However, it appears tha...

8 January 2009
08:36 GMT

Auzentech Unveils New Sound Card for Gamers and Audiophiles

Auzentech, Inc., a provider of innovative audio products on the market, has recently unveiled its new X-Fi Forte PCI-Express sound card. The new Auzen X-Fi Forte 7.1 comes as the world's first native PCI express audio card, which has been especially designed by Auzentech for gamers and audiophiles. The fresh pro...

6 December 2008
05:10 GMT

Creative Intros X-Fi Soundcard for Notebooks

Earlier this week, we told you that, on September 17, Creative was expected to release a new X-Fi product, which was promoted by means of an "I am Heard Everywhere" campaign. Today is the 17th and, as it turns out, the company has kept its promise by unveiling the new X-Fi Notebook ExpressCard, a new high-e...

17 September 2008
05:43 GMT

Creative Prepares to Release New X-Fi Product on Wednesday

Creative is expected to release a new product later this week, on September 17, which is exactly two days from now. Unfortunately, for the time being, there are no technical details available, although it looks like it is going to be part of the company's X-Fi lineup.  The manufacturer certainly wanted to c...

15 September 2008
04:56 GMT

Creative Lauches Mozaic, the Third New ZEN

Creative seems to be in a ZEN-player launching spree lately. After announcing the launch of ZEN X-Fi and having delivered it to the market in two models, the company announced the release of a third PMP in a little over a week, the Creative ZEN Mozaic. Depending on the popularity it will gain, the new ZEN Mozaic is l...

25 July 2008
03:17 GMT

Creative Zen X-Fi Launch Gets Official

The already announced launch of the new Zen X-Fi PMP from Creative is finally getting official. The new PMP will come in two versions, one WiFi and the other non WiFi, featuring 16 and 32GB for the former, while only 8GB for the latter. Still, it seems that the Zen X-Fi will only be available for the APAC region at t...

10 July 2008
06:32 GMT

Creative Zen X-Fi PMP Getting Ready for Launch

Creative Labs is getting closer to the day it will introduce the new Zen X-Fi; it will be added to its Zen series of portable media players. The new player has a few more features than the rest of the series, making it somehow different. It includes Creative's X-Fi technology, but also has WiFi and support for i...

30 June 2008
03:45 GMT

Creative Unveils 5.1 Surround-Sound USB Audio Solution

Sound specialist Creative has just announced a new sound blaster in the X-Fi family, that offers 5.1 Surround Sound over an USB 2.0 bus. The external sound card is completely detachable and allows high-fidelity enthusiasts to enjoy crystal-clear sound even on notebook computers. The Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Surrou...

12 May 2008
11:29 GMT

Creative: You Fix Our Sound Drivers, We Throw You In Jail

Soundcard specialist Creative has been marketing its sound-related products as "Vista Ready" since the release of the new operating system from Microsoft. However, things are not quite exactly true, and many of the company's customers have fallen for this "misunderstanding". The issue relies in the Windows Vista...

31 March 2008
12:40 GMT

Creative: Asustek's Sound Cards Don't Support EAX

Asustek recently released a new series of sound cards targeted at the enthusiast and high-end markets, which somehow ended Creative's supremacy on the market. Until Asustek arrived on the market, users who would like to enjoy a Hi-Fi audio experience had to knock on Creative's door. Things are about to chan...

26 March 2008
07:30 GMT

Flash the Apple Logo in Front of Someone's Eyes and They'll Build You a Space Craft... Out of Bricks

Here's a good one. No really, pay attention to this: guys over at Duke University and the University of Waterloo conduct this study, right? What they find is that merely thinking about Apple makes a person more creative. Subjects who were shown the IBM logo for a fraction of a second were rendered stupid. Check ...

26 March 2008
07:12 GMT

Creative's All New EP-830 Earphones

Creative have just unveiled in Singapore their latest headphones model, codenamed the EP-830. This new piece of high-class audio technology comes as a nifty upgrade for the acclaimed EP-630 version and it builds on the same heritage, delivering pristine and lifelike acoustics for music lovers on the go.The new headp...

18 March 2008
06:59 GMT

Asus to Introduce Xonar DX Enthusiast Audio 7.1 Sound Card

The professional sound industry has been under the domination of Creative for quite a while now. Other soundcard manufacturers would only dare to show up with more modest - mid-range at most - offerings. Everything was OK if you had to choose between more on-board soundcard chips, but if you needed some big guns, you...

1 March 2008
07:09 GMT

Creative Labs Open-Sources the X-Fi Soundblaster Specifications

Creative Labs has recently provided open source driver developers with documentation and sample code for the Sound Blaster X-Fi sound card released back in August 2005. The main reason for divulging the technical specifications is the fact that the company has not managed yet to fully develop open-source drivers. Pri...

11 February 2008
11:58 GMT

Creative Optia AF USB Webcam - You're Live!

The advent of instant messaging and voice-over-IP telephony has morphed the webcam from a luxury piece of hardware into a common, yet extremely necessary gadget. Cheap pricing is not everything, but neither are the high-end expensive oddities. As every time, the truth is somewhere in the middle. I can say I've f...

1 February 2008
09:31 GMT

Creative GigaWorks HD50: Exquisite Sound From Diminutive Loudspeakers

Just how many times have you cursed and sighed in front of your overburdened desktop, full of papers and pens, on and under your keyboard and mouse... and seeing the speaker cables cluttering like a snakepit only made things worse? Well, it seems like the guys at Creative have already grown sick with this kind of e...

8 January 2008
09:09 GMT

CES 2008: Creative Reveals Zen Micro Boomboxes!

Creative fans should be happy to know that their favorite company has just announced during the 2008 International Consumer Electronic trade show two new micro boom boxes to join its popular MP3 player series.Apparently, both ZEN Stone and ZEN Stone Plus will feature built-in speakers, albeit don't expect hi-fi ...

8 January 2008
04:50 GMT

Surprise! Creative Zen 32GB Is Finally Available!

Ladies and gentlemen, this time it's finally official! Straight from Creative's secret labs, please welcome the most discussed and expected portable media player, also known as the 32GB Zen. The device was confirmed a few weeks ago, but nobody expected it so soon. The company's US site is showing the P...

21 December 2007
03:47 GMT

Ho, Ho, Ho! Creative Rolls Out 32GB Zens, In Flash!

The giant Creative recently celebrated selling its 25 millionth digital music player and this is the second time the company is announcing good news. Crave reports about Creative's plans to pop out both 32GB and 2 GB flavored ZEN players. The player's internal memory is going to go from hard disk to pure f...

3 December 2007
14:11 GMT

Music Overdose! Creative Delivers 32GB Pure Flash Stuff!

Size matters when it comes to your music, and big fish in the industry know that best. Creative keeps up the good work by popping out in the wild the first 32 GB flash jukebox. The news became official after somebody spotted an unintentional slip-up on the company's website for its home country of Singapore. On ...

22 November 2007
04:56 GMT

Creative Zen Available in 4GB!

Creative doesn't give up that easily, even after losing a couple of battles against other big fish in the industry, makers of both PMPs and MP3 players.Therefore, they sent the latest Zen into the wild, packed with 4GB of pure flash memory. As you probably imagined, it targets the iPod nano as the main competito...

2 November 2007
07:52 GMT

Why Imitation Sucks: The Zen Clone Plus!!! Lame...

The jolly fellows from Dapreview have done a remarkable job spotting another clone on the loose. This time, it's the case of a no-name electronics company, which dares clone cute Creative players. And with so many iPod, iPhone and Zune versions out there, Creative is only a step away from getting its portfolio c...

19 October 2007
04:27 GMT

Zen Vision M PMP Is Dead! Long Live the Chinese Clones!

Poor sales are the main cause when a product is discontinued. Creative is a company that has encountered this problem with its Vision:M portable PMP series. Before being taken out of the market, the player was sold for about 2 years - more than enough to gain some popularity and respect among teenagers, and not only....

12 October 2007
03:03 GMT

Creative Muvo T100 Faces Identity Crisis! Lacks Both Screen and Personality...

Dear Creative fans, I am happy to inform you that your favorite company has just released the Muvo T100 MP3 player. The biggest surprise of all, the newly released Mp3 player is totally screenless. And beside minimizing its design, the manufacturers managed to keep the same button layout and some of the features they...

26 September 2007
10:14 GMT

Creative Drops Prices Again... This Time Is Zen!

For reasons unknown and apparently without any connection, soon after hitting Amazon, Creative cuts the price tag for its Zen players. There is no inside info on that, yet. But, what better reason would they possible have, except trying to keep up with Apple's cool showtime. The company had previously cut prices...

25 September 2007
07:02 GMT

Creative Announces Yet Another iPod Video Killer Wannabe, The iTunes-Compatible ZEN

The people at Creative have tried time and time again to come up with a portable media player that will end the iPods' supreme reign over this specific market segment. However, despite the fact that their products provided some rather interesting features, they simply couldn't compete against Apple's m...

29 August 2007
13:11 GMT

High Sound Fidelity: Auzen X-FI Prelude 7.1

Auzentech announced that the Auzen X-FI Prelude 7.1 high fidelity soundcard will be released soon, meaning sometime during the next week, as the manufacturing company already sent shipments to retail channel dealers and other distributors.According to the manufacturing company press release concerning the imminent la...

23 August 2007
10:00 GMT

Creative's New Strategy - Keep Prices Low for Zen V Plus!

For unknown reasons, Creative suddenly dropped the prices on its Zen V Plus model. So now, the 1GB version is $98, while the 2Gb model is going to cost 118 bucks, the 4Gb version is said to be around $158 and finally, the 8GB one is going to cost no more than 197 bucks a pop.Still, don't get your hopes too high,...

6 August 2007
02:59 GMT

Creative Zen V Plus 16GB Player Hits The Market! Apple Gets Jealous Again...

It's not easy to keep up with the heavy names in the industry, like Apple for example, so Creative decided to upgrade one of its most successful players, the Zen V Plus, to hold up to 16 GB of flash memory, which means twice the amount of storage capacity that is currently available on the largest iPod nano on t...

3 August 2007
02:12 GMT

Creative Releases New Vista Drivers

If you've already read the subtitle you're probably wondering what Creative products are not based on the original E-Mu 10kx design. Well, in order to answer that, a little history lesson is needed. The first Creative ever based on the E-Mu 10k1 line of APUs was the 1997 SoundBlaster live. From then on up u...

29 June 2007
12:56 GMT

Creative Unleashes A New MP3 Player: The Zen Stone Plus!

Well, it finally happened!After denying any rumor regarding a possible launching, Creative has just announced the Zen Stone. At first sight, the player seems to made especially to compete with the popular iPod Shuffle. As expected, the Stone features a blue glossy piano look and a mini screen. While using the player,...

21 June 2007
02:19 GMT

New X-Fi Audio Cards are Here

As strange as it may seem, Creative has started to license their own chips in order to spread them worldwide with the help of some large PCB integrators. However up until now no such demands were made by any producers so one could think that this idea was useless.Fortunately for Creative, there actually is a company ...

4 June 2007
09:11 GMT

Creative Comes After Apple's Shuffle with Zen Stone

It looks like Apple's Shuffle has made enough waves to start being replicated by Apple's competitors. Creative has just introduced their own version of the small media player, calling it the 'Zen Stone'. Very similar to the second generation Shuffle in both size and functionality, the new Zen Ston...

4 May 2007
09:04 GMT

1 GB Creative Zen Stone for $39,99: "That Doesn't Impress Me Much!"

Here's another desperate move that intends to take Apple by surprise. Creative just released its latest solution to handling the iPod Shuffle issue: the Zen Stone. I'm pretty sure you read all the rumors about the under $50 Creative's Zen Stone imminent launch.Well, watch out! Creative throws the Zen S...

3 May 2007
16:46 GMT

Creative Live! Cam Optia AF

When it comes to having the latest gadgets, gizmos and the most advanced computer hardware, the young generation has the upper hand. If you're a parent which has to live up to your child's expectations, you know that keeping him or her happy is one of your daily concerns. Forget about having to stay at work...

27 April 2007
03:24 GMT

X-Fi Chipset on Auzentech Sound Card

A new PC is always a thing to be glad of, especially if you invested a lot in it, because it might, just might be able to keep you satisfied for more than six months. But when you are throwing a serious amount of money "out the window" you want the best of the best to be available to you. So the PC must have all of ...

20 April 2007
03:44 GMT

Creative Fatal1ty Gaming Headset

That which we call, Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendell. Probably the best known name in the computer world, the gamer that gave his trademarked name to an entire series of motherboards is back with a new collaboration, this time it isn't Abit, it's Creative.He is the most famous gamer in the world, having won 12 W...

2 April 2007
09:44 GMT

X-Fi-ing Your Laptop

Creative Labs are one of the most serious and best-known brands when it comes to PC audio: their soundcards represented a milestone in the past and it looks like the latest models are sworn on such history-making endeavors as well. The Soundblaster meant a giant step in what audio - both listening and production - m...

26 March 2007
04:38 GMT

Creative's Video Blaster Editor

Have you ever tried video editing when you know nothing about transferring home videos to your PC? It can really give you a lot of trouble. We all know most PCs don't come with FireWire, composite or S-video connection that enables the capture of video from a camcorder, VCR or other video device. And of course y...

23 March 2007
11:18 GMT

You May Not Believe This, But It's True: Creative Docks iPod!

It sounds like Satan and God on a night out in the city, having red wine an dancing to a true romance: Creative has released a docking station built especially for iPods! I still can't really believe my ears and eyes when thinking about this: it is like Microsoft would give up the Windows Media Player or like RI...

8 March 2007
09:29 GMT

CS3 Confirmed for March 27

Adobe Systems has officially announced they will launch their much awaited Creative Suite 3.0 at a special event to be held in New York on the 27th of March. The event will be webcast live starting 8 30 pm, UK time.There have been several rumors about CS 3 launch in late March, and there were also words the launch wo...

6 March 2007
07:10 GMT


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