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"Green" electronic products are extremely popular nowadays, since more and more people are becoming aware of the major environmental issues of our planet and actually try to do something about it. And that's exactly the case with the EarthDrive USB flash drive from ATP, a device that really screams "green," star... |
24 November 2008
15:31 GMT |
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Up until now, most external storage devices connected to a computer via the ubiquitous USB (Universal Serial Bus) interface. However, given the increasing popularity of eSATA interfaces (due mostly to their capacity of reaching very high data transfer speeds), the Kanguru company has decided that it would be a very g... |
20 November 2008
13:11 GMT |
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Over the course of 2008, the storage capacities attained by USB flash drives have reached some values nobody even thought possible a few years ago, with 16 and 32 GB becoming mainstream numbers rather than highly expensive oddities. However, most flash drive manufacturers are actually pushing things even further, and... |
20 November 2008
01:54 GMT |
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Over time, the guys over at mimoco have come up with what could be described as the funniest USB flash drives ever, since these portable storage devices are entirely hand-made and have some highly "artistic" form factors. And since Halloween is rapidly approaching, the company has just released an ultra-limited editi... |
24 October 2008
10:31 GMT |
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Lately, flash memory solutions manufacturer Super Talent has made quite a few interesting announcements, related mostly to solid-state drives (SSDs). However, the company's not ignoring its flash drive business, either, and introduced a new series of such devices, dubbed Luxio, which combines a very attractive e... |
23 October 2008
08:41 GMT |
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As you probably know quite well already, the security of one's personal data is a critical issue nowadays, especially if we're talking about very sensitive information, whose loss, theft or corruption could have very bad consequences for both the user and his/her employer. And since most data-theft threats ... |
22 October 2008
01:57 GMT |
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I don't know what's with A-DATA and its Disney obsession (read financially-lucrative contract), but the company seems keen to cover just about everything there is about the latter's famous animated characters, Mickey Mouse in particular. And by "everything" I do mean just about anything related to the ... |
20 October 2008
10:48 GMT |
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Given just how easy it has become for manufacturers from all around the world to insert flash memory chips in just about everything they might think of (from hamburgers to pieces of wood), it's no wonder that we're faced with an avalanche of weird-looking flash drives, taking every shape and form factor ima... |
13 October 2008
02:38 GMT |
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Ever since the first product from this family arrived in stores, Corsair's Voyager drives have been quite renowned for providing fairly large storage capacities in a very tough and shock-resilient body. And that is also the case with the company's latest product, which packs no less than an amazing 64 GB of... |
1 October 2008
15:51 GMT |
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It would seem that there's some sort of competition between the various manufacturers of USB flash drives for the title of "world's smallest drive", one of the most important contenders for this title being the Super Talent company. Over time, they've come up with several "record-breaking" models, and ... |
14 August 2008
02:39 GMT |
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Probably just about any football (or soccer) fan out there knows by now that Spain won the Euro 2008 Championship, thus proving to be the best team on the old continent. As expected, this event, one of the most important around the world, has brought about a whole range of related products, from various souvenirs to ... |
30 June 2008
02:30 GMT |
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Corsair's Flash Voyager line of ultra-rugged USB flash drives is one of the best-known families of rugged portable storage solutions around, providing both large storage capacities and a very high level of endurance to just about everything one might throw at it (water, dust, shocks, you name it). However, since... |
13 June 2008
13:51 GMT |
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The first thing that comes to almost anyone's mind when hearing the word "Imation" is data storage, or, to be more precise, either floppy disks or those magnetic tapes used for carrying out various backup operations. Nevertheless, the company's area of expertise is much wider, as it has just announced the r... |
29 May 2008
01:52 GMT |
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As you probably know quite well already, the Japanese electronics' giant, Sony, has the habit of launching products that deliver a very attractive external design, besides the high-end components from within. And this is exactly the case with the company's latest flash-based external storage solutions, the ... |
22 May 2008
01:51 GMT |
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Corsair's Voyager USB flash drives are quite famous for being among the toughest such portable storage solutions around, but it seems that the company's not about to settle just for a very tough exterior. Thus, Corsair has just announced that it will release at this year's CeBIT 2008 another model from... |
29 February 2008
03:40 GMT |
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The competition on the USB flash drives' market has become pretty intense lately and this is the reason why the most important names in the industry are coming out with all sorts of innovative products, designed to draw the customers' attention and to provide an enhanced level of functionality for the users... |
12 February 2008
14:46 GMT |
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With all the security breaches we've seen over the past half year, the interest for ultra-secure portable data storage solutions has been rekindled, a relatively large number of manufacturers coming out with certain models that deliver both a large number of GBs but also an increased level of safety for the data... |
6 February 2008
02:26 GMT |
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Although 16 GB were considered up until recently high-end as far as USB flash drives were concerned, it would seem that this value might become commonplace, since several manufacturers are beginning to roll out such products. And the latest announcement of this type comes from Transcend, who recently upgraded its V10... |
10 January 2008
10:33 GMT |
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Kingston used the CES 2008 to unveil three new Data Traveler (DT) USB flash drives: the DTHyperX, which provides very high data transfer rates (but at premium price tags), the DT110 (for the budget-conscious users) and the DT400, which allows users to work among multiple PCs by directly synchronizing files, email and... |
8 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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As you might have heard over the past few months, there seems to be an epidemic of data losses/thefts/misplacements out there, affecting not only normal individuals, but also large organizations (sometimes even government-related ones). This is the reason why secure data storage and transport solutions are once again... |
8 January 2008
11:16 GMT |
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As expected, most of the important names in the CE industry have already begun to make all sorts of CES-related announcements (although the show itself doesn't start until Monday), so we'll start this fine pre-CES day with the latest news from Corsair. Thus, the famous manufacturer of memory modules and var... |
4 January 2008
02:10 GMT |
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The International CES 2008 is only a few days away and manufacturers have started to come out with press releases of what they will be showcasing at their booths in Las Vegas. And one of the most interesting devices related to the specific area of portable storage devices comes from SanDisk, who has just announced t... |
3 January 2008
07:46 GMT |
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Teenagers and young people are among the earliest adopters of new technologies, and this is the reason why most CE manufacturers come up with certain products designed especially for this particular category of consumers. And this is also the case with the latest announcement from PQI, namely the Traveling Disk i201,... |
26 December 2007
07:56 GMT |
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IMG=1]Take one famous manufacturer of portable storage solutions (for the sake of the argument, let's say Transcend), and one of their most famous products (for example, the T3). What can the respective company do in order to further boost its product's sales, not to mention refreshing the customers' a... |
21 December 2007
01:59 GMT |
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I must admit that if someone told me a few years back that we would be able to store up to 16 GB of data in a device the size of an AA battery, I probably would have thought they were a bit....tech-nuts. However, that's exactly what's happening nowadays, and the latest announcement regarding such a product ... |
20 December 2007
07:46 GMT |
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Creating a portable storage solution that combines a very "blingy", "shiny" and attractive external casing with very large storage capacities seems to be a very popular trend among technology designers, since most USB flash drives launched lately can be included in the aforementioned category. And that's also th... |
19 December 2007
14:16 GMT |
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I don't know how many of you have ever owned a luxury mobile phone, but one thing's for sure: when you've purchased a $2,000 Mobiado handset, any and every accessory you might get for it should match both its design and its price tag. And this is the reason why the Bonac Innovation Corp. (makers of the... |
17 December 2007
11:06 GMT |
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Although most users don't need to multiply data stored onto USB drives on a daily basis, there are certain situations (back ups, IT work, sales and marketing preparation, PC rollouts, etc.) when a device that can copy the same files over and over again onto several such portable storage solutions could really co... |
14 December 2007
08:16 GMT |
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Although the most visible leaps forward in the area of flash memory in general and USB flash drives in particular are related to the available storage capacities, the transfer speeds are equally important, because, after all, what's the point of having a lot of GB if copying a large file takes forever? This is t... |
13 December 2007
02:14 GMT |
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Since the year's favorite shopping season is almost here, most consumer electronics manufacturers are coming out with all sorts of themed products, which will get people (a.k.a possible customers) into the holiday (read spending) mood. And that's exactly the case with the Walletex company, maker of the famo... |
10 December 2007
10:46 GMT |
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The people over at Transcend are very well-known for manufacturing portable storage solutions that provide large capacities as well as rather attractive designs, which makes them more desirable for customers with an enhanced aesthetic sense. And that's also the case with the company's latest product, the Je... |
5 December 2007
08:46 GMT |
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USB Flash Drives come in all shapes and sizes nowadays, each manufacturer trying to come up with a certain "edge" that will make its products more attractive than those of the competition. And that's also the case with the flash-based portable storage solutions from ZaNa Design whose very attractive external cas... |
3 December 2007
12:51 GMT |
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Star Wars is one of the most successful franchises of all times, the number of products related to the Sci-Fi story released over time being absolutely huge. However, one very particular family of Star Wars-branded products is represented by the USB Flash Drives from mimoco, which mimic (to some rather weird and twis... |
29 November 2007
12:06 GMT |
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Since the number of USB flash drives available on the market has increased quite a lot over the past few years, manufacturers are trying their best to make their products more attractive for specific consumer segments. And while certain people are looking for drives that provide huge storage capacities, others are se... |
27 November 2007
12:36 GMT |
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A-DATA is one of the world's most important manufacturers of various memory modules and flash-based portable storage solutions, as it has launched countless such items over the past few years. And in order to make its products more attractive for the western customers, the Taiwan-based firm has entered a very lu... |
26 November 2007
08:41 GMT |
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Although it's best-known as a manufacturer of various computer memory modules, the PNY company has also launched quite a comprehensive line-up of USB flash drives over time, rounded up under the Attache brand. And while most of these products sport a rather classic design (with a removable cap), that's not ... |
23 November 2007
14:16 GMT |
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The security (and safety) of one's personal data is an extremely important issue nowadays and this is the reason why it's always a good idea to choose a tough (and a bit more expensive) portable storage solution rather than a cheap one, which might give in to the slightest shocks. And since in the case of U... |
23 November 2007
01:51 GMT |
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USB flash drives are pretty much the most popular types of portable data storage devices around, and this is the reason why they are also used (on quite a large scale, I might add) as promotional items. However, copying the same files on a very large number of drives is extremely difficult when using a normal compute... |
20 November 2007
07:16 GMT |
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Over the past few years, USB flash drives have become pretty much the most popular type of portable data storage solution there is, as they allow users to carry around a relatively high number of files, documents and various types of multimedia content in a very small and tough package. However, since the basic funct... |
19 November 2007
12:51 GMT |
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It really seems that bling sells, and sells a lot, since an increasingly higher number of various electronic products manufacturers come out with all sorts of products that, besides providing interesting (and somewhat useful) internal features, also come "packed" in a very attractive (and rather unusual) external cas... |
19 November 2007
07:46 GMT |
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Let's take a small company, coming from the former Soviet Union, that wants to establish itself as a major manufacturer of luxury devices on the international market. What is the right approach to this rather difficult problem? Intelligent marketing strategies? Clever advertising? Well, it seems that the people ... |
5 November 2007
10:56 GMT |
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USB Flash Drives are probably the most popular means of data transportation around, but, for the time being, their storage capacities are quite far from the ones provided by HDDs. However, it would seem that things are about to change radically, as the Arizona State University's Center for Applied Nanoionics (CA... |
29 October 2007
13:56 GMT |
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Blinged-out USB flash drives are nothing new, really, since, for some strange reason, the number of people ready and willing to cough up huge amounts of cash in order to purchase something that acts more like a piece of jewelry than a technological device has seriously increased. And this is also the reason why the C... |
19 October 2007
12:16 GMT |
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Flash drives have become one of the most important portable data storage solutions over the past few years, as they allow users to carry around large (and very large) amounts of data in a very small and lightweight form factor. However, their evolution is far from over and the latest product coming from the people at... |
19 October 2007
03:31 GMT |
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Webster's New World family of reference books has been around for almost half a century now, permanently updating its products in order to meet the ever charging market demands. And this trend is quite clear from the company's latest announcement, as the imprint of John Wiley & Sons Inc. has partnered with ... |
15 October 2007
10:46 GMT |
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It would seem that, for some reason, there are certain people out there who simply can't be seen using the same electronic devices as normal people do. For this category of customers, a device should be blingy, super-expensive and rare in order to be attractive and this is the reason why the Gresso company, a ma... |
1 October 2007
12:06 GMT |
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Over the past few years, flash-based portable storage solutions (a.k.a. USB flash drives) have become more than simple devices, turning into customized items that reflect their owners' lifestyles and passions, including gaming. And since every shooter-fan out there is quite crazy about the launch of one the most... |
26 September 2007
11:26 GMT |
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Cancer is one of the world's worst maladies, killing hundreds, if not thousands of people each year. And in order to help the fight against this terrible disease, an increasingly higher number of companies launch special campaigns (and products) that will benefit the research against cancer both with funds and b... |
24 September 2007
03:31 GMT |
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Although it's not as well-known as Corsair, Transcend, SanDisk or Imation, the Pretec company has launched quite a few USB flash drives over time, each of them providing rather unique features, as for example the bulletproof model, reviewed last year by Softpedia. And the company's latest announcement, made... |
4 September 2007
12:16 GMT |
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USB flash drives are probably the most popular data storage and transport solutions available on the market nowadays, and this is the reason why the competition on this very crowded market is quite a serious one. However, due exactly to this competition, an increasingly higher number of manufacturers turn to rather o... |
24 August 2007
10:06 GMT |
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