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Buffalo External Blu-ray Writer Has BDXL Support

Buffalo does tend to release something new at least once a month and, this time, its labs have put together a new optical disk drive for travelers or anyone else that owns a PC. For people who like their disks capacious, Buffalo has created the BRXL-PCW6U2-BK. This is a less than ordinary Blu-ray disk writer, as i...

7 November 2011
07:33 GMT

Kingston Again Releases Flash Drives, DataTraveler 109

Kingston has exercised its ability to not be surprising at all by once again coming forth and launching a DataTraveler flash drive, or two of them in this case. Not that releasing a new device of this sort is a bad thing to do, but Kingston does tend to launch DataTraveler drives on a fairly regular basis, borderin...

27 October 2011
11:17 GMT

New USB 3.0 Host Controller Introduced by Fresco Logic

The fires of youth aren't something easily associated with most technological endeavors, since IT isn't exactly young anymore, but some sub-segments, like USB 3.0, do get to fan such flames, like when a new host controller shows up. The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface standard is one that has already travers...

21 October 2011
08:15 GMT

ADATA Intros Three New USB Flash Drives

ADATA released flash drives before, so it is no wonder that it would do so again, especially if it has the chance to deliver something for all prospective customers. ADATA just made the official introduction of the C103, the S102 Pro and the N005 Pro flash drive units. In that order, they are intended for the low...

18 October 2011
08:52 GMT

ViaSat UK Releases Encrypted Portable USB Flash Drives

Flash drives don't often get most recognized for their security capabilities, but this is precisely what happened to the Eclypt Nano, which ViaSat UK just released.Portable storage devices are very handy things, but they aren't precisely very widespread among government agencies and some corporations.That ...

17 October 2011
10:48 GMT

Origo 3D Printer Targets Kids

3D printers are nothing new, but lately these have become a lot smaller and simpler to use, culminating with the Origo 3D that is designed to let kids build their own toys.In order to make this process a lot easier for kids, Orico's creation will come with a special software that enables users to create 3D objec...

13 October 2011
05:36 GMT

US and UK Citizens Can Now Order the PhotoFast iFlashDrive

Flash drives with extra capabilities aren't all that new, but what Sanho Corporation created definitely isn't something people have a high chance of seeing anywhere else. The PhotoFast iFlashDrive, as the new invention form Sanho Corporation is called, would qualify as any other flash drive if it didn�...

12 October 2011
10:18 GMT

Santa Comes Early Thanks to PQI, Brings Stores of Empty Space

If anyone was looking for an early Christmas present, they might be able to get a chance to ask Santa for it early (or get Santa himself as one) now that PQI has released the U827 Santa Claus limited edition. In all seriousness though, PQI has broken the silence to introduce a new flash drive for the holiday seaso...

6 October 2011
10:52 GMT

Genesys Logic Expects Great Things from USB 3.0

As the latest iteration of the universal serial bus standard gains prominence, companies involved in the market see good things ahead, and this goes especially well for Genesys Logic. Right now, Renesas is the major supplier of USB 3.0 controller chips in the world. In fact, the company has held that spot sinc...

23 September 2011
10:22 GMT

DataTraveler R400 USB Flash Drive Wears Kingston's Black and Red

Kingston didn't want to let the week go by without some sort of product launch, so it expanded the DataTraveler collection of flash drive units with a model aimed at so-called road warriors. After having said its piece on the memory card and SSD fronts, Kingston is now using the black and red color theme on ...

21 September 2011
10:54 GMT

Verbatim Go Mini USB Mouse Surfaces

There are many sorts of mice out there, and Verbatim chose to make one that is best suited for travel, so it made liberal use of retractable cables, lightweight components, USB connectivity, etc., all in a compact package. The market for consumer peripherals is one where companies really like to let their creativ...

21 September 2011
07:39 GMT

USB-Powered Monitor from AOC Incoming

Displays don't usually come in an USB-connected package, but AOC created one of these things anyway, giving it the name of e1649fwu and HDCP compatibility, among other things.The Universal Serial Bus is thus called because, with some effort, any piece of computer hardware, and devices of other sorts, can be des...

21 September 2011
03:24 GMT

Europe Gets Sony's Micro Vault Click P Flash Drives

Sony has made one of those moves when an already existing product line, in this case the Micro Vault Click P series of flash drives, reaches a larger number of stores than before. Sony has definitely been active lately, in pretty much every market segment it has a stake in, so it isn't too shocking to hear o...

20 September 2011
04:22 GMT

SanDisk Memory Vault Can Keep Data Stored for 100 Years

Storage solutions meant to withstand time crop up from time to time, and it looks like SanDisk is the latest to offer something of the sort, in the shape of the Memory Vault flash drive. When it comes to storing data, there are many means of doing it, each one with a different degree of reliability and affordabil...

14 September 2011
10:31 GMT

New USB 3.0 Lets Devices Link to Each Other Without PCs

The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 has already gained speed, but it may gain even more of an advantage once the USB 3.0 Promoter Group finishes their latest pet project.SuperSpeed USB 3.0 is the most recent iteration of the Universal Serial Bus standard and has a theoretical maximum transfer rate of 5 Gbps (4.8 Gbps).It has alr...

30 August 2011
10:57 GMT

USB 3.0 Gets Cheaper Early Next year

One obstacle that the latest USB standard has to surpass before truly becoming mainstream is pricing, and this might just happen early next year if recent rumors turn out to be true.The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 technology has already established itself as the latest best thing on the I/O industry.Naturally, this is becaus...

20 August 2011
04:59 GMT

Transcend Uses USB 2.0 and COB in JetFlash T3S Flash Drives

Transcend has once again built on its name as worldwide purveyor of various storage products, having put together a new series of flash drive units featuring a storage capacity of up to 16 GB.As always, storage devices are coming out all the time, so it is not all that shocking to hear that Transcend joined in on th...

9 August 2011
04:56 GMT

StarTech USB to HDMI Adapter Stalks Forth

Coming to extend the number of displays that can be connected to PCs or Macs, as well as the variety of supported monitors, is Startech, whose latest product is a fairly unique adapter.Displays and computers may feature multiple connectivity solutions by default nowadays, but there are still enough situations where ...

8 August 2011
10:19 GMT

Super Talent ST2 USB 3.0 Flash Drive Delivered

The past week has seen a fair share of SSD launches, but flash drive releases were not as numerous, something that Super Talent is, apparently, determined to change with the ST2.There is much that can be done with just a small USB flash drive, especially those with support for the latest Universal Serial Bus Standar...

8 August 2011
05:04 GMT

Verbatim Wireless USB Edge Mouse Debuts

Verbatim may be more of a storage solutions developer, but it knows how to do other things from time to time, like it did last week, when it delivered a new wireless mouse for desktops.The more time passes, the faster the IT industry moves closer to a cable-free era, what with both the consumer and enterprise segmen...

8 August 2011
02:41 GMT

IOGEAR USB Sharing Station Goes Wireless

Wireless technologies have been made for almost every consumer device out there, but there are always extra costs associated with them, something that IOGEAR tried to solve by making it so that only one wireless device need be purchased.Some changes come as a shock or surprise, while other just creep up on the IT ma...

5 August 2011
03:55 GMT

Sony DRX-S90U Portable DVD Writer Inbound

Sony may not have gone through its most auspicious first two quarters of 2011, but this doesn't mean it slowed by any degree in its product development and manufacturing efforts, as shown by yet another product. Sony is one of those companies that are working more than a few angles of the IT industry at the ...

15 July 2011
02:52 GMT

Verbatim Trumpets Store 'n' Stay Tiny USB Drive

Flash drives are known to be compact by definition, but Verbatim seems to have taken the aspect of miniaturization up to eleven when it designed the Store ‘n’ Stay model, despite managing to cram up to 16 GB of storage into it.When making an USB drive, companies have a choice between sticking to standard...

12 July 2011
04:15 GMT

64 GB Sony Micro Vault P USB Flash Drive Debuts

Being the sort of company that plays multiple game fields at once, Sony has, this once, turned its gaze towards the portable storage industry, having developed a new flash drive unit.All segments of the consumer IT market rely, to some extent, on things being new if consumers are to be goaded into maintaining a stab...

11 July 2011
04:38 GMT

IOGEAR Intros USB Theater Sound Xperience Audio Adapter

Audio adapters usually take the form of boards with chips and circuitry all over them, plus some ports to stick out of the PC's case, but IOGEAR went for a starkly different concept when it built the USB Theater Sound Xperience (GUADT51).One in a while, one IT player or another will succeed in creating a produc...

6 July 2011
10:26 GMT

AirLive's N.Power Wireless N Router Can Span Distances Up to 2.6Km

AirLive has just announced the N.Power router which the company claims to be the most powerful Wireless b/g/n router available on the market today as it can span distances of up to 2.6km when used in an outdoor environment.In order to enable its creation to reach that sort of distances, AirLive has increased the outp...

1 July 2011
08:06 GMT

AOC Readies USB-Connected Monitor

Moving temporarily away from the way display makers usually do things, AOC enacted a plan that ended up producing a special sort of monitor, one that bears the name of e2251Fwu.Monitors, for the most part, are fairly straightforward devices, but there are times when a model decides to step out of the norm by adoptin...

29 June 2011
07:36 GMT

Samsung Galaxy Tab Adapter Enables USB Hosting

Samsung's Galaxy Tab adapter is already known around the world, but its maker wanted to grant it extra functionality without marring its build, so it came up with an USB adapter.When it comes to media tablets, they all have to stick to certain unspoken guidelines in regards to size, shape and performance.As suc...

16 June 2011
10:27 GMT

Sharkoon Flexi-Drive Gets Officially Launched

It appears that Sharkoon doesn't feel like letting this week go by without some sort of product announcement, so it isn't really that big a surprise to learn of a new flash drive series.The market for USB flash drives is one that grew quickly, exponentially even, during the first months of its life.Basical...

1 June 2011
07:38 GMT

Kanguru Defender Encrypted Drives Now Under Evaluation

While there are more than a few flash drives with security features, few can really claim to have the highest level of data protection, and Kanguru's Defender family is now under tests to see if they fit those high standards.Kanguru might not release new flash drives as often as other companies do, but it does ...

27 May 2011
05:31 GMT

Renesas Doubles USB 3.0 Production After Selling 30 Million

Even though some Taiwanese companies have finally managed to get USB-IF certification for their USB 3.0 hub controllers, Renesas remains the main provider of such chips, having now decided to double production.It appears that the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard that most people already have come to know and love has rea...

26 May 2011
10:10 GMT

Etron USB 3.0 host Controller Recognized by USB-IF

Until recently, there weren't many USB 3.0 controllers on the list of USB-IF-certified ones, but it looks like one new member has made it, that being the EJ168 which Etron developed quite a while ago.The USB Implementers Forum could be said to be very strict when it comes to certifying any controller chip.In fa...

25 May 2011
05:02 GMT

Super Talent USB 3.0 Express DUO 2CH Flash Drives Up for Sale

With all the new storage units coming out, it is not longer any surprise to hear that a flash drive has finally made its way out of its maker's, in this case Super talent, labs.The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard is definitely assuming its role as new mainstream Universal Serial bus interface.Of course, given the f...

23 May 2011
11:07 GMT

ASMedia Joins Group of Companies With Certified USB 3.0 Controllers

There are a bunch of USB 3.0 host controllers on the market, but only some of them have, thus far, gained the official approval of the USB Implementers Forum, and it looks like the crowd has grown by one.When it comes to new technologies, there are certain performance and quality standards that one needs to meet bef...

18 May 2011
03:11 GMT

Team Group Presents New Flash Drives

Team Group, as always, is working on some new flash-based storage solution or another, so it is not so surprising to hear that it has brought forth some new flash drives, dubbed the SR1 and SR3 series, respectively.As always, new NAND Flash-based storage solutions are being developed all the time, especially now tha...

13 May 2011
10:15 GMT

PortaStor from Aleratec Is a Secure USB 2.0 Flash Drive

Secure USB flash drives may not be overly widespread on today's market, but they definitely pull their own weight in the hands of business users or anyone who wants to keep their files safe and sound, and Aleratec just delivered one such device.Secure flash drives can be either physically enduring, equipped wit...

13 May 2011
05:54 GMT

I-O Data BRD-U8S Is an External 3D Blu-ray Burner

I-O Data has delivered more than a few storage devices over the years, optical disk drive included, and it looks like this very sort of drive is what the BRD-U8S really is, although it has yet to actually become available.The market for storage devices has grown quite diverse over the past decade, what with so many ...

12 May 2011
06:10 GMT

USB WAN Modems Sell Much Better than Embedded Ones

It looks like the happenings on the IT segment have led to a more or less strange evolution on the market for wide area network modems, in the way that what was once a niche market ended up growing much larger than was expected. It is not really surprising, on today's IT market, for a certain product type to...

7 May 2011
05:07 GMT

25$ Flash Drive Is Really a PC with HDMI, Jaws Drop

There have been many announcements dealing with laptops or mini desktops that claimed to strike a new compactness record, but there is no doubt that all of their bluster has been blasted into dust by the small device that David Braben came up with.Products aimed at students aren't an oddity at all on today'...

6 May 2011
10:31 GMT

New Team Group Flash Drives for Students Are Small and Light

Team Group has been dealing in RAM and NAND Flash memory for a long time and it looks like it just completed a pair of devices belonging to the latter category and aimed at students.By now, it has become clear that highly-portable, NAND Flash storage devices have become something of a common commodity among consumer...

5 May 2011
08:17 GMT

Newest Altec Lansing Speaker Is USB-Powered

Audio solutions meant to accompany mobile computers are quite common these days, but this didn't stop Altec Lansing from creating a new portable speaker set to start selling in the very near future.Audio solutions, like pretty much everything else on the IT market, come in many shapes, sizes and performance par...

4 May 2011
11:01 GMT

AMD Licenses USB Chip Interface Technology from SMSC

Advanced Micro Devices has just licensed SMSC's patented Inter-Chip Connectivity (ICC) technology, a low power variant of the 480 Mbps USB 2.0 standard specially designed for chip-to-chip links that is commonly used in SoCs and peripheral chips. According to SMSC, ICC enables the USB 2.0 protocol, which is no...

29 April 2011
08:33 GMT

Brando Flash Drive Is a Yellow Padlock

Padlocks usually serve to let one lock a door or gate or any container, maybe with the aid of chains or ropes or some such, but it looks like the one invented by Brando isn't exactly intended for this sort of thing.When seeing any sort of storage unit shaped like a utensil employed for safety in real life, one ...

12 April 2011
11:05 GMT

ASUS Xonar U3 Soundcard Is a Portable USB Device

There isn't much that can be said about audio cards, usually, besides the clarity, intensity and fidelity of the sound produced, but it looks like ASUS decided to experiment with something different when it created the Xonar U3.Sound cards don't really get much attention these days, mostly because there ar...

8 April 2011
10:27 GMT

Green House Gives Lots of Storage to Flash Drive Seekers

Green House is one of those companies that deals in various things, although the Universal Serial Bus interface somehow sees much use in its devices, although it is no surprise this happened in its new flash drive unit.The USB connection is one that almost every IT product out there is equipped with these days, espe...

29 March 2011
03:26 GMT

Steampunk Cufflinks Are Wearable USB Flash Drives

Whoever watched any sort of spy movies will know of all the strange shapes technology might ever take, and it seems like Steampunk figured it was time to make some of those gadgets a reality.Normally, an USB flash drive is a small device, shaped like a stick/rod or cube/rectangle that somehow includes an USB port in...

18 March 2011
11:57 GMT

Patriot Supersonic Magnum Is a 200 MB/s Flash Drive

It would appear that solid state drives aren't the only sort of storage devices getting serious in terms of speed, as Patriot also delivered a very fast flash drive that, besides shattering transfer rates, has a high storage capacity as well.Those that have been paying attention to the IT industry lately will p...

2 March 2011
03:21 GMT

Green House PicoDrive Dual Pro Is a New Flash Drive Family

Green House has been making NAND Flash-based storage solutions for quite a while, and it appears that its product portfolio just grew in size, now that the newest PicoDrive series of flash drives has made it out of its labs.It appears that, even with all the fuss about the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard, companies are ...

28 February 2011
08:31 GMT

JEDEC UFS Standard Enables 300MB/s USB Flash Drives

It seems that the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association has been hard at work on the development of a new standard capable of pushing flash drive units forward by quite a bit in terms of transfer speeds.Being the organization that it is, JEDEC is constantly working on new ways of boosting the storage capacity and...

25 February 2011
04:30 GMT

USB 3.0 Headed to Mainstream, Over 1 Billion Chips Expected to Sell in 2013

Now that USB 3.0 is finding it increasingly easy to show up on practically any PC platform, the SuperSpeed standard really is expected to become mainstream, although likely not within the next two years.As end-users know, the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard has been gaining traction a bit more quickly this year (it is t...

23 February 2011
08:07 GMT


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