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CableLabs Senior Architect Joins DLNA Board

Enabling the sharing content across all sorts of consumer electronics is a goal that the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is constantly striving towards, and it seems it got some new help on the part of CableLabs. CableLabs is a non-profit consortium whose activities revolve around the research and developmen...

5 April 2011
02:23 GMT

USB/HDMI Connector for iPhone 4 / iPad Revealed by Hanwa

It really seems that there are plenty of iPhone or iPad users out there who're quite keen on adding USB and HDMI connectivity options to their iOS devices, and in order to cater to the needs of this particular user category, the Japanese company Hanwa has recently released their UMA-iOSHDMI adapter. According...

28 March 2011
07:16 GMT

New USB Hub from GreenHouse Looks Just Like a Colorful Power Strip

Without a doubt, USB hubs really do come in all shapes and sizes nowadays, and one of the most interesting example of such a product we've come across lately belongs to Japanese company GreenHouse.Without a doubt, one of the main selling points these new USB hubs have in store is represented by their very unusua...

22 March 2011
08:26 GMT

Plugable DC-125 USB 2.0 Docking Client Turns Your PC Into a Full-Fledged Server

The idea of turning a normal, everyday PC into a server with multiple workstations via USB seems to be crazy enough, but the truth of the matter is that it's actually quite viable, at least when making use of the new Plugable DC-125 USB 2.0 Docking Client.So, what really makes this DisplayLink-enabled solution s...

9 March 2011
13:51 GMT

Ralink Creates VDSL Processor with 100 Mbps Speed

Whenever a company manages to create a product that is the first in the world to accomplish a certain feat, one can be sure that a suitably praise-filled press release will be made, and this is exactly what Ralink Technology Corporation did, not long ago.Ralink announced that it created the RT65168 VDSL2/ADSL2+ proc...

7 March 2011
10:07 GMT

Connect Your iPad to Your HDTV via the HDMI Video Converter from Princeton

The idea of being able to view the content stored onto one's iPad, iPhone or iPod onto a widescreen HDTV is quite an exciting one, and that's also probably the reason why Japanese company Princeton came up with the PIP-HDU1 HDMI Video Converter.As its name clearly indicates, the device from Princeton has be...

4 March 2011
13:11 GMT

Gefen Debuts Dual Link DVI to Mini DisplayPort Converter

Since the number of DisplayPort-enabled PC monitors out there is increasing (slowly, but steadily), Gefen has decided to come up with a solution that will help out those users who wish to view DVI dual link video via the Mini DisplayPort interface.The GefenTV Dual Link DVI to Mini DP Converter can also prove to be qu...

3 March 2011
06:51 GMT

Bigfoot Networks Intros Range of Gaming Oriented Wireless N Adapters

After a few years in which we hardly heard anything about Bigfoot Networks, the company seems set to make a comeback into the market as, after it managed to push its Ethernet solutions into a wide series of gaming oriented motherboards, Bigfoot has announced the introduction of its first wireless N networking cards. ...

2 March 2011
02:10 GMT

Matrox Rolls Out New Extio F2208 KVM Extender

KVM extenders have managed to prove their worth time and time again, given the fact that they enable users to control multiple computers from a distance, and that's pretty much the case as well with the latest such product from Matrox, the Extio F2208.[ADMRK=1]So, what we're talking about here is a KVM exte...

1 March 2011
05:20 GMT

AMD Says Intel's Thunderbolt Standard Is Unimpressive

Intel's launch of a standard meant to go toe to toe with USB 3.0 was bound to cause reactions, and it seems that Advanced Micro Devices didn't bother trying to be surprising, having said that it lacks faith in the new interface standard.End-users keeping track of things on the IT market will probably know ...

1 March 2011
05:09 GMT

Intel Thunderbolt Won't Support Other Protocols

Intel may have revealed the first iteration of its Light Peak architecture, codenamed Thunderbolt, but it seems that only two protocols are supported and that the others will need device makers to buy extra controllers.Intel has, for quite a while, been talking about its Light Peak technology that is known to be muc...

25 February 2011
05:56 GMT

Apple to Get Full 2011 as Head-Start on Thunderbolt, Others to Follow in 2012

Without a doubt, Intel's introduction of Thunderbolt technology on Apple MacBook Pro systems is one of the hottest events of the week, and it seems that, from certain points of view, it will remain this way, since Apple will apparently have a huge head-start over its competitors as far as this particular data-tr...

25 February 2011
04:04 GMT

Intel's WiDi 2.0 Wireless Streaming Tech Set to Get 5.1 Surround Audio Support

Without a doubt, Intel's managed to make quite a lot of notebook users happy with its WiDi and WiDi 2.0 technologies, and it seems that things will get even better on the future, since the company is about to further improve this data streaming solution.So, as some of you might remember, upon introducing its Cor...

25 February 2011
03:35 GMT

Intel Thunderbolt (LightPeak) Technology Explained

Given the fact that Intel's Thunderbolt data transfer technology has just gone official, not to mention the fact that we're most likely going to see plenty of products based on it arrive on the market quite rapidly, we've decided to try to explain it for you as simple as possible, so that you'll k...

25 February 2011
01:26 GMT

Intel Thunderbolt/LightPeak Might Spell Doom for USB 3.0

Up until a few days ago, Intel's LightPeak data transfer technology seemed to be a technology that was still in development stages, far from having reached maturity, but it seems that this wasn't at all the case, since it's just made its official debut in one of the best-known portable computing system...

24 February 2011
09:36 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

Intel Aims to Slay USB this Week with Light Peak Release

Among the so-called promises on the IT market, Intel's Light Peak is one of the more ambitious ones, being a technology described as much faster than what today's USB interface allows.Back when the USB 3.0 standard was completed, it practically marveled most of those looking upon it, thanks to its high spe...

23 February 2011
03:51 GMT

Netgear Unleashes New Wireless Products at MWC 2011

Netgear may not have brought out some tablet or another, but it definitely hasn't come to MWC 2011 empty-handed, as it provided four new mobile broadband routers for mobile networks operators.The four new routers go by the names of MBR1200, MBR1310, MBR1517 and MBR2000, all of which deliver either 3G or LTE bro...

14 February 2011
07:01 GMT

Nefsis HD Promo Pack Substitutes for Business Telepresence

Cloud computing has been getting more and more popular lately, and it seems that a certain company has found a way to use it in order to offer business an alternate solution to telepresence.Telepresence is used by large-profile corporations because it enables executives to participate in meetings even when not being...

12 February 2011
05:27 GMT

USB 3.0 Processor Sales Will Show 120% Compound Growth by 2015

The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface standard is one of the technologies that have seen the fastest rate of adoption, and it seems that a general idea of what the future holds has been synthesized in a recent report.The USB 3.0 connectivity standard is the latest incarnation of the Universal Serial Bus technology and wo...

11 February 2011
09:57 GMT

Apple Should Take a Cue from HP's Touch-to-Share Feature

HP's very recent product launch even brought forth quite a few very interesting surprises, one of the coolest (and rather unique on the market, we might add) being the touch-to-share function, a feature we'd really like to see implemented in numerous other products, including Apple's next-generation iP...

10 February 2011
15:51 GMT

Hybrid USB 3.0 ExpressCard - SSD Introduced by RunCore

Without a doubt, the USB 3.0 SuperSpeed standard is becoming more and more popular these days, and since very few notebooks come equipped with such high-speed connectivity ports, the people over at RunCore have decided to come up with a solution that enables even older portable system to achieve such impressive data ...

9 February 2011
02:32 GMT

New StarTech SATA Docks Support 4 HDDs/SSDs at the Same Time

Given the fact that there are plenty of people out there who carry data on HDDs and/or SSDs and don't really want to be bothered with opening and closing their computer cases each and every single time they wish to attach a new storage unit to their system, StarTech has just introduced two new SATA docking solut...

1 February 2011
03:08 GMT

Mitsubishi Retrofits Your Older 3D Ready HDTV for Modern 3D Signals

We're not sure just how many of you can still remember the earliest 3D-capable TVs, born before this trend actually took the whole market by storm back in 2010, but the truth of the matter is that quite a few HDTV manufacturers have come up with such products, most of which are unfortunately incompatible with cu...

31 January 2011
04:48 GMT

New eSATA to USB 3.0 Adapter Introduced by NewerTech

Given the fact that the eSATA and USB 3.0 are currently some of the fastest data transfer interfaces available, the people over at NewerTech have decided that creating an adapter to “bridge” the two would be quite a logical idea, and thus released the eSATA to USB 3.0 Adapter.So, what the NewerTech eSATA ...

28 January 2011
08:29 GMT

Matrox Debuts the Mura MPX Series Of Control Boards for Video Walls

Despite typically providing a stunning visual effect, video walls are not exactly easy to set up, but Matrox has just come up with a solution designed to streamline this entire process, namely the Mura MPX Series display wall controller board line-up.According to Matrox, the MPX Series output/input boards will delive...

28 January 2011
05:55 GMT

Intel Routes All Data Center Traffic Over a Single Cable

Intel's quite well-known for its increased level of interest for data center solutions, and now, the company has just announced yet another breakthrough in this particular segment, namely a free new technology that enables all data center traffic to run over a single cable using the Intel 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10...

28 January 2011
04:36 GMT

AutoCharge + USB from iKit Keeps Your Gadgets Charged While Driving

I'm not quite sure about you, but I tend to carry around quite a serious amount of gadgets every time I go for a drive, most of which are USB powered, and for this reason, a device that would let me charge them while moving from one location to the next on four wheels seems like a pretty good idea.And, in fact, ...

27 January 2011
08:39 GMT

Renesas Postpones USB 3.0 Controller Scheduled Price Cuts Since Competition Is Scarce

Although SuperSpeed USB 3.0 managed to impose itself as the next generation high speed peripheral interface, chipset manufacturers have been slow to implement the new standard into their products, leaving Renesas (formally NEC) and its µPD720200 chip full control of the market. According to a research conduc...

27 January 2011
03:08 GMT

Military-Grade Black Box KVM Switches are Hacker-Proof

The safety and security of information and remote control solutions is extremely important nowadays, and that's exactly the reason why Black Box Corporation has introduced the new range of ServSwitch Secure KVM switches featuring military-grade security, designed to protect sensitive data and preventing electron...

26 January 2011
10:14 GMT

WA-50 Wireless Audio System Helps You Place Speakers Anywhere

Wireless audio solutions have really started to become extremely popular over the past year or so, and for this reason, Atlantic Technology has come up with a solution that will enable the fast and easy deployment of wireless audio systems in various locations, namely the WA-50 Wireless Audio System.As Atlantic Techn...

26 January 2011
05:54 GMT

Connect a Logitech G25/G27 Racing Steering Wheel to Your Xbox 360 Slim

Unfortunately, there are quite a few gaming accessories out there that have been specifically designed in order to work just with certain gaming platforms (either PCs, Xbox consoles or PS3s), and that's exactly the case with Logitech's G27 and G25 racing wheels, but it seems that connectivity solutions'...

26 January 2011
05:19 GMT

Simultaneous iTunes Synching and Charging for Up to 40 iPads Enabled by Datamation

There are plenty of schools and educational institutions that have adopted Apple's iPad in order to integrate it into the learning process, helping students develop their digital skills, and that's exactly the segment targeted by Datamation's new security carts, that deliver an enhanced set of features...

21 January 2011
10:48 GMT

SATA/SATA II to USB 3.0 Adapter Developed by Novac

Right now, most desktop computer owners (who do tend to fiddle with their inside of their PCs) have to rely on the SATA or USB interfaces in order to transfer data, but the people over at Novac have decided to add a little bit of USB 3.0 to this equation, given the fact that, after all, this interface will play a piv...

20 January 2011
04:03 GMT

16-Port USB 3.0 Flash Drive Duplicator Released by Nexcopy

Although the market segment targeted by USB flash drive duplicators is fairly narrow, that's not stopping the manufacturers of such devices to adopt the latest USB-related technologies, and that's also the case with Nexcopy, who's just introduced its first-ever 16-port USB 3.0 flash drive duplicator.Al...

19 January 2011
14:24 GMT

Intel WiDI 2 Goes to Japan, Courtesy of Buffalo

Intel's WiDI 2 Full HD wireless streaming solution is likely to really explode in the next couple of months, as notebooks powered by mobile Sandy Bridge CPUs become more popular, and that's precisely the reason why Buffalo has decided to bring its own WiDI 2 adapter to the Japanese market, namely the PC-TV1...

14 January 2011
02:45 GMT

Griffin Turns Your iPhone 4 or iPad Into a Universal Remote Control

It really seems that the various solutions enabling users to turn their iOS devices (whether we're talking about the iPhone 4, iPad or iPod touch) into universal remote controls have become quite popular these days, and for this reason, the people over at Griffin Technology have decided to launch such a product ...

11 January 2011
01:46 GMT

TRITTON SEE2 USB External Video Cards for Mac and Windows Launched by Mad Catz

Although not necessarily related to CES 2011, Mad Catz, a very well-known manufacturer of all sorts of accessories designed specifically for gaming purposes, has just announced the release of three brand-new USB external video cards for Mac OS X and Windows -based systems in the company's TRITTON SEE2 series. ...

10 January 2011
01:25 GMT

DLNA Begins to Certify Software Sold Directly to Consumers

The 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show has become a veritable stage where various hardware and software products are promoted, and DLNA decided to take advantage of consumer attention. Knowing that consumers from all around the world would be paying attention to what CES 2011 brings, The Digital Living ...

8 January 2011
05:18 GMT

Stream 3D Full HD Video To Your 3D TV, No Wires Involved

Given the fact that connectivity solutions able to stream Full HD signals from a source to a compatible HDTV are so CES 2010, IOGEAR had to come up with an even cooler solution for the 2011 International CES in Las Vegas and thus released the Wireless 3D Media Kit, the company's first device to wirelessly stream...

5 January 2011
15:21 GMT

StreamHD 1080p PC-to-TV, USB-to-HDMI Wireless Adapter from Warpia Launched at CES 2011

Warpia is quite well-known for developing some very interesting wireless connectivity solutions for home entertainment systems, and for this reason, it should come as no surprise that they've also prepared a cool new addition to their lineup for CES 2011, namely the StreamHD wireless USB-to-HDMI adapter. Accord...

5 January 2011
00:37 GMT

CES 2011: Modlet for Home Vows to Cut Your Electricity Bill

Given the fact that most people tend to pay a higher electricity bill than they normally should due to various losses along the power lines and the improper use of various home electronics, a company called ThinkEco has decided to lend them a helping hand and developed the modlet, a device that should save home owner...

3 January 2011
10:37 GMT

Mobile TV Receiver for iPhone 4 to Be Demoed at CES 2011 by Cydle

While Mobile TV has not really managed to become extremely popular across the US (as compared to some other countries where such services are available), that's not stopping manufacturers from rolling out all sorts of related devices, the latest we've come across belonging to Cydle and targeting one of the ...

30 December 2010
03:35 GMT

Turn Your iPhone 4 Into a Telescope Controller with the SkyWire

As strange as it might seem, the iPhone 4's just got yet another possible use added to its otherwise mile-long list of applications, this time around targeting astronomers, since an accessory called SkyWire, combined with a suitable app, can turn Apple's smartphone into a full-fledged telescope controller.T...

29 December 2010
14:11 GMT

Ouput 720p Video From Your iPhone 4 or iPad to a HDTV

Although most iPhone 4 and/or iPad owners are quite content with the desktop space provided by their smartphone or tablet, others are always looking for wider displays, and for this reason, Japanese company Sanwa has come up with a special adapter that will allow the owners of the aforementioned products from Apple t...

29 December 2010
06:39 GMT

Yamaha Develops Technology to Transfer Data from Audio Devices to Smartphones

Yamaha has recently announced that it has developed and tested a way of utilizing sound waves as a means of transferring data between various devices, allowing existing sound-producing devices like TV and radio sets to transmit information by delivering a high-frequency audio signal to network-capable devices like th...

26 December 2010
05:00 GMT

Planex Helps You Share Your SD Card, Flash Drive Across a Network

Creating a cost-effective home or office computer network is a very important topic nowadays, and for this reason, Japanese company Planex has come up with a couple of devices that will enable network administrators to cut costs by enabling multiple users on a network to share the same USB ports and SD memory card re...

20 December 2010
14:31 GMT

5-in-1 Dock Connector for iPad Has it All

Ever since its launch, many people have been sort of disappointed by the relatively small number of connectivity options provided by Apple's tablet, but it would seem that all the third party accessories that have made their way onto the market lately are starting to sort out this problem, one of the latest (and...

20 December 2010
10:16 GMT

New USB-Based Wireless File Sharing Solution Launched by iTwin

The concept of wireless communication between devices is an old one, but iTwin decided to try something a bit more secure, so it developed the eponymous plug and play device that can connect two computers.When it comes to transferring data from one computer to another, the most common way is to plug in a flash drive...

18 December 2010
05:30 GMT

New iGo iPad Wall and Car Chargers Offer Enhanced Versatility

While most accessories for Apple's iPad tablet released on the market lately are designed to protect the device from shocks and bumps, or equip it with a Bluetooth Keyboard, things are a bit different in the case of the new iGo iPad Wall and Car chargers, that have been created in order to provide a convenient c...

17 December 2010
05:31 GMT


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