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LG Makes Hard Drives Light

Normally, when we think about a hard drive, our minds unfortunately drift to the large, heavy, complicated and huge data-storage units used in everyday PCs. Until a few years ago, the term hard drive specifically determined these monstrous, often circuit-covered box-shaped things that could break concrete if, for wha...

11 November 2009
10:12 GMT

Rumor Mill: Seagate Preps 2.5-Inch 1TB Drive

Back in late July, Lake Forest, California-based Western Digital announced the introduction of the industry's first 1TB mobile hard drive, as part of the company's Scorpio Blue line. It now appears that Seagate, Western Digital's main competitor, is also gearing up to announce its first 1TB mobile driv...

1 September 2009
05:56 GMT

Fujitsu-Siemens to Enter the Netbook Market

It seems that the netbook market is becoming increasingly interesting for a number of other system manufacturers. And that happens for a valid reason, especially since according to a couple of estimations, netbook manufacturers are expected to ship a good number of millions of their products by the end of this year. ...

14 July 2008
06:24 GMT

OpenCL to Give Birth to the First Portable Supercomputer

Apple has revealed at its World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) this year that Snow Leopard packs a technology which allows the OS to use the processing power of graphics processors for apps that don't focus on graphics. Khronos Group president Neil Trevett claims Apple's OpenCL is paving the way to the f...

18 June 2008
10:08 GMT

Your Computer... On a Stick - Part II

This second and final part of our quick tour through the world of portable applications will focus mostly on programs that are not necessarily needed by the common user, but may come in handy in certain situations or to the more experienced Windows fans.Compressing and decompressing files may be a very easy task, but...

3 June 2008
16:11 GMT

Iomega Brings Fashion to Portable Storage

Fashion is increasingly becoming part of today's computer hardware products. Currently, several manufactures release products designed and advertised as fashionable, high-performance products, that are meant to provide support for the everyday activities of the users. One such manufacturer is Iomega, which yeste...

23 May 2008
04:33 GMT

Your Computer... On a Stick - Part I

Although I’m a very big fan of Jeff Dunham, this is not an article dedicated to Jose Jalapeno. Its purpose is a bit, let’s say, dorkier, but very useful. Using your computer actually means using applications installed on that computer: browsers, messengers, office suites, audio/video players, graphic viewers etc. Bu...

31 March 2008
09:44 GMT

Elite Portable Hard Drives from Western Digital

Western Digital is one of the most important and well established hardware companies that are in the business of providing reliable and top of the line data storage solutions. While other similar companies like Seagate and LaCie are already well known and appreciated for their families of portable storage hard disk d...

31 March 2008
02:06 GMT

Leadtek Unveils Portable Hybrid TV Tuner: the WinFast DTV200 HU

Leadtek has unveiled its newest multimedia product, a portable hybrid TV box in the WinFast family. The new TV tuner is an external device that can easily fit into a palm-size form-factor, with USB2.0 plug-n-play computer connectivity.The WinFast DTV200 HU TV tuner can receive both analog and digital TV broadcasts, a...

11 March 2008
12:59 GMT

God of War: Chains of Olympus Has Gone Gold!

The game developed by Ready at Dawn was actually ready at midnight or something like that, since this PSP version of the highly acclaimed God of War franchise was initially set for release during last year's Holidays. Still, it's better later than never, so here is the word: God of War: Chains of Olympus ha...

12 February 2008
04:35 GMT

LightScribe Enabled Portable DVD-RW Drives

LaCie announced the launch of another line of products designed by the well known industrial designer Sam Hecht and this time we are talking about portable optical disc drives that come with the latest technologies enabled.On the outside the new LaCie Portable DVD burning optical drives are sporting a slim and stylis...

20 September 2007
04:59 GMT

LaCie Announces a New Line of Mobile Drives

As the mobile storage market is growing and customers are seeking new and improved solutions for all their external storage needs more and more companies are devoting resources in order to keep pace with the current industry trend. One of the hardware manufacturing companies that made a big name on the portable stora...

19 September 2007
09:44 GMT

Edge Tech Launches Ultra Portable Hard Dives

Edge Tech Corporation just extended its line of ultra portable hard disk drives with the addition of several new models that come in both 2.5 and 3.5 inch form factors while being compatible with the most popular data transferring technologies of the day, USB and FireWire 1394 and offering storage capabilities of up ...

19 September 2007
03:35 GMT

LG's Slim and Trendy External DVD Burners

LG Electronics announced the release of a new optical drive that is intended for external operation and comes packed in a slim and easily portable form. The new external optical drive comes in two versions, the simpler GSA-E50N and the LightScribe capable GSA-E50L and it is specially created for use with laptops and ...

29 August 2007
05:35 GMT

Formac's Portable Hard Drives

Because the amount of data that has to be securely stored and moved around increases every year, the mobile hard disk drive market is blooming and after years of developing and perfecting features like data transfer speed, storage capacities and shock resistance, most hardware manufacturers that are active on the por...

27 August 2007
02:58 GMT

New Iomega Portable HDD

Portable hard disk drives, HDDs for short, are having a field day as the cost per gigabyte decreased a lot and the need to carry larger and larger amounts of data around are just getting higher. Very useful for notebook or laptop owners that are having trouble keeping all the data on the traditionally smaller hard di...

22 August 2007
06:56 GMT

Western Digital Passport Review

Portable hard drives have been around for quite some time offering a healthy alternative to internal storage. Buying one for yourself at this particular moment seems a rather good idea especially if you need to carry a large amount of data with you. While this statement alone doesn't directly relate to the impor...

12 April 2007
11:00 GMT

Size Does Matter

Every person that uses a computer is familiar with the term of MP3 or Winamp. The reason I relate these two terms is because Winamp was among the first players that could reproduce this kind of compressed audio format. In case you didn't know, MP3 is the "compression" term for MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3. Among the dev...

4 April 2007
12:23 GMT

Speakers Have Socks

The title may sound silly; nevertheless, it couldn't be closer to reality: Yanko Design have made a prototype portable speaker which can be covered in a piece of cloth like a sock. And hanged to your backpack, belt, bike handles or… whatever. The goal of such a thing? Yanko Design claims that this speakers will ...

19 March 2007
05:02 GMT

Repetitio Est Mater Studiorum

They say practice makes perfect and I agree; as a matter of fact, I hope you all agree. And even if you don't, this principle is so old and has been proven right for so many times that it transcends our capability to doubt it.So did Nicolas Gonzalez Garrido when he thought of the ultimate practice device, music-...

13 March 2007
08:01 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

Samsung's Windows Vista UPMC

Samsung Electronics America is ready to launch their Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) Q1P model, which supports Windows Vista. This is Samsung's first UMPC to qualify for Windows Vista certification. The Q1P version represents a truly ultra-mobile device that provides the power of a PC, but can be accessed anytime, anywhe...

7 March 2007
11:09 GMT


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