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Elecom Intros TK-FBP029 Mini Bluetooth Keyboard

Touchscreens are all well and good, but they can't really completely replace a keyboard's feel, so Elecom made the TK-FBP029 Mini Bluetooth Keyboard.The TK-FBP029 Mini Bluetooth Keyboard is a very small device that has just been announced in Japan, albeit without a price (for now).It operates on Bluetooth 3...

17 January 2012
11:22 GMT

USB 3.0 Used by Freecom for Mobile Drive XXS 3.0 HDDs

US-based companies Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba might try to monopolize the attention of HDD buyers, but Freecom is undaunted, having enlisted a certain designer's assistance when it created the Mobile Drive XXS 3.0 series of HDDs. The name of the new Freecom series of hard disk drives is fairly self...

11 October 2011
09:52 GMT

New Antenova GPS Module Is Super-Cheap

The media doesn't usually pay much attention to the smaller components that show up in electronics, but Antenova still got the word out about its new and cheap GPS receiver module. Pretty much every mobile consumer electronic of today has started to integrate GPS functionality as a default feature. Howev...

11 October 2011
04:22 GMT

Sony HD-EG5 and HD-EG5U External HDDs Are Encrypted

There are many things that can add to a hard disk drive's value, and Sony chose several elements when it developed the HD-EG5 and HD-EG5U, even as it kept them portable and quite capacious as well. Sony is no stranger to the business of portable storage, and this extends to more than the DVD and Blu-ray disk...

10 October 2011
04:11 GMT

Buffalo Japan Presents MiniStation HD-PNTU3 Portable HDDs

One would think that companies would keep providing the market with more hard drives of all sorts, and they would be right, as shown by Buffalo, whose newest announcement deals with the MiniStation HD-PNTU3. The MiniStation series of hard disk drives from Buffalo is a collection of so-called portable hard disk dr...

6 October 2011
07:52 GMT

I-O Data Contributes to Storage Market with 1 TB USB 3.0 HDD

I-O Data, like all companies on the consumer IT market, seems to go about its official releases in a fairly methodical, periodic fashion, as the company has stepped up once more on the storage segment. There are many things nowadays that can make a hard disk drive stand out, depending on who it is meant for, amon...

22 September 2011
09:04 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

New HTC Media Player Looks Like a Phone but Isn't

HTC may be best known for its many phones, but its stake in the media player market is also considerable, possibly set to grow some more if a certain report is anything to go by.Over the past couple of years, many consumer products were created by this or that company in collaboration with beats by Dr. Dre.In HTC�...

19 September 2011
11:09 GMT

Portable Music Player from SanDisk Debuts

SanDisk is known for its many storage solutions, but it seems to be gathering more and more attention in a different field, that of consumer electronics focused on multimedia.The past few years have seen technology taking a turn for the high, even though the economy has not been all that favorable.As such, more or l...

25 August 2011
09:31 GMT

ADATA Red and Black, Tough Portable HDDs Smash Into View

There are multiple ways that an external storage device can be made to stand out, and ADATA went for one of the more straightforward ones, the one involving physical toughness, enough to survive many unfortunate events.Portable hard disk drives and solid state drives, like their larger external siblings, are, as a r...

16 August 2011
10:30 GMT

Transcend StoreJet 25A3 Is a New USB 3.0 HDD

Those who thought Transcend was done for the month when it released the JetFlash T3S Flash Drives were gravely mistaken, as the same company has stepped for to provide some platter spinners as well.Not long ago, Transcend entered the spotlight and released a series of USB flash drive units, bereft of the advantages ...

11 August 2011
08:07 GMT

Diamond D05 2.5-Inch Portable HDD from Silicon Power Unveiled

Silicon Power made good on its status as purveyor of various storage devices and decided it was time to unleash a new solid state drive, one that is meant to be brought along everywhere and has the looks to match.By now, it is already clear that sold state drives, as a product concept at least, have withstood the te...

10 August 2011
10:38 GMT

Seagate HDD Line Welcomes Model with SafetyNet

Seagate develops portable hard disk drive featuring a certain security feature that will allow users to recover data in case anything may leave it corrupted or otherwise lost, though this will only be usable once.Seagate has been in the HDD business for many years and, some time ago, even expanded its market share b...

8 August 2011
08:23 GMT

Verbatim Prepares for IFA 2011, Shows Portable HDDs

Being one of those suppliers of storage products that has been around for years, Verbatim seems to be quite bent on preparing in advance, as shown by its latest press release that, among other things, mentions some new HDDs.Each year, multiple trade shows take place, each in a different part of the world, where comp...

1 August 2011
02:48 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

New Sony Walkman MP3 Player Is Water Resistant

One issue that portable and small entertainment devices usually have to deal with is humidity, whether from rain or perspiration, so Sony decided to make its newest walkman water-resistant.Nowadays, there are so many things that can play the part of multimedia companion that one can consider it staggering.Even highl...

14 July 2011
10:36 GMT

[UPDATE] Portable RAID Device from Newertech Launched

Newertech might be somewhat less active than other IT companies, but this might be because it takes a more specialized approach towards computing, leading to the appearance of such things as the new Guardian MAXimus. The past few days have seen the appearance of quite a few storage devices, portable or otherwise, a...

14 July 2011
02:38 GMT

New Sony Portable HDD Links to TVs Camcorders and PS3

Portable storage devices are usually meant to hook up to PCs and copy data to and from them, but it looks like current-generation ones, like Sony's HD-PG5, also work with certain TVs and other consumer electronics.Having already said its piece on the NAND Flash storage industry, for now at least, Sony is now ma...

12 July 2011
08:14 GMT

Clickfree C6 Easy Imaging HDD Ready to Backup

Clickfree released portable hard disk drives before, and, of course, it isn't bound to stop doing so, hence the coming of its newest solution, one that leans more towards independent operation than anything else.Backup tasks can be a tedious thing, especially when it comes to storing data on devices that connec...

11 July 2011
08:51 GMT

ADATA Formally Launches NH13 Portable HDD

Going ahead with its role as purveyor of storage solutions, ADATA has issued a short press announcement it which it reveals the existence of a new set of portable hard disk drives.Portable hard disk drives were practically a hit the moment the 2.5-inch form factor was invented, and the same can be said about SSDs (s...

11 July 2011
05:58 GMT

Logitec Creates New Portable HDD With USB 3.0

Logitec has been making storage solutions for years, so it is not that great a surprise to learn that it has finished developing a new series of storage devices, nor that they use the fastest USB technology yet.Back when the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface standard was first presented to the industry, it became obvious...

7 July 2011
10:57 GMT

ARM Powers New Panasonic Portable TV

Portable TVs aren't particularly widespread, but they nonetheless have a faithful following, one that can now test out a new idea from Panasonic, that of a TV powered by the Android OS version known as Eclair.The Android OS may have started out as a software for mobile phones, but it quickly evolved into someth...

7 July 2011
05:16 GMT

New Ultraportable Wireless Router Created by TRENDnet

Users may be familiar with TRENDnet's habit of revealing high-quality Ethernet and wireless connectivity solutions, so they might not be too shocked to learn of its newest product.Back at the start of May, TRENDnet announced that it had completed the creation of the Wireless N USB adapter, essentially a device ...

2 July 2011
07:11 GMT

Pink Seagate GoFlex Ultra-Portable HDD Ready

Seagate has made many a hard disk drive over the years and, in tune with its latest acquisitions, is going to keep doing so, keeping horizons broad by developing such things as bright pink devices.Seagate might not be the leader of the HDD market anymore, but it definitely is the close second to Western Digital. ...

28 June 2011
11:00 GMT

LaCie and Porsche Design Show New Portable HDDs

LaCie has long been an independent maker of various computing storage devices, but this doesn't meant it has anything against collaborations, as proven by its most recent press release. Over the years, quite a few storage units have been delivered for both the consumer and enterprise markets. As far as th...

28 June 2011
04:51 GMT

New Buffalo Portable HDD Coming Next Month

Buffalo has already released a great number of storage solutions, so of course it will want to keep doing so for as long as people keep buying, so the appearance of the HD-PCT1TU2 is not that big a surprise.There isn't really much that can be said about the product line that buffalo has managed to amass, nothin...

23 June 2011
08:26 GMT

Silicon Power Stream Portable HDD Line Turns Purple

It appears that sports cars are really racing through the storage industry, leaving behind afterimages for portable storage drives, like the Silicon Power Stream S20, to take the shape of.Nowadays, there are many portable storage drives out there, of both the hard disk drive and the solid state drive variety.The Sup...

22 June 2011
04:16 GMT

I-O Data Preps Five New Portable HDDs Of 1 TB

Being the maker of various storage devices that it is, I-O Data, understandably, did not let much time pass without revealing some new products, deciding to expand an existing series of HDDs.With Western Digital covering the area of portable HDD cases, I-O Data has now announced that its collection of portable stora...

15 June 2011
04:42 GMT

Logitec Adds New Portable HDD of 750 GB

Computex or no, it looks like IT players are both previewing and outright unleashing new hardware products, in this case Logitec being the one to make its move on the storage market.When it comes to storage devices, consumers can think of quite a few different things, like USB flash drives, solid state drives, hard ...

27 May 2011
04:50 GMT

I-O Data Also Presents New USB 3.0 HDD

The market for external and portable storage devices now has a new member in the shape of a certain HDD line that I-O Data has designed, keeping the bulk of the consumer market in mind.When it comes to external storage devices, portable hard disk drives definitely make up a large chunk of the total industry.This is ...

26 May 2011
09:09 GMT

Toshiba Delivers a New Batch of External HDDs

There are already a fair number of external and/or portable hard disk drives on the market, but it looks like Toshiba went with the “always room for more” motto and produced a new series of them. There seem to be a large number of new storage units coming out lately, both of the HDD and SSD variety, s...

23 May 2011
08:39 GMT

Clickfree Portable Hard Disk Drive Ruggedly Backs Up Data

Rugged storage solutions are fewer than regular ones, and even they vary according to the degree of physical and virtual protection, and it looks like Clickfree built one with the ability to survive more than mild shocks.There have been a number of information thefts among governments and the like, which led to the ...

23 May 2011
05:40 GMT

Gigabyte 2.5-Inch Portable HDD Boasts USB 3.0

There may already be a whole slew of portable storage devices running around the IT industry, but Gigabyte figured it wouldn't hurt to deliver another one, especially considering the choice of interface.When it comes to moving files from a PC to another, one might say that the world is way past the point where ...

20 May 2011
03:14 GMT

Seagate Provides a HDD of Its Own, a Wireless Portable One

When it comes to portable storage drives, one usually thinks of a 2.5-inch or 1.8-inch HDD or SSD that connects to a laptops or tablet via the USB connection, but it looks like Seagate had something extra in mind for its GoFlex Satellite.Being the second greatest supplier of hard disk drives worldwide, Seagate is no...

16 May 2011
09:31 GMT

LG Expands Product Line with USB 3.0 Portable HDDs

LG is definitely living up to its reputation as supplier of many different sorts of devices and hardware components, having just put together a pair of HDD lines that are more or less identical, save for their outer design.While some IT players can make do with focusing on just one type of product, others make it a ...

6 May 2011
04:51 GMT

Gigabyte Pure Classic and Pure Classic 3.0 Portable HDDs Detailed

Gigabyte is always working on some new device, sometimes unveiling them without bothering to issue a press release, and this seems to be what has happened with the Pure Classic series of HDDs.Among IT companies, there are those that focus on a single sort of component or device, while others test the reach of their ...

3 May 2011
04:48 GMT

Buffalo Presents Portable DVD Writer and Player

DVD drives may not even be close to HDDs in terms of sales, even though there are both internal and external solutions, but they haven't really been doing badly for themselves either, with Buffalo deciding to push things forward.Buffalo is one of those companies that has been dealing in various sorts of storage...

28 April 2011
05:18 GMT

Buffalo MiniStation Portable HDD Get Hybrid Shock Absorbtion Systems

Buffalo is just one of many suppliers of storage solutions on the IT market but, as all its rivals and peers, it has its share of features and technologies that it can add to new devices, something made clear by the newest portable HDDs it developed.Some years ago, the HDD industry was mostly made up of companies th...

27 April 2011
08:10 GMT

Verbatim External SSD Is a Silver-Colored USB 3.0 Product

While there has been much fanfare for the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard, the number of solid state drives that communicate through it isn't too large yet, although Verbatim definitely did not seem to mind contributing to it.If there is anything that can be categorized as an innovative technology, the USB 3.0 inte...

20 April 2011
05:39 GMT

Transcend Also Delivers Portable HDDs, 1 TB StoreJet

Even with all the reports of declining HDD sales, there seems to be no shortage of new models, as proven by how Transcend just presented a pair of capacious, portable models from the StoreJet series.Portable electronics, like smartphones and tablets, have begun to eat away at PC shipment shares.Among other things, t...

19 April 2011
10:58 GMT

Samsung External and Portable HDD Lineup Gets More USB 3.0 Models

Samsung is one of those companies known for its wide range of products, and it looks like its storage solution portfolio is what has expanded this once, with the addition of a bunch of high-speed, external HDDs.External hard disk drives can be said to fit into two categories, depending on their form factors at least...

14 April 2011
03:42 GMT

G-Technology Brings G-DRIVE Duro Portable Drive to NAB 2011

It would appear that the 2011 NAB event in Las Vegas has turned into the proving ground for many sorts of devices, some of which have been brought there by G-Technology, a Hitachi subsidiary.The thing about international IT trade shows is that they act as a gathering place for companies from around the world.Once th...

12 April 2011
09:03 GMT

Apacer 2.5-Inch SATA External HDD Is Easy to Carry Around

Like so many other companies on the IT market, Apacer came forth and released a new storage unit, namely an external, portable hard disk drive that benefits from the most recent iteration of the USB standard.It seems that Green House is not the only company dealing in storage devices designed with support for the Su...

5 April 2011
05:05 GMT

I-O Data Announces Portable HDDs and New USB Flash Device

It looks like the recently unveiled external storage device from I-O Data is only one of the products that the company has prepared, as there are actually two others that got officially introduced.When it comes to storage devices, I-O Data is one of those companies that arguably has a tendency towards releasing mult...

31 March 2011
05:08 GMT

External Optical Drive from I-O Data Writes BDXL Disks

Those that were wondering how long it would take for more BDXL drives to show up need wait no longer, as a certain company known as I-O Data has come to challenge Buffalo with an external solution of this very sort.For those that do not know, some months ago, the Blu-ray Disk Association, BDA for short, came up with...

28 March 2011
06:34 GMT

NextComputing Vigor EX Is a Rugged Portable Workstation

There may be many systems on today's IT market, but only some of them can truly be said to have what it takes to survive in unfriendly environments, one of them having just been launched by NextComputing.There are certain products on the consumer market which are said to be rugged, but the word is usually used ...

17 March 2011
04:50 GMT

STOR.E ART 4 Is a New Toshiba Portable HDD Line

Now that it finished unveiling new tablets or whatnot, Toshiba is again looking to other market segments, and its line of storage devices has finally seen the addition of a new collection of portable HDDs. Those that have been keeping track of the happenings at the MWC 2011 expo will know of how Toshiba revealed ...

18 February 2011
02:37 GMT

Buffalo External HDD Portfolio Welcomes New Member

Buffalo has long been a supplier of various storage solutions and it seems its most recent one has now made its way out of its maker's labs, bearing the name of HDS-PXVU2.External storage solutions come in various shapes, sizes and types, as many companies are trying to stand out through newer and better invent...

3 February 2011
03:56 GMT

Large-Capacity I-O Data Portable HDD Has Both USB 3.0 and 2.0 Ports

It appears that Gigabyte is not the only company looking to the portable storage market, as I-O Data has also put together a certain device, one that can be seen as fairly unique as far as connectivity goes.Gigabyte's Pure Rock may be looked upon with reservations because, though it has multiple capacity option...

27 January 2011
05:07 GMT


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