December 16, 2005
ASBIS is to start shipments of the world's first 2.5-inch disc drive built on perpendicular recording technology - a 160GB notebook hard drive Seagate Momentus 5400.3. This brand-new notebook drive further closes the capacity and performance gap between desktop and notebook PC hard drives as more users replace aging desktop systems with fast, high-capacity notebook computers. ASBIS offices throughout the EMEA region are expected to start offering this unique drive to local customers in January 2006.
December 16, 2005
SEAGATE LEADS 1-INCH HARD DISC DRIVE MARKET WITH CYBERCAPTURE TECHNOLOGY
Seagate Technology, supplier of Consumer Electronics hard disc drives, announced the first practical implementation of Cybercapture™ technology. Sony Corporation has employed this technology in its new Compactvault™ removable hard disc media drive that uses Seagate's CompactFlash Photo Hard Drive, following a joint implementation effort between the two companies.
December 16, 2005
SEAGATE BARRACUDA 7200.9 HARD DRIVE WINS 'BEST DESIGN OF THE YEAR' AWARD FROM ELECTRONIC DESIGN MAGAZINE
Seagate Technology, the world's #1 supplier of disc drives, announced that its Barracuda 7200.9 500GB Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive, a model that delivers the industry's leading combination of performance, reliability and capacity, has won the "Best Design of the Year" award from Electronic Design Magazine, a leading publication for electronic design engineers and managers.
December 13, 2005
Lite-On IT see DVD burners as percentage of total ODD shipments up
Lite-On’s monthly shipment volume of ODDs has remained steady at 3.5-4.0 million units but the proportion for DVD burners has risen from less than 30% in the first half of this year to over 30% this quarter and is expected to attain 40% in the first or second quarter of 2006, the company pointed out.
The increase in percentage of total ODD shipments for DVD burners was because prices of DVD burners have continually fallen to levels increasingly closer to those of Combo drives (CD-RW plus DVD-ROM) and CD-RW burners, Lite-On IT noted.
December 13, 2005
Microdrive 3K8 from Hitachi GST has received the prestigious “Innovations 2006 Honoree" award from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), in the Software/Embedded Technologies category. The Microdrive 3K8, nicknamed Mikey for its diminutive size, will be on display at CES as part of the Design and Engineering Showcase featuring outstanding consumer electronic devices.
December 05, 2005
ATI Technologies Inc. set a new visual standard in the performance thin notebook market, with the introduction of Mobility™ Radeon® X1600. The first mobile discrete graphics processor featuring ATI's revolutionary Avivo™ technology, Mobility Radeon X1600 delivers the ultimate digital entertainment solution for performance thin notebook designs through lightning-fast graphics, superior power management, and stunning visuals.
December 01, 2005
Kingston Technology Company, Inc. announced the release of its new “Ultimate” line of CompactFlash cards. With a sustained write speed rating of 100x, Kingston’s CompactFlash Ultimate cards offer the performance that high-end digital cameras and other fast capture and storage function devices need to perform at peak levels. The one, two and four-GB storage capacities of Kingston’s CompactFlash Ultimate cards meet the increased demands of today’s professional photographers by delivering reliability and dependability.
December 01, 2005
Certain types of Computers, or specialist data devices use a 44-pin IDE interface for data transfers. These types of computers require the use of small form factor data retention and a very high quality type of memory card. Transcend Information, Inc. has increased the capacity of its 44-pin IFM (IDE Flash Module) to an incredible 2GB, the highest capacity of any 44-pin IDE Flash Memory Module in the world.
December 01, 2005
Kingston Technology Company, Inc. announced the release of its new “Ultimate” line of CompactFlash cards. With a sustained write speed rating of 100x, Kingston’s CompactFlash Ultimate cards offer the performance that high-end digital cameras and other fast capture and storage function devices need to perform at peak levels. The one, two and four-GB storage capacities of Kingston’s CompactFlash Ultimate cards meet the increased demands of today’s professional photographers by delivering reliability and dependability.
November 29, 2005
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November 28, 2005
ASBIS has struck a deal with Pioneer Europe NV providing for the distribution of the whole range of Pioneer optical disc drives (ODDs) throughout the countries of ASBIS’ presence across Central and Eastern Europe, including Russia and Ukraine, and Africa.
November 22, 2005
Kingston® Technology Company, Inc. announced the release of its new Kingston® 15-in-1 Hi-Speed Reader - the perfect companion for professionals who demand high transfer rates with speed and reliability
November 21, 2005
ATI Technologies Inc. announced All-In-Wonder® X1800 XL is now available in North America - European availability is anticipated for this autumn. ATI's newest offering joins All-In-Wonder® X800 XL and All-In-Wonder® 2006 Edition to round out the multimedia product family spanning nearly 10 years of market leadership. As ATI's fastest multimedia video card, All-In-Wonder X1800 XL provides amazing performance with the Radeon® X1800 XL graphics processor while enabling Avivo™ technologies for the best possible video and image quality.
November 20, 2005
Transcend has come out with the highest performance 1GB miniSD™ Card in the world, the 1GB 80X Ultra Performance miniSD™ Memory Card. Transcend’s 1GB 80X Ultra Performance miniSD™ card has extremely fast data transfer speeds of up to 12MB/sec, which is 70% faster than a normal miniSD™ card.
November 17, 2005
Kingston® Technology Company, Inc. announced the release of its new Kingston® 15-in-1 Hi-Speed Reader - the perfect companion for professionals who demand high transfer rates with speed and reliability
November 15, 2005
Your earring is a flash drive? This mobile phone strap is a flash drive too? Scenarios that we once saw in movies are now an everyday sight. If you see your female colleague removes her earring and plug it into a PC USB port, do not be surprised, because it could very well happen with Kingmax's latest flash drive product – the Kingmax Super Stick. Measuring only 39mm by 12mm by 2mm, and weighing less than 5g, it is by far the lightest and thinnest storage product in the world.
November 14, 2005
NVIDIA Corporation delivered the answer with the immediate availability of the new NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 graphics processing unit (GPU). The Company’s award-winning GeForce 7800 GTX graphics chip already powers what many experts consider to be the fastest graphics cards around. With the new GeForce 7800 GTX 512, NVIDIA has released a new, supercharged version of the GPU that delivers tremendous performance in today’s PC games.
November 14, 2005
Prestigio Technology, one of the most dynamic international vendors of state-of-the-art mobile computers, display products and accessories, has unveiled today two new exquisite 17” and 19” LCD multimedia monitors P776 and P796 of the newly introduced hi-end 7th Series, and began their distribution throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa. The new monitors feature superior design and tinted-glass screen coating.
November 08, 2005
LiteOn has come out with another great DVD Writer, the SHW-1635S. The SHW-1635S turned out to be a very good optical drive in terms of performance and received the Gold Award from Techniz.co.uk. The drive itself is very stable during the reading/writing of any CD/DVD media. As for the noise level, it was much quieter as compared to all the previous models. Furthermore, this new unit comes with the extra bezel kit so that you can change the color of the bezel according to your needs to match your chassis. The LiteOn SHW-1635S DVD Writer is a worthy solution of the new 16x Dual Layer DVD writer that is able to write the DVD+R9 dual layer media at 8X speed.
November 07, 2005
The new PQI U250 Traveling Disk is a new addition to the PQI USB flash drive lineup. The drive itself weighs merely 10 grams, is ready and simple to use with modern day USB ports and is encased in metallic sprayed paint silver and black outer shell vividly displaying its sophisticated styling. Included with the pack you’ll find “Safe Disk” application software. The easy to use interface and humanized logic of this software gives you, the customer that added extra protection for your personal files.