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Today, two distinguished brands, Christofle and LaCie, introduce an elegant object for your digital belongings – Galet, design by Christofle. With its beautiful pebble shape and magnificent silver-plating, the Galet is a conversation piece that proves beauty and functionality can easily co-exist in our daily lives.
The Galet is a new way of thinking about personal technology. Like a designer watch or a luxury pen, the Galet is an essential accessory. Hand-crafted in France, each piece is individually plated with precious silver through Christofle's 150 year-old silvering process. Then it is carefully inspected for a smooth finish and radiant polish, which guarantees its excellence. The Galet is assembled and hand-packed in a charming gift box at LaCie's factory in Paris, ensuring each Galet represents the finest presentation and quality. Once the process is complete, the result is a timeless gift that will bring convenience and luxury to one's daily life.
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I-O DATA Japan sent out a press release this morning, announcing its new DVRP-U8C series of portable DVD writers. Available in five colors - white, black, red, blue and brown, the DVRP-U8C series is capable of 8x DVD±R, 6x DVD±R DL, 8x DVD+RW, 6x DVD-RW and 5x DVD-RAM writing speeds and a maximum DVD read speed of 8x. These new drives are also USB bus powered and come bundled with Nero 9 Express Essentials as well as I-O DATA's QuickDrive LE management software.
The DVRP-U8C series is scheduled to ship in early February and is expected to cost about 6,300 Yen ($76US).
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Nexcopy Inc., a leading manufacturer in USB Duplicator solutions, announces the release of a 16 target SuperSpeed 3.0 USB duplicator for data loading to USB 3.0 devices.
The new 3.0 USB Duplicators from Nexcopy provide ultra fast data copying via the SuperSpeed USB specification. The new USB 3.0 Duplicator systems will reach maximum data transfer rates for the given device connected. The Nexcopy SSUSB160PC is a PC based system giving the user flexible configuration options as a network resource or dedicated binary bit for bit USB copier.
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PQI, one of the top-ten brand leaders in the Flash memory industry, is kicking off 2011 with the release of its all-new “Intelligent Drive U819L” traveling disk. The device sports a smooth and simple design with crisp lines and a rounded top to create a streamlined shape worthy of the golden ratio. The exterior features a sleek piano-like finish using pure ivory white and deep midnight black to achieve the look of glossy piano keys. It almost feels like you could play a tune on the device with your fingertips! In addition, the drive features special COB encasement technology, which makes the Intelligent Drive U819L traveling disk waterproof, dustproof, shockproof, and highly durable, and therefore even more flexible in different user environments.
Furthermore, thanks to the constant efforts of the design and development team, the drive comes bundled with a special customized hanging ornament. The exquisite square-shaped decorative piece is transparent and made of a soft, flexible rubber material embossed with the PQI logo. In addition to being used as a decoration for your mobile phone, it is also very practical and has a distinctly creative design. By attaching it to the end of your drive, you can use the ornament to open the cover of the Intelligent Drive U819L and then ensure that you avoid dropping the cover by inserting it into the ornament’s unique soft transparent material. This slim and charming ornament is a real eye-catcher and makes the Intelligent Drive U819L even more alluring.
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One-Blue, LLC, an independent licensing company, today announced it will launch a one-stop shop product license for patents essential to Blu-ray Disc products on April 1st, 2011, subject to necessary governmental clearance. One-Blue also announced that Mr. Roel Kramer has been appointed as CEO of One-Blue. Mr. Kramer, who has been the President of the Blu-ray Disc Association since 2007, succeeds Mr. Jerry Rosenthal, who had served as CEO since One-Blue was established in 2009.
“One-Blue has been designed to provide an important service to the entire industry while at the same time stimulating the growth and adoption for Blu-ray Disc™ products,” said Mr. Kramer. “I look forward to working with all of the companies participating in the One-Blue patent pool as we gear up to make the licensing program available in the marketplace by April 2011.”
Since issuing its call for Blu-ray Disc™ product patents in October 2009, One-Blue has been working diligently with potential licensors to ensure wide-spread adoption of the license program that One-Blue will administer. As part of this activity, new royalty rates under the licenses were recently announced. The new rates are now US$9.00 for a Blu-ray Disc™ player and US$12.00 for a Blu-ray Disc™ recorder; US$0.0975 for a BD-read only video disc, US$0.1075 for a BD-recordable disc and US$0.1350 for a BD-rewritable disc. Other royalty rates can be found on the renewed website www.one-blue.com.
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Due to the global fervor of smart phones, the upsurge needs of mobile storage is inevitable. Silicon Power- the world’s leading manufacturer in the flash memory industry releases today, its super-large capacity of 32GB microSDHC Class 4 memory cards to fulfill all needs of worldwide consumers. Aimed at the needs of entertainment for mobile users, the super-large 32GB microSDHC memory card is perfect for your content-rich devices.
Silicon Power has broken the limits of technology by increasing the capacity to 32GB, adding more convenience for the user. While smaller than a finger nail, this micro SDHC memory card has an extremely high data storage capacity, it can store over 9000 photos, nearly 500 minutes of full HD videos, more than 6000 songs and thousands of files. No matter you are holding a digital camera, smart phone, ebook reader or photo frame, 32GB micro SDHC is all you need for a colorful streaming life!
For end-users who seek versatility, in addition to microSDHC single pack, Silicon Power provides two more choices: SD Adapter pack and SD & miniSD Adapters pack. The adaptor packs increase the ways of different usages needs, letting consumers enjoy the convenience of transferring and processing the same data on many platforms.
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Western Digital, a leader in the desktop, mobile, high-capacity enterprise and consumer markets for hard drives, today announced the availability of its second-generation WD S25 SAS drives and its latest WD RE SAS 3.5-inch drives for the traditional enterprise market. Shipping now, the 2.5-inch, 10,000 RPM, WD S25 with SAS 6 Gb/s interface hard drives offer IT professionals ultra-reliable and efficient, high-performance storage with new 450 GB and 600 GB capacities. The WD S25 line, including the previously released 147 GB and 300 GB capacities, is designed for mission-critical server and storage systems.
Also shipping now to OEMs, the new 3.5-inch, 7,200 RPM, WD RE SAS with 6 Gb/s interface hard drives offer 1 TB and 2 TB capacity points, and represent a key addition to WD's expanding enterprise product portfolio. The WD RE SAS drives mark an important commitment to the expansion of WD's SAS portfolio for high-capacity data center storage, storage area networks (SAN), network attached storage (NAS), direct attach storage (DAS), networked surveillance systems and cloud storage.
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Zalman announced its first external HDD enclosure. Unlike any other External HDD enclosures, we have spiced it up with world's first virtual drive function on ZM-VE200. Now, end users do not need to carry around uncomfortable CD/DVDs. All they need to do is simply extract ISO image from the CD/DVDs and store them in the ZM-VE200. ZM-VE200 comes with the LCD that displays the list of the ISO files that have been loaded. Then they can install various OS / software by user's choice with faster USB connection. Also with its stylish slim design will definitely attract customers to take anywhere they go.
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Active Media Products, a leading manufacturer of SSDs, DOMs and USB drives, today launched a 22-caliber silver bullet shaped USB 2.0 flash drive. "The Bullet-2 drive is the ultimate USB drive because it is rugged, reliable, waterproof, dustproof, small enough to comfortably fit on your keychain, and is a classical icon of form", stated Active Media Products VP of Sales, Jerry Thomson.
The Bullet-2 is AMP's second style of bullet shaped USB drive. Both Bullet-1 and Bullet-2 models are encased in air tight aluminum enclosures that protect all data from harsh environments such as water, snow, sand and dust. Bullet-1, in gold color, is shaped like a 50-caliber bullet, while the silver-colored Bullet-2 is in the form of a 22-caliber shell. The bullet includes a strong steel keychain and clip for attaching the drive to a backpack or keyring. This new bullet drive is available now through Amazon, at approximately $14 for the 4GB model and $21 for the 8GB drive.
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Plextor, a leading brand of high-performance digital media solutions, announces a new external slim DVD writer in Europe. The PX-L611U is an external DVD writer offering the convenience of a dependable DVD and CD burner in a highly portable package. It writes DVD±R at 8X, DVD±R DL at 6X, DVD+RW at 8X and DVD-RW at 6X. And with LightScribe direct disc labeling, users can burn customized labels on any LightScribe compatible discs.
This highly-compact drive is light and slender. It weighs a mere 350 grams (0.77 pounds), and its dimensions are only 137mm (5.39 inch) long by 137mm (5.39 inch) wide, and just 22mm (0.86 inch) thick. Its size makes the drive ideal for business professionals and students needing transportable but reliable media burning and DVD movie playback. Further convenience is provided through the use of a unique single USB port and battery combination to power the unit eliminating the need to carry an AC adapter for the drive.
