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Walgreens customers now have a convenient, affordable way to recover deleted or corrupted digital photos thought to be gone forever. The new Media Recovery Service now available at more than 7,500 Walgreens Photo Centers nationwide offers customers professional retrieval of lost images and other files from memory cards or USB drives.
With more consumers than ever storing and sharing photos digitally, treasured memories can be left vulnerable to mishaps such as a defective or damaged camera, accidental deletion, memory card or USB drive corruption, accidental formatting or file transfer errors. Though these situations can render images inaccessible, in many cases files are actually still retrievable from fixed memory space on the storage media.
“Sooner or later every digital camera user has the misfortune of losing a photo, and I know from experience this can be heartbreaking,” said Mona Kelly, Walgreens general merchandise manager of photo and front-end services. “As a trusted go-to provider of convenient, high-quality photo services in thousands of communities, we’re pleased to offer a solution that can help customers get back their cherished photos and along with them their peace of mind.”
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Sans Digital is introducing the world's first single bay SuperSpeed USB 3.0 and eSATA enclosure with removable tray modules: the MobileSTOR MS1UTP. The MS1UTP is based on the same concepts as the award winning MobileSTOR MS1UT and MS1CT models, which implement two high performance connectivity interfaces: the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 and the eSATA. The MS1UTP is a single bay storage system with high performance and versatile interfaces to accommodate your storage expansion needs.
MobileSTOR MS1UTP is a unique external 3.5" SATA hard drive enclosure equipped with a removable hard drive tray, along with USB 3.0 and eSATA dual interfaces. The new USB 3.0 specification provides up to 5Gb/s of data bandwidth, which is 10x faster than the transferring speed of USB 2.0. High performance hard drives can now utilize this increased bandwidth to provide maximum data transfer performance. USB 3.0 is fast, versatile, and allows backward compatibility with USB 2.0 ports when the USB 3.0 port is unavailable.
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Thecus Technology, the Creator in Storage, is constantly developing solutions to make life easier and more convenient for Thecus users. Today, Thecus is proud to unveil a new iPhone application dubbed Thecus Dashboard. This free-to-download application allows users to monitor the status of their Thecus NAS right from their iPhone, without having to boot up a computer.
Thecus Dashboard is a robust monitoring application for Thecus NAS devices. Once downloaded from the Apple App Store, users can easily discover and login to their Thecus NAS using their iPhone.
Once logged in, users have access to a multitude of device and service status information. Information such as firmware version, up time, CPU loading and even fan status can be displayed through Thecus Dashboard. Users can even check the status of the various services currently running on their NAS, including FTP status, network file server status, Nsync status, uPnP status and more. With Thecus Dashboard, making sure your NAS is running in tip top shape has never been easier or more convenient.
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EDGE Tech Corp has launched a full line of USB 3.0 (aka SuperSpeed) products, including DiskGO® portable and external USB 3.0 hard drives and USB 3.0 laptop and desktop upgrade cards. EDGE is a leading U.S.-based supplier of DRAM and flash memory upgrades, portable computing products, storage devices, and other experience-enhancing technology solutions.
Available in portable (for travel) and external (for home) sizes, DiskGO SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Hard Drives sport the fastest USB connection on the market. With speeds of up to 5Gb/s, USB 3.0 is 10 times faster than USB 2.0 (480Mb/s). DiskGO USB 3.0 hard drives can back up HD movies, photo collections, and entire music libraries in seconds when connected to a USB 3.0 port (also backward compatible with USB 2.0 computers). The portable model, which is compact and requires only a USB cable for power, is available in capacities up to 750GB. The external model is available in capacities up to 2TB. Dmailer Backup, software that allows automatic local and online data backups, comes free.
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QNAP Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of world class NAS (Network Attached Storage) servers revealed today the official QMobile application for Android 1.5, 1.6, and 2.1 platforms following the successful release of the app for iPhone users. The QMobile app, when used in conjunction with a QNAP Turbo NAS server and the V3.3.2 management software, allows users to stream music, digital pictures, and videos from their home NAS server and play directly on the Android handsets from anywhere, using Wi-Fi or 3G networks. This reduces the need to have the files synchronized and stored physically on the device while providing a simple and convenient way for mobile consumers to access their home content from anywhere.
QMobile's cool My Jukebox feature lets users remotely browse and select playlists created on the NAS to suit their mood by song title, artist, album, even ID3 tags. The QMobile app lets Android users upload pictures to a QNAP Turbo NAS and showcase pictures stored on the NAS on the mobile device. No more wishing you had added additional songs, videos, or pictures before a trip, so long as you have Internet access, you can play it remotely; it's like having a media center in your pocket!
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IEEE, the world’s leading professional association for the advancement of technology, today announced the ratification of the IEEE 1901™ Broadband over Power Line (BPL) standard. Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society, this globally recognized BPL standard will be a key enabling technology for a wide range of applications including smart energy, transportation and Local Area Networks (LANs) in both the home and the enterprise.
Networking products that fully comply with IEEE 1901 will deliver data rates in excess of 500 Mbps in LAN applications. In first-mile/last-mile applications, IEEE 1901-compliant devices will achieve ranges of up to 1500 m. The technology specified by IEEE 1901 uses sophisticated modulation techniques to transmit data over standard AC power lines of any voltage at transmission frequencies of less than 100 MHz.
“More than 94 corporations, trade associations and universities contributed to the standard’s evolution through the IEEE 1901 Working Group,” said Jean-Philippe Faure, Chair, IEEE 1901 Working Group, “to create the world’s most innovative, mature and unified BPL standard.”
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OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) and memory modules for computing devices and systems, has announced the opening of a new SSD manufacturing plant in Taipei, Taiwan slated to begin operation on Monday, October 25.
A testament to the Company's dedication to market leadership, the new facility features best of class manufacturing, as well as test and burn-in technology required by the Company's growing OEM client base. The new facility increases the Company's SSD manufacturing capacity to 140,000 units a month from 50,000 units a month internally, accommodating the growing demand for both client and enterprise OCZ SSDs.
"As our SSD revenues continue to expand, we are happy to announce our new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Taipei, Taiwan," said Ryan Petersen, CEO of the OCZ Technology Group. "Our new 20,000 square foot facility was set up in response to increased demand from OEMs for our Enterprise Solid State Drive products and significantly increases our monthly SSD capacity."
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Western Digital today announced that the company is shipping the world's largest capacity SATA hard drive. As the latest addition to its WD Caviar Green family of SATA hard drives, the new hard drives deliver up to a massive 3 terabytes (TB) of storage capacity on a single drive. WD is leading the industry in capacity for SATA hard drives by utilizing 750 GB-per-platter areal density and Advanced Format (AF) technology.
WD Caviar Green drives are an eco-friendly storage solution with WD GreenPower Technology™, which reduces power consumption by enabling lower operating temperatures for increased reliability and decreases acoustical noise for quiet operation. The WD Caviar Green 2.5 TB and 3 TB hard drives are designed for use as secondary external storage and next-generation PC storage in 64-bit-based systems.
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Sharkoon's "QuickPort" series has increased again: The youngest and smallest model from the external hard drive docking station product line is specifically designed for magnet hard drives and SSDs with 2.5 inch form factor and SATA interfaces. The Sharkoon SATA QuickPort Mini offers a convenient plug-in slot and eject button, the accessible data medium can be directly connected to a notebook or computer.
With its miniature size of 85 x 55 x 45 mm (W x L x H), the stable adapter is suitable for easy transit in a jacket or notebook bag. Connection and the power supply occur through the external USB port. On the rear of the device you will find a separate power switch. A topside LED illuminates during operation and data transfer.
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Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, and Link_A_Media Devices Corporation (LAMD) today announced that they plan to extend their successful strategic HDD (hard disk drive) system-on-chips (SoCs) partnership into the next generation SoCs for both the HDD and solid state drive (SSD) storage markets. Since the start of the partnership in 2005, LAMD has developed and shipped HDD controller SoCs through the former NEC Electronics' advanced manufacturing processes.
“We are delighted to extend our partnership with Renesas Electronics to deliver SoC solutions to the HDD and SSD markets. Since the merger between NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology in April, 2010, the new company, Renesas Electronics, is the 3rd largest semiconductor company in the world (based on CY2009 revenues) and can provide LAMD unprecedented access to leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing processes and one of the broadest portfolios of intellectual property functions (IP) in the industry.” said Dr. Hemant Thapar, Chief Executive Officer, Link_A_Media Devices Corporation.
