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The popularity of smartphones and tablets, staunch mainstays of business professionals,hasrepeatedly hit record highs. To boost convenience and free-style portability in the business world, Apacer rolls out AH173 OTG (On-The-Go) mobile flash drive, featuring dual interfaces, ultra-large capacity, ultra-svelte thinness, and metallic chic.
Once connected to a OTG-supported device, AH173 mobile flash drive doubles your Android smartphone and tablet capacity with maximum 32GB. It allows you to carry video, audio and large presentation files more easily. The ultra-thin zinc alloy body of the AH173 mobile flash drive exudes the sharp professional image of business people. With built-in USB/MicroUSB interfaces, files can be transferred between mobile devices and PCs at exceedingly high speeds!
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SanDisk Corporation, a global leader in flash storage solutions, today announced that its ULLtraDIMM Solid State Drive (SSD), the industry’s first enterprise-class, ultra-low latency, memory channel storage solution, is now shipping for qualification with select enterprise servers. The addition of flash technology on the DRAM memory channel expands the growing penetration of flash storage technology in enterprise data centers, and complements SanDisk’s existing flash-based server hardware and software storage solutions.
The award-winning SanDisk ULLtraDIMM SSD can be integrated into an existing DIMM slot. This ensures ultra-low latency in business applications and results in improved application response times. Additional ULLtraDIMM SSDs can also be added to available DIMM slots, scaling performance and capacity without impacting latency. This creates new opportunities for server system designs to support use cases that require extremely fast storage, such as High-Frequency Trading (HFT), VDI, transaction processing, virtualization and cloud computing.
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The year of the horse is coming in 2014. To celebrate the advent of the Lunar New Year, Team Group specially launches the T136, a souvenir UFD for the year of the horse. On the matte metal surface in a joyful tone, a classic galloping stead is painted in champagne blush to match the shiny orange, presenting a splendid and energetic temperament to mark the first strike of the hilarious year of the horse.
As a souvenir model for the year of the horse, the Team T136 is designed upon the striding image of a stead to vividly translate the energetic and splendid temperament into the UFD’s appearance. In addition, it is a symbol of the T136: an integration of quality, capacity, price, and performance. Along with the rotation cap-free design and the joyful color, the superior performance and full capacity, thoughtful and smart design, users can enjoy every moment with technology products to relaxingly display self-confidence and heart-free transfer.
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OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance solid state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, today announced that the Company received approval by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware to sell substantially all of its assets to Toshiba Corporation. The transaction is expected to close within the next week, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of other customary closing conditions under the Asset Purchase Agreement. With this asset purchase, the popular OCZ SSD brand supporting a complete portfolio of enterprise and consumer drives continues in full force leveraged by Toshiba's financial strength and its portfolio of NAND flash memory.
"We are pleased by the court's approval as this business combination allows the company to continue to bring to market disruptive solid state storage technology. We are appreciative of all the support provided by our shareholders, creditors, and vendors which allowed this combination to occur," said Ralph Schmitt, CEO for OCZ Technology. "The OCZ team is excited to be a part of an innovative company like Toshiba where we can continue to develop new and unique SSD technologies that position the Company as a solid state solutions leader in both the client and enterprise storage markets."
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CyberLink Corp., a provider of innovative media creativity solutions, today launched PhotoDirector 5 Deluxe - the new version in the award-winning PhotoDirector family - available at $59.99. Designed to satisfy the needs of home users and casual users, PhotoDirector 5 Deluxe is packed with the most favorite photo editing tools, which allows users to easily create pro-quality family photos.
To satisfy the versatile needs of home and casual users, PhotoDirector 5 Deluxe is packed with various easy-to-use photo editing features from PhotoDirector family at once, including content-aware removal, people beautifier tools, HDR effect and tons of photo presets. PhotoDirector 5 Deluxe integrates photo management, adjustment, editing and sharing into one intuitive workflow.
"PhotoDirector has received numerous international awards since its first version in 2011. The new Deluxe version of PhotoDirector is designed to satisfy the versatile needs of today’s home users.” said Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink. “PhotoDirector 5 Deluxe is packed with most favorite features of PhotoDirector family, but comes with just half price of its professional counterparts. With intuitive workflow design and easy-to-use tools, home user can easily create high-quality stunning family photos without professional photo editing techniques.”
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MPEG LA, LLC announced today that a group of 25 companies have agreed on HEVC license terms expected to issue as part of an HEVC Patent Portfolio License in early 2014. A summary is attached. Final agreements are yet to be concluded.
High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC, also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2) is a standard designed to improve video coding efficiency for the benefit of Internet and mobile service providers and consumers with increased speed and capacity. HEVC is also expected to deliver next generation higher resolution HDTV video displays for 4K and 8K Ultra High Definition TV (“UHDTV”).
“As contemplated, the HEVC license will utilize a modern streamlined pool licensing approach with simple easy-to-understand terms making the technology readily accessible to the largest possible market in the shortest possible time,” said MPEG LA President and CEO Larry Horn. “MPEG LA salutes the cooperation of patent owners who have worked hard to reach common ground in making a joint patent license available for the convenience of HEVC adopters. As a result of their efforts, consumers benefiting from a marketplace of competitive technology choices will be the clear winners.”
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ASUSTOR Inc., a leading innovator and provider of network storage solutions, has announced the release of the ASUSTOR Data Master (ADM) 2.1 Beta Program for all of its NAS devices (2, 3, and 6 Series). All ASUSTOR users are welcome to download the beta firmware from the official ASUSTOR website and experience all the brand new features firsthand.
The ADM 2.1 Beta Version expands the core functionality of the system and includes newly expanded support for Bluetooth devices along with MyArchive, an exclusive new storage technology developed by ASUSTOR. Furthermore, a number of in-house developed Apps have been added to ASUSTOR's App lineup that are sure to please both business and home users alike.
Additional information on the new features in the ADM 2.1 Beta Version is as follows:
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- File Explorer: File now provides users with thumbnail previews of files, drag and drop file transfers from computer to NAS, high-speed file transfers of large files through their web browser, and the My Computer feature which allows users to seamlessly transfer files between their computer and NAS from within File Explorer.
- MyArchive: The revolutionary MyArchive feature allows users to use hard disks as removable storage archives. Users can simply plug in an archive when they need it and swap it out for a different one when they don't. MyArchive truly provides “plug and play” convenience as users are free to swap between different data collections and even share terabytes of media archives with friends. Furthermore MyArchive allows users to save power as the archives that are not in use can be taken out for storage and do not have to be always powered on.
- Bluetooth Support: ADM now features support for Bluetooth devices including speakers, keyboards and mice. Users will be able to stream music from the NAS to their Bluetooth speakers using SoundsGood, while keyboards and mice will bring added convenience to the ASUSTOR Portal experience.
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KINGMAX has just released an OTG USB Flash Drive, PJ-01, especially for smartphones and tablets. What do users need is a product which fits their portable devices instead of various accessories. Consumers are greeting PJ-01 with high popularity.
And now, KINGMAX launched the latest OTG USB Flash Drive, PJ-02, for desktops, notebooks, smartphones, tablets, etc. The PJ-02 has dual transfer interfaces, standard USB and micro USB, to fit devices. KINGMAX must be emphasizing the portable device market, so they launched two OTG new products in a short while.
The PJ-02 is an OTG USB with high compatibility. You can use it to read data in your smartphone or tablet, and plug it to desktops and notebooks as a storage device. It supports OTG(On-The-Go) function with micro USB, and the other side is standard USB. You can store music files easier, share data friendly, and save documents free. The PJ-02 reads and edits files with high speed. There are three kinds of capacity for options, 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB. 20 grams only, just like a little macaron, you can't stop loving it!
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Synology America Corp. is pleased to announce the release of its latest RackStation NAS with the RS814+, and RS814RP+ (Redundant Power). The RS814(RP)+ is a high-performance 4-bay 1U server, designed to scale up to 8-bays when using an RX410 expansion module.
The RS814(RP)+ is optimized for business environments. It provides the scalability growing companies need, with equivalent performance to Synology’s award winning DS1813+. The same quad-NIC configuration, fuels read operations at over 300MB/s and write speeds over 190MB/s.
Both units are optimized with 2GB of RAM – upgradable to 4GB – to make multi-tasking under heavy workloads effortless. For added redundancy, the RS814(RP)+ supports Synology High Availability to reduce network downtime, as well as LAG, and MPIO failover support.
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Other World Computing announced an upgrade kit for PlayStation 4 at CES 2014 that will allow users to add capacity and boost performance up to 40% faster vs. stock drive for reduced system load time.
The OWC DIY Upgrade Kit for PS4 allows PS4 owners to double storage and boost the performance with an OWC drive. DIY bundles include everything needed to upgrade/replace the existing 2.5” drive and transfer gaming data to new drive. For added value, the original drive can be converted to an external drive, using the included enclosure, for new use for data transfer, back up or portable storage for your computer.
