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One-Red LLC (“One-Red”) will become the authorized entity to administer a new joint DVD Disc and DVD Player license program on behalf of its licensors, which include Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (“Philips”), Sony Corporation (“Sony”), Pioneer Corporation (“Pioneer”) and LG Electronics, Inc. (“LG”).
Today’s announcement means that optical storage manufacturers and brand owners will now be able to benefit from lower patent royalty rates by licensing through One-Red.
As the new licensing authority owned by Philips, Sony and Pioneer, One-Red delivers the following benefits to its stakeholders:
Essential Patent Licensing: Beginning July 1, 2012, One-Red will offer a new DVD license for all essential patents of LG, Philips, Pioneer and Sony that are related to DVD Video and ROM and CD-Audio and ROM technologies.
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QNAP Systems, Inc. today announced the release of the new Qfile and Qmanager mobile apps for iOS and Android mobile devices, providing users with free Turbo NAS remote management and monitoring solutions.
Qfile gives users remote access to the Turbo NAS. It allows users to easily access, manage, and share files on the Turbo NAS and upload files directly from their mobile devices on the go.
Qmanager offers users a handy tool to monitor and manage the Turbo NAS remotely. It provides users information of system status and connection status. Furthermore, users can manage the download/backup tasks and easily turn on/off application services of the Turbo NAS anytime and anywhere.
"More and more people are using smartphones, however, due to the limited storage capacity on the phone, it is impossible to carry all the data users might need on the go," said Ken Cheah, product manager of QNAP. "With Qfile and Qmanager, users can easily control and monitor the Turbo NAS, and enjoy convenient access to all their data and share files with friends and family," Cheah added.
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Buffalo Technology, a global leader in the design, development and manufacturing of wired and wireless networking and network and direct attached storage solutions, today announced the availability of 4 TB hard drives in select Buffalo storage solutions including the TeraStation 5000 series of business-class network and iSCSI storage, the LinkStation Pro home and small office network storage device and the DriveStation Axis USB 3.0 desktop hard drive.
"The introduction of 4 TB hard drives and Buffalo's early adoption in leading storage solutions provides customers with even higher capacities for greater data storage," said Matt Dargis, senior director of sales at Buffalo Technology. "We strive to provide a breadth of affordable and reliable storage solutions for business and home in the latest available hard drive capacities."
Now shipping with 4 TB hard drives, the TeraStation 5000 series is available in a two-drive or four-drive array, packed with business class features such as surveillance video management, Active Directory support, disk quota support, share level replication, failover support, dual gigabit Ethernet ports, hot-swap hard drives, iSCSI targeting and USB 3.0 accessory support, ideal for larger networks and business-critical applications.
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Other World Computing announced today the OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express/Mercury Aura Envoy as the industry’s first high-performance Solid State Drive upgrade and bus-powered enclosure bundle for 2010-2011 MacBook Air computers. Representing a ‘Dream Team’ of performance and convenience, the Mercury Aura Bundle includes a Mercury Aura Pro Express SSD that offers nearly 8x the factory maximum storage capacity along with extreme data rate speeds up to or exceeding 500MB/s — representing up to 68 percent faster real-world speed than the factory Flash SSD. After installing the Aura Pro Express in the MacBook Air, the factory SSD is easily converted into an external storage solution inside the Mercury Aura Envoy to complete the two-in-one storage upgrade.
By combining award-winning SandForce technologies and Tier 1/Grade A NAND, OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express SSDs are built to exceed the factory SSD in both speed and capacity. Available in 3Gb/s speeds for the 2010 MacBook Air models and 6Gb/s speeds for the 2011 models, the Aura Pro Express gives MacBook Air owners bigger drive options…up to 480GB for up to 8x greater storage capacity versus original factory SSDs.
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RunCore, leading developer and brand manufacturer of high-end Solid State Drives (SSDs) and storage solutions, is officially launching the world’s first single chip SATA II DOM SSD for advanced embedded SSD solutions, the RunCore Mini DOM. With a miniature size of no more than 43.38 mm(L) × 27.75mm(W), the RunCore Mini DOM, is the very first single-chip SSD utilizing the SATA II interface reaching up to 113MB/s read and 50MB/s write speeds. The Mini Dome is available in a wide capacity range from 8 GB up to 64 GB. Being able to withstand extreme temperatures between -55ºC and 95ºC RunCore’s Mini DOM is designed for usage in a variety of different mission-critical system setups even under most demanding circumstances.
Various solutions for different power inputs make the RunCore Mini DOM highly implementable for almost any system requirements such as Defense and Navigation systems, Automobile PCs, TVM, Medical computers and POS machines. Power input options consist of external 5V or 3.3V via a 22-pin connector, 7-pin VCC or external 5V input via a 7-pin connector.
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ADATA Technology launches the XPG SX910 solid state drive, a significant broadening of the popular and powerful XPG line of storage products. The SX910 features a 7% capacity increase over common SSDs that use a SandForce controller, delivering a powerful combination of capacity and high performance with a five-year warranty.
The ADATA XPG SX910 uses new optimized firmware to maximize utilization of the NAND Flash components, allowing for full use of the available storage capacity. This zero percent over-provisioning in the design and engineering of the SX910 is implemented with no loss to performance: maximum 4k random read/write speeds are 50,000 and 85,000 IOPS respectively, with sequential read and write speeds reaching 550 and 530MB/sec.
In addition, the SX910 undergoes an improved screening process for the Flash IC chip selection. This results in improved stability and performance, that is demonstrated by the five-year warranty that comes as standard for this SSD. With capacities of 128, 256 & 512 gigabytes, the SX910 is positioned to meet the rigorous standards of the world’s most serious gamers and professionals.
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With the notion that simplicity and clarity lead to good design, KINGMAX, a world renowned leading brand of DRAM and flash memory, has launched PD-06 USB flash drive -- a retractable and capless flash drive that makes data storage easy to use with a simple flick of one thumb. The capless design thoughtfully avoids the risk of losing cap. The curve of grip is streamlined and ergonomic; the two choices of splendid color: bright red or lake green match white housing perfectly, rise fresh mien for hot summer time and again makes simple design even more eye-catching. Also, the wide range of capacities from 2GB to 32GB suits individual’s need.
PD-06 becomes the latest product of KINGMAX POP flash drive series; POP series, suitable for general consumers, emphasizes trendy and fashionable elements as well as consistent high quality at a reasonable price range. PD-06 is light-weighting and the retractable design with a push-key design makes user plug into or remove from USB port quite easy with only a simple flick of one thumb. Whenever using it, users are free of losing cap. Streamlined white housing appears great attention to each curve – aesthetical and ergonomic – and makes PD-06 smoothly for use. In addition, the bright red / lake green color on the front presents elegance and good taste. What makes it more interesting is the end especially designed with the hanging strap hole, which allows user to attach to a lanyard or decorative phone string and to make a portable and fashionable technological accessory.
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Silicon Power, the world’s leading provider of memory storage solutions announced today its newest luxury design Ultima U03, an elegantly designed USB drive that is the perfect tech accessory to go with that special stylish purse.
The elegant design of SP Ultima U03 is simple yet classic. The front cover features a luxurious diamond cut pattern with a glossy surface, and the textured rear cover includes a retractable USB connector for easy access and storage. U03 is available in mystery black and snowy white to best match your fashionable collection.
Ultima U03 allows users to carry data around in fashion and ease. It is available in up to 32GB high capacity, and its built-in internal LED indicator illuminates through the front cover to display data transfer status during use.
All Silicon Power USB flash drive products come with a lifetime warranty, as well as SP Widget application software which provides seven major back up and security tools. For more information, please visit the SP/Silicon Power website: www.silicon-power.com
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SMART Storage Systems, an innovative and rapidly emerging enterprise SSD technology provider, today announced that it has enabled the use of multi-level cell (MLC) Flash throughout the enterprise environment with the addition of the new Optimus Ultra+ solid-state drive (SSD) to its current line-up of industry-leading enterprise SSDs. With the release of Optimus Ultra+, SMART Storage Systems' lineup of MLC-based SSDs satisfy every critical enterprise storage endurance point within the data center. Optimus Ultra+ leverages the Guardian Technology Platform™ to achieve 50 drive writes per day with cost effective consumer-grade MLC Flash, effectively eliminating the need for single-level cell (SLC) Flash in write-intensive storage applications.
Analyst firm IDC predicts that the volume of digital content will grow to approximately 2.7 Zettabytes in 2012, up nearly 48 percent from 2011. As enterprise organizations deal with this tremendous growth of information and the need for access to data in near real-time, SSDs must be deployed in all tiers of the data center to provide the necessary throughput. Before SMART Storage Systems' announcement today, enterprise organizations were forced to deploy SLC Flash-based SSDs for many storage applications because MLC Flash lacked the required endurance. Due to SLC Flash's high cost, enterprise organizations often settled for lower-performing hard disk drives (HDDs) creating bottlenecks in the data center, or continually swapped out MLC-based SSDs.
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LSI Corporation today introduced its latest MegaRAID 6Gb/s SAS+SATA controllers and host bus adapters (HBAs) featuring the PCI Express 3.0 interface.
Seven new LSI MegaRAID controllers are offered with four or eight ports and provide a powerful combination of intelligent performance, enterprise RAID data protection and proven interoperability. Three new LSI HBA models provide state-of-the-art connectivity for servers and appliances in a variety of enterprise-level environments including corporate datacenters, the cloud and high-performance computing.
“In the face of massive data growth, system builders and resellers are racing to meet increasing demand for larger, more scalable systems that deliver reliability and high performance,” said Brent Blanchard, director of worldwide channel sales and marketing, LSI. “The addition of PCIe 3.0 on the new MegaRAID controllers and HBAs brings dramatically higher levels of performance and allows greater system design flexibility, with proven LSI product quality and reliability.”
The MegaRAID controllers announced today increase performance and protection for business and mission-critical data stored on high-performance SAS hard drives, high-capacity SATA hard drives or application-accelerating solid state drives (SSDs). Each controller is powered by the LSI SAS 2208/2308 RAID-on-Chip using 6Gb/s SAS technology and includes dual 800MHz PowerPC® Processor cores with 1GB cache memory.
