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Plextor LLC (www.plextor.com), a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance digital media equipment, announces the PX-880SA internal SATA and PX-880U external drives. With writing speeds up to 24X and a newly-designed chassis, the drives are the fastest-writing in the Plextor lineup and also include a new noise-reduction design.
Both drives feature innovative technologies to reduce noise and improve reliability. At the 24X speed, air flow can cause bothersome acoustic noise. A unique pattern is now included on the drive chassis of both drives to regulate this air flow, reducing the amount of noise created, so users can experience excellent performance in a quiet environment.
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Oyen Digital, LLC., a leading provider of portable hard drives, today announced the release of the newly designed Dash™ series of USB flash drives. Backed by a life-time warranty, the Dash™ series is equipped with the Alcor AU6986 chipset, offering an ultra-fast 32MB/sec read speed. The series also features an attractive and compact housing, measuring only 2.5-inches x .68-inches x .19-inches, making it one of the smallest flash drives on the market.
"We're excited about this new product, which gives customers a huge amount of storage at their fingertips. With the fast read speed, the drive is ideal for music and video," states Steve Oyen, Owner of Oyen Digital.
Oyen Digital's Dash™ is fully compatible with Windows XP, 2000 and Vista as well as Mac OS 9.2 (and above) and Linux 2.6 (and above). All drives include NovaStor NovaBackup 10 (Windows) or Prosoft Data Backup 3 (Mac OS X).
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CyberLink Corp., innovative solutions provider for the connected media lifestyle, announced today that its industry leading movie playback software, PowerDVD 9 has passed the Windows 7 certification process and received the official "Compatible with Windows 7" logo from Microsoft Corp.
With the “Compatible with Windows 7” logo consumers can rest assured knowing that CyberLink products have passed Microsoft-endorsed standards for compatibility and reliability on Windows 7-based PCs. The certified PowerDVD software enables outstanding Blu-ray and DVD movie playback quality with multichannel audio for the best movie experience on the efficient and robust operating system.
"CyberLink PowerDVD 9 is designed to take full advantage of the exciting new capabilities and performance enhancements in Windows 7," said Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink. "We are proud to receive the Windows 7 logo certification and excited about the unlimited possibilities our next generation multimedia solutions can offer on this impressive platform."
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Imation Corp. today announced that it has entered into a confidential settlement agreement ending all legal disputes with Philips Electronics N.V., U.S. Philips Corporation and North American Philips Corporation (collectively “Philips”). The companies had been previously involved in a complex series of disputes in multiple jurisdictions regarding cross-licensing and patent infringement related to recordable optical media. The settlement provides resolution of all claims and counterclaims filed by the parties without any finding or admission of liability or wrongdoing by any party.
As a term of the settlement, Imation will pay Philips $53 million over a period of three years. Other terms of the settlement were not disclosed. As a result of the settlement, Imation expects to record a charge, based on the present value of these payments, of approximately $49 million or $0.81 per share in the second quarter of 2009. The pre-tax cash impact for 2009 will be approximately $16.5 million, occurring during the second half of this year.
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Nero, creators of liquid media technology, today expanded their relationship with Acer Group, one of the world’s largest PC manufacturers. By the end of 2009, Acer Group will bundle Nero 9 Essentials, an OEM version of the Nero 9 integrated digital media and home entertainment software suite, on all desktop systems sold globally, including the Acer, Gateway, Packard Bell and eMachines brands.
“Consumers need to be able to take their new system out of the box and complete tasks like burning music or videos with ease, and share their favorite digital content with friends and family,” said Jackson Lin, vice president of Global Strategic Alliance, IT Products Global Operations at Acer Group. “Nero 9 Essentials gives them a quick and easy way to jump right into enjoying the power and functionality of their new computer.”
Currently, all Packard Bell branded desktop and notebook computers are bundled with the award-winning burning solution. By including Nero 9 Essentials on all desktop systems in the Acer Group family, consumers will be able to easily burn CDs and DVDs and access the easy-to-use Nero StartSmart 9 Essential interface for navigating through the product’s features. The Nero Toolkit provides the industry standard for testing and benchmarking optical recording drives. With LabelFlash, consumers can easily personalize CDs and DVDs with custom inscriptions of text or photos.
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Acronova Technology, Inc. unveils QQcatcher, the office-automation software can instantly incorporate with third-party software to burn files from hard disk to multiple discs, on schedule or when new files come in to a folder, via Nimbie NB11 automated publisher.
Today, IT professionals run favorite software to regularly backup or archive files from hard disk to CD/DVD and Blu-ray discs for security, management and storage purpose. Yet, because most off-the-shelf software does not support disc autoloader, burning more than one disc requires frequent access to disc drive and manually loading and unloading discs. What a boring task for intelligent professionals and users!
Nimbie NB11 is a versatile 100-disc autoloader that is affordable to office and home users. Connected to personal computer via USB cable, it can rip music CDs, burn discs and grab images. QQcatcher is the new force to NB11’s software suite designated for the automation in monitoring a local and network-mapped folder and burning files to multiple discs on schedule or when new files are present, day and night, 7 days a week and all year round.
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Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today began shipping a 128GB USB 2.0 flash drive that includes AES-256 hardware encryption as a standard feature.
The new 128GB Luxio drive is smaller in size than most competing 64GB USB drives, measuring approximately 77 x 21 x 10 mm (3.0 x 0.81 x 0.37 inches). The pocket-sized drive stores up to 40,000 six megapixel photos or up to 32,000 MP3 songs. The 128GB Luxio is offered in three colors: black, silver and wood grain, and is packaged in an elegant gift box. Each drive comes with a custom black leather carrying case. Windows 7 compatible Luxio drives are now available in capacities from 16GB to 128GB.
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Verbatim Americas, LLC an industry leader in the data storage industry for 40 years, announced today its new SureFire™ line of portable combo FW800/USB2 HDDs. Available now with capacities of 250GB, 320GB and 500GB, the rugged palm-sized drives combine power, convenience and the reliability of the Verbatim brand with a compact, sleek design. With the ability to plug the drives into almost any computer, Windows® and Mac® users can quickly and cost-effectively increase the storage capacity of their laptop or desktop system, or quickly transfer large files between computers.
The bus-powered drives are equipped with one USB 2.0 port, and one FireWire® 800 port to deliver high-speed transfer rates of up to 800MB/sec. for FireWire 800 connections and 480MB/sec. when connected with USB 2.0--without requiring an AC power adapter. Ready to use right out of the box, all cables are included.
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Active Media Products, maker of unique storage solutions including the WWF endangered species USB drives, today announced immediate availability of their new SaberTooth SSDs that are custom designed for Asus Eee PC upgrades.
This new line of SaberTooth SSDs is built with MLC NAND flash to deliver exceptional performance. These SSDs have been tested with and are guaranteed to operate with Eee PC S101, 900, 900A and 901 models. The SaberTooth SS, offered in 16, 32 and 64GB capacities, is the fastest available SSD upgrade for the Eee PC, supporting sequential read speeds up to 155 MB/sec and write speeds up to 100 MB/sec. The SaberTooth S is offered in 16 and 32GB capacities, and supports sequential read speeds up to 90 MB/sec and write speeds up to 55 MB/sec. All these products use standard 3Gbps SATA-II signaling and a Mini PCI express connector, as used in compatible Eee PC models.
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