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Iomega announced this week that it has added two new models to its line of eGo portable hard drives. The super rugged, black-on-black eGo BlackBelt offers 250GB of storage and is protected by Iomega's Drop Guard Xtreme feature, which allows it to survive drops of up to 7 feet. The eGo Encrypt adds another layer of data protection, thanks to its hardware-based 128-bit encryption.
Iomega, an EMC company (NYSE: EMC) and a global leader in data protection, today announced two new models in its award-winning eGo Portable Hard Drive line: the new ultra-secure Iomega® eGo™ Encrypt Portable Hard Drive with hardware-based encryption for double data protection, and the new "black-on-black" super rugged Iomega eGo BlackBelt Portable Hard Drive with Drop Guard™ Xtreme data protection.
"Adding two exciting models to our eGo Portable Hard Drive lineup is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to having the most rugged and stylistic portable drives in the marketplace today," said Peter Wharton, vice president of marketing, Iomega Corporation. "The eGo Encrypt Drive is a ruggedized silver bullet with enterprise-level encryption for all your important files, while the eGo BlackBelt Drive is a shock-absorbing black beauty of a portable drive that makes its own fashion statement. Two perfect holiday gifts for anyone with lots of important files and a flair for the extraordinary."
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OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today introduced the CrossOver USB 2.0 Flash drive, the latest line of flash media that also doubles as a microSD™ and microSDHC™ card adapter. For the on-the-go student, gamer, or professional, the OCZ CrossOver flash drive eliminates the need for card readers and transfers your important multimedia files to and from your computer, phone, and camera.
“With the proliferation of smart phones and MP3 players, the demand for microSD™ and microSDHC™ and the ability to easily transfer content to these cards has significantly increased,” said Alex Mei, CMO for the OCZ Technology Group. “OCZ is excited to introduce our new Crossover USB drive that to addresses this growing need, combining the benefits of a USB drive and a MicroSD adapter that allows consumers to transfer music and images directly from their microSD cards to their computer or onto the Crossover itself without another reader, making it easier than ever to manage multimedia between devices.”
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LaCie recently unveiled its new line of CurrenKey USB flash drives. Designed to be carried in a pocket or coin purse, the CurrenKey features a coin-shaped design, made out of shock-proof, die-cast metal. The CurrenKey is available now in 8GB (silver) and 4GB (bronze) capacities, and is priced at $29.99 and $19.99, respectively.
Today LaCie announced the first minting of the LaCie CurrenKey USB flash drives. Designed to carry in your pocket or coin purse, LaCie CurrenKeys are eye-catching, high-speed USB 2.0 drives that resemble contemporary coinage, ideally suited to hold customers’ valuable data.
Created exclusively for LaCie by the award-winning 5.5 designers, the LaCie CurrenKeys open with a simple rotation of the coin’s edge; an elegant and security-conscious design that easily reveals and hides the USB connector with a twist. For added data security, the LaCie CurrenKeys are made with a shock-proof, die-cast metal for resilience and safety, protecting a user’s on-the-go information.
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Super Talent announced today that they've signed a licensing agreement with Paramount, giving them the rights to manufacture and market USB flash drives inspired by the epic film "The Godfather". The company expects to ship the first "Godfather" themed USB flash drive this month. Available in capacities up to 8GB, the drive will come preloaded with quotes and photos from the movie.
Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today announced that the firm has signed a licensing agreement with Paramount Licensing Inc. granting rights to manufacture and market USB Flash drives based on Paramount Pictures movie title, “The Godfather.”
The company expects to begin shipping its first GODFATHER USB Flash drives this month, which will be preloaded with memorable quotes and still photos from the feature film. Additional new models based on “The Godfather” theme will follow in 2009.
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Aleratec sent out a press release today, announcing its new DVD/CD Flash Copy Tower. This standalone device has the ability to copy files and images from flash memory cards and USB drives directly to DVD or CD. It also supports spanning and can copy large flash memory cards onto multiple discs. To top it off, the DVD/CD Flash Copy Tower can be used as a duplicator to produce up to 3 DVD or CD copies at a time.
Aleratec Inc., leading developer and manufacturer of "Prosumers' Choice" solutions for the USB, Flash, HDD, Blu-ray, DVD/CD, duplicating, and publishing markets, has launched its new DVD/CD Flash Copy Tower™ that copies flash memory cards and USB flash drives directly to DVD/CD and it is also a 1:3 DVD/CD Duplicator , all without a computer. The DVD/CD Flash Copy Tower supports disc spanning to four drives so the user can copy full 16GB flash memory cards commonly used by professional photographers. It copies files and images from volatile flash memory devices to secure and non-erasable DVDs or CDs for safe keeping. The DVD/CD Flash Copy Tower supports most popular flash memory cards, including CompactFlash, MemoryStick/Pro/Duo, SD Card, MiniSD, MicroSD and USB flash drives.
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Intel and Hitachi GST today announced plans to jointly develop and deliver enterprise-class solid-state drives (SSD). The new SSDs will be branded and exclusively sold and supported by Hitachi GST and use Intel NAND flash memory and SSD technology.
Intel Corporation and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced plans to jointly develop and deliver Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Fibre Channel (FC) enterprise-class solid-state drives (SSDs) for servers, workstations and storage systems.
The combination of a leading Enterprise drive supplier with a NAND technology and manufacturing leader will produce world-class solutions in terms of reliability, performance and system compatibility. The two companies will work together exclusively to deliver enterprise SSDs with SAS and FC interfaces, with the first products expected to be available in early 2010.
The new generation of solid-state drive technology complements existing enterprise-class hard disk drives (HDDs) and is intended for use in storage applications that require extremely high Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) performance and power efficiency.
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Since SlySoft's beginnings in 2003, all Slysoft product licenses have been sold with free product lifetime updates included. While standards, technologies and SlySoft's product range have changed significantly since 2003, only now has Slysoft's free lifetime update policy been reviewed with respect to converting to an annual subscription fee format for new license purchases.
According to SlySoft CEO Giancarlo Bettini, this change is justified and will ensure first class products and future development: "Our portfolio already contains eight products, and there is another program in the pipeline. Each product is continuously being enhanced by first-class developers; each product gets 24/7 top-notch multilingual support. Our premises became a bit crowded in the last couple of years, and, to be honest, we may not have reached our limits yet. Something needs to be done in order to not only ensure Slysoft's continued commitment to excellence but to also promote future improvements: namely, growth and development. With respect to current financial challenges the current economy presents, modifying our update policy seems to be the only fair and reasonable step in lieu of a substantial price increase. Details are yet to be determined and will follow."
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CyberLink announced this morning that PowerDirector 7 has been optimized for Intel's new Core i7 processor. With these optimizations, CyberLink claims that they've achieved a 112% performance gain in overall HD video editing performance.
CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), an innovative solution provider for the connected digital lifestyle, announced today that CyberLink PowerDirector 7, the HD video editing software, is optimized for Intel's latest quad-core Core i7 "Nehalem" microprocessor to boost overall performance gain in HD video editing performance.
CyberLink PowerDirector 7 optimized for Intel® Core™ i7 processor-based PCs, achieves 112% of performance gain in overall HD video editing performance, from previewing, rendering to burning to a DVD or Blu-ray Disc. As a HD video editing solution, PowerDirector 7 takes great advantage of Intel Core i7 platform features such as Simulate Multi Threading(SMT) technology, triple-channel DDR3 and Intel® QuickPath technology to boost its performance, while the 8MB L3 cache further speeds up its memory access speed.
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Plextor Europe has launched a new series of Pocket hard disk drives. These credit card sized external drives are available in 60GB and 120GB capacities and can be powered off a computer's USB bus.
Personal storage expert Plextor unveils the first truly pocket-sized external hard disk – one of the smallest 1.8-inch drives in the world. Weighing just 90g, this miniature device enables home users and business users to carry and share important data with them anywhere.
Perfect for PC and Mac users who find memory sticks too limiting, yet don’t want the bulk of a full-sized external drive, the Plextor Pocket HDDs are only about the size of three memory sticks, yet offer much larger capacities - up to 120GB of storage.
Plextor’s pocket HDDs come in two sizes, the 60GB PX-PPH60U and the 120GB PX-PPH120U.
