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Lexar Media has announced a 16GB version of its JumpDrive FireFly USB flash drive. This ultra-portable, red-colored flash drive features a protective cap as well as a blue LED that blinks during data transfer.
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Lexar Media, a leading global provider of memory products for digital media, today announced the 16GB capacity JumpDrive FireFly USB flash drive. The powerful, high-speed USB JumpDrive FireFly is available in a wide range of high-capacity options, providing a convenient solution for storing, transferring, and sharing digital documents, photos, MP3 files, and video clips. The JumpDrive FireFly drive is PC and Mac compatible and comes in four different stylish colors, each representing a different memory capacity. The new hot red-colored 16GB JumpDrive FireFly drive joins its brethren as a high-capacity portable storage solution.

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LG announced this week that it will be unveiling its new N4B1 network attached storage (NAS) at IFA 2008. The N4B1 accepts hard drives as large as four terabytes and can be configured for RAID 5, 0, 1, 1+0 and JBOD modes. It also comes with built in Blu-ray drive which allows users to archive their data and create a virtual library by storing and sharing disc images.
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LG Electronics, global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, announced that it will unveil its new N4B1 network attached storage (NAS), which provides integrated data management, at IFA 2008. This NAS targets home and small business users, going beyond just data sharing to offer advanced data management features including a built-in Blu-ray drive and version management.

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Creative HS-1200 Wireless X-Fi Gaming Headset @ Everything USB
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While Blu-ray sales got off to a rocky start this year, Futuresource Consulting is projecting that consumers in the U.S. will buy more than 45 million Blu-ray discs in 2008. Futuresource also projects that Blu-ray will account for 40-50% of video disc sales by 2012 and will outsell DVD in the U.S. market.
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MemoTrek Technologies recently announced the launch of its new "eco-friendly" USB flash drive. Fusing ancient Asian values with modern state of the art technology, the "Woody Bamboo" features a carved wooden bamboo casing and up to 4GB of high-speed NAND flash memory.
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This new product, named "Woody Bamboo", has just recently been launched, and with its eco-friendliness and exquisite minimalist design it's about to become one of the flagship products of the company, and stands out among their exclusively designed Customized USB Flash Drives.

Exclusively made out of hardened and extremely durable bamboo, this wooden USB flash drive blends traditional Eastern influences with modern technology: encapsulated in a solid and beautifully carved wooden bamboo casing, a high-speed NAND flash memory from Hynix is ready to conceive important corporate data, such as company presentations or sales movies, and securely store this data for many years. Because of the long life-span of bamboo, the plant was treated as a symbol for longevity in ancient China.

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The legal battle between Philips and Princo has been going on for as long as I can remember. While both companies have had their share of victories, the latest round has gone in favor of Philips. According to DigiTimes, a local court in Taiwan has ordered Princo to pay Philips $21.1 million for CD-R licensing.
A local court in Taiwan, on August 15, announced its judgment that Princo, a Taiwan-based maker of blank optical discs, must pay Royal Philips Electronics a total of 2.354 billion yen (US$21.1 million) for CD-R licensing. The fees are due for the period from the fourth quarter of 1997 to the fourth quarter of 1999 plus interest for delayed payment, according to Princo's filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) on August 18. Princo has decided to appeal, the company stressed.
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The SATA-IO announced this week that it will be demonstrating implementations of its new SATA Revision 3.0 specification at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF). The 3.0 spec boosts transfer rates to 6 Gbits/second and offers new features such as data streaming and better power management. Best of all, the SATA-IO promises that the 3.0 spec will be backwards compatible with earlier SATA implementations.

A new specification for the popular Serial ATA storage interface will double the maximum transfer speed from three to six gigabits per second (Gb/s). This will enable large amounts of data to be moved at even faster rates, a key advantage as end-users amass ever-increasing amounts of high-resolution photos, videos, music and other multimedia files. Add a comment

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Following HD DVD's defeat, Toshiba announced that it was working on new upconverting technology that could deliver picture quality near that of Blu-ray. The company has finally unveiled its XDE, or "eXtended Detail Enhancement," technology. Available in Toshiba's new XD-E500 DVD player, XDE provides upconversion from 480i/p up to 1080p and offers user selectable picture enhancement modes that bring standard DVD quality closer to the HD experience.

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Toshiba America Consumer Products, L.L.C. ("Toshiba") today announces its new video enhancement technology for DVD with the introduction of the XD-E500. XDE, or "eXtended Detail Enhancement," is more than just DVD upconversion. XDE takes DVD picture quality to a whole new level. In addition to providing upconversion from 480i/p up to 1080p, XDE offers user selectable picture enhancement modes that allow for greater detail, more vivid colors and stronger contrast that bring standard DVD quality closer to the HD experience. XDE technology lets consumers enjoy their existing DVD libraries in a whole new way. Add a comment

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