ASUS today launched the XG Station as the industry’s first public demonstration of the world’s first external graphics card station for notebook computers. Equipped with Express Card interface, USB 2.0 and Dolby headphones, the XG station seamlessly integrates notebook computing with PC graphics power.The Asus XG Station is the world’s first docking station to provide a standard PCI Express slot for additional graphics computing power on notebook computers with Express Card slot, delivering VISTA Premium performance. The device also conveniently accommodates future graphics technology such as, HDCP and HDMI upgrades possibility. Lab experiments on a notebook based on Intel 945GM graphics connected to the XG station with a ASUS EN7900GS graphics card showed an astounding 9 times faster acceleration. A large LED screen provides clear display of critical system status statistics such as- System master volume, GPU clock speed, Current GPU temperature, Dolby Headphone feature status, Current actual Frames per Second (FPS) information and GPU fan speed Indicator.

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ASUS today introduced a whole new way to mobile computing with the revolutionary W5Fe series. The compact 12" wide notebook with cutting-edge SideShow, external auxiliary display on the LCD cover, offers high mobility with quick and easy data access convenience. The Asus W5Fe, is packed with a wide range of exclusive features including, display technologies for enhanced digital entertainment enjoyment as well as high-resolution 1.3M pixel swivel webcam for wire-free video communication. The two spindle design with card reader slot and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR ensures extensive connectivity as well as ample data storage. With the launch of Microsoft's Vista Operating System, notebooks are now capable of a more powerful processing that is predicted to change and improve the current computing behavior. SideShow is an independent operating system that it can be switched on without booting up the whole system. With imbedded 1G NAND Flash memory, users can save selected data to SideShow, in forms of text, image and audio, for later review. The W5Fe's 2.8" QVGA TFT LCD auxiliary display is a short cut to viewing a wide range of information, including meeting schedules, phone numbers, addresses, and recent e-mail messages. On the entertainment front, the outer display can be used to view photos, play music and games such as Solitaire.

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Toshiba launched the world’s first standard height HD DVD drive SD-H903A able to read and write to HD DVD and to standard DVD and CD discs. The new Toshiba SD-H903A integrates a blue-violet laser diode that can read and write to HD DVD-R discs and that offers support for high-density HD DVD-ROM discs, including high definition movie and video images. The drive also offers all the functionality of a super multi-drive, with high performance, high-speed read and write to all flavors of standard DVD and CD discs. The new drive is also fully compliant with the EU's RoHS directive. With dual layer discs, HD DVD reportedly provides 30GB of storage capacity, which can accommodate up to eight hours of HD DVD movie content, up to five full-length standard DVD films, up to 7,500 MP3 songs or up to 30,000 high-quality images.

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FinePix F40fd from Fujifilm is the latest in its flagship range of F series compact digital cameras. Featuring Fuji film’s proprietary Real Photo Processor II, Super CCD HR VI and hardware-based Face Detection, the new FinePix F40fd continues the F series tradition of delivering sophisticated technology and compact, straightforward design. Added to this, ISO 2000 sensitivity at full 8.3 megapixel resolution, 3.0x optical zoom lens and 300 shot battery life make it perfect for prolific snappers or enthusiast photographers who need a high-performance take-anywhere digital camera. The FinePix F40fd features a dual memory card slot, which accepts xD-Picture Card and Secure Digital (SD) card format. The Fujifilm FinePix F40fd camera is slimmer than its predecessor, at just 23.3mm deep, and is available in three colors; silver, gunmetal and blue. The FinePix F40fd is even more pocketable and has a design that reflects the sophisticated technology within.

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Fujitsu PC Asia Pacific today announced Fujitsu LifeBook P7230-an ultra-mobile designed for the frequent-traveling and minimalist sets. The newest style icon is all about clean lines and innovation. From its sleek magnesium alloy casing to the clean lines running across the backlit panel and everything in between, the Fujitsu LifeBook P7230 is designed to be a new classic. Even the LED panel has been carefully enhanced to complete the embedded design subtleties. Upon powering on, the LED lights illuminate one by one, in a soft, orderly and elegant manner to soothe your mind. Smaller than a piece of A4 paper, and having barely a 3cm profile, the LifeBook P7230 weighs only about 1.33kg with a 10.6-inch Superfine Wide XGA TFT-LCD screen and is fully upgradeable to Windows Vista. The RF-based fingerprint sensor delivers biometric security features to protect your LifeBook P7230 and your data from unauthorized use, while data integrity is carefully protected by Fujitsu 3-dimensional shock sensor.

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Logitech today announced the Logitech X-240 speaker system for the PC, to be on display at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show next week. The X-240 PC speaker system features a redesigned control center that includes audio controls for a PC or Mac and serves as a cradle for an iPod or other MP3 player, PDA or mobile phone. With plug-and-play functionality, the Logitech X-240 speaker system allows people to dock their digital device by simply plugging it into the cradle. When their device of choice is docked, people can charge it and sync or play their favorite digital music. And when not in use, the cradle can be stored flush with the control pod. The X-240 speakers include specialized trays for the iPod and Microsoft Zune. In addition to providing a custom fit, these trays help route the iPod or Zune charging cables behind the control pod and out of sight. With stylish metal grilles, high-excursion satellite drivers, a ported down-firing subwoofer and dynamic, real-time bass equalization, the speakers deliver great audio in a stylish and slim design.

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Microvision the world leader in the development of light scanning technologies for high-resolution display and imaging systems announced today that it will unveil and demonstrate an ultra-thin, miniature full-color projection display small enough to be embedded in handheld devices including mobile phones during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. With Microvision’s IPM for mobile projection applications embedded into a device like a cell phone, the user realizes a visual experience where the image remains in focus at any distance, even on curved surfaces. The image has brilliant, saturated colors, from spectrally-pure lasers that provide exceptional contrast, giving depth and texture to the image in a continuous and uniform non-pixelated display.

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RITEK Corporation has finished the mass production process of 8cm write once DVD in both formats, which are DVD+R DL and DVD-R DL. Featuring two recording layers on a single side, these two new discs both can provide nearly one hour of digital video recording time or 2.6GB of storage capacity on a single side of mini DVD disc.With the increasing sales of DVD Camcorders worldwide, the current single layer or double sided 8cm DVD cannot meet customer’s expectation perfectly because of their limited recording time.

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SanDisk Corporation today introduced a 32-gigabyte, 1.8-inch solid state drive (SSD) as a drop-in replacement for the standard mechanical hard disk drive. SanDisk SSD offers field-proven durability to keep mobile PCs working in the toughest of conditions and improves the overall user experience. Using NAND flash enhanced by SanDisk’s patented TrueFFS flash management technology, SanDisk SSD delivers two million hours mean time between failures.With no moving parts, it does not need to spin into action or seek files in the way that conventional hard disk drives do. These characteristics, combined with SanDisk's advanced flash management technology, make it possible for SanDisk SSD to deliver excellent performance compared with hard disk drives and competing solid state drives.

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The Pentax Optio E30 compact digital camera offers 7.1 effective megapixels for exceptional high-resolution photography. The Pentax Optio E30 features a 3X optical zoom lens with a focal range covering angles of view equivalent to those of a 36-108mm lens in 35mm format. This zooming power may be combined with 4X digital zoom to achieve a total of 12X zoom capability. Powered by AA batteries, the PENTAX Optio E30 is great for travel and is designed to use less power and allow up 200 photos from one set of alkaline batteries or 760 shots on a set of lithium AA batteries. Featuring AA battery compatibility, the Optio E30 is a convenient travel companion that uses less power and captures up to approximately 200 photos with alkaline batteries or 760 shots with lithium AA batteries. A helpful Green mode automates camera setup when shooting still images.

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Samsung Electronics Co, LTD launched the first Global Positioning Systems (GPS) navigator to connect a mobile phone via Bluetooth feature in Korea. The microphone and speaker phone, embedded in Bluetooth Navigator enable the users to make or receive phone calls and SMS text messages, without using a mobile phone. The Bluetooth Navigator also offers a built-in Real 3D map developed by Samsung, ensuring that the driver sees the road ahead in crystal-clear 3D graphics and a dynamic navigation feature, which uses TPEG (a transportation information service based on terrestrial DMB data broadcasting) information updated every five minutes via a terrestrial DMB data channel to select the optimal route by incorporating road situations in real time. The highly portable Bluetooth Navigator with a 3.7-inch LCD and 16.8mm thickness, together with its long-lasting battery allows the user to enjoy navigator features and the various additional features it offers not only in vehicles but also while walking.

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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has created the first LCD panel that can produce independent images on each side of a mobile LCD display. Samsung's new double-sided LCD can show two entirely different pictures or sets of visual data simultaneously on the front and back of the same screen. Other conventional double-sided LCDs can only show a reverse image of the same video data. This new development will replace two display panels with one; thereby reducing overall thickness of mobile products by at least 1mm.Samsung's new double-sided LCD has two gates that operate each pixel instead of one, so the screen on the front can display different images than the one on the back. The double-sided display makes use of Samsung's proprietary Amorphous Silicon Gate (ASG) technology, which accommodates the increased number of TFT gates without increasing the size of the driver integrated circuits. The new Samsung mobile display requires only one backlight, while competitive double-screen LCDs requires two.

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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd is now sampling its 16-gigabit (Gb) NAND flash memory with customers – the first NAND flash using 50 nanometer (nm) process technology. The first samples of this high density NAND flash memory have a multi-level cell (MLC) design with a 4Kbyte (KB) page size to enhance both its read and write features. The new 4KB page function improves the conventional 2KB paging system for MLC NAND flash to double the read speed, while increasing write performance 150%. By nearly doubling the overall performance of Samsung's MLC NAND, mobile consumers will enjoy faster data transfer speeds when storing or reading large data files whether they're using an external memory card, or a handset with a built-in flash solution such as Samsung's moviNAND TM.

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Transcend Information Inc announced its 2GB microSDMemory Card. This new 2GB microSDMemory Card is a great choice for the next generation of mobile phones and portable devices, which include a memory card slot as standard. In addition, Transcend’s microSD card can also be used in regular SD memory card slots by combining the card with its provided adapter. Transcend’s microSD card is now available in 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1GB and 2GB capacities. With Transcend’s tiny 2GB microSD Card, you are able to save all of your favorite pictures, MP3 music or MPEG 4 video clips in your MP3 Player, Digital Camera, Mobile Phone, Smart Phone, or PDA .

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LG Electronics signed a contract with SEGA Enterprises Ltd. for game trailer movies during 2007 International CES. The companies will kick off the joint promotion at the 2007 International CES in Las Vegas, January 8-11. This joint promotion with SEGA will give LG a great opportunity to highlight their advanced 1080p displays by showing Sega’s Full HD content on LG’s Full HDTVs. LG Full HD flat-panel HDTVs have the capability of displaying 1080p content, the highest resolution format possible. Visitors to LG’s booth (Booth #8214, Central Hall, Las Vegas Convention Center) at 2007 International CES will be dazzled by HD and Full HD games developed by SEGA and shown on LG’s Full HDTVs.

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