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OCZ Core V2 250GB SSD with mini-USB port for firmware update

OCZ today unveiled the newest addition to their industry-leading OCZ Core Series SATA II 2.5” Solid State Drives. Featuring new architecture, the Core Series SSD V2 will be available in up to a massive 250GB capacity and delivers enhanced speeds of up to 170 MB/s read and 98 MB/s write speeds with an improved seek time of less than 0.2-0.3ms, making the Core V2 significantly faster when it comes to both Read/Write and seek-time performance. The addition of a mini-USB port also makes it possible for customers in the field to update the Core V2’s firmware should new versions become available, to further enhance compatibility or performance with future platforms. The OCZ Core Series V2 delivers additional performance and reliability of the latest SSDs at a 50% less price per gigabyte than other high speed offerings currently on the market.

Press Release after the jump

August 15, 2008 | Related Entries - Computing

Logitech V550 Nano Cordless Laser Mouse with 18 months battery life

Logitech V550 Nano cordless laser mouse for notebooks features the Clip-and-Go dock. The unobtrusive dock lets you conveniently clip the V550 mouse to your laptop – and go. To meet the demands associated with increased mobility, the V550 mouse offers a complete set of features to make it easier to use a mouse with a notebook when moving from the kitchen to the living room or from one’s desk to a meeting. The Logitech V550 Nano also features the Plug-and-Forget Nano-receiver – it’s so small that once it’s plugged into your computer, you can forget about it. The Nano-receiver stays nearly flush against the side of the computer (protruding just 8 mm), so it doesn’t have to be unplugged when you stow your laptop.

August 14, 2008 | Related Entries - Computing

Logitech to acquire Ultimate Ears

Logitech today announced that the company has agreed to acquire privately held Ultimate Ears,of Irvine, Calif., for $34 million in cash. The long-established leader in custom in-ear monitors for on-stage professional musicians and sound engineers, Ultimate Ears has over the last few years expanded its product line to include a range of acclaimed in-ear consumer earphones for portable music enthusiasts, including users of iPhone, iPod and other MP3 players. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in August.

August 14, 2008 | Related Entries - MP3

Super Talent Adds 8GB Pico D to World’s Smallest USB Family

Super Talent today announced the addition of a stylish new swivel model to its ultra-petite PICO USB drive series, dubbed Pico D. Super Talent achieves maximum miniaturization in the Pico series, renowned as one of the world’s tiniest USB families, by using chip-on-board (COB) technology. Super Talent Pico drives are shock resistant, water resistant, and support up to 200X (30MB/sec) transfer speeds. The Pico D is available in capacities up to 8GB.

August 14, 2008 | Related Entries - Computing

Western Digital launches new backplane-compatible WDVelociRaptor hard drive

Western Digital is now shipping the new backplane-compatible WDVelociRaptor hard drive, the latest generation of its popular 10,000 RPM SATA WD VelociRaptor series of drives. The new backplane version of the WD VelociRaptor is specifically designed for 3.5-inch drive-based servers, PC and Mac computer enthusiasts and professional workstations that require the need for a backplane structure. A favorite among enthusiasts, the WD VelociRaptor comes packed with twice the capacity and a 35 percent performance increase and runs 35 percent cooler over the previous "Raptor" generation.

August 14, 2008 | Related Entries - Computing

Intel Unveils xHCI draft specification to support USB 3.0 architecture

Intel today announced the availability of the Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) draft specification revision 0.9 in support of the USB 3.0 architecture, also known as SuperSpeed USB. The xHCI draft specification provides a standardized method for USB 3.0 host controllers to communicate with the USB 3.0 software stack. Interoperability among devices from multiple manufacturers is important for consumer adoption of SuperSpeed USB products. The Intel xHCI draft specification revision 0.9 supports compatibility among various implementations of USB devices and will make it easier to develop software support for the industry.

August 14, 2008 | Related Entries - Computing

Sony ZEGO Computing Unit to be launched in U.S this year

Sony is exhibiting new "Beyond HD" content creation workflow solutions at "SIGGRAPH 2008" (held from August 12-14 at Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California, USA). Based on a new hybrid multi-core processing platform, these solutions are designed to provide production professionals with increased efficiency and accelerated workflows across every stage of production, from shooting and acquisition to editing and display. The BCU-100 is the first product to be launched as part of Sony's new multi-core processing platform, "ZEGO". BCU-100 incorporates the high-performance Cell Broadband Engine microprocessor (Cell/B.E.- a high-performance microprocessor jointly developed by Sony, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Toshiba Corporation, and IBM Corporation) and RSX graphics processor (jointly developed by NVIDIA Corporation and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc) to realize high speed computational performance. BCU-100 delivers high computational performance while reducing power consumption to 330W or less.

August 14, 2008 | Related Entries - Media Devices

Kingston 32GB Elite Pro SDHC Flash memory card

The new 32GB Elite Pro SDHC Flash memory card from Kingston is perfect for the increasing number of high resolution recording devices in the market, as the card can store literally thousands of photos and hours of high definition video. The new 32GB Elite Pro SDHC card can capture more than 6,000 still images (with a 10MP camera) and over eight hours of video (for 6Mbps HD Extended recording).

August 14, 2008 | Related Entries - Digital Cameras

Lian Li chassis for Xbox 360 with water cooling option

Lian Li Industrial Co, one of the largest manufacturers of aluminum PC case in Taiwan launched today the PC-XB01 chassis for the Xbox 360. The Lian Li chassis alleviates heating issues from hot components and reduces noise from vibrating optical drives in the original case design. All the Xbox 360 ports are hidden behind stylish dust covers and the ODD bay also has a spring loaded dust cover for aesthetic appeal and convenience. The unit can be placed horizontally, or vertically, depending on your needs, and the water cooling pipe holes are an option to use should you be inclined to do so. The case is designed to fit the entire Xbox 360 internals similar to the original, with the power transformer attaching from the outside.

August 14, 2008 | Related Entries - Gaming

Underwater robot Sentry powered by 1000 lithium-ion batteries completes first seafloor survey mission

The newly-developed underwater robot Sentry capable of diving as deep as 5,000 meters (3.1 miles) into the ocean, has successfully completed its first scientific mission, the U.S. National Science Foundation reported on Wednesday. Sentry is a state-of-the-art, free-swimming underwater robot that can operate independently, without tethers or other connections to a research ship. Working in tandem with sonar instruments on the UW-operated research vessel Thomas G. Thompson and with photo-mapping by WHOI's TowCam seafloor imaging system, Sentry gathered the most precise maps to date of seafloor features known as Hydrate Ridge and Axial Volcano off the coast of Oregon and Washington. The vehicle has thrusters built into its foils, or wings. Like an airplane, the foils allow the vehicle to gain lift or drag or directional momentum, as needed. The autonomous underwater vehicle, or AUV, is pre-programmed with guidance for deep-water surveying, but it can also make its own decisions about navigation on the terrain of the seafloor.

August 14, 2008 | Related Entries - Robotic

Samsung Software increases efficiency of its proprietary embedded flash memories

Samsung announced today that it is introducing software designed to optimize the high performance features of its proprietary embedded flash memories: OneNAND , Flex-OneNAND and moviNAND , in smart phones, using the major mobile operating systems – Windows Mobile(CE), Symbian, Linux, and RTOS (real-time operating system). Samsung's new software optimizes data transactions within its memory chips as they interact with the operating system. The new file system/flash driver combination, when working with any of the memory chips and the operating system, will boost performance through faster booting, downloading and searching. This results in improving multimedia intensive operations common in smart phones, 3rd generation phones, digital still cameras, digital camcorders, memory cards, and digital TVs.

August 14, 2008 | Related Entries - Mobile Phones

Dell launches new line of Latitude and Dell Precision laptops

Inspired by close collaboration with nearly 4,000 IT professionals and end users, Dell today announced a completely new line of Latitude and Dell Precision laptops, ranging from the lightest ultra-portable in the company’s history to the most powerful mobile workstation.

Press Release after the launch

August 13, 2008 |

Asus EAH4870X2 - Worlds Fastest Graphic cards with 2G Memory

Asus today introduced the graphical solution for the latest generation of AMD dual RV770XT GPUs – the Asus EAH4870X2/HTDI/2G – equipped with double GPUs and a massive 2G of on-board memory. The Asus EAH4870X2 TOP will be released soon with impressive performance results to provide superb gaming performance; and both the Asus EAH4870X2 TOP/HTDI/2G and EAH4870X2/HTDI/2G are slated to be upgraded soon – with both cards being equipped with a specially designed fansink for efficient heat dissipation.

August 13, 2008 | Related Entries - Computing

Lenovo ThinkPad W700 Worlds first widescreen mobile workstation with built-in digitizer and color calibrator

Lenovo ThinkPad W700 is a 17-inch widescreen mobile workstation engineered with game-changing technologies and innovations to exceed the demands of the most data and graphics-intensive users. Lenovo brings the industry’s first built-in digitizer and color calibrator to a mobile workstation and combines these innovations with first-in-market technologies such as new NVIDIA Quadro FX mobile graphics and supporting the upcoming Intel mobile quad core processor. Other features such as optional dual hard drives with RAID configurations, up to 8 GB of high speed DDR3 memory, a range of wireless connectivity options and excellent multimedia capabilities including an optional Blu-ray DVD burner/player make the ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation the standard-bearer for power and performance in a mobile workstation.

Press Release after the jump

August 13, 2008 | Related Entries - Computing | Related Entries - Gaming

Cooler Master full-tower chassis HAF 932 with revolutionary High Air Flow structure

The new Cooler Master full-tower chassis HAF 932 presents its sturdy sentinel housing and revolutionary High Air Flow structure to enhance and protect any hardware component that is worthy of the highest performance. Cooler Master HAF 932 can be modified to fit an internal radiator while the pre-drilled retaining holes by the rear makes for easy routing of any liquid cooling kit of choice. To boost and sustain all around system performance, Cooler Master included steel meshed vents vertically stretched over the whole front panel, and then further strengthened the flow of heat dissipation by including three massive 230mm fans on the top, the side and the front of the chassis.

August 12, 2008 | Related Entries - Gaming