Archive for February, 2010 - Page 14

Last month, memory giant Kingston was rocked by a mini-controversy where a security flaw was found in their “secure” flash drives. They’ve redeemed themselves by introducing a new secure drive, the DataTraveler 5000, which corrects the flaw but also has AES hardware-based encryption as well as a XTS cypher encryption [...]

It seems like Microsoft’s Project Natal has been in the works forever, but this time it seems like the launch date of Christmas 2010 is going to stick and more details about the Xbox 360′s motion controller add-on are coming out. Rumors have come out that the add-on will cost [...]

Sir Howard Stringer, CEO and Chairman of Sony let it slip at the Mobile World Congress last week that Sony will be expanding the availability of Sony’s PSN (PlayStation Network) and that’ll even expand to Sony Ericsson mobile phones. This could be a reaction to Microsoft including Xbox Live on [...]

The folks at Brother make darn good printers and all-in-ones. Last year, they attempted to enter the eReader market with the SV-100B, which was pushed as a “document reader” and was large and expensive. This year, they’re continuing the trend with the SV-70, another large-panel eReader device.

Sharp has been experimenting with solar-powered cell phones for sometime, but now they’re moving to monetize their green mobile phones by releasing the Sharp Solar Hybrid SH6230C featurephone in China. The phones, which are already on sale in China, will run on GSM bands and feature a 2.9-inch LCD screen.

According to reports on the internet, developer Capcom is having trouble fitting upcoming action shooter ‘Lost Planet 2′ on a single DVD9 for the Xbox 360 release. The game (which is also shipping on PS3 and PC) is reportedly having content removed in order to allow a single disc for [...]

Intel loves selling “platforms” to their notebook manufacturing partners, that is, chipset, processor and wireless adapter – all made by Intel, that will all work together. Intel’s Calpella platform, which consists of notebook motherboard and mobile processors, is going to be replaced next year by the “Huron River” platform.

LG Electronics of South Korea has absolutely no intentions of releasing its own mobile OS. This is the polar opposite of its long-time rival, Samsung, who showed off their new Bada OS at MWC this past week. LG says it would rather develop hardware than spread their focus.

The folks at Synology have unveiled a pair of powerful new NAS drives, one of which is aimed at home consumer use and the other is aimed at serious enterprise usage. They’re running Intel processors and embedded Linux operating systems for very fast performance.

If you need to move a lot of files with reasonable portability, then the storage gurus at Kingston have got you covered with their new DataTraveler 310 flash drive which offers a whopping 256 GB of storage. It’s obviously one of the biggest commercially available flash drives out there currently.