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December 27, 2005

Pioneer Launches Its First Internal Blu-Ray Disc Writer

Pioneer Corporation announced that the company's first internal BD/DVD writer with ATAPI connection for Windows PCs has recently been developed. The new Pioneer BDR-101A complies with the latest specifications for the BD-R (Blu-ray Disc recordable), BD-RE (Blu-ray Disc rewritable), and the BD-ROM (Blu-ray Disc read-only memory). It is expected to start shipping at the end of January, 2006 (Shipment schedules may change depending on the start date for the Blu-ray Disc format logo license and the copyright protection technology license).

December 21, 2005

Seagate and Maxtor

Seagate and Maxtor today jointly announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Seagate will acquire Maxtor in an all stock transaction. The value of the transaction is approximately $1.9 billion.

December 19, 2005

Lite-On IT estimates it will ship 9.0-9.5 million slim-type optical disc drives

Lite-On IT estimates it will ship 9.0-9.5 million slim-type optical disc drives (ODDs) for this year and expects to double shipment volume in 2006 due to growing global demand for notebook PCs and large orders from new clients, according to associated vice president Mike Wu for the company’s production base in Guangzhou, China.

December 16, 2005

SEAGATE LEADS 1-INCH HARD DISC DRIVE MARKET

SEAGATE LEADS 1-INCH HARD DISC DRIVE MARKET WITH CYBERCAPTURE TECHNOLOGY
Seagate Technology, supplier of Consumer Electronics hard disc drives, announced the first practical implementation of Cybercapture™ technology. Sony Corporation has employed this technology in its new Compactvault™ removable hard disc media drive that uses Seagate's CompactFlash Photo Hard Drive, following a joint implementation effort between the two companies.

December 16, 2005

SEAGATE BARRACUDA 7200.9 HARD DRIVE WINS 'BEST DESIGN OF THE YEAR'

SEAGATE BARRACUDA 7200.9 HARD DRIVE WINS 'BEST DESIGN OF THE YEAR' AWARD FROM ELECTRONIC DESIGN MAGAZINE
Seagate Technology, the world's #1 supplier of disc drives, announced that its Barracuda 7200.9 500GB Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive, a model that delivers the industry's leading combination of performance, reliability and capacity, has won the "Best Design of the Year" award from Electronic Design Magazine, a leading publication for electronic design engineers and managers.

December 13, 2005

Lite-On IT see DVD burners as percentage of total ODD shipments up

Lite-On IT see DVD burners as percentage of total ODD shipments up
Lite-On’s monthly shipment volume of ODDs has remained steady at 3.5-4.0 million units but the proportion for DVD burners has risen from less than 30% in the first half of this year to over 30% this quarter and is expected to attain 40% in the first or second quarter of 2006, the company pointed out. The increase in percentage of total ODD shipments for DVD burners was because prices of DVD burners have continually fallen to levels increasingly closer to those of Combo drives (CD-RW plus DVD-ROM) and CD-RW burners, Lite-On IT noted.

December 13, 2005

Microdrive 3K8 from Hitachi GST

Microdrive 3K8 from Hitachi GST has received the prestigious “Innovations 2006 Honoree" award from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), in the Software/Embedded Technologies category. The Microdrive 3K8, nicknamed Mikey for its diminutive size, will be on display at CES as part of the Design and Engineering Showcase featuring outstanding consumer electronic devices.

December 05, 2005

ATI's Mobility'TM' Radeon'R' X1600 Delivers the Ultimate Visual Experience with Avivo'TM'

ATI Technologies Inc. set a new visual standard in the performance thin notebook market, with the introduction of Mobility™ Radeon® X1600. The first mobile discrete graphics processor featuring ATI's revolutionary Avivo™ technology, Mobility Radeon X1600 delivers the ultimate digital entertainment solution for performance thin notebook designs through lightning-fast graphics, superior power management, and stunning visuals.

December 01, 2005

Kingston Launches New “Ultimate” Line of CompactFlash Cards

Kingston Technology Company, Inc. announced the release of its new “Ultimate” line of CompactFlash cards. With a sustained write speed rating of 100x, Kingston’s CompactFlash Ultimate cards offer the performance that high-end digital cameras and other fast capture and storage function devices need to perform at peak levels. The one, two and four-GB storage capacities of Kingston’s CompactFlash Ultimate cards meet the increased demands of today’s professional photographers by delivering reliability and dependability.

December 01, 2005

Transcend Releases its Highest Capacity, 2GB 44-Pin Vertical High Speed IFM (IDE Flash Module)

Certain types of Computers, or specialist data devices use a 44-pin IDE interface for data transfers. These types of computers require the use of small form factor data retention and a very high quality type of memory card. Transcend Information, Inc. has increased the capacity of its 44-pin IFM (IDE Flash Module) to an incredible 2GB, the highest capacity of any 44-pin IDE Flash Memory Module in the world.

December 01, 2005

Kingston Launches New “Ultimate” Line of CompactFlash Cards

November 29, 2005

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November 22, 2005

Kingston Launches 15-In-1 Hi-Speed Reader

Kingston® Technology Company, Inc. announced the release of its new Kingston® 15-in-1 Hi-Speed Reader - the perfect companion for professionals who demand high transfer rates with speed and reliability

November 21, 2005

ATI's New Feature Rich All-In-Wonder® X1800 XL, With Avivo™, Now Available

ATI Technologies Inc. announced All-In-Wonder® X1800 XL is now available in North America - European availability is anticipated for this autumn. ATI's newest offering joins All-In-Wonder® X800 XL and All-In-Wonder® 2006 Edition to round out the multimedia product family spanning nearly 10 years of market leadership. As ATI's fastest multimedia video card, All-In-Wonder X1800 XL provides amazing performance with the Radeon® X1800 XL graphics processor while enabling Avivo™ technologies for the best possible video and image quality.

November 20, 2005

Transcend Releases its High Capacity, High Performance 1GB 80X miniSD™ Memory Card for High-End Port

Transcend has come out with the highest performance 1GB miniSD™ Card in the world, the 1GB 80X Ultra Performance miniSD™ Memory Card. Transcend’s 1GB 80X Ultra Performance miniSD™ card has extremely fast data transfer speeds of up to 12MB/sec, which is 70% faster than a normal miniSD™ card.

November 17, 2005

Kingston Launches 15-In-1 Hi-Speed Reader

November 15, 2005

High-tech Fashion and Function:

Your earring is a flash drive? This mobile phone strap is a flash drive too? Scenarios that we once saw in movies are now an everyday sight. If you see your female colleague removes her earring and plug it into a PC USB port, do not be surprised, because it could very well happen with Kingmax's latest flash drive product – the Kingmax Super Stick. Measuring only 39mm by 12mm by 2mm, and weighing less than 5g, it is by far the lightest and thinnest storage product in the world.

November 14, 2005

New NVIDIA® GeForce™ 7800 GTX 512 GPU Increases Performance By 33%

NVIDIA Corporation delivered the answer with the immediate availability of the new NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 graphics processing unit (GPU). The Company’s award-winning GeForce 7800 GTX graphics chip already powers what many experts consider to be the fastest graphics cards around. With the new GeForce 7800 GTX 512, NVIDIA has released a new, supercharged version of the GPU that delivers tremendous performance in today’s PC games.

November 14, 2005

New Prestigio LCD Monitors Combine Eye Protection, Superior Design and Panel Quality

Prestigio Technology, one of the most dynamic international vendors of state-of-the-art mobile computers, display products and accessories, has unveiled today two new exquisite 17” and 19” LCD multimedia monitors P776 and P796 of the newly introduced hi-end 7th Series, and began their distribution throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa. The new monitors feature superior design and tinted-glass screen coating.

November 08, 2005

LiteOn SHW-1635S DVD Writer has got Gold Award from Techniz.co.uk

LiteOn has come out with another great DVD Writer, the SHW-1635S. The SHW-1635S turned out to be a very good optical drive in terms of performance and received the Gold Award from Techniz.co.uk. The drive itself is very stable during the reading/writing of any CD/DVD media. As for the noise level, it was much quieter as compared to all the previous models. Furthermore, this new unit comes with the extra bezel kit so that you can change the color of the bezel according to your needs to match your chassis. The LiteOn SHW-1635S DVD Writer is a worthy solution of the new 16x Dual Layer DVD writer that is able to write the DVD+R9 dual layer media at 8X speed.

November 07, 2005

PQI U250 Traveling Disk – Sophisticated Styling With Simplicity

The new PQI U250 Traveling Disk is a new addition to the PQI USB flash drive lineup. The drive itself weighs merely 10 grams, is ready and simple to use with modern day USB ports and is encased in metallic sprayed paint silver and black outer shell vividly displaying its sophisticated styling. Included with the pack you’ll find “Safe Disk” application software. The easy to use interface and humanized logic of this software gives you, the customer that added extra protection for your personal files.

November 07, 2005

NVIDIA Power of 3 continue to reach gaming anticipation with Inno3D GeForce 6800 GS

Innovision Multimedia Limited have added another significant member to their product range, the Inno3D® GeForce™ 6800 GS. Its performance is still unbeatable completed with NVIDIA® Power of 3 features. Measured at being the best price to performance ratio, the Inno3D® GeForce™ 6800 GS has proven and maintained its competitiveness in the market.

November 01, 2005

Low-Cost SONOMA Notebooks

The Kingmax Venus series DDRII SO-DIMM memory possesses high stability and compatibility, high data transfer bandwidth and superior heat dispersion. Kingmax leads the industry in releasing products that support the Sonoma platform, and provides a full range of solutions to accommodate every requirement for the digital age: outstanding data transfer rates, superior application performance and high-volume memory capacity. Kingmax uses industry-leading lead-free production processes, IC chips, PCB and post materials to fully satisfy North American, European and Japanese environmental protection requirements.

October 26, 2005

ATI's Radeon® X1800 XT Breaks 1 GHz Speed Barrier

An independent team of Finnish over-clockers has made world history by over-clocking a graphics processor to engine clock levels above 1 GHz. The record was set on the recently-announced Radeon® X1800 XT graphics processor from ATI Technologies Inc.

October 19, 2005

PC Prestigio Gamer Became the Official PC Set for World Cyber Games 2005 Powered by Intel

High-performance multimedia PC Prestigio Gamer became the official game PC set of the Czech national qualification World Cyber Games 2005 powered by Intel. 70 gaming sets and 10 high-quality notebooks by Prestigio will be available to players and organizers.

October 17, 2005

For the third year in succession Transcend is Ranked Among Taiwan’s Top 20 Global Brands

Transcend Information, Inc. has for the third consecutive year distinguished itself by making it onto Taiwan’s 20 most valuable global brands list. The fact that Transcend has made this prestigious list of global brands is clear evidence of the success and impact Transcend’s strategy for ensuring the long-term ascent of the Transcend brand has had.

October 13, 2005

Info-Tek Releases the World's Most Powerful Graphics Card

Info-Tek Corporation has announced the new release of the GECUBE™ Radeon® X1800 graphics card. Utilizing ATI’s newest R520 architecture, the GECUBE™ Radeon® X1800XT graphics card propels the gaming industry into another visual dimension featuring a 625HMz core clock speed yielding 1.5GHz memory clock speed and on-board 512MB GDDR3 memory. Both the GECUBE RADEON X1300 and GECUBE RADEON X1600 will be released simultaneously with the world's most powerful graphics card, the Radeon X1800.

October 13, 2005

Prestigio Rolls Out Data Safe to Meet Demand for Stylish Portable USB Drives

Prague (Czech Republic), October XX, 2005 – Prestigio, one of the most dynamic international vendors of state-of-the-art mobile computers, display products and accessories, has announced today the availability of a new stylish product complementing its Mobile Storage product line -- Prestigio Data Safe. The new product is immediately available from Prestigio’s local dealers across Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa.

October 11, 2005

PQI's Innovalue Award Winning TurboMemory series memory modules offers superior performances and wil

PQI's TurboMemory module series product won the 13th Annual Taiwan Innovalue Award and the products will be on show at the Hi-Tech ComNet @ Digital World Fair in Shenzhen-China and at the Taiwan Design Expo (Taiwan Innovalue Hall) in Kaohsiung-Taiwan. PQI's award winning products at the show are TurboMemory DDR2-667, 512MB/CL4, TurboMemory DDR-400, 512MB/CL2-2-2-5 and registered module DDR2-400, 1GB for servers. This is the fourth consecutive Innovalue award winning year for PQI and have thus far tally a total of 10 products that have had won the award. Winning the Innovalue award for four consecutive years have signified PQI’s product potential in terms of quality, design, R&D, market and brand name recognition.

October 11, 2005

Kingston Launches 667-MHz DDR2 SO-DIMM Memory

Kingston Technology Company, Inc. announced the release of ValueRAM® DDR2 667-MHz (PC2-6400) memory modules to support next generation notebook and mobile systems. The new Kingston® ValueRAM 667-MHz DDR2 unbuffered SO-DIMM modules are available in 256-MB, 512-MB and 1-GB capacities, shipping immediately in limited quantity.

October 11, 2005

Kingston Launches 667-MHz DDR2 SO-DIMM Memory

September 29, 2005

HDD Toshiba

Latest 2.5-inch 640GB dual platter HDD meets increasing demand for high capacity energy efficient storage

September 19, 2005

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September 11, 2005

LiteOn seminar

ASBIS invites its business partner to attend presentation and seminar by LiteOn, renowned manufacturer of optical disc drives. The event will take place at Al Rimal ballroom of Grand Hyatt Hotel, Dubai on the 24th September, 2005. Registration starts at 18.30

August 24, 2005

ASBIS @ GITEX 2005

GITEX 2005 will take place at Dubai, UAE - 25-29 September, 2005. The importance of this event cannot be underestimated. This year, ASBIS Middle East will meet and greet all current and potential customers at the Atrium Lounge of the Fairmont Hotel, Dubai. See you there!

July 10, 2005

Seagate: “Watch Your Profits Shoot Up!”

Seagate has created a special demo unit program that will enable qualifying System Builders, who respond to the Seagate advertising campaign by registering on a special website, the opportunity to purchase one Barracuda 7200.8 high capacity hard drive, 250GB, 300GB or 400GB at special discount price!

April 22, 2005

Introducing new Hitachi SATA II drives

Hitachi is adding three new 7,200 RPM drives to its family of Deskstar products, targeting the broadest range of 3.5-inch consumer and commercial applications: mainstream PCs and workstations, digital video recorders (DVRs), nearline storage and other enterprise ATA applications.

January 27, 2005

Prestigio Introduces New Notebook Line Based on Latest Intel Mobile Technologies

Just one week after the worldwide launch of the brand-new Intel® Centrino™ mobile platform codenamed Sonoma, Prestigio International announced the release of its second notebook incorporating the most advanced Intel technologies, Nobile 1560. The brand-new Prestigio Nobile 1560 is a follow-up to Nobile 1510 which was presented at Intel Sonoma launch presentations on January 19, 2005. Prestigio Nobile 1560 is characterized by fairly high performance and versatile accessories while maintaining good mobility, which is very important for a portable computer. In addition, the new notebook features the distinctive Prestigio design combining sophisticated ergonomics, noble silvery color, and exquisite curved outline.

January 27, 2005

Prestigio Introduces New Notebook Line Based on Latest Intel Mobile Technologies

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