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Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Atlas Sound & Vision has launched the Bose AE2i audio headphones (S$269) in Singapore. The New design features inline remote and microphone for Apple products.
Bose AE2i audio headphones at S$269 from Atlas Sound & Vision.
The AE2i features an around-ear design and includes an application of proprietary Bose TriPort acoustic headphone structure.
Price and availability
The Bose AE2i headphones are available at S$269 from selected partners and the Atlas Experience Audio Visual Boutique @ TripleOne Somerset, and Bose @ MilleniaWalk.
Existing Bose AE2 headphone owners can achieve the same control of Apple products with the AE2 remote and microphone accessory, sold separately at S$65.
Accessing voice applications is easy using the new inline microphone – from taking calls on an iPhone, to using FaceTime on a MacBook Pro.
The simple, three-button remote allows users to adjust volume, select tracks, and seamlessly switch between calls and music.
Proprietary ear cushions and an ergonomic design distributes weight evenly, reducing irritating pressure points to allow hours of comfortable listening.
The Bose AE2i works with Apple iPhone, iPod, iPad, and MacBook Pro.
For lasting quality and durability the AE2i is designed with features such as fold-flat ear cups and a single, detachable cable.
A carrying bag is included for added convenience.
BoseÒ Corporation was founded in 1964 by Dr. Amar G. Bose, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Today, the company is primarily known for its research in acoustics, which has produced inventions that have improved the performance of sound systems.
Tags:Atlas, Bose, headphones
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Saturday, November 12th, 2011
Get a free protective camera wrap when you purchase 16GB or higher SanDisk Extreme or SanDisk Extreme Pro UHS-I cards. This offer will last for 1.5 months from 15 November to 31 December, while stocks last.
Free protective camera wrap for purchases of 16GB or higher SanDisk Extreme or SanDisk Extreme Pro UHS-I cards
The camera wrap will offer extra protection for photographers while they carry their cameras with them as they travel and visit relatives during the Christmas season.
The camera wrap is convenient and easy to use—photographers simply fold it along the corners, secure it and then stick it in their camera bag before heading off to a shoot.
SanDisk recently doubled the capacity and performance of its professional-grade imaging card lineup with the introduction of the 64GB SanDisk Extreme Pro SDHC/SDXC UHS-I card.
Based on the SD 3.0 specification’s Ultra High Speed (UHS) bus architecture, the card offers the fastest write performance of any SD card in the world and is ideal for imaging enthusiasts using UHS-enabled cameras.
The card’s 90 megabyte per second (MB/sec) write speed lets photographers capture a series of RAW images using burst mode, and its UHS Speed Class 1 rating can record Full HD videos.
With up to 95MB/sec read speeds, the card can transfer photos to a computer in half the time, allowing photographers to quickly enter post production.
The cards come in 8GB to 64GB capacities carrying promotional MSRPs ranging from S$69 (8GB) to S$529 (64GB).
Tags:microSD, SanDisk, SD, SDHC, SDXC, SSD, USB
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
The GoFlex Satellite mobile wireless storage has been named an International CES Innovations 2012 Design and Engineering Awards Honouree.
Products entered in this prestigious program are judged by a panel of independent industrial designers, engineers and members of the media to honour outstanding design and engineering in cutting edge consumer electronics products across 32 product categories.
Started in 1976, the Innovations Design and Engineering Awards are sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA),“A first for the industry, the GoFlex Satellite drive extends the limited capacity of mobile devices by wirelessly streaming media without the use of an external power source,” said Patrick Connolly, vice president and general manager of Seagate Branded Solutions. the producer of the International CES, the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow.
The Seagate GoFlex Satellite external hard drive will be displayed at the Innovations Showcase in the Venetian Ballroom during the 2012 International CES, which runs January 10-13, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The GoFlex Satellite was first announced in end-August. The 500GB version became available in Singapore in September at S$299.
Tags:award, GoFlex, HDD, mobile, Satellite, Seagate, storage
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Saturday, November 5th, 2011
Seagate is streamlining its flagship family of desktop drives under a single product that focuses on performance and big capacities – to cater to the explosive growth in content creation and consumption by businesses and consumers.
The new Barracuda family makes it easier for consumers to find the product they need and reduces costs for Seagate’s original equipment manufacturer and distribution channel customers by reducing the number of product qualifications and amount of inventory they need to manage.
The new Barracuda hard drive – to be available first at online retailers – is designed for desktop, tower or all-in-one personal computers; workstations, home and small business servers; “Our OEM and channel customers want to reduce overhead costs by having fewer product lines to qualify and manage in their inventory,” said Scott Horn, vice president of Marketing at Seagate.network-attached storage devices; direct-attached storage expansion; and home and small-business RAID solutions.
Capacities of the family range from 250GB to 3TB.
The simplification of the Barracuda family comes as Seagate begins volume shipments of its 1TB-per-disk Barracuda hard drive. Seagate plans to end production of its Barracuda Green drive in February 2012.
Seagate analysis shows that its new Barracuda drives have a nearly identical power-consumption profile as energy-efficient desktop drives but deliver much higher performance. Barracuda XT, Seagate’s fastest desktop hard drive, will be folded into the new Barracuda family and re-emerge, in name, as the company’s desktop solid state hybrid drive.
Technical specifications
The new Barracuda hard drive features a SATA 6GB/second interface, 7200RPM spin speed and up to 64MB cache to deliver high performance across all capacities.
Seagate’s SmartAlign technology, a feature of Seagate’s Barracuda Green drives, will continue to ship with the flagship Barracuda drives to help the hard drive industry segue from the current 512-byte sector standard for hard drives to the new 4096-byte sector size.
The new 4K standard enables the use of stronger error correction algorithms to maintain data integrity at higher storage densities and capacities.
Tags:Barracuda, HDD, Seagate, storage
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
More than 300GB of potentially sensitive data was discovered on five second hand storage devices that were advertised as having been wiped of previously stored information.
“Our findings underline that data erasure is critical before any hardware devices are disposed of – personal computers, servers, hard disk drives, USBs and even MP3 players,” said CK Lee, country manager, Kroll Ontrack Singapore.Kroll Ontrack – a leading provider of data recovery and information management products and services, is warning companies to be extra vigilant when disposing of computer equipment in light of recent tests carried out in its labs
It recently conducted a little experiment in Singapore. Specialists from the company purchased five storage devices from a popular international online auction site to see if there was any sensitive data that could be recovered from the supposedly “wiped” devices.
The specialists found more than 300GB of data including personal and corporate proprietary information including Microsoft Office documents, applications, databases, e-mails and photos.
“Simply pressing the ‘delete’ button or using other basic overwriting techniques only removes the pathways to the data and not the data itself and it is essential to remember this when preparing equipment for sale or disposal,” Lee added.The five devices were from different parts of Singapore and included two hard disk drives from a server in RAID configuration, a server, a desktop HDD (Hard Disk Drive) and a laptop HDD.
Recoverable data poses risk of security breaches if it falls into the wrong hands. It is crucial for individuals and businesses to ensure that data is destroyed before disposal. Without the correct data erasure procedures, proprietary information becomes vulnerable.
Kroll Ontrack provides several options for data erasure such as Ontrack Eraser Software and Ontrack Eraser Degausser. Both solutions set out to destroy data in a fast, secure and user-friendly way.
Tags:HDD, security, storage
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Friday, October 28th, 2011
The new X548de and X548dte business-oriented colour laser multifunction products (MFP) are available from authorised Lexmark business partners for S$2,449 and S$3,059 (excl 7% GST) respectively.
Lexmark X548de MFP
The X548 family of colour laser MFPs promise high performance, wide-ranging capabilities, time-saving productivity solutions and advanced security features with cheaper price tags and smaller physical footprints than competitors.
The two new MFPs streamline paper-intensive business processes and targets the rapidly growing mid-size workgroup segment.
The X548de base model comes with a 7-inch colour touch screen, and is pre-loaded with applications that can easily be customised with tailored workflows based on unique business needs.
The X548dte adds a hard disk to enable extra features, as well as a 650-sheet Duo Drawer for additional media handling capabilities.
Tags:laser, Lexmark, MFP, printers
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Sunday, October 16th, 2011
Western Digital has launched two new portable hard drives designed for use with Mac computers and Apple Time Machine, with capacities of 500GB, 750GB and 1 TB.
Western Digital My Passport for Mac
The Mac-inspired designs of the compact portable hard drives feature matches the external designs of Mac computers.
Powered through the USB 2.0 or Firewire connection, these portable drives allow convenient quick connect external storage without the hassle of lugging additional power adaptors and cables.
My Passport for Mac features a USB 2.0 interface and is an easy way to increase the minimal local storage on MacBook and MacBook Air notebooks.
Western Digital My Passport Studio
My Passport Studio sports an all-metal design, with two FireWire 800 ports and a USB 2.0 interface. The FireWire ports provide fast upload and transfer speeds and can be used to daisy chain up to five additional drives or peripherals such as HD camcorders.
“The speed of the fifth device at the end of the daisy chain is only slower by less than 10% of the first device on the chain,” according to Sheraine Chua, Regional Sales Manager of Branded Products at Western Digital.
| Capacity |
My Passport Studio |
My Passport for MAC |
| 500 GB |
S$169 |
S$119 |
| 750 GB |
S$189 |
S$129 |
| 1 TB |
S$219 |
S$159 |
My Passport Studio also features encryption and password protection software.
Tags:drive, Mac, MacBook Pro
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Saturday, October 15th, 2011
The S$189 WD TV Live is an easy to use Wi-Fi enabled media player that can stream media either from a network attached storage drive in the local network, or directly from the Internet – via an Ethernet connection or the high performance 802.11n wireless connectivity.
Western Digital WD TV Live wireless streaming media player
If you don’t already own an Apple TV or Google TV, check out WD TV Live from Western Digital.
The Wi-Fi enabled media player comes with its own apps to stream media from Internet video, radio and social networking sites such as YouTube, Dailymotion, Facebook, Picassa Web Albums, and TuneIn Radio directly to your TV in Full-HD 1080p resolution. Dailymotion video service is now included to offer video
WD TV Live also includes Fun Spot Games, a casual gaming service that offers arcade, strategy, and card games, puzzles, and quizzes. Some of these games include Sudoku, Black Jack and Poker.
WD TV Live allows users to enjoy personal media such as photos, video and music on their home entertainment systems.
Access Internet media content using WD TV Live in Full-HD 1080p resolution.
It supports a wide range of file formats for streaming content from any connected USB drive, digital camcorder or camera, network drive such as the My Book Live personal cloud storage, and any networked PC or Mac computer in the home.
Tags:media player, Western Digital, wireless
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Thursday, October 13th, 2011
Western Digital launches a slew of media storage, networking and playback products for the connected lifestyle.
Western Digital My Book Live personal cloud storage
The premise of the Connected Life solution from Western Digital is the simple set-up of a private personal cloud where media can be accessed and shared from any computer at home.
This personal cloud can also be extended into the Internet so that mobile devices such as smart phones and tablet computers can also access data and media in the cloud using apps, while computers can use a browser interface.
The centrepiece of the Connected Life solution from Western Digital is the My Book Live network attached storage. With capacities ranging from 1TB to 3TB, these network capable external hard drives are connected directly to the wireless router at home so that any computer – be it a Mac or a PC – can store and access the media in the drive.
Western Digital WD TV Live streaming media player
The WD TV Live media player that is connected to the wireless network can then stream media from My Book Live and play photos, music and videos on a large TV screen. It can also stream media directly from Internet services such as YouTube.
Outside home, data and media on My Book Live can be accessed on mobile devices using WD apps WD 2go (free), WD 2go Pro (US$2.99), and WD Photos (free).
Tags:Android, cloud, drive, iOS, iPad, iPhone, media player, smartphone, tablets, Western Digital
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Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Tags:microSD, SanDisk, SD, SDHC, SDXC, SSD, USB
Posted in Accessories, Cameras, Desktops, Events, Gadgets, Launch, Notebooks, Phones, Prices, SanDisk, Specifications, storage drive, Tablets | 2 Comments »
