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Blu-Ray for Macs


It should be a no-brainer prediction that one of the high-capacity optical formats will be included in an impending iteration of iMac (nice alliteration, huh?) or other new Mac, but its still anyone’s guess which of the two warring standards Steve-O will side with, and we won’t likely know until the next Macworld Keynote. (Blu-Ray […]

Toshiba’s 32 GB SDHC and 8 GB microSDHC card


Size does matter.

This is so true in the world of gadgets and technology as more and more device are becoming smaller while managing to incorporate more features despite its dwindling size, and it seems that Toshiba wants to make a statement by announcing the availability of the first 32 GB SDHC card due January next […]

SDHC Face-Off


Memory cards have become an integral part of mobile life, from digital photo storage for cameras to PDA expansion cards. As the latest SD cards have grown in capacity in the past months, what makes one SD card better than others? Thanks to Curtis Walker, a contributor to Gizmodo, he puts the latest SD High […]

SSD revolution


Flash drives, in the past few months, have seen a steady decline in price despite the upsurge in capacity. Its various applications range from portable data storage to mp3 players. Now, the next evolution of data storage is upon us in the form of the Solid-State Drive, SSD, which is basically a flash-based hard disk […]

Honey, I shrunk my 1GB Flash Drive


Size does matter when gadgets are concerned. Smaller cell phones, tiny MP3 players, everything seems to be heading down the road of diminutive sizes, but mind you, most of these babies are jampacked with cool features. Enter the latest gizmo sure to leave people in awe: Kingston Data Traveller MiniFun.                       
            At first glance, […]

Breaking the TB Barrier


While Hitachi announced the availability of the first 1 TB hard disk during the second quarter of this year, Seagate’s projection on hard drive capacities, according to Gizmodo, suggest that by 2013, a 1 TB 2.5-inch drive will be possible, and using the same calculation, a 1.8-inch drive can be available by 2014.
Wow! I can […]

The Mother of all Flashdrives


Think your Flashdrive storage space is huge? Well, Check this baby out…

The 64GB BUSLINK USB Flash Drive PRO 2 Series…Yep, that’s not a typo. 64 freakin’ gigabytes. On a flash drive.

What’s That on Your Thumb (drive)


My group at the office had a rather early Christmas Party last weekend and I was able to snag a 128 MB thumb drive as a gift (the limit on the amount on the exchange gift prevented the giver of the gift from giving me one with a larger capacity) . Anyway, since I don’t […]

LaCie in the Philippines


I came from a press launch yesterday for LaCie, the French company that specializes in storage solutions for consumers and enterprises. One of the products they launched was the LaCie USB key.
The small credit card size was not as surprising as it would have been if it was introduced two years ago but it […]