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  Swiss Army Knife adds 'tough' USB

  Victorinox has unveiled a version of its famous Swiss Army knife that includes a solid USB capable of holding all of the digital data in a person's life.

  By AAP | 13 January, 2012 08:50

  Tags: Consumer Electronics Show (CES), storage, usb, Victorinox

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  The amazing shrinking computer

  The quest for smaller and smaller computing devices usually involves a tradeoff between processor power, battery life, communications features, memory and storage. While the product I'm looking at is in some respects the result of the intersection of a vision with compromises, the WiMM One from WiMM Labs is one of the slickest miniature computing devices I've seen to date.

  By Mark Gibbs | 08 December, 2011 06:28

  Tags: Android, battery, bluetooth, capacitive, computer platform, consumer electronics, Data Center, Google, GPS, networking, processor, Samsung ARM11, sdk, smartphones, TFT, touchscreen, transflective, usb, vibrator, wi-fi, wireless, WLANs / Wi-Fi

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  Google TV to Launch in Europe

  Google TV isn't ready to throw in the towel just yet. It will launch in Europe early next year despite a shaky start in the United States.

  By Christina DesMarais | 29 August, 2011 01:15

  Tags: consumer electronics, entertainment, Google, netflix, sony, tv, usb, video, video chat

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  Learn how to run programs from your flash drive

  Reader Patricia has a question: "Why can't application software be put on USB drives instead of [hard] disks?"

  By Rick Broida | 27 April, 2011 08:15

  Tags: flash memory, software, storage, storage accessory, usb

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  MacBook Pros may debut Light Peak, Intel's USB slayer

  Apple's next-generation MacBook Pros may thicken the plot to kill USB, using Intel's Light Peak optical technology and rebranding it as "Thunderbolt."

  By Jared Newman | 24 February, 2011 07:19

  Tags: Apple, hardware systems, Intel, laptops, mac laptop, usb

• Rocstor Embraces USB 3.0 For New Hard Drives

  Storage company Rocstor has added two new USB 3.0 devices to their product line up, just in time for CES 2011.

  By Elizabeth Fish | 05 January, 2011 12:51

  Tags: CES, Drives, external hard drive, hard drives, hdd, Rocstor, storage, usb, CES 2011

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  Fearing more Wikileaks, military bans DVDs, thumb drives

  Removable media such as CDs, DVDs and USB drives are no longer allowed on classified military computers.

  By Jared Newman | 11 December, 2010 05:39

  Tags: Drives, firewalls, hard drives, hardware security components, hdd, network security, security, storage, storage accessory, usb, usb storage

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  Hackers claim 'jailbreak' victory with PS3 USB key

  In the four years since Sony's PlayStation 3 has been with us, it's never been hacked to play pirated games--until now, that is, if claims by hacker group PSJailbreak prove true.

  By Matt Peckham | 21 August, 2010 04:29

  Tags: games, gaming, jailbreak, jailbreaking, Playstation, sony, usb

• USB connector can be plugged in any way up

  How many times have you gone to plug in a USB device, only to get it wrong and try to plug it in upside down? Ultratek is guessing that it's a fairly common occurrence, and it's recently introduced a USB connector that can be inserted regardless of its orientation.

  By Chris Brandrick | 15 July, 2010 10:43

  Tags: consumer electronics, gadgets, Ultratek, usb

• Samsung shows USB-powered monitor

  Samsung has demonstrated a world first at a display conference in the US - a computer monitor that's powered solely via USB.

  By Oliver Garnham | 02 June, 2010 23:28

  Tags: lcd monitors, samsung, usb

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  Intel says its Light Peak optical cables may succeed USB

  Intel sees its Light Peak technology for linking devices by optical cable as potentially succeeding USB 3.0, a change that in several years could mean the disappearance of a port used almost universally in gadgets today.

  By Owen Fletcher | 15 April, 2010 02:14

  Tags: Intel, Intel Developer Forum, Intel Light Peak, usb

• Microsoft unwraps netbook Windows 7 upgrade tool

  Microsoft has released a tool that lets netbook owners install Windows 7 on their machines using a USB flash drive, sidestepping the usual requirement of a DVD drive.

  By Gregg Keizer | 26 October, 2009 05:26

  Tags: Microsoft, netbooks, usb, Windows 7

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  Security logs, medical records and missile data discovered in disused hard drives

  A third, or 34 per cent, of disused hard drives still contain confidential data according to a new study, which found missile defence system data and media records on ebay purchases.

  By Kathryn Edwards | 13 May, 2009 12:15

  Tags: data breach, defence, edith cowan university, hard-disk drives, hard drives, lockheed martin, storage, usb

• CTIA backs universal cell-phone charger

  CTIA, the main industry association for U.S. mobile operators, has put its weight behind an initiative calling for a universal cell-phone charger.

  By Stephen Lawson | 24 April, 2009 05:57

  Tags: ctia, Micro-USB, mobile phones, power charger, usb

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  Corsair releases one-touch backup USB flash drive adapter

  Corsair Memory Inc. Tuesday introduced a USB flash drive adapter that it said creates a push-button file backup for computers when any flash drive is plugged into it.

  By Lucas Mearian | 01 April, 2009 09:42

  Tags: corsair, flash drive, usb