New Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive Brings Cost-effective Storage, File Sharing and Media Streaming to Your Home For a Small Cost Above an External Hard Drive and in Under Five Minutes, You are Streaming Digital Files Throughout Your Home. SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Jan 5, 2008 — Iomega, an EMC company (NYSE: EMC) and a global leader in data protection, today announced the debut of the Iomega® Home Media Network Hard Drive, a new standard in easy-to-use network storage for the digital home. With EMC’s acclaimed
CES 2009: CES Unveiled Pre-show Event
Welcome to Las Vegas and Legit Reviews’ coverage of CES 2009. This year the show for the press officially kicks off on Thursday but we’ve arrived early to bring you some pre-show activities. Read on to see what we saw at CES: Unveiled: The Official Press Event of the International CES today! From Corsair's new Dominator GT memory modules to AMD's Neo powered notebooks we cover it all.
Motorola ‘Atila’ is SURF A3100 – to Debut Later in 2009
We’ve known about the Atila since August. It’s a lot like the Motorola Alexander in design but without a slide-to-hide QWERTY keyboard.
But as Motorola gears up for CES 2009, the Atila has come out of code-name status and has an official name. The smartphone will be marketed, at least in Asia, as the Motorola SURF A3100.
The details are pretty much what we expected: HSDPA, 3MP digital camera, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and a microSDHC memory card slot.
The SURF A3100 will debut in Asia later this quarter. There’s not yet any word on a U.S. release.
High-Tech Companies Take Up Netbooks
One theme emerging from this year's Consumer Electronic Show is the introduction of a new breed of low-priced laptops called “netbooks”. These netbooks typically cost between $300 and $500 and typically use the Intel Atom chip, but other products are starting to hit the market that could actually take product costs down even further.
The activity is the latest sign that technology segments are converging at an accelerating rate, driven by competitive pressures that the recession is amplifying. Companies including Phoenix are trying to help netbooks and other portables work as simply as cellphones, just as makers of those pocket-size devices are improving their ability to tap into the Web.
Motorola to Offer Phone Made from Recycled Plastic Bottles
Motorola has unveiled a new eco-friendly mobile phone which it claims is carbon neutral and made out of recycled materials. The Moto W233 Renew is manufactured using plastic from recycled water bottles. The Moto W233 Renew offers a claimed nine hours of talk time, and will initially be available to US customers on T-Mobile tariffs.
The Moto W233 Renew is described by Motorola as the “world's first carbon neutral mobile phone.” Because it is based on recycled plastics, Motorola said today that 20% less energy is needed to produce the phone, compared to the standard plastic process.
WD Introduces Two New Storage Drives for Mac Users
Western Digital will be introducing two new external storage drives designed for use with Mac computers The My Passport for Mac portable drive and My Book for Mac desktop drive at this years annual Macworld show in San Francisco. Pre-formatted for Mac, these drives work seamlessly with Apple Time Machine backup systems to provide protection for users' valuable digital photos and other media.
My Passport for Mac portable storage devices feature a sleek design in a shock-resistant enclosure and are available in capacities of 320 GB and 500 GB. The new My Book Mac Edition drives are equipped with power-saving WD hard drives with GreenPower technology, USB 2.0 interface and 1 TB of capacity.
HP Firebird PC Features NVIDIA SLI, Hybrid SLI +
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA—JANUARY 6, 2009—A host of state-of-the-art technologies from NVIDIA are featured in one of the most innovative performance PCs ever created: the HP Firebird with Voodoo DNA, debuting at CES. Striking a critical balance between performance and energy efficiency, the HP Firebird offers stunning graphics and CUDA™ performance in a sleek new desktop design. The HP Firebird features dual NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800S MXM 3.0 modules which are one-fifth the size of typical graphics
HTC S743 Smartphone Coming to US Q1 2009
HTC has announced that it will begin selling the S743 – a U.S.-specific variant of the European S740 – sometime this quarter (read February or March). The S743 is a non-touchscreen Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard handset with a 2.4-inch QVGA display and 850MHz/1900MHz HSDPA.
HTC is currently planning on selling the S743 through U.S. electronics retailers like BestBuy and Amazon rather than offering the smartphone via wireless carriers. This may or may not change, but if that’s the case expect to pay a bit more without the carrier subsidy.
Motorola’s new phone is ‘carbon neutral’
Debuting this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas will be Motorola’s latest mobile devices, including a phone that offsets its own carbon footprint, the company announced today.The plastic to make the MOTO W233 Renew is derived from recycled water bottles. That also makes it “100 percent recyclable,” according to Motorola. The company worked with Carbonfund.org to offset “the carbon dioxide required to manufacture, distribute and operate the phone through investments in renewable energy sources and
Comcast’s New Network Throttling Now In Place
For the last few months, Comcast has been transitioning how it monitors and throttles broadband traffic. DSLreports.com claims that this transition is now complete for all of Comcast’s markets, meaning that Comcast users might see their connection speeds drop if they use too much sustained downstream throughput and they can even potentially lose their service if they exceed Comcast’s monthly broadband cap. Comcast previously received quite a bit of flack for throttling the throughput of users who were downloading