Kingston admits to insecure USB drives

(THE INQUIRER) - MEMORY MAKER Kingston Technologies has confessed to security problems with a few of its secure USB drives.
In a security alert posted on its website the company released a brief statement about the drives, going so far as to ask owners to send them back. Once they’ve deleted their photos of course.
“It has [...]

Very Petite and Very Affordable, the New Colortrac SmartLF Ci 24 Large Format Scanner

Colortrac will start worldwide shipments of the latest addition to its range of SmartLF large format scanners on the 7th December. The SmartLF Ci 24 is a fast, accurate and affordable 24″ wide, technical document scanner that is easy to use with instant-on desktop scanning and copying to any workstation or printer across a [...]

HP: Touch, Touch, and More Touch

(PC WORLD) - A month ago, HP unveiled a bunch of new Windows 7 PCs, but ones with touchscreens were conspicuous by their absence-and given that HP has been selling TouchSmart models for close to three years now, it would have been startling if it didn’t continue to do so once the touch-enabled Windows 7 [...]

HP Debuts “World’s First” Web-Connected Home Printer

(DAILY TECH) - HP announced Tuesday what they are calling the world’s first Web-connected home printer: The HP Photosmart Premium with TouchSmart Web. The new Web-enabled printing platform is expected to be available this fall and cost an estimated $399.
The HP Photosmart Premium with TouchSmart Web distinguishes itself not only in its ability to connect [...]

Canonical Certifies Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition on Latest HP ProLiant Servers

Canonical collaborates with HP to deliver a high-performance, energy-efficient infrastructure for Ubuntu customers
London, UK (PRWEB) June 17, 2009 — Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu project, today announced the successful certification of Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition on the new HP ProLiant G6 servers. This extends Canonical’s existing support of Ubuntu Server Edition on the [...]

The rise of the dongle

(MOBILE TECHNOLOGY) - Dongle sales are pushing 20,000 per week and have breathed new life into the mobile market unassuming device with a silly name has appeared to be the saviour for operators and shop staff.
Sales of USB sticks (or dongles) was 18,000 per week at the beginning of March, and sales are steadily rising. [...]

iomart Hosting Puts Customers in Control of Power & Bandwidth Consumption

iomart Hosting customers given real time access to their server and rack’s energy and bandwidth consumption straight from the data centre, via a web based managed hosting control panel.
(PRWeb UK) May 28, 2009 — iomart hosting, the managed hosting and data centre services company, is introducing a new customer hosting control panel which will enable [...]

Asus France To Discontinue Eee PC 100HE Model

(IT PRO PORTAL) - Asus France has confirmed that it will phase out its popular Eee PC 1000HE, which offers an incredible nine-hour runtime to users, after the launch of a new yet-to-be declared model.
The news was confirmed by a French website Blogeee.net. “The EeePC 1000HE, current flagship of the range, like many other models, [...]

Smartphones sales on the up in Q1

(REGISTER HARDWARE) - Global smartphone sales grew by 12.7 per cent during the first quarter this year, but at the expense of a 9.4 per cent dip in sales of less advanced handsets, market watcher Gartner has concluded.
Over 36.4m smartphones were sold during Q1, although traditional talkers still outperformed more the advanced models with total [...]

Neuxpower Announces NXPowerLite v4 is Certified for Windows Vista

British software company Neuxpower today announced that the recently-released NXPowerLite Desktop Edition v4 is now “Certified For” Windows Vista.
London, UK (PRWEB) May 14, 2009 — British software company Neuxpower today announced that the recently-released NXPowerLite Desktop Edition v4 is now “Certified For” Windows Vista.

NXPowerLite technology optimizes Microsoft Office files* and JPEG images, reducing them to [...]