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 recently been brought to our attention that a skilled person with the proper tools and physical access to the drives may be able to gain unauthorized access to data contained on the following Kingston Secure USB drives,” the firm writes.

The affected drives are the DataTraveler BlackBox, Secure and Elite. It’s worth noting that the latter two are subtitled the ‘Privacy Edition’ and that on its product pages the firm boasts of their government certified encryption and a whole lot of other things that are meaningless now.

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(PRWEB) December 6, 2009 — 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 network. This scanner breaks new ground as the first professional wide format scanner with a suggested minimum street price from US $3650 (excluding taxes and shipping); it is the most affordable 24″ wide large format scanning solution available today.

Fitting easily onto a stand, desktop or wall shelf, the super-small front load/front exit SmartLF Ci 24 large format scanner is equally ideal for operation in smaller workspaces or multiple locations. It can be installed and ready to go in minutes, the solid state 600dpi CIS image sensors need no alignment and the LED light system requires no warm-up time or calibration.

SmartLF Ci 24 scanners provide AEC, CAD, GIS, EDM and general office personnel the capability to scan, copy or distribute A1 or D size images at the touch of a button. Supplied complete with SmartLF All-in-One software, the SmartLF Ci 24 user can quickly and easily copy to his wide format printer or scan, clean and save drawings with marked-up changes as a PDF and instantly communicate them from remote sites back to colleagues in head office or to clients. This reduces delays and provides a better, more efficient all-round service. Designed for straightforward operation, it uses advanced 600dpi HD (high definition) optical resolution to capture accurate and finely detailed images of technical documents and maps in monochrome, grayscale or color.

SmartLF Ci 24 technical documents scanners are 24″ versions of the SmartLF Ci 40, the 40″ wide technical document scanner rated “Outstanding” by BERTL, the independent technology evaluator who awarded it 4 ½-Stars. Like the acclaimed SmartLF Ci 40, the Ci 24 features Colortrac’s industry leading, advanced CIS (contact image sensor) imaging technology to provide real large format performance benefits, including scanning speed, high resolution, image quality, low power consumption, energy-savings and instant-on, long-life LED illumination.

Available in three standard models - the SmartLF Ci 24m (monochrome), Ci 24c (color) and Ci 24e (express color), Colortrac’s new “baby” scanner provides exceptional monochrome performance with very sharp, clean black and white images; excellent grayscale reproduction; and attractive, bright colors at the fastest scan speeds suitable for all AEC, CAD, GIS and general office color scanning and copying needs. Scanning and copying can be controlled from either a host PC or the center-mounted touch-panel which supports eleven different languages, including English, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish. Designed to meet international energy saving standards, the SmartLF Ci 24 provides an environmentally friendly on-demand scanning solution.

To see a video and get more information about the SmartLF Ci 24 large format scanners go to: http://www.colortrac.com/large-format-scanner-info/ci-24-large-format-scanner.htm

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
Peter de Winter-Brown
Sales & Marketing Director
Colortrac Limited
3-5 Brunel Court
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Cambs PE27 3LW
UK
Tel# +44 1480 464618
Email: press(at)colortrac.com
www.colortrac.com

ABOUT COLORTRAC
Founded in 1989 and based near Cambridge in the UK, Colortrac Ltd is the leading innovator in professional wide format color scanners and image acquisition software solutions. Colortrac was the first large format scanner manufacturer to recognize the individual merits of CIS and CCD image sensor technology. This realization led to the creation of the SmartLF wide format scanner family in 2004. Colortrac SmartLF large format scanners provide affordable solutions for the divergent needs of the Graphic Arts, Reprographics, AEC, CAD, GIS, EDM and FM technical documents scanning markets. Colortrac Ltd has subsidiary offices in Beijing and Suzhou, P.R. China and in Chantilly, Virginia, USA. Information about Colortrac’s products can be found at www.colortrac.com.

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Tonight, the company announced a second round of Windows 7 machines, including multiple multi-touch TouchSmarts. The new all-in-one touch PCs include the 20? TouchSmart 300, starting at $899, and the 23? TouchSmart 600, starting at $1049; the company is also introducing a refreshed version of the TouchSmart tx2, a $799 laptop with a flip-around 12.1? screen. Those systems are all aimed at consumers, but HP is also going after businesses with the TouchSmart 9100, an all-in-one that starts at $1299 and is meant for applications such as kiosks in public places. It’s even launching the HP LD4200tm, a $2799 touch-screen LCD TV meant for use as digital signage.

I reviewed a nicely loaded $1600 configuration of the TouchSmart 600 for PC World- it runs Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and has a Core 2 Duo CPU, Blu-Ray, a TV tuner with remote control, a 750GB hard drive, and a lot of other features-basically, it would be a very nice all-in-one PC whether or not it had a touch interface.

But it does do multi-touch, and the most interesting thing about this feature isn’t the hardware aspect, but HP’s software. Windows 7’s support for touch involves making features and functions such as the Start menu, Taskbar, and document scrolling work with a fingertip instead of a mouse. But Microsoft didn’t reinvent Windows to work well with finger-driven input. It didn’t even bundle any applications with the OS that really show off what touch can do.

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(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 to the Web, but also in its HP applications (apps) feature, similar to that of other Internet-connected devices.  The feature includes preloaded apps on the printer and also allows users to download new apps via the HP Apps Studio.

In late 2009, users will be allowed to take the feature a step further, by creating and sharing their own personalized apps.  HP’s first app partners include: USA TODAY, Google, Fandango, Coupons.com, DreamWorks Animation, Nickelodeon, Web Sudoku and Weathernews Inc. Among other things, these partnerships will allow users to view/print news stories, maps, weekly schedules, coupons, recipes, movie tickets, coloring pages, word finds and more.

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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 HP ProLiant servers to 17 configurations, enabling Ubuntu users to run their business applications on the world’s most energy-efficient servers. It also ensures that users can adopt an open platform in their businesses without compromising on their hardware options.

The certification of the HP ProLiant G6 servers for Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition is the result of extensive testing at the Canonical labs. Canonical has also changed the designation for all tested HP servers from validated to certified, reflecting the verification of results by HP. Additionally, HP will release the ProLiant Support Pack for Ubuntu, which includes agents, drivers, and utilities that can enhance the manageability of Ubuntu server on HP ProLiant servers.

“We are committed to certifying Ubuntu Server Edition on the hardware platforms that our users choose to run. HP ProLiant servers are easily one of the most popular of those platforms so it is heartening to have HP’s participation in this certification programme along with its recognition and verification of our work,” said Steve George, director of commercial services at Canonical. “Users who are looking for an open platform or thinking about building a cloud-based infrastructure on Ubuntu need the reassurance of strong, compatibility-tested hardware. This certification offers peace of mind along with a great hardware base on which users can start to build their new datacentres.”

“Customers want an open operating system that reduces business risk and lowers maintenance costs,” said John Gromala, director of marketing, Industry Standard Servers, HP.  “Canonical’s certification of Ubuntu Server Edition on HP ProLiant G6 servers provides customers a powerful, cost-effective, and energy-efficient operating platform.”

Pricing and Availability
Ubuntu Server Edition is available as a free download at www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu.
Services including migration services, support, training and cloud computing consulting are available from Canonical at www.ubuntu.com/support/services.

About Canonical
Headquartered in Europe, Canonical Ltd is committed to the promotion, distribution and support of the Open Source operating system Ubuntu. Canonical aims to ensure that Ubuntu is available to every business and individual on servers, laptops and netbooks. Canonical Professional Services provide expert consultancy and support that - together with superior Ubuntu technologies - can help deliver significant cost savings and an enhanced user experience to all its customers. Visit www.canonical.com or www.ubuntu.com for more information.

Contact: Joseph Eckert, Baker Communications Group, 203-270-3711,

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Sales of USB sticks (or dongles) was 18,000 per week at the beginning of March, and sales are steadily rising. It started as an offer for travelling businessmen, then students, and immigrants in temporary or shared accommodations, and now the market is capturing everyone.

Consumers frustrated by their fixed-line broadband service and cost are also now being targeted.

Vodafone’s retail staff say that stores are running out of dongles within two days of receiving the stock, and 3 staff say that dongle sales for March are 200% over target.

One 3 store manager tells Mobile that the shop is selling more USB broadband dongles than contract connections, while another salesman at 3’s central London shop says dongles make for a goldmine of easy commission: ‘You can get a hell of a lot of commission on them. They are the kind of product that you don’t need to sell. People come in wanting them Ð they sell themselves.’

USB dongle sales have exploded in the past few months. Sales have quadrupled since September to 18,000 per week. Fifty-eight thousand mobile broadband connections were sold in January, up from 27,000 in October, according to data from market research company Gfk.

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(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 its customers to actively monitor the amount of power and bandwidth their servers and racks are consuming.

The new control panel, which is initially being rolled out to new managed hosting and colocation customers combines traditional account and server management with power and bandwidth usage data. The control panel contains current, historic and predicted usage figures for ease of management planning.

Phil Worms, Marketing Director, stated: “This information can be used by our clients to manage their server and rack estate more effectively and assist them with their energy efficiently and cost reduction modelling. We are fast approaching the situation where carbon accounting will become mandatory and we believe that providing our customers with accurate date concerning power consumption will assist them in forecasting their IT related carbon costs.”

Phil Worms added: “Targets for power reduction can only be set if consumption can be accurately measured and apportioned. The data that our control panel provides our clients can be used to determine inefficient operating practises, hardware et cetera allowing them to make informed cost saving decisions.

From our own data, and factoring in an average server utilisation of less than 10%, we have deduced that the average server is costing anywhere between £7 and £15 per month in energy costs for simply being plugged in, powered and cooled. If multiplied across a large server estate, this represents a substantial sunk and wasted power cost, a cost that can potentially be saved from the bottom line. A further benefit of this approach is that it enables the IT function to accurately identify power consumption costs which can be internally charged back to the departments using their services.”

Finally Phil stated: “iomart hosting is committed to integrating realistic and energy efficient stewardship into every aspect of our data centre and hosting business for the benefits of our clients. We are pro actively seeking to reduce cost at every opportunity: the cost of power, cost to the environment and cost of overall hosting service, and we view the introduction of this control panel as one more step in this process.”

Details and screen shots can be found here: http://www.iomarthosting.com/control-panel

About iomart hosting

iomart hosting holds a unique place in the hosting market in that it genuinely offers a ‘one source’ approach. By physically owning and managing its own network infrastructure, including 5 state of the art Data Centre facilities, it offers world beating levels of service to its customers.

iomart hosting offers managed services, ranging from single server management through to complex managed environments. All hosting services are customised to suit a client’s exact requirements and are designed for superior performance, reliability, security, and scalability.

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The news was confirmed by a French website Blogeee.net. “The EeePC 1000HE, current flagship of the range, like many other models, will not be continued after the launch of new machines”, the website quoted in one of its posts.

Besides, discussing company’s plans for UK, John Swatton, Asus’s netbook marketing chief, notified that the 100H and 100HE are the most popular Eee PC models in the country, and therefore the company has no intentions to discontinue these well established products at all.

Along the same line, Swatton quoted in a statement, “At present, the 1000H and 1000HE offer the best combination of functionality and performance for the price”.

In addition, Swatton also asserted that the company hasn’t discontinued the 7-inch 701, or 9-inch 900A, 901, as well as 904, either, and mentioned that all these Eee PC models are still there on the company’s focus models list.

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Over 36.4m smartphones were sold during Q1, although traditional talkers still outperformed more the advanced models with total sales of 269.1m during the same period.

However, buyers of HTC’s G1, the iPhone and their ilk helped push up smartphone sales and the group represented 13.5 per cent of all mobile sales during Q1, compared 11 per cent in Q1 2008.

“Much of the smartphone growth during the first quarter of 2009 was driven by touchscreen products”, said Gartner principal analyst Robert Cozza.

Gartner has identified two smartphone genres. An entry-level smartphone that’s “closer to an enhanced phone in specification” and which has an open OS, such as Nokia’s N76 – reviewed here.

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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 a fraction of their original size. NXPowerLite Desktop Edition integrates with email clients** to automatically optimize email attachments as they are sent. Recipients don’t need NXPowerLite to open or edit the attachments.

NXPowerLite Desktop Edition makes files easier to use, store and share. It improves your productivity, unblocks congested inboxes and enables the delivery of large email attachments.

“Our customers come to us for high quality software that offers a significant return on investment and delivers the best customer experience” said Mike Power, Neuxpower’s CEO. “By working with Microsoft, we feel confident that NXPowerLite will provide users of Windows Vista with enhanced reliability and compatibility.”

“Microsoft is pleased that Neuxpower has earned the Certified for Windows Vista software logo for their NXPowerLite application,” said Brad Goldberg, General Manager for Windows Vista Product Management at Microsoft Corp. “By certifying their applications, Neuxpower is letting their customers know that their product has met explicit standards of reliability and quality, and has been tested and proven to deliver a superior experience with a PC running Windows Vista.”

NXPowerLite Desktop Edition costs just $45 USD for a single-user license, with discounts available for bulk licensing. It’s available to purchase immediately from www.neuxpower.com and all good software resellers. A fully functional trial version can be downloaded from the website. NXPowerLite is also available as a File Server Edition.

About Neuxpower:
Established in 1997, Neuxpower Solutions is a global leader in ?le optimization software. NXPowerLite technology is designed to help organizations manage the impact of large Microsoft Office files on their business. Our desktop and server solutions are used by more than one million people worldwide.
* Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations
** Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express and Windows Mail

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