Tag archive: Buffalo

One of the problems with all the cool portable devices on the market today is that they tend to make for a lot of desk clutter—particularly if they're things you want to take with you all the time, like, say, a phone. For iPhone and iPod users, Buffalo Technology has come up with the Dualie, a dock that combines both a charging dock for an iPhone or iPod along with a 500 GB portable hard drive that can be popped out and taken… Read More

Peripheral and storage vendor Buffalo has shipped its first USB 3.0 external hard drive in the form of its new DriveStation HD-HXU3. For folks who have a USB 3.0 port—built-in or (more likely these days) via an add-on interface card—the drive supports data transfers at rates up to 130 MB per second, or about three times faster than USB 2.0. And for folks with USB 2.0 ports…the drive will work there too, albeit at normal USB… Read More

The Australian government technology agency CSIRO has reportedly reached settlements with all the companies it had been suing for patent infringement regarding a technology built into 802.11g and later Wi-Fi wireless networking. The patent covers portions of the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) implementation that first appeared in 802.11g. Although aspects of the patent were openly questioned by other players in the… Read More

A federal judge has stayed a permanent injunction against Buffalo Technology, clearing the way for the company to sell 802.11a, g, and n products in the United States. The injunction goes all the way back to 2007, when the Australian science agency CSIRO sued Buffalo, alleging that the company's products infringe on a patent covering aspects of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, a method of dividing Wi-Fi channels into… Read More

Buffalo Technologies has unveiled its MiniStation Shinobi portable hard drive, which the company says not only packs the performance of a pro-level hard drive, but will also make on-the-go computing users rejoice because, at just 5mm thick, it's also the world's thinnest external hard drive. The MiniStation Shinobi features Buffalo's TurboUSB technology to make transfer rates up to 20 percent faster than standard drives,… Read More

For well over a decade Neil Young has been threatening to release his massive archive of material from a career that dates back to the early 1960s. The veteran, whose resume includes years of solo work along with time in Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is finally willing to take the plunge and issue it, but it’s going to be coming on Blu-ray discs, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Young made the announcement… Read More

Buffalo has brought its 500 MB MiniStation TurboUSB to U.S. shores, offering 500 GB of portable storage on an external 5,400 rpm drive. The unit supports USB 1.1 and 2.0, and consumes a maximum of 2.5 Watts of power. Perhaps best of all is the drive's diminutive stature: it measures just 3.3 inches by 5 inches by 0.8 inches thick. “In today's mobile society, consumers and professionals alike need to be able to take their… Read More

A team of Canadian cancer researchers from Ontario Cancer Institute (OCI) and scientists at PrincessMargaret Hospital and University Health Network have teamed with the World Community Grid, an IBM initiative that brings together volunteers donating the power of their own computers to create the equivalent of a supercomputer.   Together they will analyze theresults of experiments using data collected by scientists at the Hauptman-Woodward… Read More

Canadian company Wi-LAN—which used to do broadband development but recently retooled itself as a patent holding company—has filed suit against 22 companies alleging their products infringe on Wi-LAN patents covering Wi-Fi and power consumption in DSL products. Companies named in the suits incude manufacturers like Acer, Apple, Belkin, Lenovo, Dell, D-Link, NetGear, Hewlett-Packard, Sony, Texas Instruments, Broadcom, and Buffalo,… Read More

In a massive legal move, storage and portable media player developer SanDisk has filed three patent infringement lawsuits alleging some 25 companies that manufacture, import, or sell everything from USB flash drives to multimedia cards to portable media players infringe on SanDisk patents. The suits were filed in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin and with the U.S. International Trade Commission; the suits allege… Read More

Video game publisher THQ announced today more bugs would soon be coming to your PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS and wireless handsets. Worms: Open Warfare 2 is set to debut on these various platforms sometime this summer and will, through wireless connectivity, allow gamers to compete globally as they battle one another with their worm armies in famous battles of the past, as well as fictional fights of the future. The game, as described… Read More

RadioShack Corporation announced today that it has begun offering MovieBeam's set-top boxes at 1,700 retail locations in 331 mjor metropolitan areas where MovieBeam service is available. At first glance, MovieBeam—backed by Disney, Cisco, Intel, and others—seems like a lot of other set-top box services offering on-demand, rental access to movies. And, indeed, the MovieLink boxes store up to 100 movies, and offer instant… Read More

It Was Only Yesterday… When TDG released our Advanced Mobile Operating Systems report in February of this year 2006 - a report presenting the case as to why mobile Linux and Windows would both pick up market share at the cost of Symbian's dominance – we received quite a bit of feedback.  While much of the feedback was positive, not surprisingly some of it was negative - the cost of being the first to… Read More

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Buffalo Technology, as reported by tech site eHomeUpgrade, recently previewed larger versions of its TeraStation Terabyte Network Storage devices for consumer and business uses. A new 2TB version priced at $1,999 and targeted towards the business sector is available now, while 1.6TB and 2TB home servers will come out in May for $1,499 and $1,899 respectively. The TeraStation Terabyte Network Storage devices, said Buffalo, are both Windows… Read More