Tag archive: Kingston

Memory and storage developer Kingston is looking to expand the storage capabilities of iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches—not by cracking the case or clamping on additional hardware, but with the Kingston Wi-Drive: a separate, highly-portable media server that users connect to via Wi-Fi. With the Wi-Drive, iOS device users can expand the amount of storage available to their iOS devices—and, even better, share media across multiple… Read More

Memory and storage developer Kingston is getting into the market for USB 3.0 SSD drives, announcing its new HyperX Max 3.0 External USB 3.0 drive. Although compatible with everyday USB 2.0 (and even USB 1.1) devices, the SSD drive really shines when connected to a USB 3-capable computer: Kingston claims in its testing the drive transfered 10 GB of data in 72 seconds, compared to 352 seconds (almost six minutes) using USB 2.0 on the same test… Read More

  What do you do when you’ve just been caught stealing $35,000, the evidence is on a flash drive, and you’re in police custody? Swallow it, of course. That’s the approach ATM scammer Florin Necula took when he found himself in that predicament last January. After Secret Service agents tracked him down and took him into custody, Necula “grabbed Subject Flash Drive 2, which had been on his person at the time of his arrest, and swallowed,”… Read More

Memory and storage manufacturer Kingston has announced its second generation of SSDNow V-series solid-state drives, designed for both mainstream consumer computer users and businesses. The new V-series drives range in capacity from 30 to 128 GB, offer improved performance over their predecessors, and incorporate TRIM support (which is built-in with Windows 7) to help the drives maintain their performance over their lifespan. The drives are… Read More

Memory and storage developer Kingston has been producing USB flash drives for years, and has always kept one eye on the high end (and high margin) end of the market. So it's not very surprising that the company claims to be the first to put a 128 GB USB flash drive on the market with an expanded edition of the DataTraveler 200. "The new DT200′s robust storage capability lets consumers store complete libraries of music,… Read More

Memory and storage provider Kingston has announced its SSDNow M Series Bundle, offering a quick way for folks to upgrade from a standard 2.5- or 3.5-inch hard drive to SSD technology. The SSDNOw M Series drives are available in either 80 GB or 160 GB capacities, and Kingston is throwing in all the accessories and software needed to get data from their current hard drive onto an SSD, including software to clone over the existing hard drives,… Read More

Amazon's next-gen Kindle 2 eBook reader, introduced earlier this week, is due to go on sale on February 24. However, publishing industry insiders already anticipate an impending controversy over its text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities. As noted in our hands-on impressions, the Kindle 2’s biggest step forward over its predecessor appears to be its ability to vocalize text, reading manuscripts like an audiobook for the benefit of end-users.… Read More

Perhaps you’re in love with the idea of charging gadgets on the go with Callpod’s Fuel Tank, but the idea of carrying around a hulking lithium-ion battery “just in case” doesn’t sit so well with you. If you’re just looking for an emergency shot in the arm for your all-important Blackberry, the smaller Rechargeable Pocket Booster for mobile phones might be just the ticket. Like the Fuel Tank, the Pocket Booster will juice up your mobile phone… Read More

Memory and storage manufacturer Kingston has has introduced a new 64 GB edition of its DT150 DataTraveler USB drive, offering a new capacious storage option for folks like digital photographers and videographers who need to carry significant amounts of data with them. The DT150 works with Windows 2000/XP/Vista as well as Mac OS 10.3+ and Linux 2.6+, and just pops into any available USB port. “The new 64GB DataTraveler 150 takes… Read More

We’ve seen plenty of attempts at turning USB thumb drives from geek-chic to just plain chic, but so far none have quite been able to get past that chunky metal USB connector. Rather than hiding it with sliding designs like many other manufacturers have done, Kingston took a different approach with its new DataTraveler Mini Slim, which strips the shiny connector off completely and makes art of the terminals beneath. The new… Read More

Memory developer Kingston has launched 16 GB versions of its popular DataTraveler DT400 and DT100 USB flash drives. The DT400s ship with MigoSync software that enables users to work on multiple Windows PCs by migrating their email, browser preferences, and other desktop settings between Windows PCs, and also automatically keeps files and data synced with a predefined host machine. The DataTraveler 100s are built for simplicity: they… Read More

Continuing the expansion of existing flash memory formats into greater and greater capacities (as opposed to creating new, faster chips as Intel and Micron have recently done), Kingston announced its largest SDHC card yet on Thursday, weighing in at a hefty 16GB. The card doubles the capacity of Kingston’s last largest SDHC card, which was 8GB. Besides its storage capacity, the new card has earned classification as a Class 4 card,… 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

With everyone focused on the incredibly expensive acquisition of YouTube by Google, attention once again drifted away from the Apple connection to Google and what may be the big long term plan jointly being executed by both companies. So let’s take a moment to lay it out. The Next Generation of TV TV started out being between the networks and the user and was for the most part advertising driven. With the advent of cable we began… Read More

No, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey are nowhere in sight: memory manufacturer Kingston Technology is diving into the personal media player waters with its new 1 and 2 GB K-PEX personal media players. K-PEX apparently stands for Kingston Kingston Personal Entertainment experience, and has nothing to do with the film K-PAX) rather looks like a Sony PSP, and enables users to play music, view photos and video, and play video games. Kingston… Read More