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Gold-plated USB Stick Sparkles
News A USB memory stick coated in gold and boasting five diamonds on its case was launched at the CeBIT trade fair in Hanover this week. White Lake's luxury USB stick in all its splendour White Lake is part of Specs Distribution of the Netherlands...
[March 10, 2006, 14:40]
BT Bundles Business Wireless Broadband
News Broadband Option 2 costs £26.99 per month, and includes the broadband modem on a USB stick, antivirus and anti-spam software, and 24/7 support. Data usage with the USB stick that goes beyond the 1GB deal limits will be charged at 10p per megabyte...
[October 20, 2008, 17:31]
Mandriva Flash review
Reviews To use Mandriva Flash, you simply insert the 2GB Dane-Elec-designed USB stick in a suitable port and reboot the computer. Second, some older systems' BIOSs do not support booting from a USB stick. If you're not able to update the BIOS, there is a...
[January 5, 2007, 13:53]
HP Says No To Intel's Turbo Memory
News ReadyBoost can already be utilised by inserting a memory card or USB stick into a Vista-based computer, but Turbo Memory is being touted as a way to take advantage of the feature without having to add external media.
[June 4, 2007, 15:33]
MandrakeSoft Releases Mobile Linux Device
News I'm holding out for a 30GB USB memory stick. Once 30GB is available on a USB stick, I think these devices will really take off," he said. The hard drive runs from the USB port of a computer and allows users to turn most PCs into a Linux desktop...
[August 26, 2004, 17:55]
Data Doctor Recovery Pen Drive
Downloads All the data including images, pictures, audio, video, pics, songs, music, clips, text, documents lost due to accidental loss, virus damage, corrupted drives, Quick Format, software corruption, and system crash can be effectively and efficiently...
[September 4, 2008, 20:16]
Flash-memory Devices Cause Security Concerns
News USB storage devices and products like Sony's Memory Stick could be a serious security risk, experts said this week. USB drives and Memory Sticks have been growing in popularity during the past few years and are commonly used in products such as...
[August 22, 2003, 16:15]
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 With Vodafone Mobile Broadband review
Reviews Many users will therefore need to resort to USB sticks or flash memory cards to boost storage on Vodafone's Mini 9. Alternatively there are three USB ports; you can run some applications from USB sticks, which could be a saving grace.
[October 10, 2008, 10:21]
HTC Shift review
Reviews We also installed and used Vodafone's USB Stick modem. You'll need the latter for the AC adapter and the three-port USB hub and Ethernet connector that's also supplied with the device. The software installation took an age, but the Stick worked...
[May 29, 2008, 16:23]
Acer TravelMate 3012WTMi review
Reviews The FireWire (IEEE 1394) connector for the optical drive is on the right-hand side along with a USB 2.0 port, a single PC Card slot and a card reader that accepts SD, MMC and Memory Stick media. The left-hand side houses two further USB 2.0 ports...
[April 20, 2006, 12:25]
OQO Model E2 review
Reviews On the device itself, connectors are limited to an HDMI-out port, a 3.5mm headset jack and a single USB 2.0 port. As well as the optical drive, the docking station carries three further three USB 2.0 ports plus Ethernet, VGA and HDMI connectors, a...
[December 6, 2007, 14:40]
Sony VAIO PCG-Z1SP review
Reviews What you do get is a pair of USB 2.0 ports and the inevitable i.LINK (FireWire/1394) port on the left-hand side, along with the audio ports (microphone and headphone) and an RJ-11 modem port on the right-hand side, plus an RJ-45 Ethernet connector...
[March 12, 2003, 11:52]
Asus V6J review
Reviews On the right edge is a full complement of four USB 2.0 ports; two of these are very close to one another and, depending on the size of your USB connectors, it may not be possible to use them all at once.
[March 28, 2006, 16:15]
Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook E8210 review
Reviews Next to this trio of USB connectors is a serial port, and there's an RJ-45 Ethernet connector on the opposite side. The right edge is also home to an RJ-11 modem port, an S-Video out port and a single USB 2.0 port.
[April 26, 2006, 9:45]
Acer TravelMate 4262WLMi 3G review
Reviews On the left edge are two USB 2.0 ports, the Ethernet (RJ-45) port and a Firewire (IEEE 1394) port. On the back of the system are two further USB 2.0 ports, the modem (RJ-11) port plus S-video, DVI-D and VGA connectors.
[November 1, 2006, 9:57]
HP Compaq Nx9420 review
Reviews On the left-hand side, working from back to front, are the mains power connector, external monitor port, S-Video connector, two USB 2.0 ports, a FireWire (IEEE 1394) port and, right at the front, a Type II PC Card slot (with CardBus but not...
[January 9, 2007, 13:32]
Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook P1610 review
Reviews The LifeBook P1610 is similarly limited: there are two USB 2.0 ports on the right edge alongside an SD card slot plus headphone and microphone jacks. The LifeBook P1610 also lacks an optical drive, but our main wish is for more USB ports and a...
[July 26, 2007, 12:29]
Sony VAIO VGN-A197XP review
Reviews Navigation is via a two-button touchpad, and there's a built-in wireless mouse receiver -- although we can find no wireless mouse on Sony's Web site to link up with this (in the meantime, you can always plug in a USB mouse, of course).
[July 15, 2004, 17:00]
Mandriva Linux Gets Flashy
Blog I've been using Mandriva's new Linux-distribution-on-a-USB-stick, Mandriva Flash, and most impressive it is too. I'll post a full review soon, but the main advantages over a similar Live CD distro are that there's a spare 1GB of capacity on the USB...
[January 4, 2007, 11:13]
10 Ways To Increase Vista's Performance review
Reviews ReadyBoost lets you use a USB stick such as this 2GB Kingston unit as a fast hard disk cache to speed up your Vista system. It’s best to use a high-performance flash card or USB drive for ReadyBoost. You can use a flash memory card or USB key as a...
[August 8, 2007, 12:51]
