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Buffalo USB 3.0 Interface ExpressCard Review

If your laptop is like mine and pre-dates USB 3 but you want to use USB 3 devices at their full speed, then you might be interested in the Buffalo USB 3.0 Interface ExpressCard (IFC-EC2U3/UC). It's an ExpressCard/34 size device, with two USB 3.0 ports on the side. The card will also plug into in ExpressCard/54 slot. If needed for

Buffalo March Madness

Buffalo Technology has had a busy month with updates to the TeraStation, LinkStation, DriveStation and MiniStation ranges. Starting out at the beginning of the month, the new TeraStation NAS range was announced consisting of the Duo, 4 bay, 6 bay and 8 bay versions, all now powered by Intel's Atom D510 processor.  The new models also come with two USB

Waula Secure Online Storage

I just started using Wuala a secure online storage available for Mac, Windows and Linux. Wuala is developed and run by LaCie a French provider of external storage. All your files are encrypted directly on your computer before its sent on line. Your password never leaves your computer, not even Wuala has it, so it is important that you keep

Buffalo Upgrades DriveStations to USB 3.0

Buffalo Technology have upgraded their DriveStation Duo and DriveStation Quad external hard drives to USB 3.0 while bumping their capacities at the same time. This makes some serious storage available at high data transfer rates. The DriveStation Duo holds two drives that can be configured as a RAID 0, 1 or as a standard external drive. It's available in 2

SD Card Association

Andy McCasky and Esbjorn Larsen spoke to Alisa Hicks from the SD Card Association, a standards body for SD cards. They make sure that SD cards work in all devices. SD stands for secure-digital. The cards are created with copyrights protection (CPRM) installed. So that content providers are willing to allow their creations on the cards. Right now the cards

Other World Computing SSDs

Solid-State Drives (SSDs) haven't ousted spinning hard drives from the average PC, but they have made significant inroads in the netbook market where the performance of the SSD compensates for the weaker performance of the CPU. Andy McCaskey talks to Larry O'Connor, founder and CEO of Other World Computing (OWC) on how OWC got started, what makes OWC special and

HSTI Wireless Media Stick™

Harry Diamantopoulos of HSTI presents the Wireless Media Stick™. The Wireless Media Stick™ is able to deliver to playback devices the files stored in PC, Mac and NAS (network attached storage) devices. For example, plug the Wireless Media Stick™ into your HDTV's USB port and watch a movie or view digital photos stored elsewhere on your WiFi home network. The