Apple may have dumped ExpressCard from their new MacBook Pro models, but PCMCIA - the organization behind the expansion card standard – are striding ahead with the official release of ExpressCard Standard 2.0.  Transfer speeds are reportedly boosted by up to 10-times compared to ExpressCard 1.2, the existing standard, and there’s also support for SuperSpeed USB 3.0.
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Panasonic Japan announced a video-conferencing system today called the KX-VC500 that allows you to use HD-quality screens for communicating. This is really pretty cool and takes the entire idea of video conference to a new level of sophistication.
These connections will be made over the web and allow for HD-quality video to be sent both ways. [...]

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Honestly, as of now, I couldn’t possibly justify having a 16 port USB hub.  However, now that I know there’s one out there I’m itching to make up reasons to use it.  With this around, you could buy as many pointless USB accessories as you could possibly want.  Be it sparkling lights to hang around [...]

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Here is another combo USB gadget, the Anti Slip USB Hub Mobile Phone Holder.
The Anti Slip USB Hub Mobile Phone Holder is designed to hold your mobile phone by placing it on the built in anti slip pad, it also has 4 x USB 2.0 ports built in.
Here are the specifications.

USB 2.0, support USB 1.1
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Having already seen it in more than one live photoshoot, plus a boatload of leaked images, there’s perhaps little to surprise us in Acer’s official Aspire One 751 press gallery.  Still, it’s a slick 11.6-inch netbook and, with its angled VGA and ethernet ports, moderately distinctive if you come upon it at the right angle, [...]

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Don’t let the hard-drive and DVD burner fool you: this isn’t an ultraportable laptop, but a netbook cooler with extra talents.  Century’s Netbook Stand aims to address two of the more common complaints about budget ultraportables, low storage capacity and no optical drive, by squeezing both things into a compact slice.
Inside the 260 x 190 [...]

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Yesterday’s review of the Acer AspireRevo nettop might have cast some doubt over its Atom processor while simultaneously praising NVIDIA’s Ion GPU chipset, but it didn’t really touch on upgrade potential.  Small-form-factor (SFF) computers are usually no-go areas when it comes to most modifications, but bit-tech have discovered there’s a surprising amount of room inside [...]

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AMD have announced the ATI Radeon HD 4770, the first desktop graphics card to use 40nm manufacturing processes.   A PCI Express 2.0 x16 card, the Radeon HD 4770 offers DirectX 10.1 support and uses GDDR5 memory, despite having a roughly $100 price-tag.
Other features include AMD’s second-gen Unified Video Decoder (UVD 2.0) for hardware HD decoding, picture-in-picture support and [...]

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