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The storage media requirement with big capacity and the characteristics of mobile user made the request of Memory Stick with big capacity even more. Kingmax answered with launched Super Stick, Memory Stick big capacity and also have a high speed.

Super Stick in fact for a long time was introduced, that is in a Valentine Day agenda and the fashion show in New York, last February 11 2006. Super Stick had the measurement 34 mm x 12,4 mm x 2,2 mm below 3 gram and sky blue colour. Kingmax in this opportunity also announced their plan to launch High Speed Memory Stick by making use of Single Level Cell (SLC) technology.

This technology enabled Super Stick to read and write with speed 20 MB/s and 13 MB/s.

Kingston announced the launching of Kingston Mini Fun DataTraveler, the newest family’s member of DataTraveler USB Flash drive that had the superiority to the side of his size that very cute. This USB drive had size only 1,5×0,75 inch (3,8×1,9 cm), the profile measuring same with a SD card or MMC. Mini Fun available in being varied the colour variation with capacity up to 1 GB.

“Increased the popularity of USB Flash drive made it become one of obligatory equipment for students and profesional worker” said Scott Chen, Vice President, APAC Business Development, Kingston. “At this time, the user could unite Kingston DataTraveler Mini Fun in the hanging of key or cellular phone to being able easily to keep or take the document, photographs, music, the task of the school, the report, or other work at any time.”

DataTraveler Mini Fun drive Kingston product enclosed Big Fish Games Atlantis and Magic Vines gaming software. Atlantis is one game that brought gamer in a trip to 19th age, where he played a role in as the exploration team leader leading a secret mission. They must express the secret from the city that for a long time has been lost in 81 defiant levels. Magic Vines is one puzzle game, where the gamer would adventure went through the forest and plains in the world. Explored each location with broke heterogenous puzzle that the level of his difficulty of continuing to increase. Atlantis and Magic Vines were available in seven languages, England, France, Spain, Germany, Korea, Japan, and China. Each drive will contain “quick start guide” that will guide the user in the installation process and how to use this game on computer.

“We are very proud Kingston chose to enclose Atlantis and Magic Vines software in the newest USB drive Mini Fun” said Greg Enell, the Vice President, business development, Big Fish Games. “This Drive increased game playing experience by enabling the player to bring him where he like and played to almost all the computers that could be used by his owner.“

HERNDON, Parallels announced the launching of their beta version software, Parallels Workstation 2.2 for Windows and Linux. Parallels Workstation 2.2 increased in performance, speed, stability of operation system as well as the virtual machine isolation that stronger compared with the previous version.

This application was launched two weeks after they launched beta version from Parallels Desktop Mac version. Parallels Workstation enabled user to running all the Windows versions, Linux distribution, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OS/2, eComStation or DOS simultaneously in stable and safe virtual machine. Parallels could be running in a computer with Windows 2000 operation system, XP, Windows 2003 and all Linux versions.

Parallels Workstation 2.2 beta main features :

• New Display and more user friendly.
• Support for towards Secure Virtual Machine Technology (SVM) from AMD for better performance and stability virtual machine.
• Better USB Support, including support for USB equipment that running under Windows Mobile 2005.
• Better networking function, including automatic bridging inside network through default adapter. WiFi Supported for Linux, and the ability to change the network type and bridging briefly.
• Better video graphic Supported, including support for dynamic video mode, custom video mode and video 32 bpp mode.
• Better Full Screen mode where the screen of operation system measurement on virtual machine automatically would be smaller in accordance with the original resolution.
• Better Playback audio and recording.
• Better Parallels Tool Package so the Parallels Workstation use could be more comfortable.
• Comprehensive Image Parallels Tool to help user made the ISO image quickly.

“We gave the new Parallels Workstation version and more sophisticated for Windows and Linux after four months since us sent out the latest release” said Benjamin Rudolph, the Parallels Marketing Manager. “This release is the support and feedback results from thousands of our users all over the world and also our commitment to merge Windows and Linux user.”

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Microsoft Corporation ready to launch the Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Release Candidate 1 (RC1) for Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Server 2003.RC1, the version of the last test of IE 7, that will be launch by Microsoft in The fourth quarter this years. “The RC1 improvement included to performance, stability, security, and application compatibility” said Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager IE in his article on IE blog.

As being quoted from softpedia, Hachamovitch, make sure his user will be most surprised with the display changes in RC1 compared to version 3 beta. “We always accepted the user’s input and continued to improve the bug. Moreover we always improved the cascading style sheet (CSS) IE 7 support” said Hachamovitch. At this time RC1 only available for the English version, for the other language, Arabian, Germany, and Japan his plan will be launched to middle September.

On August 23, 2006. Motorolla launched MOTOMING, the best and newest smart phone by them. For his appearance, this clever cellular phone had elegant clamshell modern design with hidden antena. That made this cellular phone very interesting is tranparent innovative flip that enabled the user to see the message and personal information without must be opened the cover of cellular phone.

With combination of Linux operation system and Java, MOTOMING guaranteed his user got the maximum experience mobile communication and entertainment. This cellular phone also had various business feature. This can be seen from the availability of mobile office equipment and unlimited mobility, like cellular phone ability to be connected with anything, whenever, and anywhere. To support the user productivity, this new cellular phone had the touched screen as wide 2,4 inch with 240×320 pixel.

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Taipeh, on August 16 2006. Transcend, one of the big companies that produced the memory for requirement for multimedia equipment, like camera, PDA, smartphone, and computer, on middle August, introduced and launched his new product, memory card, Transced successful made memory card. The MicroSD (Hi-Speed 80X Ultra Performance MicroSD) which had high speed transfer.

The speed of this memory card could reach 12 MB/s to transfer various file from MicroSD in multimedia equipment or conversely. The new Transcend product also had the small dimension, half of SIM Card cellular phone or smartphone measurement. This product also adopted SLC (Single the Cell Level) NAND Flash chip inside. This technology could make microSD used through to time that for quite a long time (for years).

The transfer speed that could reach 12 MB/s, made Transced increase the speed of memory card transfer that currenly available at this time through up to 70 percent. This Memory card also flexible to be used for various multimedia equipment because still could be used on standart memory slots. Just needed one adapter so this microSD could plug inside standart memory slot. Currently, the owner of multimedia equipment could use this product comfortably. They could keep MP3 files, MPEG4, or small videoclip inside this microSD without must be waiting for the long time tranfer process. Therefore, the memory card product made by Transcend could equip the requirement for the memory to multimedia equipment, like cellular phone, digital camera, PDA, MP3 player, and other portable equipment for the following generation. At this time, Transcend just provided microSD with two capacities, 256 MB and 512 MB.

Intel does cut price strategy before for several of their processors, and now Intel will stop the mass production of several Pentium D Intel processors. This step was carried out because request of this processor increasingly descended.

According to one of the representatives of the company, the shipping schedule finally for Intel Pentium D processors on March 9 2007 and February 8 2008. Whereas deadline the last ordering on December 15 2006.

Intel currently begins to stop the production of the Intel dual-core Pentium D processor with series : 830 (3.0GHz, 2MB L2 cache), 840 (3.0GHz, 2MB L2 cache), 930 (3.0GHz, 2MB L2 cache), 940 (3.0GHz, 2MB L2 cache). “This action was carried out because this microprocessor could not give the ratio price performance that competitive. The possibility would not disappointed customer if this product disappeared from the market” said X-bit Labs.

If observed behind, on the same day when Intel was made an announcement brand newest his processor — Core 2 Duo, Intel also decided to carry out the piece strategy of the cut price to several previous products that released by him. Officially, since the middle of the quarter two 2006, Intel also made an announcement will lower the price of several desktop processors. Definitely, the product like LGA-775 Intel Pentium Extreme Edition (965 and 955), Pentium D (840 and 830), Pentium 4 (670, 660, 650, 641, 571, 561, 551, 521) and MPGA-478 Celeron D (335, 330), could be bought by the consumer with almost half of price. The other processors that also got cut price were LGA-775 Celeron D 326 (256k L2 cache, 2.53GHz, 533MHz FSB, 90nm) and MPGA-478 Celeron 315 (256k L2 cache, 2.26GHz, 533MHz FSB, 90nm).