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T-Mobile’s magic stick
This past fortnight, I have been mostly testing USB mobile broadband modems. Testing them until my eyes bleed. Until yesterday, T-Mobile had provided us with the larger Huawei E220 USB modem you can...
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The mini Flash marvel
When a Corsair rep turned up at Dennis Towers yesterday he told us he’d brought something pretty special to show off. We were therefore distinctly underwhelmed when he said it was…a flash drive. But...
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The worst movie tie-in ever
Francis Ford Coppolla’s masterpiece, The Godfather; one of the finest films ever produced, a tale of family, power and betrayal back in 1940s New York and Sicily; Marlon Brando’s finest hour, Al...
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USB 3 first benchmark – it’s here, and it’s fast
The first USB 3 external hard disk has arrived in the PC Pro Labs – a pre-production sample courtesy of our friends at Asus – and initial impressions are simply excellent. The chart above may need a...
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A tiny drive that holds billions of bits
“Dude, someone’s snapped the end off your USB stick.” That’s what you’d probably say if you saw the new Lexar Echo ZE flash drive sitting on my desk. Yet I can assure you, as one dude to another, that...
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Light Peak’s dazzling potential
Light Peak, in case you didn’t know, is a new universal interconnect being developed by Intel. It’s a bit like USB, but it conveys information via laser light rather than electric current. Intel plans...
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Windows 8’s “Windows To Go” feature: hands-on
This morning I’ve been playing with a Windows To Go system, as helpfully provided by Microsoft at yesterday’s TechEd event. In some ways it’s almost a disappointment: running off a 32GB Kingston...
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The USB stick that turns into a keyboard
To Covent Garden, where James Lyne – director of technology strategy at Sophos – has been presenting a review of the security landscape during 2012, and a look forward to next year’s threats. The...
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