Category: Miscellaneous

Asus has collaborated with Kingston to create its first solid state drive. Normally companies start with basic features but Asus has come with a new feature called SATA Express interface.

Slated to be released in May, the Asus Hyper Express SSD with SATA Express supports Serial ATA (SATA) and PCI Express (PCIe) devices. It comes with multiple PCI express lanes as pure PCI Express connection to the storage device that allows doubling the speed of SATA easily.

In theory you will be able to get speeds of 1,969 MB/s. This SSD is basically a RAID 0 array made of two mSATA storage devices encased in a 2.5 inch case. Future models will come with 2x M.2 SSDs instead of mSATA drives for even better performance and capacity.

Sony has released three portal hard disk drives PSZ-HA1T, PSZ-HA50 and PSZ-HA2T that look tough and rugged. All of them look and feel the same but have different storage capacities and of course price tags.

PSZ-HA1T, PSZ-HA50 and PSZ-HA2T have 1TB, 500GB and 2TB storage capacities respectively. Price start for $270 / €197 for the 2TB model.

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Luxottica Group, the company behind Ray-Ban and Oakley sunglass brands has partnered with Google to make connected eyewear similar to Google Glass. This is a massive milestone for Glass program that been exclusive to members of Explorer program and have paid USD 1500 for the eyewear.

Most probably the Ray-Ban and Oakley will add style to the technology and make it more friendly to the consumers. Also this way the search engine giant will have access to Luxottica’s 5,000 retail locations to distribute the new eyewear.

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Microsoft gave white Xbox One to its employees when it launched the console but some of them are already selling on it on Ebay. The Redmond giant will only be selling black variant to the normal public. Only ten units of this employee-exclusive Xbox One are available on Ebay.

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Sony launched the PlayStation 4 back in November 2013 and since then, it has sold like hotcakes. In fact according to the official sales figures, Sony has been able to sell 6 million PS4 consoles so far. Andrew House, Playstation’s current president and Group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment told WSJ

We’re struggling to keep up with demand. Conservatively, as we get into the early summer months, we’ll be closer to a full supply situation.

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Sprint which is under stiff competition from the likes of T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon is struggling to get new subscribers and to keep the ones it already has. So it is now turning to layoffs and closing stores in order to keep its profits up.

The network provider announced today that it has laid off 330 techs and closed 55 stores to reduce overall running costs. The staff in the stores were dedicated for repairing phones for the Sprint current customers.

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