Anti-shock drive parking and 256-bit encryption are also coming with the new drive. The drives can be formatted to be used with Macs, although regular Canvio drives would lose NTI’s app in this process.

Capacities of 1TB, 750GB and 500GB are now available for the two lines. The prices for the Basics drives are $130, $100 and $80 respectively and a $10 premium is applied to the NTI application on the regular Canvio.

Sony says that the technology used to make these modules includes some advancements over solutions based on nickel-cadmium or lead-acid. Extended lifespan is the first and main benefit, as batteries in these modules are supposed to have a life of about ten years. They do not have a “memory effect” and therefore do not need to be totally discharged before a new recharge. Recharging is very fast, since the modules can be restored up to ninety percent of their capacity in just an hour. Scalability is another positive aspect, as modules can be combined in parallel or serially in order to expand capacity or voltage. Unlike other batteries which use Ni-Cad or lead-acid systems, Li-ion based systems do not use any rare metal or toxic lead which would damage the environment.

The modules present a 2U form factor and therefore can easily fit into 19-inch server racks, which are a standard. No price has been announced yet.

The SSD drive is still compatible with USB 2.0 and has an option of 256-bit hardware encryption. The device supports both Windows and Mac systems, but Iomega bundles it with cross-platform backup and Windows antivirus software. Being a flash storage, the device should be skip-proof compared to rotating drives and is shipped in a metal enclosure supposed to keep it safe in case of a drop of up to ten feet.

There are three models coming in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities and having prices of $229, $399 and $749. November is the deadline for shipping the entire line of External SSDs from Iomega.

However, the mobile upgrade is important because it could make the new generation of tablets more practical in a work setting. The iPad, as well as upcoming Android tablets are still developing their enterprise support, even if the iPad currently enjoys greater popularity and even a larger selection of applications. Apple is selling an iPad variant of the iWork suite, but it still doesn’t have the cloud sync capabilities of Docs.

In order to guarantee backwards compatibility with USB 2.0 drives, there is a Y cable included with each Ultimate 3.0 thumb drive. According to Kingston’s tests, a 3.9GB movie may be copied to the drive in only 1 minute and 13 seconds. Kingston’s 16GB Ultimate 3.0 USB drive will be sold under a $89 price tag, the 32GB variant will cost $138, while the 64GB model will be priced at $270.

The service has already gone live; users of Android-powered devices and Apple devices are encouraged to try it out. In order to view files uploaded in the formats, users only have to login into a dedicated Google account.

In recent weeks, Google has been adjusting a great part of its web platform for iOS devices. This doesn’t include only the document viewer, but also the iPad-friendly Gmail or making iPads use the desktop variants of sites instead of normally using their iPhone versions.

In order to read BDXL discs, new disc readers have to be especially designed to read this type of discs, even if these will also be compatible with the current 25GB and 50GB Blu-ray disc formats. License information, as well as applications for this new standard are already available for manufacturers. The Association hasn’t yet given any details on the estimated release date of the first BDXL hardware.

The product line includes the Radical, having a retro Skin-branded printed logo design on a black top and a vivacious yellow base, but also the Red Hot, which has a Skin Swipe logo onto a red top and a black base, and the Knock Out, a gothic-themed drive, with a silver top and a black base.

The three new drives have Iomega’s Protection Suite preinstalled; this includes backup and also anti-virus software, but also 2GB of online storage. Iomega’s Skin Drives are already available in the USA, being priced at $120.

The new capacity seems to be enough for a handheld to store chores which were impossible to store before. The manufacturer of the chip estimates that the 128GB could offer 16.6 hours of 1080p video.

The test samples of the 128GB chip are expected to be available by September; full production is about to start during this fall. In August, another similar chip will start sampling, a 64GB one. The mass production of the 64GB chip will begin at the same time with the 128GB one. Even if no customer has yet been named, Apple is expected to use this type of chip, as the company is one of the largest customers for flash memory and uses Toshiba memory for some iPhones, iPods and even solid-state drives for Macs. Toshiba usually uses the memory for some of its notebooks.

The service is supposed to have a private beta version available during the Google I/O conference. It could also be designed to help developers intending to switch from S3.

A similar service would target web applications and could be use as an advantage for Android and Chrome operating system applications, which are expected to use cloud storage heavily. Google Storage, as a result of the implementation, would not be seen as a universal pool but it would allow developers to use it as a common place of their content and also letting users to direct photos and other kind of data straight to Google Storage.