Thomas Grashoff, VP of Longshine Technologie Europe GmbH, demonstrates the portability of the new 6” E-book.

Users can read books, play MP3, store photos, and view documents in this thin, handheld format. With 1GB NAND flash, 128MB SDRAM, SD Card (up to 8GB), WiFi and USB, the E-Book is fully featured to keep up with mobile life. Batteries conveniently go on stand-by if you are not turning pages.

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With consumer use of digital video and digital music on the rise, and significant penetration of home networks by broadband users, consumers are increasingly considering network storage, reports In-Stat 

The consumer network storage market grew at a faster pace in 2007 than 2006 and more than doubled in the last two years.

Vendors had been waiting for consumers to catch up with their network storage offerings, but that has begun to change.

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Seagate sues STEC for patent violations with the side benefit of stalling the other 50+ makers of solid-state storage who eat into HDD sales.

Contested patents cover "surface mount stacking method and device," "hardware assisted memory backup system and method," and "method and system for host programmable data storage device self-testing."

"We have spent $7 billion over the last 10 years to optimize how our disks work," says Seagate CEO William Watkins. "This is the first lawsuit brought by a hard-disk company against a solid-state company. We are protecting the entire industry."

STEC believes it held prior patents, dating more than a decade prior to Seagate's patents. The $190 million-STEC was once known as SimpleTech before it sold off its consumer division with that name.

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Super Talent Technology shows three new 8GB USB Flash drives, including the world’s smallest 8GB drive.

These new drives include: PICO-A, with a swivel lid; the retractable PICO-B; and ultra small PICO-C. Super Talent’s patented PICO series USB drives are manufactured using chip-on-board (COB) technology, which enables up to 8GB of Flash storage to fit into an incredibly minute case. PICO-C drives weigh less than a nickel (about 4.7 grams) and measure only 31.3mm x 12.4mm x 3.4mm.

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