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Which Would You Prefer For The Money: a MacBook Air Or An iPhone 5s?
Corning Gains Intel Approval For All-optical Thunderbolt Cables
USB-IF Certifies 1,000 SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0) Products
Wondershare Gives Away Data Recovery for Mac
Temperature Gauge Pro Controls Fan Speeds And Monitors Temperatures In Your Mac
Seagate Helps Eliminate Fear of Data Loss
Which Would You Prefer For The Money: a MacBook Air Or An iPhone 5s?
Aussie Electronista contributor Sanjiv Sathiah says that while Apple's iPhone 5c pricing caught many by surprise, it's tht pricing of the iPhone 5s that's giving him pause, noting that in Australia, an iPhone 5s 64GB will retail for $30 more than a MacBook Air with 128GB, with Apple Australia selling the new 64GB iPhone 5s for AU $1,129 off-contract, while the 128GB 11-inch MacBook Air is tagged at AU $1,099.
Sathiah observes that the only circumstance he would consider getting the new iPhone 5s under that price structure is if it were subsidized on a two-year plan, and when you starting comparing the iPhone 5c, or even the iPhone 5s against the Nexus 4 from a bang for your buck perspective, the Nexus 4 looks like a bargain, with, ironically, Apple's own MacBook Air also starting to look like a bargain as well, and he would sooner spend his money on the MacBook Air than the iPhone 5s.
And then there's the intriguing possibility of Apple setting the stage to switch to in-house designed A-Series silicon in Macs as well as iDevices.
[Your editor concurs]
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Corning Gains Intel Approval For All-optical Thunderbolt Cables
AppleInsider Staff report that at the Intel Developer Forum on Wednesday, Corning announced that its Thunderbolt Optical Cables are the first completely optical fiber products to receive Intel's certification.
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http://goo.gl/EZkb8w
USB-IF Certifies 1,000 SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0) Products
On Wednesday at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) announced it has surpassed 1,000 certified SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0) products on the market, a milestone that reflects the overall success and market adoption of SuperSpeed USB technology.
SuperSpeed USB certification has increased rapidly from 500 products at this time last year, to now more than 1,000 products, including the recent certification of USB 3.0 hubs. Certified SuperSpeed USB products represent only a fraction of the nearly 700 million USB 3.0 products forecasted to be shipped in 2013, according to a 2013 independent USB market report by Multimedia Research Group, Inc. (MRG). This type of USB product investment from USB-IF member companies has enabled SuperSpeed USB to achieve worldwide consumer awareness.
"USB technology continues to be the dominant standard in the interconnect market," said Greg Potter, analyst, Multimedia Research Group. "The current rate of SuperSpeed USB market adoption is another indicator of the future longevity of the technology."
"USB technology is more than a market heavyweight, it is the de facto interface that consumers rely on for consistent interoperability and versatility," says Jeff Ravencraft, USB-IF President and COO. The industry support for SuperSpeed USB certification validates the USB-IF testing and certification program is a necessary step to ensure a seamless computing experience.
Recently announced USB technology developments will continue to enhance user experience across multiple computing platforms. The new USB 3.1 specification enables SuperSpeed USB to operate at up to 10 Gbps, a 2x performance increase from USB 3.0. Member companies are also currently implementing the recently released USB Power Delivery specification. USB Power Delivery provides consumers with a single USB cable, for A/V, data and power delivery up to 100 watts. New products will have USB Power Delivery hardware inside and use a power delivery-enabled cable. Each specification will be backward compatible with existing USB cables and connectors.
The USB-IF and member companies will showcase the latest USB developments during Intel Developers Forum (IDF) being held September 10-12 in San Francisco.
SuperSpeed USB brings significant performance enhancements to the ubiquitous USB standard, while remaining compatible with the billions of USB-enabled devices currently deployed in the market. SuperSpeed USB delivers up to 10x the data transfer rate of Hi-Speed USB, as well as improved power efficiency. SuperSpeed USB offers effortless video streaming, music and photos at your home, office, car and anywhere in between. The USB 3.0 specification was developed by the USB 3.0 Promoter Group, which consists of Hewlett-Packard Company, Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Renesas Electronics, ST Ericsson and Texas Instruments.
To learn more about SuperSpeed USB, stop by the SuperSpeed USB Community at IDF or visit:
http://www.usb.org
Wondershare Gives Away Data Recovery for Mac
Wondershare Software is giving away free for 3 days Wondershare Data Recovery for Mac, its application that helps recovering deleted, formatted, or lost data including documents, images, videsos, audio, emails, and archives on the Mac.
Wondershare Data Recovery for Mac Features:
• Completely recover deleted, formatted and lost data.
• Recover documents, images, videos, audio, emails, and archives.
• Recover Mac data from Mac hard drives and most storage devices.
• Recover photos, videos, SMS, contacts, notes, calendars and call history from your iPhone via iTunes.
• Lost File Recovery - Restore files deleted by Command + Delete or emptied from Trash, and lost files from formatted or corrupted partitions with original file name and structure tree.
• Raw Recovery - Recover your files with a deeper scan.
• Partition Recovery - Recover lost partition and data due to partition loss, partition deleting, and partition error.
• iPhone Recovery from iTunes Recover lost files of iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, such as photos, videos, SMS, contacts, note, calendar and call history, from iTunes backup file, if they have been synced with iTunes.
• Resume Recovery Save your scanning result, and import to recover data later without a second scan.
• Recover lost data of iPhone 4S, 4, 3GS, 3, iPad 1 & 2 and iPod Touch 4 from iTunes, if they have been synced with iTunes.
• Recover all your photos, videos, SMS, contacts, note, calendar, and call history.
• Preview all contents in original quality.
• Flexible to pause, restart data recovery in the scan process according to your needs.
• File filters before and after scanning help you find your target files in a short time and save you much time.
• File validity lets you distinguish valid and invalid files before recovery.
• Lost File Recovery can restore your deleted files with original file name, and storage path.
• Save and import the previous scanning results to resume recovery without rescanning.
• Preview images before recovery: preview in thumbnail or cover flow, to let you check the image quality in advance.
• Watch videos and listen audio files before recovery to confirm which you want to recover.
• Preview of documents, emails and archives permits you to select the exactly desired one to recover.
No matter if it's been deleted, formatted, or is otherwise inaccessible, Wondershare Data Recovery can recover lost photos, video, documents, emails and archive files from any Mac-based hard drive or external hard drive, iPod, USB drive, SD card, digital camera, mobile phone, and MP3/MP4 player, due to accidental deleting, formatting, virus infection, improper operation, unexpected power failure, and other unknown reasons. Also, iPhone recovery allows you to recover lost photos, videos, SMS, contacts, note, calendar and call history from iTunes backup file.
Wondershare Data Recovery for Mac normally sells for $95.95
The event page is here:
http://www.wondershare.com/data-recovery-mac/
Temperature Gauge Pro Controls Fan Speeds And Monitors Temperatures In Your Mac
See the current and maximum recorded temperatures (in Celsius or Fahrenheit) for every temperature sensor in your Mac.
View and control the speeds for every fan. With Auto Boost, have the fans go to the maximum speed when a predefined temperature is hit.
Show a notification if a sensor or the Mac gets too hot, or when the fans are turned up with Auto Boost.
Discover faulty fans and temperature sensors with the built-in diagnostics.
Log all temperatures, fan speeds and alerts to a CSV file.
Run in the background with configurable info displayed in the menu bar.
Works on all Macs, whether it's a laptop or desktop.
System requirements:
Requires Mac OS X 10.7 or higher
Price $4.99
Free 10 Day Trial
For more information, visit:
http://www.tunabellysoftware.com/tgpro/
Seagate Helps Eliminate Fear of Data Loss
Seagate Technology plc has announced Seagate Rescue and Seagate Rescue and Replace data protection plans offering coverage starting at $29.99. Seagate is the first storage solutions provider to offer a complete protection plan that covers drive replacement and data recovery services for data that is contained on the drive. The plans offer coverage for nearly any brand of internal or external hard disk drive or solid-state drive. This first-of-its-kind data protection plan covers data recovery services for data that may have been lost due to physical damage, corruption or accidental deletion at a fraction of the cost of data recovery services purchased after the event. The protection plan will be the first to be offered on a global scale following launches in Canada and Europe later this year and throughout the Asia Pacific region in mid-2014.
"Seagate is very much aware of the level of trust our customers are putting in us by placing their data on our drives. We always advocate backing up, but there may be times when those photos, videos and data might not have made it to a duplicate copy before something goes wrong," says Scott Horn, vice president of marketing for Seagate. "These new data protection plans offer an easy and user-friendly method of helping consumers manage the challenging experience of the potential loss of their most important files, data and memories. We provide peace of mind for those unforeseen events that might damage a drive or its contents."
Today, most everything is stored in an electronic format on a hard drive. From an archived music library, to family photos and video, those moments captured are keepsakes that cannot be captured again if lost. The hard cost of recovering data from a damaged or corrupted drive can reach into the thousands of dollars, where highly skilled technicians must manually disassemble the drive and recover the data bit by bit. Being able to receive data recovery services and also get a replacement drive at an up-front nominal fee provides an option to avoid the high cost of data recovery services.
"Data recovery is often a missing element in personal storage devices," says Liz Conner, Sr. Research Analyst for Personal and Entry Level Storage at IDC. "Traditionally these devices have focused on providing data back-up or additional capacity to PCs, offering little to no options in the event of a storage failure. Seagates Rescue plan presents end users with peace of mind in the unlikely and unforeseeable event of device damage, drive/file corruption, or accidental file deletion."
The service will first be made available through Seagate.com and will later be able to be purchased from retail and manufacture partners at the time one purchases a computer, external storage or NAS. The Seagate Rescue plans come in 2-year, $29.99; 3-year, $39.99; and 4-year, $49.99 MSRP packages. The plan for Seagate Rescue and Replace, where the data is restored and a new drive is provided, has 2-, 3- and 4-year offerings, for: $39.99, $49.99 and $59.99 MSRP, respectively.
For more information, visit:
http://www.seagate.com
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