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A fast burn. TEAC America Inc. of Montebello, Calif., last month announced what it called the fastest combination-speed CD-rewritable drive available: 12X write, 10X rewrite and 32X playback speeds with 85-millisecond access time and a 4M data buffer.
TEAC America Inc. of Montebello, Calif., last month announced what it called the fastest combination-speed CD-rewritable drive available: 12X write, 10X rewrite and 32X playback speeds with 85-millisecond access time and a 4M data buffer.The TEAC CD-RW drive comes with either an IDE or a Fast SCSI-2 interface. It's compatible with Microsoft Windows 9x and Windows 2000.TEAC America also will bring out an external CD-RW drive that connects to a PC's Universal Serial Bus interface and has 4X record, 4X rewrite and 32X read rates. The company claims IDE-level performance via the USB connection. Plus Corp. of Allendale, N.J., has joined the smaller-and-lighter trend with its palm-size Plus U3 digital projectors.The tiny projectors measure 7 inches by 9 inches by 1.9 inches and weigh only 2.9 pounds but deliver 800 ANSI lumens via digital light processing technology. Two models provide either XGA or SuperVGA resolution.Plus Corp. asserts that a magnesium alloy case makes the tiny projectors up to 20 times more rugged than those in plastic casings. See details at . NEC Computers Inc. of Sacramento, Calif., recently released a modular-bay notebook computer that permits users to hot-swap up to six drive types.The NEC Versa SXi comes with a 600-, 650-, 700- or 750-MHz Pentium III SpeedStep CPU, a 12G hard drive, 128M of RAM and modular Versa Bay II drive-swapping technology. The user can swap out a 1.44M floppy or high-density floppy drive, a second hard drive, a DVD-ROM, a CD-ROM or a CD-RW drive.The Versa SXi has a 14-inch XGA display and an integrated Mini PCI connection with an RJ-45 port for quick network hookups. An RJ-11 port can connect a modem.Two rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are included. The standard eight-cell battery can be upgraded to 12 cells. A 600-MHz Versa sells for about $3,000 and weighs about 6 pounds. A cellular phone virus similar to the ILOVEYOU virus recently surfaced in a wireless network operated by Telefonica SA of Madrid, Spain. According to antivirus vendor F-Secure Corp. of Finland, other wireless viruses are on the way to plague users of phones and handheld computers.Visit for information about the company's F-Secure Anti-Virus software for Wireless Application Protocol gateways.
A fast burn.
Light, lighter, lightest.
www.plus.co.jp/intl/dmt
Versa versions.
Wireless doesn't mean virusless.
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'Carlos A. Soto
E-mail: csoto@gcnlab.com
Light, lighter, lightest.
www.plus.co.jp/intl/dmt
Versa versions.
Wireless doesn't mean virusless.
www.datafellows.com
'Carlos A. Soto
E-mail: csoto@gcnlab.com
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