Hitachi has unveiled its third generation external storage solution with the release of the SimpleDrive external HDDs. These new external desktop drives come in standard 2 Terabyte capacities and 7,200 RPM which should be sufficient for speed and proper energy consumption when needed. Compatible with a MAC or PC, these new Hitachi hard drives come with the usual plug and play design to go with their anodized aluminum enclosure for efficient protection and performance. They are now available at OfficeMax stores and retail for $249.99. 500GB ($99.99) and 1 TB ($129.99) are likewise available.

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The business sector gets a new storage solution option as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies announces the availability of two new 15,000 RPM Ultrastar hard drives. The Ultrastar 15K600 hard drive has a capacity of 600GB at 15,000 RPM in a 3.5” form factor. They are offered in 6Gb/s SAS or 4Gb/s FCAL interface that should be suitable for data storage needs. The Ultrastar 15K600 is also available in 300GB, 450GB and 600GB capacities.

The Ultrastar C15K147 hard drive on the other hand comes in a 2.5” form factor and offers 70% more space. This hard drive comes in 73GB and 147GB with 64MB cache buffer. Both hard disk drives are now available and come with a 5 year warranty.

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We weren’t expecting this to happen but that doesn’t mean we’re not anxious to see what handsets these three companies are going to bring us. NEC, Casio and Hitachi are going to work together next year to deliver new mobile devices. The deal will be inked in April 2010 and the new trio will become the second-largest venture in Japan after Sharp. We’d like to tell you we have an idea of what phones to expect from NEC Casio and Hitachi but unfortunately we really don’t. We can only hope to be pleasantly surprised sometime later next year by the first NEC Casio and Hitachi mobile phones.

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Hitachi has released a new mobile hard drive for people who require large storage that carry faster performance as far as reads and writes are concerned with the Hitachi Travelstar 7K500. As more people are turning to reliable mobile storage for their laptops, gaming systems and professional external storage solutions, the Travelstar 7K500 is the fastest hard drive that is also energy efficient at 0.69 watts when idle and 1.8 watts when in operation.

It features a speed of 7200 RPM and 500GB of storage space. Travelstar 7K500 is ideal for multitasking, gaming and other graphic-intensive applications. The Travelstar 7K500 is now available for purchase in stores. It is also available in other storage capacities: 120GB, 160GB, 250GB, 320GB and 500GB.

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Techies looking for a reliable and more rugged portable drive to carry along can look forward to this new Hitachi TOUGH portable USB drive. This portable drive is water-resistant and shock-resistant, making it an ideal storage solution for people who are always mobile.

The Hitachi TOUGH portable USB drive is a great option for people, particularly the ones in business. With this USB drive, you can store files, media and necessary data at different storage capacities.

Here are the pricing and storage capacity for these new Hitachi TOUGH portable USB Drives:

• 250GB ($99.99)
• 320GB ($119.99)
• 500GB ($149.99)

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Hitachi has released the Gazopa app for the iPhone. This app allows users to search for similar pages on the web by uploading any photo captured with camera on iPhone. This makes it possible for users to search for images similar to the items in front of them. Since GazoPa use image features such as color and/or shape, users can look for images without typing any words. This gives users easy and unique way of searching images on the web.

In addition, searching by user’s drawing is also available on GazoPa for iPhone app, that is very popular feature at GazoPa.com. This search by drawing enables users to search for items that users have in their mind. Users only need to draw what they want to search when they feel difficulty in expressing them in words or have no photo related to those items. Hitachi’s advanced similar image search technology allows users to find images similar to their drawing.

GazoPa for iPhone app also has a search option such as search by color, layout, shape and the ability to filter by size, video thumbnail. This gives users more chances to find their desired images. And GazoPa for iPhone app takes advantage of the advanced capabilities of the iPhone user interface and is a great way to search images on iPhone.

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Quite a bunch of KDDI phones are going to arrive soon. And they’ll sport 8.1 megapixel cameras, WVGA displays, one-seg TV tuners and much more. But Hitachi’s Wooo H001 is particularly interesting. It has a dual-hinge flip mechanism and most importantly a stereoscopic IPS display which is supposed to offer you 3D images while you play with the UI or watch mobile TV. The Wooo H001 will arrive in April and so will those others KDDI phones. Prices are still unknown and you’ll have to go to Japan to get one.

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Need protection when using your hard drives? Well than we have something new to play with from Hitachi. It’s the third generation 2.5 inch Travelstar hard drive, the Travelstar 5K500.B. It’s a SATA II drive that only spins at 5400rpm and it comes in capacities from 120GB to 500GB. Want it? There’s more!

The HDD designed for notebooks will consume less juice than usual while the enterprise version will get you the Enhanced Availability which will give 24 hours a day high-speed activity. The new drives will be eco-friendlier than the previous versions and it will come in halogen-free design.

And the Bulk Data Encryption is the encryption was talking about. With it on board your information will be scrambled with help of a key and it’s written to the disk. Unscrambling is simple as the same key is being used. Should the data encryption key be deleted the data will become useless. Make sure you order the BDE since it’s an optional feature.

We don’t have any prices and we still need availability dates. The general idea is that Hitachi is going to launch the new HDD some time next month.

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Looking for a Blu-ray camcorder? Hitachi has a hybrid now, the DZ-BD10HA which will do the trick for you. Its 7 megapixel CMOS image sensor will get you both photos and videos in FullHD quality. (more…)

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Admit it, with the sheer number of people using the same handphone as yours, you’d want a sense of personalization to stand out even a bit. The back side of the new Hitachi W61H is equipped with e-display or as Hitachi calls it, “Silhouette screen.” Said screen could be designed with any of the 95 patterns available, depending on what you choose. The Hitachi handset can support 250 minutes of call time and measurees 51 x 107 x 16.9mm at 137g. The Hitachi W61H features 2.8-inch WQVGA display, 2GB microSD, 1.97 megapixel camera and 1-Seg. It will be released in Japan by the end of March.

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Hitachi unveiled two new HD video camcorders that can record video onto Blu-ray media. Touted as the world’s first Blu-ray Disc camcorder, Hitachi unveiled the new DZ-BD70A and DZ-BD7HA camcorders.

DZ-BD70A
The DZ-BD70A is a single drive camcorder capable of recording 1 hour of Full HD (1920×1080) high definition video on a standard 8cm single-sided Blu-ray disk (BD-R and BD-RE). For natural colors, the Hitachi camcorder uses a 5.3 megapixel CMOS image sensor and HD quality 12-element lens system. For additional media storage, the camcorder is equipped with an SD card slot - great for storing digital still images taken with the camcorder. The still image resolution is 4.32 megapixels, which is pretty decent. As is common to many other camcorders, the DZ-BD70A features a Photo Capture feature to grab a still frame from any video and save it as a photo onto the SD card (at 2.1 megapixel resolution). As an added bonus, the DZ-BD70A can also record videos onto DVD discs.

DZ-BD7HA
The DZ-BD7HA is a hybrid model offering both an internal 30 GB hard drive and Blu-ray recording capability. The 30GB is good for up to 4 hours of Full HD 1920×1080 HX mode video or almost 8 hours in HS mode (1440×1080). With the touch of a single button, videos on the internal HDD can be burnt onto a Blu-ray disc or DVD (thanks to the Transcoding feature). So you won’t have to wait until you get access to a computer when you want to share your videos.

Both camcorders feature 10x zoom (non-spherical lens), and come in a sleek, round body. HDMI and component video output are available for video playback. A built-in Interactive Guide available on the camcorders help those that are new to them.

The DZ-BD70A Hitachi Blu-ray camcorder is priced at US $1,299, while the DZ-BD7HA Hybrid HDD/Blu-ray camcorder comes at US $1,499. Both camcorders will hit North America in October 2007.

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