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Kingston Wi-Drive Hands-on with iPod Touch and iPad [Video]

Chris Burns, Sep 16th 2011 Discuss [1]

For those of you looking to set up a media center in your living room, your options are ever expanding. What we got a chance to take a bit of a closer look at this week at Pepcom’s Holiday Spectacular 2011 was no less than Kingston’s latest effort in external harddrive technology, this being the Wi-Drive wireless flash storage device. You’ll be able to add a whole 16 or 32GB to your harddrive completely wirelessly and, what’s better than that, share the content with any compatible device in the room.

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Kingston SSDNow KC100 SSD for businesses launches

Shane McGlaun, Sep 14th 2011 Discuss [1]

Kingston has been making SSDs for data storage in the consumer market for a while now along with RAM for its computers. The new SSD this time around is aimed at the business user and it is called the SSDNow KC100. This is the first SSD from Kingston that is SATA rev. 3.0 6Gb/s and aimed at the business user. The KC100 uses the latest SandForce controller inside for more performance in the business world. Read The Full Story

Kingston debuts its fastest USB 3.0 flash drive yet

Shane McGlaun, May 20th 2011 Discuss [3]

Kingston has a huge number of flash drives that users can choose from for low cost, high capacity, and fast transfer speeds depending on their needs. The company has rolled out a new flash drive that it reports to be its fastest USB 3.0 flash drive yet. The flash drive is backwards compatible with USB 3.0 as all USB 3.0 gear is. The new flash drive is called the DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 Generation 2 or DTU30G2. Read The Full Story

Kingston adds new 16GB microSDHC Class 10 card to line

Shane McGlaun, Mar 23rd 2011 Discuss [0]

Kingston has a bunch of different storage offerings in its line from flash drives to memory cards for the digital camera and other devices. Kingston has added a new storage capacity to its line of class 10 microSDHC cards. The line already had 4GB and 8GB capacities. Read The Full Story

Kingston has best year ever in 2010 with record $6.5B revenue

Shane McGlaun, Mar 15th 2011 Discuss [0]

2010 was better for most firms that 2009, but there were still hard times to be had thanks to the slow economy. Those hard times didn’t affect Kingston though; the company posted its best year ever in 2010. The announcement was made this week that Kingston had the best year in its company history for sales in 2010. Read The Full Story

Kingston offers new HyperX T1 Black triple channel RAM kits for Intel platforms

Shane McGlaun, Mar 1st 2011 Discuss [0]

When it comes to RAM one of the companies that has been around the longest is Kingston with its line of mainstream and enthusiast grade memory products for computers. Kingston also has a big line of flash drives and SSDs as well. The latest new offering from Kingston is the new HyperX T1 Black triple-channel RAM kit for Intel platforms. Read The Full Story

Kingston unveils new secure DataTraveler 4000 and DataTraveler Vault Privacy Edition flash drives

Shane McGlaun, Feb 15th 2011 Discuss [0]

Kingston has announced a pair of new secure flash drives for enterprise and business customers that carry sensitive data that needs to be encrypted. The new drives include the DataTraveler 4000 and DataTraveler Vault - Privacy Managed. Read The Full Story

Kingston Outlines USB 3.0 Product Roadmap at CES 2011

Evan Selleck, Jan 8th 2011 Discuss [0]

Kingston has announced their plans for USB 3.0, and how the company plans to leverage the technology with a plethora of new products they will release in 2011. Making the announcement at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company has dedicated their products to USB 3.0, and plan on releasing devices that range in usage for prosumers, consumers, and enthusiasts alike. Read The Full Story

Kingston outs Hyper Max 3.0 external USB 3.0 HDD

Shane McGlaun, Nov 23rd 2010 Discuss [0]

I am glad to see lots of new USB 3.0 storage devices coming to market. For a long time we had relatively few devices on the market to work with. Kingston has unveiled a new external storage device for your USB 3.0 port called the HyperX Max 3.0 external HDD. Read The Full Story

Reviews

Kingston 32GB MicroSDHC Class 4 Review

Vincent Nguyen, Nov 17th 2010 Discuss [4]

If there’s one thing we’re used to seeing on mobile devices of late, it’s “microSD cards up to 32GB supported.” Problem is, when it actually comes to fitting maximum-size microSDHC cards inside, your choices have been relatively limited and generally expensive. Kingston is aiming to change that, with a 32GB Class 4 memory card that promises both performance and a sub-$100 street price. Is this the card your smartphone has been waiting for?

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Kingston debuts SSDnow V100 256GB SSD for users on a budget

Shane McGlaun, Nov 9th 2010 Discuss [2]

Kingston has a huge range of SSDs today with all sorts of products aimed at consumers and enterprise users. The SSD market is always growing on both ends of the spectrum with new high-end parts for enthusiast or enterprises and low end cheap parts for the average consumer looking for a budget upgrade. Kingston has unveiled a new SSD for the budget end of the spectrum called the SSDnow V100. Read The Full Story

Kingston outs 96GB SSD aimed at enterprise

Shane McGlaun, Nov 2nd 2010 Discuss [0]

Kingston has been peddling SSDs to the consumer and enterprise user for a while now and has a vast range of capacities and offerings to choose from. The company has announced its latest SSD that is specifically aimed at the enterprise users in corporate client systems. The new SSD has a strange storage capacity of 96GB. Read The Full Story