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July 20, 2007

Belkin N1 Vision Wi-Fi router: simple as it should be! (video)

At chic Vessel night club in San Francisco, network and accessory maker Belkin showed last night it’s latest line up of networking devices and accessories. I really liked the new N1 Vision Wi-Fi router (802.11n draft MIMO) featuring a...

July 19, 2007

[ÜberReview] Sandisk Extreme Ducati SD Plus card: nice design but a bit fragile (video)

Not much to say on this $130 SD card apart from the really cool design: the USB connector is actually embedded/hidden on the card itself, making a card reader obsolete. Again, the SD Plus card is the fastest offered by...

[ÜberReview] Ducati USB flash drive: beautiful but expensive and slow (video)

Despite the quite unique design, the Sandisk Extreme Ducati edition 4GB USB flash drive was a disappointment both performance and price-wise. Indeed at $125 you would expect more of this Ducati drive than the advertised 20 megabytes per second (MB/s)...

July 18, 2007

Ducati Corse is a start-up, Silicon Valley way: a tiny race team, but leading the Moto Grand Prix (video)

Believe it or not, at least for the ones, like me, who are not totally familiar with motorcycle racing, the Ducati race team dubbed Ducati Corse is a very small one compared to the "Japanese" like Honda or Yamaha. Inspite...

SLR cameras need to catch up, says Sandisk (video)

What a great line up!!!! I'm talking of course of Sandisk's "best in class" Extreme Ducati edition line of memory cards and USB flash drive. Frankly I was a bit surprised (but definitely not shocked!) of this very sexy...

[Churchill Club] When I looked at Putin's eyes I saw 3 letters: K G B... jokes John McCain (video)

If Senator John McCain gets elected President next year, forget about being close to Russia... that is, unless there's a regime change there: Putin is supposed to leave office at the same time as Bush... unless he unilaterally decides to...

Consumer electronics enjoys "Renaissance", says Sandisk CEO (video)

In his "unprepared" or "spontaneous", whatever your mood is, remarks today for the launch of his company Ducati line, Sandisk CEO, Eli Harari had an interesting, to say the least, analogy of today's consumer electronics marketplace with Italy's Renaissance era....

[iHollywood Forum] MovieSet provides behind the scene footage of movies (video)

At the iHollywood Forum conference, CEO Colleen Nystedt presented her latest company, MovieSet, that puts "behind the scene footage of movies" on the Web. She hopes her new site will attract fans of blockbuster movies interested in live on-set videos,...

Sandisk adopts Ducati brand for fastest flash memory cards/drive (video)

At a somptuous event (we'll have more photos and videos coming) in its Silicon Valley headquarters, Sandisk unveiled a new line of Ducati branded memory products, including a sleek USB Flash drive that ressembles the red chassis of a...

July 17, 2007

[iHollywood Forum] High quality, professionally produced online comedies possible, says 60Frames CEO (video)

Newly appointed 60Frames Entertainment CEO, Brent Weinstein, was present today at iHollywwod Forum's VCDemo event in Mountain View. 60Frames Entertainment is a new company that provides financing to professional artists to produce initially short-form comedies on the Web. The...

July 16, 2007

[Churchill Club] McCain: corruption was cause for Republicans debacle in 2006 elections (video)

For Senator McCain, the U.S. Government "out of control" spending spree was the main reason for the Republican party loss of the 2006 elections! "We presided on the largest increase in size of the government since the Great Society......

[Churchill Club] Climate change and US oil supplies vulnerability linked, says Senator John McCain (video)

Today, Senator John McCain came to Silicon Valley for a town hall luncheon meeting hosted by the Churchill Club at Santa Clara's Marriott hotel. The Presidential hopeful started his remarks on climate change quoting Tony Blair and sees the...