Kingston, the world's largest independent manufacturer of memory products, has launched its DataTraveler Locker+ series of USB flash drives. Measuring 65.76 x 17.98 x 10.7mm, these compact flash drives  feature 256-bit AES hardware-based encryption on all its stored data, waterproof and simple to use.

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Kingston announced it is shipping 2GB triple-channel HyperX memory kits consists of six 2GB modules running at 1600MHz and 1.65 volts specially for Core i7 platforms. The memory kit has been tested with great success on motherboards with six sockets such as the Gigabyte GA-X58-UD6 and Asus P6T Deluxe motherboards.

Kingston has announced its collaboration with Paramount Digital Entertainment (PDE) to deliver full-length movies on Kingston Flash memory products. These movies will be available to users “as part of a bundle package and for sale”. Paramount has claimed that as more and more movies are watched on portable devices like netbooks and handhelds, it’s only natural they form a strategic partnership with Kingston, the world's largest independent manufacturer of memory products, to distribute its movies to the masses. Backed by a five-year warranty and 24/7 tech support, "Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen" (comes in a 4Gb Kingston DataTraveler I drive) is now on sale at all OfficeMax stores for USD$29.99.

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Kingston has announced it is increasing read and write speeds on its DataTraveler 410 USB Flash drive to 20MB/sec. Measuring 65.76mm x 17.98mm x 10.7mm, the DataTraveler 410 is available in 4Gb, 8Gb, 16Gb, 32Gb capacities. Boosting increased new data transfer rates of up to 20MB/sec. read and 20MB/sec. write, storing and moving large files around has never been faster. Backed by a five-year warranty and free 24/7 tech support, the 4Gb, 8Gb, 16Gb and 32Gb retails at a MSRP of USD$26, USD$46, USD$84 and USD$134 respectively.

Kingston's latest solid state drive, the SSDNow V+, packs in Samsung's newest SSD controller and a generous amount of cache. Can this new entrant outshine established players?

Kingston unveils the SSDNow V+ with a sequential read speed of up to 220MB/sec and write speeds of up to 180MB/sec. The V+ is currently available in the United States in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities; the 64GB drive is available worldwide with increased capacities to come.

Kingston today announces the launch of the “Challenge Your Memory” game on leading social media sites, including Facebook and funP.com. It is a card game to test the participants’ memory and the first 30 participants with highest score wins. Check out on the next page...

Kingston has recently announced their new DataTraveler® 200 USB flash drives and claims to be the world's first to market the USB flash drive of 128GB capacity. Unfortunately, according to the manufacturer, the 128GB drive is build-to-order only.

Kingston has announced the release of a series of affordable SSDs in capacities of 64GB and 12GB for the mass market over at Computex Taipei last week. This is Kingston's first in-road in making their own SSDs apart from the SSD co-branding they are having with Intel. Right now, Kingston will be having 3 products line-up; the SSDNow E and M Series using the Intel SSDs and now their own affordable SSDNow V Series. The 64GB model is priced US$149 while the 128GB model is priced at US$263.

Fancy a new facade for your system? Need a more beefy power supply for that multi-GPU setup? VR-Zone takes a look at the casings and power supplies on show at Computex 2009.