Seagate Technology announced the newest member of its expanded line of notebook hard drives, the new Momentus 5400.2 hard drive with capacities up to 100GB and industry-leading areal density of 50GB per disc, is shipping to customers. Leading notebook computer makers and specialty suppliers are choosing the new Seagate Momentus 5400.2 for its high capacity, high reliability, high performance, low battery consumption and quiet acoustics. With the latest technology, Seagate's Advanced Manufacturing leadership, the industry's most comprehensive compatibility and benchmark testing for the most reliable storage solutions ever, and the longest warranty in the business, notebook PC makers and channel system builders can rely on Seagate - the industry's only independent supplier of notebook drives.

ASBIS, a leading supplier of computer components to the EMEA emerging markets, announced today that it will terminate distribution agreement with Maxtor.

Kingston® Technology Company, Inc. announced the expansion of its DataTraveler USB 2.0 product line to better service the varying needs of USB customers. Kingston will add three versions to the product line: DataTraveler II, DataTraveler II Plus and DataTraveler Elite.

CANYON showed its product range in Cyprus and claimed its low overheads and distributed model was helping it make a splash in the European market.

Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD) introduced a new double-layer, dual-format DVD recordable drive that tops the market in DVD+R double-layer write speeds at 5X, giving consumers the right combination of speed and capacity for video creation and other data-intensive applications.

Kingston® Technology Company, Inc. announced the immediate availability of 2-GB and 4-GB CompactFlashâ Elite Pro cards featuring the latest in high-density Flash components to optimize performance and storage capabilities.

Prestigio International, one of the most dynamic international vendors of LCD displays and TVs, mobile computers, and plasma TVs, has unveiled a state-of-the-art 60-inch plasma television which is immediately available for ordering across the region of Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is bringing to market the best combination of notebook hard-drive attributes in its new Travelstar 5K100 for standard notebook applications and E5K100 for more demanding data-access applications. The 100-gigabyte (GB) hard drives offer the broadest capacity points, the highest shock tolerance and the lowest power consumption in their category. In addition, these new drives offer native Serial ATA (SATA) support.

Adaptec, Inc. announced that it is extending its new Adaptec Flexible Storage Architecture (Adaptec FSA also announced today) with an end-to-end Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) product family - including the industry's first SAS subsystem and boards powered by the highest performance SAS ASIC with integrated RAID data protection - that will be demonstrated this week at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF). Adaptec's ability to develop an entire product family based on next-generation SAS technology validates the power of the Adaptec FSA development platform of mix-and-match components, systems, and software.

SimpleTech, Inc. announced the availability of ultra low profile registered Dual Inline Memory Modules (DIMMs) and DDR2 Mini-DIMM Memory Modules.

With the needs of the consumer electronics (CE) industry top of mind, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies announced a new, redesigned 1.8-inch hard disk drive that is tailored to device manufacturers' needs - easy integration and less space consumption. In doing so, Hitachi has created a sleeker 1.8-inch hard drive that is specialized for consumer electronics.