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Sony Europe’s Recording Media & Energy has announced the launched of three high speed CompactFlash cards to meet the capacity and speed demands of professional D-SLR photographers and ambitious amateur photographers. The new Sony CompactFlash 300x card, which complement the existing line-up of 66x and 133x cards, will be available with capacities of 2GB, 4GB and 8GB. They will be branded as part of Sony’s Alpha D-SLR camera system.

The high speed CompactFlash 300x cards allow UDMA-enabled D-SLR digital camera users to record more frames per second in continuous advance shooting mode and to transfer their images to the PC very rapidly to make room for new photographic projects. An 8GB CompactFlash card can hold up to 2,000 JPEG photos taken in 12 Megapixel resolution in the ‘Standard’ image setting, or up to 1,363 photos in ‘Fine’ mode. Even if both RAW and JPEG image data are recorded, the 8GB card offers enough space for more than 313 digital photos.

The Sony CompactFlash cards are compatible with a wide range of products featuring a CompactFlash slot, including many D-SLR Cameras, many digital cameras, printers and other imaging and computer peripherals. Many PCs feature built-in CompactFlash slots as standard, while there are adaptors and card readers available on the market to allow users to access and transfer their data onto CompactFlash cards using any PC or laptop.

The new Sony CompactFlash 300x cards will be available from October 2007.

Sandisk has introduced a new way of thinking about USB flash drives, and they accomplished that hard task with the help of the popular manufacturer of top-notch motorcycles Ducati.

The crazy thing about the SanDisk Extreme Ducati Edition (which is the official memory product for Ducate Corse) is the shape of the new flash drive, like you can see per the image it looks like a gas tank that is usually seen on Ducati motorycles.

The new flash drive has a regular storage capacity of 4GB, but the best feature is the read/write speeds which makes it the fastest device that SanDisk has to offer.

Those searching for a few more options and a tad more space in Kingston’s ever-expanding DataTraveler lineup have struck gold, as the firm has just now unveiled a pair of miniscule USB drives that peak at 8GB of built-in storage. The DataTraveler II Plus (shown after the jump) arrives in a single 8GB flavor ($154) and comes bundled with Migo’s data synchronization software, which enables the suits to have password-protected access to up-to-date Outlook folders and quarterly reports. On the flip side, the DataTraveler 100 touts that oh-so-admirable retractable action, meaning that the connector can creep out or take cover with just the flick of your thumb. Additionally, this USB 2.0 device is available in 1GB ($19), 2GB ($32), 4GB ($59), and 8GB ($116) sizes, plays nice with Windows, Linux, and OS X, and just like its aforementioned sibling, boasts a five-year warranty.