Fremont, CA, January 10, 2013—Plextor (www.goplextor.com), leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance digital storage devices, will introduce the M5M Solid State Drive at CES 2013. The streamlined M5M provides the same high-performance and reliability expected of a Plextor SSD in a space one-eighth the size of a standard 2.5 inch drive, making it especially well-suited for use in ultrabooks.

Fremont, CA, January 10, 2013— Plextor (www.goplextor.com), leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance digital storage devices, will announce four new innovative storage solutions at CES 2013, including new entries into the enterprise and mobile storage markets. All four products will feature custom design and development from Plextor’s dedicated in-house team of engineers and world-class facilities.

Islandia, NY -- Jan 10, 2013 -- MaxxVault announced today that Platinum Partner SymQuest has won the MaxxVault Dealer of the Year Award 2012. This award is given in recognition of the partner that generated the most revenue opportunity amongst their peers. A MaxxVault Platinum partner since May 2012, the success of SymQuest is their ability to provide business hardware and software solutions that enhance productivity, security, and reliability while reducing costs. MaxxVault solutions have enabled SymQuest to fulfill this mission with all of their clients, no matter the size or industry.

Back in 2010, when we got our hands on the Momentus XT from Seagate, solid-state technology was an emerging, but expensive, technology. A hybrid drive that allowed a cache of flash memory and the capacity of mechanical drives allowed consumers to experience the vast improvements of SSD’s at a much lower entry price. Three years have given Seagate time to improve on this technology, and today I get a tour of what’s next with SSHD as they are now known, Seagate in general, and the recently acquired premium LaCie brand.

We had the chance to visit the MSI suites where they were showing off both components and notebooks that will be upcoming in the next year. Although our time there was limited, I did have a little time to get to play with a few of their upcoming products.

CES is winding down, but the flow of news certainly is not. There are still very few actual hardware reviews, but where that is lacking there are plenty of stories out of CES from other sites around the web. These stories include a particular juicy one from Valve saying that they were unaware that Xi3 was making the Valve Box for them! The news will probably slow down tremendously over the next few days so enjoy it while you can, soon things will return to the way they are the other 51 weeks of the year, and that makes me a sad panda.

Asus seemed to have an entire floor of the Trump tower to themselves, and in reality probably needed it. There were plenty of products on exhibit, and still quite crowded given their floor space. JJ recognized us right away, and dove straight into the demonstration. We had passed monitors, motherboards, routers, and more as he guided us through the suite, arriving at the start line with a Cosmos II and the word ARES glowing from within.

While we were making our booth and suite tours I did sneak up into the EVGA suite for a few minutes to see what they had going on. They didn’t have any big product launches on hand on the video card size of things obviously but they did have a prototype of a new product they are working on.

January 9, 2013, CES, Las Vegas, NV – Elevate above the ordinary; iBUYPOWER is proud to be ushering in a new era of PC gaming lifestyle.

CES 2013 — Las Vegas, Nevada — January 8, 2013 — Corsair®, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming hardware market, today announced the release of the Dominator® Platinum Light Bar Upgrade Kits. The new kits allow PC enthusiasts to enhance and customize the lighting of their Dominator Platinum DDR3 PC memory kits.

CES 2013 — Las Vegas, Nevada — January 8, 2013 — Corsair®, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC hardware market, today announced the Corsair Voyager Air, the first all-in-one mobile wireless drive, home network attached storage, USB drive, and wireless hub.

CES 2013 — Las Vegas, Nevada — January 8, 2012 — Corsair®, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC hardware market, today announced the Flash Voyager® GT Turbo flash drives, the world’s fastest native USB 3.0 flash drives. Available in 128GB, 64GB, and 32GB capacities, the new flash drives deliver affordable, leading-edge file transfer speeds previously only available in far more expensive "USB 3.0 to SATA bridge" based drives.

CES 2013 — Las Vegas, Nevada — January 8, 2013 — Corsair®, a worldwide designer of high performance PC gaming peripherals, today announced next-generation additions to the premier Corsair Vengeance® line of gaming keyboards, mice, and mouse mats. Also announced is an upcoming free software driver update for the Vengeance 2000 wireless gaming headset which adds Dolby® Headphone 2.0 7.1-channel surround sound.

CES 2013 — Las Vegas, Nevada — January 8, 2012 — Corsair®, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming hardware market, today announced that the Corsair Raptor line of PC gaming keyboards, mice, and headsets is now available in the United States and Germany.

Austin, TX -- Jan 09, 2013 -- Mushkin, Inc., an industry-leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance and mission-critical computer products, today announced the worldwide launch of its new 960GB Chronos(TM) solid-state drive (SSD), slated to start shipping this month.

LAS VEGAS - (January 8, 2013) – Digital Storm, the predominant name in computer system integration and engineering, unveils Aventum II -- the next leap in the evolution of custom, high-performance PC design.  The original Aventum, a Popular Science 2012 Best of What’s New award winner, was recognized for its ground breaking liquid cooling solution.  Aventum II takes that proprietary cooling design to another level with the addition of nickel plated copper piping that dramatically increases system durability while providing a visual aesthetic enthusiasts will drool over.

LAS VEGAS – Verizon will launch a $10 million competition to help address some of the world’s biggest challenges in three key areas, Lowell McAdam, the company’s chairman and CEO, announced today at the 2013 International CES.

Our first meeting of CES officially was Cooler Master. We made it over to their Suite at the Palms to see what they would be bringing out over the next year. Not only that we we got to check out all of the case mods they had sitting around along with Cooler Master’s Booth Babes. As usual they had a wide selection of new products to show off, check out what is upcoming inside.

A few of our staff are still out in Vegas partying it up and getting the inside scoop on all things electronic for the coming year. Not only are they sending me a bunch of cool stories out of CES, but our affiliates are as well. This week we do not have as many reviews on actual hardware as most of the press is focused on what companies plan to do, and not what they have done. Be sure to read all these links quickly though, because they will soon be buried by the constant flow of CES news and announcements.

Kingston had done plenty to get us excited before meeting with them today at Caesar’s Palace. The excitement of the HyperX Anniversary StarCraft II tournament was enough to win Adam over, and while the reveal of a USB 3.0 1TB flash drive gave everyone plenty to talk about. Though David Leong attended the Pepcom Digital Experience the night before, you can imagine he had plenty of an audience. Today we met with David and his team for a one-on-one guide through the grapevine.