Shuttle to Showcase Small Form Factor Business Solutions, Education Tablet, New NAS Product, Ultrabook series at COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2012
(TAIPEI, TAIWAN – May.23) Shuttle Inc., an industry-leading designer and manufacturer of Small Form Factor PCs, Notebooks and Tablets, is unveiling a variety of cube, slim and AIO (All-in-One) form factors and mobile computing devices for consumer, commercial and education segments at COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2012.
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Experienced in small form factors and thermal technology, Shuttle extends the applications of XPC to business territory such as Digital Signage, Point-Of-Sales, Kiosk and Access Control. Focusing on serving LOEM market segment, Shuttle will announcing several cost-effective ultra-slim notebooks and its next generation Tablet reference design. Those ultra-slim notebooks sports fast-booting, sleek ID and most efficient cost structure. Shuttle’s Tablet line-ups are focusing on cost-effectiveness while providing variety of new form factors. The total solution of EDUPAL, the Shuttle e-school bag will be introduced with its beta version platform featured with multiple functions for education environment. To keep up with the trends of cloud computing, Shuttle is going to introduce its new brand of OMNINAS and unveil the first Network-Attached Storage product targets to Home and SOHO market.
Cost-Efficient Business Solutions by Shuttle Small Form Factors
Digital Signage
Shuttle’s Slim and All-in-One series provide the flexible digital signage PCs as an ideal backend system that is customized to span the requirements of any marketplace. Shuttle Slim series PCs – XH61 series and its new powerful and ultra-slim addition – XS35V3, XS35GS V3 and XS36V will be presented the business scenario at the show.
POS/Kiosk
Shuttle presents the balanced POS hardware solution for small and medium business. Energy saving solutions based on Intel Atom processor platform and fan-less design ensures a quiet, reliable and aesthetic appeal. The new version of Shuttle’s 15.6 All-in-One PC – X50V3 and the new 18.5 inch All-in-One PC – X70 will showcase the Basic POS, Performance POS and Basic Kiosk solutions.
Lifestyle XPC and New Networking Devices
Gaming/Media
The fully-fledged XPC product line for advance users and gamers takes high-performance to a new level- redefining six-core processing with pint-sized extreme performance. From value gaming to mainstream and high-end gaming, Shuttle XPC SZ77R5 and SX79R5 bring out the performance and stability one can dream of. In media sector, Shuttle 3-Liter XH61 is served as a media HTPC in a small footprint.
EDUPAL, the Tablet based Solution for Education
Shuttle’s EDUPAL is a tablet turnkey solution that targets the global education market. The EDUPAL allows teachers, students, parents and schools enjoy interactive learning through Shuttle’s tailor-made tablet PC platform, which integrates hardware and software on a cloud-based system. Over the past year, the company has provided the EDUPAL solution to several city governments in Taiwan and has successfully introduced the new learning environment at elementary schools and junior high schools.
OMNINAS - Your Private Cloud
Cloud computing is the new stage in the Industry’s evolution. Based on Shuttle’s R&D experience and manufacturing excellence, Shuttle takes a leap into private cloud storage market and targets at Home, SOHO and SMB sectors and announced a new brand of OMNINAS. The first product of OMNINAS is KD20, which is a 2-bay NAS server supports currently standard maximum 8TB HDD capacity and cross-platform from personal computers to iOS and Android mobile devices.
ODM Ultrabook and Ultra-Slim Design series
Shuttle focusing on LOEM market segment since 2009, with even more focus its new product line-ups including cost-effective Ultrabook and ultra-slim notebooks. The new ultra-slim notebooks are slim-and-sexy, booting fast, having a long battery life which share same characteristics of its Ultrabook product but having really competitive cost structure thanks for using traditional rotary hard drives. Which was a proof that Shuttle is listening to its customer and bold enough to challenge the edge of technologies. Also, new Tablet form factors are now available in different size and feature combinations to fulfill the needs of end customer.
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Build personal entertainment cloud in ease
Shuttle announced OMNINAS™ product line
First NAS product – KD20 will showcase on Computex 2012
Support up to 8TB hard-drives, Support iOS or Android OS mobile devices
(Taipei, Taiwan – 5 June, 2012) Shuttle Inc., the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of small form factor (SFF) computers and innovator of the notebook ecosystem, is going to announce its new NAS product line– OMNINAS and showcase the first model-KD20. With maximum 8TB hard-drives support, one or two bay in RAID 0/1/JBOD mode, customers can securely store their content of every wonderful moment (eg. Video, Music, Photo) into KD20. Customer can even install applications provided by Shuttle on their iOS or Android OS powered mobile devices to access or share their multimedia content with family and friends. OMNINAS(™) KD20 also support "one-click" hard-drives hot swap, 2.5mm aluminum case, smart quiet heat sink; not only easy for installation, it's also quiet and cool.
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Product Features:
1. Upload and share files from iPhone®, iPad® and Android devices.
In the modern world, nothing is as important as reaching your data from anywhere. By using a simple app, you can manage your NAS, upload to, download and stream all of your media and files from iOS and Android device on the go.
2. One Button Hot Swap Function
In order to provide a more easy way to replace the Hard Drive while it failed without turn the power-off. OMNINAS KD20 featured with “one-button hot-swap” which usually used in business level NAS. Just press the hardware button, wait for few seconds, then you can pull the Hard Drive out and make the replacing with quick operation.
3. Multiple Server Features
Print Server – The OMNINAS KD20 is also functioned as a print server to allow you to plug in your printer and share them over the network.
iTunes Server –OMNINAS KD20 support iTunes server function and it is a nice feature to have enabled to play media content from the iTunes server to your devices with iTunes clients over network.
Multimedia Server –If you want to stream, rather than just store and share audio and video from your file server, OMNINAS KD20 can act as your personal media station and allows you play multimedia files through browser on your computers, iPhone, iPad and Android devices.
4. 2-bay 8TB Storage Capacity Supports
OMNINAS KD20 is a 2-bay designed NAS, to support two 4TB hard drives for a total capacity of 8TB. It can configure drives as a JBOD, RAID 0 or RAID 1, depending on data transfer and secure data needs.
5. Max. 20 users access simultaneously
Featured with stable quality and excellent performance of transmission, with an average of 55MB/s to 75MB/s, OMNINAS KD20 allows multiple user up to 20 to access data at the same time.
*The transmission in accordance with environmental conditions)
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6. USB 3.0 connectivity
USB 3.0 performs at it top speed at 5.0Gbps(640 Mbytes/sec), which is enabled OMNINAS KD20 delivers up to 10X the speed of the data transfer of the USB 2.0. In addition, OMNINAS KD20 built-in 3-in-1 card reader (SD/MMC/MS) and offer “AUTO Copy” to make it easier of photos and video saving through USB or memory card to your file serve.
7. Good Thermal Performance
Using the 2.5mm stylish aluminum housing which is not just to match your interior design, also can increase the thermal performance. And equipped OMNINAS smart cooling engine, the fan speed would be adjusted automatically to make sure a reliable and quiet usage environment.
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Shuttle Launched EDUPAL Beta Interactive Learning Management Platform at COMPUTEX 2012
Designed with learning process in mind, intuitive graphical user interface, supports Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and English
(Taipei, Taiwan – 5 June, 2012) Transforming itself from pure hardware manufacturer to SDM (Solution Design Manufacturer), Shuttle Inc., is going to announce EDUPAL “Interactive Learning Management Platform” Beta version during COMPUTEX TAIPEI. It was developed with user experience and learning process in mind and featured with e-Contact Book, Material Editing Platform, Classroom Control, Interactive Response System, Cloud Library and eBook Reader. Sports SSO (Single Sign On) technology, teachers, students and parents can login once to use all the features on the platform.
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Noteworthy, Shuttle is the first and only vendor providing classroom control system on Android OS platform, and this system can also support Windows too. The current beta supports Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and English. It will expand to support Latin languages in the future.
Shuttle has provided the EDUPAL solution to a few city governments in Taiwan and has successfully initiated the new learning environment for elementary schools and high schools. Now a day, more than 2000 end users include teachers and students are using EDUPAL solution in their daily real learning life in Taiwan.
Platform Features:
1. Personal e-Book Reader
The Personal e-Book Reader supports a variety of file formats such as Epub, Flash, HTML5, JPEG, and PNG to bring diverse materials. We provide other tools that allow customers to read, edit content, and write notes.
2. e-Contact Book
Traditional written assignment notebooks are problematic and hinder communication between parents and parents. The e-Contact Book introduced in EDUPAL is an effective and convenient channel for communication between parents and teachers. Parents are able to clearly understand their child’s performance in schools.
3. Material Editing Platform
Material Editing Platform features powerful functions for teachers to import edited documents from a variety of applications without spending extra time to learning new operations. Moreover, it allows teachers to add multi-media teaching materials to improve teaching quality and build upon the experience to edit materials. The process of preparation for teachers is simplified.
4. Cloud Library
Cloud Library provides teacher lesson materials and space to restore lesson plans that facilitate delivery and management once materials are finished. Cloud Bookcase also features a flexible design for compatible files and bookcase management tools that act as a convenient channel for teachers to manage materials.
5. Classroom Control
Classroom is a breakthrough for overcoming constraints of traditional education. Through Screen Lock and Broadcast, teachers are able to understand learning situations and help students concentrate on teachers during class.
6. Interactive Responds System
Interactive Responds System enable teachers to give pop quizzes during class. Interactive Responds System provide teachers with a better understanding of student learning outcomes. In addition, this system further integrated testing systems for teachers to import items and organize question banks easily. This is a time and efforts saver.
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Shuttle, the First Tablet Manufacturer to Receive Three Environmental Certifications
Certifications: Slate-Tablet Product Category Rules, Environmental Product Declaration and Carbon Footprint
(Taipei, Taiwan – 5 June, 2012) Shuttle Inc., the designer and manufacturer of Notebook and Tablet PC today announced its non-stop involvement in the development of environmental certifications. Following the Slate-Tablet Product Category Rules (Slate-Tablet PC Product-Category Rules; Slate-Tablet PCR), Shuttle received Environmental Product Declaration(EPD) and carbon footprint certifications, establishing the first environmental friendly standard of three certifications for Slat-Tablet PCs.
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Shuttle Slate-Tablet PCR discloses the environmental impact and carbon footprint generated during the life cycle of a slate-tablet PC that covers the stages of raw material acquisition, product manufacturing, use and end-of-life. This PCR will be reference for the other manufacturers who decide to implement environmental management systems, e.g. Environmental Product Declaration(EPD) and Carbon Footprint(PAS 2050). The third party verification will hereby follow the Shuttle PCR criteria.
The requirements specified in the PCR are intended to be used for EPDs certified in accordance with ISO 14025 standard. A declaration is based on a Life Cycle Assessment. It includes information about the environmental impacts associated with a Tablet PC, such as raw material acquisition, energy use and efficiency, content of materials and chemical substances, emissions to air, soil and water and waste generation. Shuttle produces world’s first Tablet PC that received EPD certificate.
Based on EPD, Shuttle follows BSI 2050:2008 to implement Life Cycle Inventory(LCI) which includes – materials, manufacturing, using, transportation, and disposal – and subsequently discloses completely the directly and indirect green house emission data during each phase. Through this process, Shuttle’s Tablet PC received PAS 2050:2005 certification.
Shuttle has improved accuracy, completeness and transparency on company’s carbon footprint and has been accredited and recognized by independent third parties and thus help customers better understand the carbon footprint of its products.
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Shuttle Booth
Booth L0802, 4F, TWTC Nangang Exhibition Hall
9:30-18:00, June 5 – June 8, 2012
9:30-16:00, June 9, 2012
About Shuttle
Established in 1983, Shuttle Inc., is an industry-leading transnational company driven by innovation and commitment to quality for products that include small form factor PCs, notebooks, tablets and networking devices for consumer, commercial and education segment. For more information, visit www.shuttle.com or contact shuttlepr@tw.shuttle.com.