Sonos may have trouble on its hands if Creative’s newest products, the Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Notebook and the Creative Wireless Receiver work as promised. The X-Fi Notebook is an ExpressCard that fits into your laptop. Well, some of it does — there is a rather large piece that juts out of your laptop.

Creative’s X-Fi line claims to improve audio quality using algorithms. I have yet to test these claims. Whether the X-Fi Notebook improves the audio or just sends out your lousy lossy mp3s, the cool thing is that it can wirelessly send your audio out to up to four Wireless Receivers. You could create a multi-zone set-up using Creative’s latest offerings. The Receivers are just that – you will need to hook them up to powered speakers to listen to audio.

Rogers has just announced the addition of two new high speed data modems, the Novatel X950D and the MC950D. Both modems are tri-band HSPA and Quad-Band EDGE/GPRS and according to Novatel are made to offer “maximum performance and durability.” The X950D is an ExpressCard modem and the MC950D is a USB modem. While Rogers has more »

Sony Ericsson has announced the EC400 and EC400g ExpressCards. The EC400 and EC400g both have support for HSDPA and HSUPA with speeds up to 7.2 Mbps down and 2.0 Mpbs up. Overall pretty standard features except for the EC400g which also has an integrated GPS receiver. Expect the EC400 and EC400g to be available around more »

Belkin is at the head of its game with their new Notebook Expansion dock, the first available in the consumer market. Media centric consumers, this dock is definitely for you. As most gadgets on the market, it’s attractive, silver and compact so, I won’t concentrate on its design. You’ll have to sacrifice your notebook’s ExpressCard more »