Sony to offer $600 Wi-Fi fileserver with 20 Gb storage (in German): The folks at Computer Woche (Computer Week) report that Sony should be offering a 20 Gb Wi-Fi fileserver with an optional $60 Ethernet cradle, and the ability to support 250 Wi-Fi users. (That is, the ability to feed out 250 NAT-provided addresses, but not necessarily the networking capacity to handle that.)
Oddly, this is clearly Martian territory: the folks at Martian offer the nearly identically featured NetDrive Wireless for $399 (40 Gb) or $479 (120 Gb) as well as in no-drive kit form ($379). Of course, theirs includes Ethernet in the basic model, and offers Rendezvous-based options for Mac users, including iTunes music sharing.
Full disclosure: Martian has sponsored this site twice. [via Lockergnome]
Did anyone take a closer look at the date the referenced article was written?
05.02.2003 um 11:00 Uh (meaning February 5th).
I tried getting one (from Sony Japan) for quite some time. Unsuccessfully, of course. So why did you dig out this corpse now?
I wasn't looking at the date! Rather, picked it up from Lockgernome. Whoops!
Yep, this is from five months ago. Here's a link to this from Sony's Japanese site: http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/PGX/index.html