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Flash-memory devices cause security concerns
Talkback Also set the policy so the user cannot install new hardware, this will prevent them from installing a drive that they brought in them selves. Actually you can vey effectivly control this type of access if you need to.
[August 22, 2003, 18:06]
Kensington Contour Balance Notebook Roller review
Reviews On the front, a double zipper opens to reveal organiser pockets for a MP3 player, mobile phone, flash drive (or lipstick), three pens, business cards and discs. Made of water-resistant microfibre and measuring 44cm wide by 37cm deep by 19cm thick...
[October 11, 2007, 15:08]
Hitachi cuts jobs, plans growth
News Flash disk drives are also "doing very well", he said. We are on track and we will be the first in the market with a 1TB [terabyte] 3.5-inch drive," he said. Hitachi announced on Thursday that it would cut 4,500 jobs as part of a plan to boost hard...
[March 22, 2007, 15:20]
Toshiba Portégé A100 review
Reviews Data exchange with some digital cameras and handhelds is facilitated by the Secure Digital (SD) flash memory card slot, which can also act as a portable memory store (a 256MB card costs £69 from Toshiba).
[May 4, 2004, 10:00]
Suse Linux gives proprietary modules the boot
Talkback Software under different licenses and proprietary software such as some wireless card drivers, Opera, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Flash and Real Player are supplied on a 6th CD. My setup has two different printers (HP and Samsung), a USB hard disk...
[August 2, 2006, 11:10]
PDF threat worse than first thought
News Based upon info we have, Flash Player, Reader and modern browsers should restrict such an exploit, but we haven't completed our evaluation of all possible scenarios," the representative said. Now it has been discovered that miscreants could exploit...
[January 5, 2007, 7:24]
Flash-memory devices cause security concerns
News They can store anything from around 32MB to over 1GB, and are recognised as a removable hard drive by PCs. USB storage devices and products like Sony's Memory Stick could be a serious security risk, experts said this week.
[August 22, 2003, 16:15]
Nuggets: Teac writes CDs in a flash...
News Nuggets has gone a bit CD drive mad lately but I thought you'd like to hear about this one. The CD-R58S CD-R from Teac drive writes at speeds of up to 8x. As with Teac's last drive you can set recording speeds to be 8x, 6x, 4x, 2x or 1x.
[May 20, 1999, 9:25]
Portable version of OpenOffice.org unveiled
News The latest version of Portable OpenOffice.org, an edition of the open source office suite that fits on a USB stick, includes a number of updates such as full support for Windows 2000 and launchers for each OpenOffice.org application.
[January 6, 2006, 16:20]
SanDisk Cruzer Titanium review
Reviews CruzerSync syncs up with Outlook (but not Outlook Express) and loads compressed versions of your email messages (with or without attachments), plus contacts and other Outlook-related debris onto the drive so that you can access it wherever you...
[June 25, 2004, 9:20]
Samsung promotes flash drives for PCs
News Flash-memory maker Samsung is trying to drive a new kind of disk for PCs. The company announced Monday that it has developed a "solid-state disk" using flash memory for PCs. The 1.8-inch NAND flash-based disks, which will be available in August...
[May 24, 2005, 9:35]
Tiny memory card for mobiles launched
News Eventually, it may be commonplace for more advanced mobile phones to include a hard drive. Last week Samsung demonstrated a mobile phone with a one-megapixel camera, two colour screens and a 1.5GB, 2.5cm hard-disk drive
[December 14, 2004, 11:45]
Nuggets: Rock balances short battery life with looks
News You don't lose out on the extras either with a six-speed DVD-ROM drive and a 56K modem, plus USB and infrared ports. Rock is only asking £2,199 (that's including VAT) for this 750Mhz/600Mhz SpeedStep machine, and that gets you 192MB of Ram and a...
[October 23, 2000, 15:03]
'Super drive' tapes sell well
News For the latest news, reviews and price checks on everything from USB flash cards and PC Card hard disks to storage area networks, see ZDNet UK's Storage News Section. More than 10 million data-storage tape cartridges with the Linear Tape-Open (LTO...
[July 23, 2003, 9:08]
Government ups nanotech funding
News The device used carbon nanotubes a billionth of a metre in diameter sprinkled onto a silicon wafer, and was designed to combine the speed and price of dynamic memory with the non-volatility of flash. The Department of Trade and Industry is to spend...
[October 13, 2003, 13:05]
Xkey USB drive allows remote access to Exchange email
Talkback That's all it is really: a VPN program put on a flash card connected to a USB connector. "When the device is removed, it automatically deletes the contents of the computer's cache, leaving no trace of the user.
[May 27, 2004, 15:04]
also cost limitations
Talkback As even a 32Gb drive is wildly more expensive and with the massive increase in stored information this is not enough think this may have only small market at least to start with unless the price starts to drop dramatically.
[January 5, 2007, 10:03]
