Memory makers adopt xD for digital pics
News Memory developers Lexar Media and SanDisk have agreed to sell the emerging xD-Picture Card, a removable flash memory card format that's gaining traction by riding on the popularity of digital cameras.
[May 28, 2003, 13:29]
Sony makes gains with Memory Stick
News Lexar, a developer of digital photography products, sells CompactFlash, Smart Media and Memory Stick formats. Recently announced licensing deals with Fujitsu and Lexar Media, a change in attitude toward developers, and support from a handful of...
[June 15, 2001, 9:32]
Drive makers ally to push portable data
News Lexar Media, Samsung Semiconductor and others plan on Monday to launch the USB Flash Drive Alliance. Aside from Samsung Semiconductor and Lexar Media, other "sponsor" members of the alliance are Genesys Logic, Kingston Technology and PNY Technologies.
[December 8, 2003, 8:05]
Digicam memory cards crack 4 gigabytes
News Lexar Media said on Monday that it will soon release two new CompactFlash cards that far exceed the memory capacity of other digital cards on the market, while rival SanDisk unveiled a line of CompactFlash and SD cards that transfer data at a...
[March 4, 2003, 8:54]
Flash memory flares up
News Companies that provide portable storage such as SanDisk and Lexar Media have seen a tremendous run-up in their fortunes since the second quarter of last year, as consumers snap up devices from digital cameras to cellphones.
[January 16, 2004, 16:05]
The Day Ahead: ITeX may brighten dreary IPO week
News One of those struggling IPOs this week was Lexar Media, which makes digital photography accessories. Reimer said Sandisk attempted to buy Lexar a few times already to gain access to its technology. Lexar priced at $8, well below its price range and...
[August 18, 2000, 11:52]
USB drives: Useful tool or security nightmare?
News From my experience, I recommend both the Lexar JumpDrive Secure USB Flash Drive and the Kingston DataTraveler Elite. With these devices, corporations' biggest worry about data leakage is not that some disgruntled employee will copy data to the...
[May 18, 2005, 17:30]
Google apps coming to a flash drive near you
News Picasa, Google Toolbar and Desktop Search applications will come ready-installed on Lexar Media's range of flash drives from January 2006. While these popular applications have traditionally been available on the Web directly from Google.offering...
[December 21, 2005, 14:30]
Microsoft opens FAT file system
News Microsoft said Lexar Media is licensing the FAT file system technology and that Agfa Monotype is licensing ClearType. Microsoft said Wednesday that it will follow the lead of other technology businesses and start to allow companies to license a...
[December 3, 2003, 17:30]
Dell DJ set to debut
News Also on Monday, Flash-maker Lexar Media announced a flash-based MP3 player called JumpDrive Music. Continuing its push into consumer electronics, Dell on Monday introduced a disk-drive-based MP3 player, and revealed details of a partnership with...
[October 27, 2003, 14:50]
The Day Ahead: Summer siesta for IPOs
News Companies such as Lexar Media, which makes digital film, and Synquest, a supply chain software company, priced below their IPO price ranges even after lowering terms dramatically. Through 15 August, 56 IPOs priced and the returns were spotty.
[August 21, 2000, 11:59]
Regulator asked to revoke Windows patent
News Last year, Microsoft said it would seek to license the FAT file system on reasonable terms, announcing flash memory maker Lexar Media as its first licensee. A little-known public interest group this week asked the US government to revoke a...
[April 19, 2004, 13:00]
Firefox loses market share
Talkback BTW.another reason that encouraged me to switch back is my USB Lexar Media “Jump Drive”, it has IE and Outlook express built in to it so I can carry all my settings with me wherever I go. I started using FireFox since it was first available for...
[August 15, 2005, 23:18]
Sony tries to keep Memory Stick a step ahead
News Flash memory card makers SanDisk and Lexar Media announced on Friday that they will begin selling the Pro Duo cards in September. Sony has released a smaller, roomier and faster version of its Memory Stick removable flash memory, targeting digital...
[August 18, 2003, 11:50]
Microsoft wins final FAT battle
News In December 2003, it said it had struck such a deal with flash memory vendor Lexar Media. Two patents covering one of Microsoft's main Windows file-storage systems are valid after all, US federal patent examiners have decided.
[January 11, 2006, 14:35]
Microsoft loses file-system patent claims
News It announced at the time that flash memory seller Lexar Media was taking a licence for its FAT format technology. The US Patent Office has rejected two Microsoft patents over the FAT file format, but the software maker said on Wednesday it's not...
[October 6, 2005, 9:05]
Consumer demand calls for more flash memory
News Beyond Apple, other consumer electronics manufacturers that use NAND flash, such as Sony, SanDisk and Lexar Media, are expected to consume any potential oversupply in high-density Flash now that Intel is joining the fray, Niebel said.
[November 22, 2005, 14:10]
SP1 all pluses
Member Review With companies like corsair, lexar and toshiba/kingston offering read speeds in excess 30mb/s and write speeds of upto 25mb/s ReadyBoost is finally worth buying a memory stick for (corsair memory sticks with the "GT" suffix read at 34mb/s and...
[February 13, 2008, 9:39]
Micron unveils server-grade SSDs
News Both ranges should go into mass production in the fourth quarter of this year and, according to Micron, the company's Lexar Media subsidiary will start introducing the same RealSSD architecture to consumer products around the same time.
[August 5, 2008, 13:06]
