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Gold-plated USB Stick Sparkles
News A USB memory stick coated in gold and boasting five diamonds on its case was launched at the CeBIT trade fair in Hanover this week. White Lake's luxury USB stick in all its splendour White Lake is part of Specs Distribution of the Netherlands...
[March 10, 2006, 14:40]
Gold-plated USB Stick Sparkles
Talkback You'd have thought they would have used a gold plated usb connector!
[March 11, 2006, 6:11]
Mandriva Linux Gets Flashy
Blog I've been using Mandriva's new Linux-distribution-on-a-USB-stick, Mandriva Flash, and most impressive it is too. I'll post a full review soon, but the main advantages over a similar Live CD distro are that there's a spare 1GB of capacity on the USB...
[January 4, 2007, 11:13]
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]
More Patient Data Lost
Blog The Manchester Evening News is reporting that yet more NHS data has been lost, following on from last week's revelations of a lost NHS USB data stick. After media reports of the lost Stockton data stick, a student in Greater Manchester realised...
[January 23, 2008, 14:51]
Flash-memory Devices Cause Security Concerns
News USB storage devices and products like Sony's Memory Stick could be a serious security risk, experts said this week. USB drives and Memory Sticks have been growing in popularity during the past few years and are commonly used in products such as...
[August 22, 2003, 16:15]
Use Physical Security In Addition To User Name And Passwords
Talkback This software uses, what we call three part security; User name, password, & a digital key stored on a USB memory stick. This is typically stored on a USB memory stick along with the client software. My company www.ttc4it.com developed the remote...
[February 20, 2008, 5:09]
Gates Mocks $100 Laptop
Talkback The linux software is stored on the server computer and each laptop runs off the network with each child having their own usb stick to boot from, with their configuration and files store on the stick.
[March 17, 2006, 15:42]
HP Says No To Intel's Turbo Memory
News ReadyBoost can already be utilised by inserting a memory card or USB stick into a Vista-based computer, but Turbo Memory is being touted as a way to take advantage of the feature without having to add external media.
[June 4, 2007, 15:33]
Data-recovery Firm Reveals Top Client Mishaps
News A customer who told engineers she had "washed away all her data" after putting a USB stick through a cycle in her washing machine A father who, while feeding his baby daughter, forgot about the USB stick in his top pocket.
[December 6, 2007, 10:26]
BeCrypt Releases Secure OS On USB Drive
News Boot-time authentication and encryption protect the information held on the USB stick. Mandriva also recently released its Linux distribution on a USB stick, bundled alongside open-source applications such as Firefox and OpenOffice.
[April 17, 2007, 14:52]
ReadyBoost Or ReadyDrag
Blog Comment When I compare this to the £15 it cost me for my 4GB Corsair USB stick I think I'll wait for a price drop. The faster speed of an express card slot compared to USB2.0 will make installing apps on it more realistic than on a USB stick (despite what...
[February 18, 2008, 11:44]
Junior Doctor Loses Confidential Patient Data
Blog Thirty six of them stored patient data electronically, 20 using a USB stick, three a floppy disk, and 13 a hospital computer hard drive. Calum Macleod, European Director for Cyber-Ark, a company which sells data protection products, said that the...
[July 25, 2007, 18:10]
Lockdown & Markdown
Blog First up is PortableApps - Free Open Source Software for Windows, adapted to run from a USB stick so that you can take your favourite apps with you. On a USB stick! My friend Michael said “grud on a stick, it's like slicing raw munce”.
[May 9, 2008, 11:32]
Memory Stick Lockdown Is Imminent
Blog This is interesting (no, really) because it shows that some 10% of malware detections last month were identified as files containing information on programs to be run automatically when removable media, typically a USB memory stick, was inserted...
[April 2, 2008, 10:03]
MandrakeSoft Releases Mobile Linux Device
News I'm holding out for a 30GB USB memory stick. Once 30GB is available on a USB stick, I think these devices will really take off," he said. The hard drive runs from the USB port of a computer and allows users to turn most PCs into a Linux desktop...
[August 26, 2004, 17:55]
The Top Five Internal Security Threats
Articles Whether it's an MP3 player, a CD-ROM, a digital camera or USB data stick, today's employees could easily take a significant chunk of your customer database out of the door in their back pocket. Someone can walk away with up to 60GB of data on a USB...
[March 10, 2008, 14:48]
Gartner: Developers Must Be Responsible For Security
News This covers things like moving data on to a USB stick or burning it onto a CD. If I want to stop credit card information from leaving my system, either over the network or through somebody's laptop or USB stick, then I have to have software that...
[November 30, 2007, 11:43]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Why should a USB port lie on its back and stick its legs in the air begging to be tickled just because a stranger's stuck his drive in? My phone, my iPod, my PDA and my camera would have to go, as would my keyring USB drive.
[July 9, 2004, 19:05]
Sony Goes Wireless With Bluetooth Kit
News Bluetooth, the 2.4GHz wireless technology designed to facilitate ad hoc Personal Area Networks (PANs), has been available for notebook PCs in the shape of PC Card and USB add-ons for a few months, but on Thursday Sony became the first manufacturer...
[June 15, 2001, 10:11]
