SanDisk unveils wireless flash drives that hold up to 64GB

SanDisk today announced a line of wireless flash drives that can store up to 64GB of data. The SanDisk Connect Wireless Flash Drive The new drives include the Connect Wireless Flash Drive -- a thumb drive -- and the Connect Wireless Media Drive, a larger, but still pocket-sized storage device. The Connect Wireless Flash Drive comes in 16GB and 32GB capacities; the Connect Wireless Media Drive comes in 32GB and 64GB capacities. The Connect Wireless Flash drive is 3.07-in. x 1.04-in. x 0.54-in. The Connect Wireless Media Drive is 2.6-in. x 2.6-in. x 0.52-in. The Connect Wireless drive family allows users to not only store but share and stream files across multiple mobile devices. They offer up to eight simultaneous device connections and three media streams, and support separate streams of 720p video content at 2MB/sec to three or five devices concurrently (for the Flash Drive and Media Drive, respectively). According to a SanDisk spokesman, video streaming performance isn't affected by multiple streams because device limits are set at a point that supports the streams without degradation. Devices can connect to the drives up to 150 feet away. The Connect Wireless drives work with all iOS and Android devices, and Kindle Fire tablets, as well as PC and Mac computers. The drives are compatible with Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Mac OS 10.6 or higher Movies, music, photos and documents can be loaded onto the wireless drives by simply dragging and dropping the files, which can then be accessed via the SanDisk Connect apps. Those apps are available for download from the App Store, Google Play Store and the Amazon Appstore for Android. The drives contain an internal router, so no external router or Internet connection is needed to stream media. In order to use the drives, mobile device users simply download SanDisk's Connect App. The drives run on lithium-ion batteries. A single charge provides up to four hours of wireless streaming, with streaming data protected by Wi-Fi Password Protection (WPA2). "With the new SanDisk Connect product line, we're raising the bar on what consumers can expect from personal storage," said Dinesh Bahal, vice president for product marketing for SanDisk. "We combined the portability of small flash memory storage devices with the convenience of wireless streaming and sharing functionality." The SanDisk Connect Wireless Media Drive According to SanDisk, the Connect Wireless Flash Drive is the smallest wireless USB flash drive available on the market today. Users can simultaneously access photos, movies, music and documents on their drive from multiple devices around the house or while mobile. The SanDisk Connect Wireless Media Drive is being pitched as a device for mobile entertainment storage. Users can use it to transport and view content such as high-definition movies, videos, music and photos. While larger than SanDisk's Wireless Flash Drive, the Wireless Media Drive is still a pocket-sized device designed for portability, and offers up to eight continuous streaming hours on a single charge. The drive comes with SDHC/SDXC memory card slots, which allows users to store or share more content, or view photos on a mobile device from a camera's memory card. The media drive wirelessly connects up to eight mobile devices and can stream up to five different HD movies at once. The SanDisk Connect Wireless Flash Drive is available in 16GB or 32GB capacities for $49.99 and $59.99, respectively. In the U.S., it is available for preorder on Amazon.com, Newegg.com and Micro Center, with availability at Best Buy starting in August. It will also be available for preorder on Amazon.com in Germany and UK. The SanDisk Connect Wireless Media Drive has a retail price of $79.99 for 32GB or $99.99 for 64GB storage capacity. It is available for preorder in the U.S. on Amazon.com, with availability in Germany and UK in the fourth quarter of 2013. download facebook login sign in download quickoffice pro hd apk v4.5.15 for android download windows live messenger 2011 greek download angry birds 1 5 1 1 apk download adobe flash player for a 32 bit download logic pro 9 windows download enterprise 5th street austin download skype for samsung pixon 12 download oovoo for blackberry playbook download microsoft .net framework 3.5 sp1 standalone full redistributable setup installer

Microsoft ships Office 2010 SP2, starts upgrade clock

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Microsoft must embrace 'grim option' of Windows cannibalization

Microsoft must be ready to accept, as has Apple, that it's better to cannibalize one's own sales than to let others do it, a research analyst said today. "This is going to be a tough shift for Microsoft, to ask them to now accept that the world is a very different place than it used to be," said Al Gillen of research firm IDC. That shift is the corporate reorganization unveiled last week to support a radical strategy of retreating from decades of selling packaged software and advancing on sustainable services and potentially-lucrative devices. Corporate reorganization As part of the reorganization, Microsoft will consolidate all of its client OSes, including Windows 8, Windows RT, Windows Phone 8, Windows Embedded and Xbox, into a single engineering group led by Tony Myerson, head of Windows Phone, which was part of a soon-to-be-defunct Entertainment and Devices division. "The Windows desktop client and mobile have a lot of common functionality, and a combined group could have a lot of synergy," Gillen said of the under-one-roof reshuffle. Like most outside analysts, Gillen and his IDC colleagues believe that the marriage of Windows under Myerson will eventually lead to a common code base, which will in turn let developers write an app that runs on the "Modern" side of Windows as well as on Windows Phone. "The larger question that remains is whether a consolidation of the operating systems engineering work and the consolidation of the client division will make it not only possible, but also more probable, that Microsoft will make the right decisions," Gillen and other IDC analysts wrote in a recently-published research note. And those decisions may include a big and bitter pill for a company that, for better or worse, is identified by "Windows" as much as by its "Microsoft" nameplate. To pull off the switcheroo from software to "devices and services," Microsoft may have to abandon the high margins of the former for the lower margins of devices. "[It] may mean taking actions that cannibalize some dimensions of its business through the sale of lower-cost, lower-profit products," Gillen wrote in the note. "Historically, Microsoft has resisted internal cannibalization, and while such a move may still seem like a grim option, it remains infinitely more attractive than allowing competitors to do the cannibalization on Microsoft's behalf." Move to devices CEO Steve Ballmer himself hinted last week at that approach when he hammered home the phrase "family of devices" in a public memo outlining the reasons for the corporate realignment. In that memo, Ballmer relegated Windows to a "shell" -- his word -- subservient to the device, a 180-degree turn from Windows-as-preeminent, the common denominator of virtually all PCs. If that's the case, and if Microsoft is to capture a meaningful share of the phone and tablet markets as its historic base, the personal computer, shinks, the company must produce -- either on its own or in partnership with OEMs -- mobile devices that consumers and businesses want. It's failed to do that thus far. IDC, then, was suggesting that Microsoft must, at least in the main, sell devices based on lower prices. And the only significant component of a Windows-powered device that can be cut further -- hardware margins are at or very near the bone, and have been for years -- is the Windows license. Microsoft watch Someone made money off the Surface RT: Former Microsoft asset manager charged with insider trading Microsoft to name new CEO in early 2014 Microsoft's CEO search and the art of non-denial denials Microsoft exec hints at separate Windows release trains for consumers, business EU signs off on Microsoft-Nokia deal U.S. antitrust regulators OK Microsoft-Nokia deal Mum's the word: Microsoft board 'doing really well' at keeping quiet Scroogled swag sells out as some buyers go for the gag Gates talks CEO search, but reveals zip In role reversal, Ballmer stays composed, Gates chokes up, in shareholder meeting More in Microsoft Update download quick heal total security 2013 full version with crack download mediaheal for virtual drives crack download wechat for blackberry 9780 download adobe flash player for htc touch 2 download java for mac os x lion 10.7.3 download any video joiner full version download flash player 11 2 x64 download dota allstars 6.59 ai plus map download bahasa untuk kamus nokia e63 download idt high-definition audio codec driver for xp

Feedly, big beneficiary of Google Reader demise, launches paid RSS service

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Hurry up and wait: Why Microsoft's holding Windows 8.1

Microsoft's decision to sit on Windows 8.1 for two months after engineers wrap up work was driven by the year's biggest sales cycles, analysts said. On Wednesday, Microsoft announced it would release Windows 8.1, the first of what's expected to be annual updates to Windows 8, through the Windows Store on Oct. 17. The next day, copies of the updated operating system will hit retail, as will new Windows 8.1-powered devices from Microsoft's OEM (original equipment manufacturer) partners. But with Microsoft still on track to hit its late-August completion date for Windows 8.1 -- at which point the operating system will be at what the company calls RTM, for "release to manufacturing," status -- some have wondered why the Redmond, Wash., developer plans to hold the update for eight or more weeks. The questions are justified: Microsoft has made much of its accelerated development and release schedule for Windows updates. Those updates are far more than collections of bug fixes, like the now-discarded service packs, but include improvements, enhancements, and new features and software. If Microsoft is pushing hard to launch major Windows updates each year, why waste one-sixth of that time sitting on them? "This is all about protecting the back-to-school cycle," said Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy. "Even if this is a violation of the rapid-release concept, it's necessary. Back-to-school just hit the channel a few weeks ago." As Moorhead explained, if Microsoft offered Windows 8.1 to current Windows 8 users as soon as it was finished, back-to-school computer and tablet shoppers would have heard of the update, and they might then be disappointed when they found no Windows 8.1 hardware available through retailers. And in an even more damning development, if they were really unhappy, they might turn that disappointment into purchases of products based on rival platforms, like Apple's OS X or Google's Chrome OS. "People don't postpone back-to-school [computer purchases]," Moorhead said. Wes Miller of Directions on Microsoft also viewed the delay between RTM and what Microsoft dubs GA (general availability) as understandable, but picked the holiday selling season as Microsoft's rationale. "Some people thought that Microsoft would release [Windows 8.1] immediately, but I thought that a little strange," Miller said. "Microsoft classically releases products two times a year: back-to-school and holidays. But back-to-school isn't what it used to be. Everybody goes for the holidays now." As long as Microsoft got Windows 8.1 into retail -- with its own and OEM hardware paramount -- sometime between mid-October and Black Friday (the bruising day of shopping that follows the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S.), it would be primed for the end-of-the-year sales season, Miller said. The two months between RTM and Oct. 18 are needed by OEMs to test Windows 8.1 on current hardware and wrap up work on new devices that take advantage of the update, including the smaller-screen tablets it allows. "There's a fair amount of new stuff in Windows 8.1, including support for Miracast and Wi-Fi Direct printing," said Miller, citing two examples of the new features that hardware makers will want to support. Moorhead agreed that the two months won't be wasted, but are needed by hardware makers to conduct testing of the update on old and new devices. "Consumers will expect 8.1 to work flawlessly on all those platforms," he said. Minus that testing -- if, say, Microsoft had offered Windows 8.1 to all current Windows 8 device owners right after RTM -- OEMs might have been flooded with support calls if glitches surfaced. download active@ disk image explorer download flash player 9 debug download acer aspire one d270 white download toshiba supervisor password utility uninstall download connectify me pro full version download minecraft pocket edition cheats download facebook password hack facebook zer 2012 download plants vs zombies android apk 1 3 4 download vehicle manager pro joomla download own little world remorse code remix

Microsoft's app gap: Just 54% of the top-100 apps are on Windows 8

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Apple plays defense and offense with free software, upgrade strategies

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Microsoft masks Windows, Office performance with new reporting format

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Preston Gralla: Why Ford's CEO is wrong for Microsoft

Ford President and CEO Alan Mulally, a front-runner for the top slot at Microsoft, is a smart manager and a well-known turnaround artist -- exactly the kind of person many believe would be ideal to take over as CEO. But Mulally is the wrong person for Microsoft. Mulally certainly has plenty of pluses. He's an engineer who rose through the ranks at Boeing to become president and CEO of the Boeing Commercial Airplanes division. In 2006, he took over as CEO at struggling carmaker Ford, restructuring it and turning it around. Between the time he took over the company and the end of September of this year, Ford stock was up 103%. He also appears to have the "soft skills" that have been sometimes lacking at Microsoft. Forrester Research analyst David Johnson told Computerworld: "Mulally has a long track record of building company cultures with a positive outlook and trust, infusing the organization with confidence and energy. He's seen as a cheerleader and advocate for employees -- an essential quality for turnarounds." So what's not to like? Plenty, at least for the leadership of Microsoft. The biggest problem is that Mulally is the wrong kind of engineer. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in aeronautical and astronautical engineering. That's a big achievement, and obviously ideal for Boeing and pertinent to a certain extent for Ford. But for Microsoft? Not at all. What software experience does he have? Not much. What is his track record in dealing with the twin challenges of heading a company that is both consumer-oriented and IT-focused? He has none. How will his aeronautical engineering background help him in the challenges Microsoft faces in mobile technology, productivity suites, cloud-based computing, Internet search and more? It won't. Mulally has shown at Boeing and Ford that he's an excellent manager. But that hasn't been Microsoft's problem. For all of Steve Ballmer's faults, he did reasonably well rated strictly as a manager. He's got an MBA from Stanford, and he used that management expertise well. Costs aren't out of control. The company has a top-notch sales staff. Profit margins are high. From a purely managerial perspective, the company is in good shape. Microsoft's big problem is vision, and that's where Mulally falls short. He has no experience in developing the kinds of products that Microsoft needs, no way of figuring a way out of the Windows 8 debacle, of guiding the development of a mobile operating system and a strategy that will help Microsoft gain serious market share. In a tech company, vision isn't something you can delegate to underlings. You have to have it yourself. That's why Ballmer's leadership was less than stellar. Mulally has some experience in developing consumer technology with Microsoft, and it didn't go well. Under his leadership, Ford and Microsoft developed the MyFord Touch infotainment interface for Ford cars. David Champion, head of auto testing for Consumer Reports magazine, told CNN that the system has had many problems, including computer crashes. A class-action suit has been filed against Ford in California over defects in the system. Mulally has clearly been an excellent leader at both Boeing and Ford. But he wouldn't be one at Microsoft. He's the wrong person for the job. download nvidia graphics driver for windows xp 32 bit download wifi password hacker ultimate for android download update smadav 8 6 download cambridge advanced learner's dictionary for computer download acer aspire one 725 linpus download kaspersky antivirus 2012 mac download chrome os cd iso download plants vs zombies game of the year edition pc cheats download doctor who season 3 episode 1 download 4 in a row game for pc