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Challenges mount for ultra-wideband wireless

Ultra-wideband wireless, which underlies wireless USB products, suffered another jolt recently when one UWB pioneer shut down operations.

posted by ITworld staff | News | Mobile & wireless | 11/06/08 at 9:47 pm | USB, UWB


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Danger: 8GB USB Drive for $10

Don't you love the way technology prices drop and drop? Think about an 8GB storage device attached to your keyring. The cost of solid state memory keeps plummeting at an amazing rate, and I applaud the chip makers and manufacturers integrating such memory into their products.

posted by James Gaskin | Opinion | Endpoint security | Hardware | Security | Small business | Storage | 11/06/08 at 12:33 pm | backup, laptops, security, USB


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Ought Thumb Drives Be Given the Thumbs Down?

Today’s small, portable USB thumb drives can store significant amounts of data and be easily slipped into a pocket without anyone noticing. This makes it possible for someone to copy data from a network, walk out the company door, and transfer the same data onto another PC.

posted by vcruz911 | Feature | Security | 10/24/08 at 8:49 am | device control, endpoint security, security, USB


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More MacBook gripes: Save FireWire!

Is Apple leading in its bid to ditch FireWire connections from its low-end laptops -- or is it just getting out of the way of the USB 2.0 stampede?

posted by jfruh | Opinion | Hardware | Networking | Personal tech | 10/17/08 at 1:09 pm | Apple, FireWire, MacBook, USB


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