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Thursday, January 3, 2008 |
SanDisk USB drive learns a new trick.  (Credit: SanDisk)
As their capacities have grown, USB thumb drives have become the method of choice to transfer data between PCs for many consumers. Some have also started using them as backups for their hard drives.
The latest SanDisk Cruzer Titanium Plus flash drive takes the concept even one step further by making backups of its 4GB storage automatically to an online company, BeInSync. The $60 drive comes with six months of this online service, after which an annual fee of $30 is charged.
When the Cruzer is plugged into a connected machine, the contents are automatically synchronized both ways and the data can also be accessed via the Web site. According to BeInSync, communication to and from the device is secured using 256-bit SSL encryption to ensure that your private data remains private.
(Source: Crave Asia)
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10:08:52 PM 
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Evidently no one from Acumence reads my blog. I was updating my links and found that the Web page for the company didn't exist. No one wrote to correct me. After much searching, I discovered a misspelling. That's the trouble with digital media--it must be 100% accurate, or it doesn't work. My apologies. It's fixed.
8:57:53 PM
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On the other hand (regarding social networks), I was accepting a new contact into LinkedIn and saw that Gregg Le Blanc has left OSIsoft to start his own company. 'Tis the season, I guess. Gregg was a great contact for me at OSIsoft for explaining what was happening in terms I could write about. Best of luck in the new gig -- he's founded a company called F5Direct.
11:17:15 AM
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Watch all those "walled garden" social networking sites. Everyone is still trying to do what AOL did in the early 90s (and lasted until just recently)--capture you into their site and don't let you out. I was on AOL before there was a World Wide Web. But when the Web came along, I was frustrated that I couldn't get on it through AOL. Eventually, I ditched it altogether. Now Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Plaxo and others are trying the same thing. Go there for all your contacts, messaging, and so forth. And you can't export your information (since those companies view the information as theirs, not yours) under penalty. Looks like that's what geek blogger Robert Scoble must be doing. He'd maxed out "friends" on Facebook -- and in the process gave the site (and company) tons of good publicity. Now they've kicked him off and deleted all references to him. I'm on three of those sites, but I spend little time there. Still trying to see the value.
11:12:52 AM
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