LaCie Introduces Three Keys for Handy Portable Storage

  • Sturdy metal key design; fits on a key ring
  • Ultra-mobile and lightweight
  • Hot-pluggable with cross-platform compatibility
  • Fast and reliable transfer rates – USB 2.0

LaCie announced three new ways to carry digital content – LaCie itsaKey, iamaKey and PassKey USB key drives, design by 5.5 Designers. The inventive, compact key-shaped design conveniently fits in a pocket or on a key ring. The itsaKey and iamaKey store up to 8 gigabytes of flash memory. Alternatively, the PassKey has a built-in microSD card reader, which allows you to use your memory cards as stylish and handy USB keys.

Resilient to the rigorous treatment that often befalls common keys, the three USB keys are built with sturdy metal, making their surfaces tough and dependable. Additionally, the Gold SIP connector on the iamaKey is both water- and scratch- resistant, making it one of the thinnest and most durable flash drive choices on the market.

“Following the popularity and usefulness of flash memory today, LaCie has merged the ubiquitous USB interface with a very mobile and convenient form factor, a key that you always carry with you,” said Luc Pierart, Business Unit Manager of Peripherals & Accessories. “The LaCie Key products bring an ease-of-use to our customers, making it easy to access, store, and share large amounts of content on-the-go. After all, it’s a Key.”

Supported by the Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface, the LaCie iamaKey, itsaKey and PassKey can be used with both PC and Mac. Hi-Speed USB not only offers universal compatibility and cross-platform convenience, but features a hot-pluggable connection and outstanding high speed transfer rates of up to 30 MB/s for key drives. The PassKey ensures users can quickly and effectively bring new life to an old microSD card, saving time, money and resources. In addition, the PassKey is versatile; you can easily change the capacity by swapping the microSD card (or micro SDHC).

As products of the 5.5 Designers firm, LaCie Keys provide users a convenient way to store and take their data with them wherever they go.

Availability
The LaCie Keys are available now, starting at $9.99. LaCie products are available through the LaCie Online Store or LaCie resellers. For more information, visit www.lacie.com.


Hammacher Schlemmer Introduces the Driving Activity Reporter

Continuing its 161-year history of offering the best, the only, and the unexpected, Hammacher Schlemmer introduces the Driving Activity Reporter, a covert device that attaches to a car and provides a detailed report of places, routes, and speeds traveled.

“The Driving Activity Reporter allows parents to monitor where a young driver has taken the car and his or her driving habits,” explained Hammacher Schlemmer’s General Manager, Fred Berns.

About the size of a pack of gum and equipped with a neodymium magnet, the Driving Activity Reporter allows clandestine storage in a glove compartment, underneath a seat, or against any metal surface on the interior or exterior of the automobile. The Driving Activity Reporter’s integrated 16 channel GPS receiver collects transmissions from 24 Department of Defense satellites to track the movements of the car in which it is hidden.

The device has built-in flash memory that holds up to 100 hours of driving activity and, once removed from the car, it plugs into your computer’s USB port and downloads the collected data. Included software uses animated digital street mapping, graphs, and text to show you the date, time, and location of every stop, the duration of each sojourn, and how long it took to reach the destinations.

The data can also be examined using Google Earth, a free Internet application with precise satellite pictures of Earth. These virtual maps use color-coded lines to trace the automobile’s route, display the maximum speeds reached during the excursion, and show how long the car traveled above the speed limit, allowing you to easily determine instances of speeding and if the driver’s story is consistent with the car’s actual journey.

The Driving Activity Reporter has a water-resistant frame and can be used in temperatures between -15 degrees F and 185 degrees F. It enters a “sleep” mode when the car is stationary for more than two minutes, the included AAA batteries provide up to three weeks of power, and if the power runs out before you retrieve the device, all data will be stored safely on the integrated memory.

For more information, please visit www.hammacher.com


Don’t Send USB Memory Sticks to the Dry Cleaner.

PC Dynamics introduces SafeHouse Explorer

Free software hides & locks files on hard drives, thumb drives, memory sticks, MP3 players

Did you know that dry cleaners find thousands of memory sticks left behind in pockets?

Hide incriminating photos taken at the slumber party — and the video you want to keep private, the divorce settlement, credit card numbers, secret diary, and passwords to a zillion websites. Lock up the business plan that will make you rich no matter how bad the economy gets. Protect your resume and job search from prying eyes — and your boss.

PC Dynamics today introduced SafeHouse Explorer, software that locks and makes invisible documents, spreadsheets, photos, videos and other sensitive and private data stored on hard drives, memory sticks, thumb drives, DVDs and MP3 players.

SafeHouse Explorer is free. Download the software and view how-to videos at http://www.safehouseexplorer.com/.

For details about the dry cleaners and other fun facts, visit: http://www.safehousesoftware.com/FunFacts.aspx

“Memory sticks vanish, like the socks you can never find,” said Peter Avritch, president of PC Dynamics. “Thumb drives are fashion accessories now. Old cellphones loaded with photos get handed down to friends and family. Laptops are left behind in taxis. We recycle computers without wiping the hard drives clean. We are constantly putting vital personal information at risk. That’s where SafeHouse Explorer comes in. And it’s free.”

The software creates secret private storage vaults up to 2 terabytes in size under Microsoft Windows XP and Vista. Vaults appear as new Windows drive letters and are fully compatible with Windows applications.

The files inside each vault are invisible, protected by 256-bit encryption tools and a secret password, “using a drag-and-drop interface that looks like Windows Explorer with three extra buttons,” said Avritch. “It’s the same encryption used by banks, only without the complexity.”

SafeHouse Explorer also runs directly from USB memory sticks without being installed into Windows. This means users can plug in the USB drive to access protected files any time, any where, from any computer, including computers in schools, libraries, hotels and coffee shops.


Silicon-Proven and Compliant to the Standard Specifications, DesignWare PHY IP Lowers Integration Risk and Helps Ensure Interoperability

Synopsys, Inc. a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, announced that the DesignWare(R) USB 2.0 nanoPHY IP and PCI Express(R) 1.1 PHY are the first IP cores to achieve compliance in UMC’s 65-nanometer (nm) SP and LL process technologies. Passing compliance testing helps ensure interoperability and reduces risk for designers incorporating complex, high-performance interfaces into their system-on-chips (SoCs). As the only IP vendor to provide complete IP solutions for USB 2.0 and PCI Express – consisting of digital controllers, PHY and verification IP – Synopsys continues to demonstrate technology leadership by delivering high-quality, silicon-proven IP solutions that are proven to be compliant with the standard specifications.

The DesignWare USB 2.0 nanoPHY IP is designed for a broad range of high-volume mobile and consumer applications where the key requirements include minimal area and low dynamic and leakage power consumption. In addition, the DesignWare USB 2.0 nanoPHY IP has built-in tuning circuits designed to enable quick, post-silicon adjustments to account for unexpected chip/board parasitics or process variations, without having to modify the existing design. This allows designers to increase yield and minimize the cost of expensive silicon re-spins.

The DesignWare PHY IP for PCI Express substantially exceeds key PCI Express 1.1 specifications in jitter, margin and receive sensitivity, thus delivering a robust design that tolerates process, voltage and temperature variations. Embedded high-speed mixed signal IP, such as a PCI Express PHY, can pose significant testing challenges in terms of development time, coverage, and equipment cost. With the DesignWare PHY IP for PCI Express, at-speed production testing can be conducted on a pure-digital tester by using the supplied ATE test vectors for full compliance eye-mask testing. This eliminates the need for expensive test equipment, enabling designers to speed development time and lower costs. Furthermore, the advanced built-in diagnostics capabilities provide customers with an on-chip sampling scope for quick debug of the SoC.

“As a leading provider of connectivity IP, we remain steadfast on delivering IP that helps designers implement the latest technologies while minimizing risk,” said John Koeter, vice president of marketing for the Solutions Group at Synopsys. “Achieving compliance for the DesignWare PHY IP in popular process technologies such as UMC 65-nanometer gives designers confidence that the IP being integrated will function precisely to the standard and is proven interoperable with other devices.”

Availability

The DesignWare USB 2.0 nanoPHY and PCI Express 1.1 PHY for the UMC 65-nm SP and LL process technologies are available now. In addition the DesignWare SATA PHY, DDR2/DDR PHY, and DDR 2/3 Lite PHY are also available in the UMC 65-nm process technologies today. For more information on the DesignWare Mixed-Signal IP solutions, please visit http://www.synopsys.com/designware.


Olixir Technologies, the industry’s leading provider of shock and vibration protected external hard drives announced at FOSE 2009 that it will add a host of robust security features to its family of Mobile DataVault Transportable Hard Drives to deliver a high-capacity transportable storage solution that is fully-compliant with the requirements outlined in the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publication 140-2.

In addition, the company released the highest capacity Mobile DataVault 3DX Transportable Hard Drives in the company’s history. Olixir’s popular line of military-grade, transportable hard drives, towers and 1U rack are displayed in Emtec Federal’s booth (#2401) at FOSE.

Incorporating an advanced set of security features including anti-virus, anti-malware and encryption agents, which have already been approved by the DOD DARTT Team, Olixir’s external drives meet all criteria to be connected via USB cables to U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) networked computers. Beginning in Q2 2009, this comprehensive security capability will be resident on the Mobile DataVault products and run independently of the host computer to proactively protect the drive and the network from malware and virus infections.

Olixir is also unveiling new 1TB and 1.5TB additions to the Mobile DataVault 3DX product family at the show. Backwards-compatible with Olixir’s existing family of chassis-, tower- and rack-based storage systems, in addition to USB 2.0, and Firewire cable options, the new high-capacity transportable hard drives are now available with SATA and eSATA cables for enhanced performance and data security when used in standalone external hard drive configurations.

“With a wide variety of computing environments ranging from small branch offices to large enterprise-class networks and tactical deployed operations, government demands storage solutions that deliver the highest levels of security, scalability, versatility, performance and durability,” explained Darshan Shah, president of Olixir Technologies. “Our Mobile DataVault product lines are rapidly replacing tape and COTS external hard drives based on the unique ability to address each of those requirements. The addition of the anti-virus, anti-malware and FIPS 140-2 certified encryption capabilities will establish our Mobile DataVault as the ideal stand-alone solution for storing, protecting and transporting mission-critical data in any in-garrison or deployed environment. By introducing the new high-capacity, backwards-compatible 1TB and 1.5TB drives, not only are we increasing the standalone utility of the product, but we’re also enhancing the scalability of our existing and future tower, rack-mounted and chassis-based products.”

Mobile DataVault

The Olixir Technologies Mobile DataVault family of ruggedized transportable hard drives includes the high-capacity, high-performance Mobile DataVault 3DX, the ultra-rugged Mobile DataVault 2LX and 2LE product lines. All Mobile DataVault removable hard drives provide unparalleled versatility through a modular design that enables it to be used as a standalone external hard drive, or as a data cartridge in docking bays, and rack/tower configurations. Using interchangeable cables, the Mobile DataVault hard drives can support USB 2.0, Firewire, SATA, and eSATA interfaces enabling the drives to capture and store data from virtually any computer in any environment.

The high-capacity Mobile DataVault 3DX, which is available in capacities of 160GB, 250GB, 500GB, 750GB, 1TB, and 1.5TB, is a ruggedized external hard drive that provides stored data with up to 1,200 Gs of shock protection in a patented handheld package.

The ultra-rugged Mobile DataVault 2LX and 2LE, which are available in capacities of 60GB, 80GB, 100GB, 120GB, 160GB, and 250GB, provide an extra level of protection with the ability to survive numerous six-foot drops, exceeding the MIL-STD-810F transit drop test. The Mobile DataVault 2LE offers wider temperature range and operational vibration tolerance for use in extreme conditions.

The Mobile DataVault 3DX, 2LX and 2LE are backed by a three-year warranty and are available to government, military and defense contractors through GSA (contract #: GS-35F-0538P). The Mobile DataVault 3DX, 2LX and 2LE are also available worldwide via leading e-commerce sites and value-added resellers.

Source: Olixir Technologies





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