Toshiba ha annunciato la realizzazione di nuovi Pen Drive USB della linea TransMemory, capaci di offrire un'elevata capacità di memorizzazione (fino a 16Gb per il modello al top di gamma, ndr) e dotati di supporto per la tecnologia U3 che consente di eseguire su qualsiasi pc un ampio spettro di applicazioni - come AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger e Winamp - configurate direttamente sul flash drive e di memorizzare in esso le impostazioni scelte per i programmi di cui sopra.
Questi drive saranno presentati in esclusiva in occasione della manifestazione dedicata all'elettronica di consumo IFA 2006, che si terrà a Berlino, in Germania, dall' 1 al 6 Settembre: i modelli aventi capacità di 512Mb, 1Gb, 2Gb e 4Gb arriveranno sul mercato a fine Novembre. Bisognerà attendere invece la fine di Dicembre per acquistare la versione da 16Gb.
TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation today announced the forthcoming introduction
of TransMemory
USB Flash Memories that will bring U3
platform technology into the company's USB lineup and introduce
a special-edition high-capacity USB memory. The four models in the TransMemory
U3 series will be launched on the global market at the end of November,
while the TransMemory
16GB Limited Edition will be available from the end of December, exclusively
through Shop 1048, Toshiba's online shop.
USB memories have won support for their combination of capacity, ease-of-use
and pocketable portability. The U3
platform extends that versatility by supporting storage not only of data
but of applications and personal computer settings, plus security features.
Once configured to suit a user's preferences, a USB Memory supporting
U3 can be used
in any PC with a USB slot, delivering the user's familiar computing
environment and support for such applications as e-mail and web surfing,
and access to files stored in the USB Memory. When the user removes the
U3 USB Memory,
all traces of the Memory's presence is also removed. No personal
data is left behind.
On insertion into a PC, all the U3
models automatically launch the U3
Launchpad software integrated into the memory, which presents the user
with a list of programs to choose from and files to work with. U-Safe,
password-based security protection softwere, is also built into Launchpad
and can be activated at the user's discretion. Other application
programs can be downloaded from the U3 site.
The TransMemory
16GB Limited Edition meets demand for large-capacity data storage with
its 16GB capacity. It also supports a password-based security protection
system for USB memories that can be downloaded for free from Pocket Media,
Toshiba's memory card information site. Toshiba will continue to
introduce large capacity models into the TransMemory
lineup and make them available in the world market.
The new TransMemory
series will be exhibited at the IFA 2006, the world's largest consumer
electronics trade fair, which will be held at Berlin, Germany, from September
1 to 6, 2006.
Source: Toshiba Press Release
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