Hand Over Your Decrypt Key, or Else …
Ever since the US government tried to behead Phil Zimmermann for releasing his Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) email encryption software to the public, data encryption has become widespread. Now any computer user can encrypt and decrypt their personal data with ease - there are very good GUIs to facilitate the process. With encryption in place, you can be sure, if your PC is ever stolen or seized by law enforcement, that they will have a difficult time getting at your data.
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SanDisk’s Latest Offering: The Sansa TakeTV
SanDisk’s latest usb device is the Sansa TakeTV video player. This is unlike other mobile devices such as the iPhone, the Nokia N81 8GB, and a host of others already in the market. It has no built-in camera, and you won’t be able to call your mom using this device. Far from any of that. In fact, it is not a true mobile device.
It is simply a usb disk, with a twist: You plug it into a PC, download movies, attach it to its cradle, plug it into most TVs and watch the movies on the TV, using an included remote control. That’s all. Nothing fancy. The Sansa TakeTV video player comes in 4 GB and 8 GB version, and supports a number of video formats, including DivX, XVID and MPEG-4. Retail price is $99.99 and $149.99 for the 4 GB and 8 GB versions respectively.
SanDisk also annouced the public beta of Fanfare, a platform that gives “consumers access to a growing list of TV shows that can be downloaded to the Sansa TakeTV and watched on nearly any TV, at any time”.
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1 Terabyte Notebook HD: Coming Soon to your Laptop
Current hard drive storage for notebooks and desktops top out at about 200 GB and 500 GB respectively. Those figures will change in a few short years. That’s because Hitachi Global Storage Technologies just announced that they have developed a new read-head technology for hard disk drives, which would enable the production of 1terabyte disk drives for a laptop, and 4 terabytes for a desktop hard drive.
Unless you have a massive collection of audio and video files, this new technology will not change your computing experience. Even for those who do, the terabyte-sized disk drives enabled by this technology will not be in shipping products until 2009, and according to Hitachi, the full potential will not be realized until 2011.
Hitachi is expected to showcase this new technology at the 8th Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Conference (PMRC 2007), which will be held at the Tokyo International Forum in Japan from October 15-17, 2007. Details of this news release is available
here.
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FlashMate Technology: Access your laptop’s HD with the CPU off
A new storage technology from Silicon Storage Technology, Inc., and Insyde Software Corp. is going to change the way you use your laptop pc very soon. According to the news release, “FlashMate technology utilizes a fully integrated hardware, firmware and software architecture to provide alternative hybrid-drive functionality to notebooks and total access to hard disk drive
content even while the CPU is off”.
Now, that will be really cool. Imagine this, you will soon be able to access your mp3 or Ogg files, email, and digital picture while the CPU is off. The FlashMate technology is not yet in any notebook pc, but expect that to change in the second quarter of 2008. More on this technology from Silicon Storage Technology.
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