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The Technology Inside a Branded USB Stick

Reliability and portability have always plagued the portable storage industry. Floppy drives didn’t have much space on them, optical drives were ploddingly slow to burn data on, and CDs can easily be scratched and damaged in transit.
Then the flash drive was introduced. Small, portable and virtually indestructible, they could hold vast amounts of data that [...]

The Franken Flash Project- Creating Awareness And Fighting Against Counterfeits

As a customer you would never want to be fooled of your money, what’s more why should your precious data be at risk? Buying a flash drive that is a fake could cost you your money and your information security as well.
We at USB Company would like to make you aware of the Franken Flash [...]

USB Company attending Bett 2009

The Bettshow is the world largest educational technology event and USB Company will be showcasing our latest products at stand U101(1st floor). We welcome existing and new clients to drop in for a chat and demo of our latest USB Gadgets.
USB Company team have also teamed up with Edugeek and created an Emergency Launch [...]

Fiat’s EcoDrive USB Stick: Driving Your Emissions Down Today!

There was a time when car owners and automobile manufacturers weren’t very conscious about their carbon footprint, or the negative effect that cars could have on the environment. However, things have changed for the better. Rising fuel costs and growing public demand has forced manufacturers to begin designing environment friendly cars. Today, the majority of [...]

Taking encryption to the next level

USB Company are proud to announce that we are the first major promotional USB supplier to offer custom branded USB sticks with hardware based encryption!

We’ve offered software based encryption for a few weeks now, and it has proved fairly popular. When data’s merely confidential and best kept private, rather than potentially damaging, software based protection [...]

Flash for Longer!

With flash memory, the type we use in our USB Sticks, being used in more and more technologies, the original 10,000 re-writes look like they may not always be enough.
Sure, for the average home user that means decades of flash memory before it starts wearing out, but if you decide to use your flash memory [...]

USB Web Button: Your site at the push of a button!

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WHa.
What is it?
The USB Web Button is a round button, 6CM in diameter. When
connected to a USB Port and pressed, it launches a pre-defined website. It can
also be used to launch a specific application, as long as it is installed on
all computers.

How can you use it?
The Webpage:
One possibility is to have it [...]

Apple 3G Iphone Sales Expected to Affect Price of Promotional USB’s

Holding its place as the world’s third-largest OEM buyer of flash, Apple’s weight in the memory industry is indisputable. On that, a market research company expects a near-term boost to the NAND prices and a coinciding increase to Micron’s stock price.
Here at USB Company we will continue to follow the market and manage our stock [...]

What Flash Memory are Used in Promotional USB’s?

There are two types of NAND Flash memory architectures: MLC(Multi Level Cell) and SLC(Single Level Cell).
In a nutshell, MLC are used in those devices requiring high performance at an attractive cost such as USB sticks and voice recorders.
SLC are used in the higher performing technology that is used to enable streaming video and Internet capability [...]

USB 3.0 Superspeed -10x the speed

The 3.0 USB Superspeed is expected to be introduced in Q2 2009. USB 3.0 is set to be 10 times faster than the current standard and exceed the speed of most harddrives available today. With the trend of larger capacity usb flash drives this is welcoming news. USB Company will of course [...]