Tag Archives: data preload
Conference and Seminar Takeaways – on flash drives!
If you’re an event planner who regularly schedules and sets up seminars, workshops and conferences, then you know the nightmare of ensuring that all the meeting materials end up in the hands of attendees. In the past, this meant shipping hundreds of pounds of printed materials to the conference site, finding table space to lay [...]
IBM’s Flash Drive Nightmare – a lesson learned!
IBM may have established a legacy as a leader in computer security, but it didn’t stop them from spreading malware in the promotional USB flash drives they handed out at the AusCert Security Conference in May 2010. Of course, they didn’t spread the malware intentionally. It was included in the drives they were handing out [...]
Increasing event revenue with USB flash drive memories
If you’re an event organiser, chances are good that your hard work has paid off with a seminar, meeting, reunion, wedding or trade show that attendees will remember for a long time. As you know these events offer everyone a great time to connect or reconnect, make new friends, find new customers, network and cement [...]
End of AutoRun a boost for the promotional USB industry
Preloading marketing messages onto a USB flash drive that’s being given away as a promotional gift has been standard practice for many years. Unfortunately, the AutoRun feature found in Windows causes the message to load and run every time the drive is inserted. That’s pretty annoying and has caused marketers to second guess their desire [...]