Think your government is technologically inept? If you happen to live in England, you’d probably be more correct than the rest of us. Sometime last week it seems the British government has lost a flash drive containing data on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales and “30,000 people with six or more criminal convictions in the past year.” Theoretically this wouldn’t be such a horrible thing, you’d think a government would have several layers of security on a flash drive in just such a case. Apparently, this flash drive had none, it was completely unencrypted.

A woman is suing Best Buy for $50,000 after a Geek Squad employee admitted viewing, and later stealing the nude photos she had on her PC. He copied them to his flash drive, shared them with his fellow employees and put them on the hard drives of other customers. While employee, William E. Giffels fully more »

Imation has announced its new Atom Flash Drives, a small flash drive the size of a paper clip measuring only 1.20 x 0.5 x 0.22-inches. If Super Talent’s got the world’s slimmest flash drive, the Imation atom flash drive may well be the tiniest. The atom flash drive features a unique and iconic design in more »

Solid Alliance, who have brought us many ‘far-out’ PC accessories have taken it back to the old school with these new Lego shaped USB disks. The drives come in a 1GB size, in blue, green, yellow, red and black and you guessed it, are fully compatible with other Lego products. No price has yet been more »

Remember those TDK cassettes back in the 80′s and 90′s? Well since then TDK has been on the quiet side and has since realized that no one uses cassettes anymore. Since then they have moved along with the digital life giving us floppies, CD’s and DVD’s and now they have announced USB flash drives. There more »

Recently at CES, Kingston – known for their flash storage devices, announced the availability of a few new flash drives.

The first is called the DataTraveler (DT) 400, comes preloaded with MigoSync, which is a form of data synchronization software which allows you to work with many computers and synchronize files, emails, etc. pretty easily. This flash drive is available in a few different models, a 2GB, 4GB, and a 8GB. They will be selling for $31, $56, and $137, respectively.

Next we have the DataTraveler HyperX, this name, you may or may not know, comes from Kingston’s HyperX D-RAM gaming module. This device comes with a fast write speed of 20MB/second and a read speed of 30MB/second. It also comes with

The LG Vaccine USB Flash Drive won’t help to quell the symptoms of the flu, but it will make its users very happy with its offering of antivirus and malware protection software. When flash drives first came out a number of years ago, everyone was amazed at how much could be shoved into such a more »