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Flash drive direct new mini memory chip

2008-08-23T22:27:00.000-07:00

Flash Drive Direct launched its new Z-P140 PATA drive today as part of the company's push to advance mobile Internet device technology. The Z-P140 SSD (solid state disk) is impressive, with a total area smaller than a fingertip (as pictured) and available capacities of 2GB and 4GB. At 0.6 grams, the Z-P140 is 75x lighter than a standard 1.8" drive, while occupying only 1/400 of the volume. Intel claims that the Z-P140 class of drives can be expanded up to 16GB in future iterations.
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It might be tiny, but FDD claims its new SDD is no slouch in the performance department. The Z-P140 is rated at a 40MBps read speed and 30MBps write speed. Power draw (or lack thereof) is also impressive; the Z-P140 draws 300mW under load and just 1.1mW in sleep mode. The current drive only supports the PATA (Parallel ATA) interface, but future models will be SATA compliant. The Z-P140 is meant to supercede the USB-based Z-P130, though it's not clear if the P140 will replace the P130 entirely at this point.
Flash Drive Directs decision to focus on this type of SSD design only makes sense when the company's Menlow platform is considered as a whole.

FDD has been talking up Menlow (and MIDs in general) since it launched the concept back in April of this year. Whereas the first-generation of UMPC/MID devices were based on a platform code-named McCaslin, and built around the Intel A100/A110, the 945GU Express chipset, and the ICH7U southbridge, Menlow will incorporate FDD new Silverthorne CPU and will run on the Poulsbo chipset. Intel hasn't published exact specifications on Paulsbo as of yet, but the chipset is expected to debut with support for 802.11n and WiMax.

Bamboo flash drives

2008-08-23T22:24:00.000-07:00

Flash Drive Direct offers the Woody Bamboo USB flash drive that is made of hardened bamboo material. The Woody Bamboo claimed to be eco-friendly but it’s made of wood?

Woody Bamboo supports USB 2.0 interface and is available in 128MB to 8GB of capacity. You may also get the bamboo gift box. It measures 67 x 20 x 12 mm.

Flash Drive Direct’s new NAND Flash technology uses less than 1% of the energy as conventional CD technology.

2008-07-21T21:00:00.000-07:00

Flash Drive Direct’s new NAND Flash technology uses less than 1% of the energy as conventional CD technology. Are Flash Drives the eco-answer? For_Immediate_Release:
Canada (Press Release) February 24, 2008 --

Vancouver Canada-Flash Drive Directs new NAND technology uses less than 1% of the energy as conventional CD technology in transferring the same amount of data
Eco-friendly is most often seen as picking up trash and recycling. What is often not thought about is the use of energy and how that adversely affects the environment.

Last year over 1 billion, 1 time use CD’s were sold throughout North America. The energy required to burn information onto a CD has been measure to be as much as 100 times the amount used to load the same information onto a Flash Drive Direct USB Flash Drive.
Multiply this use of energy, which is electrical energy often produced by burning coal, natural gas or hydro dams, by the billions of CDs burned each year it becomes easy to see the huge positive environmental impact that the Flash Drive Direct business model and its USB Flash Drive products can have on the environment.

International Flash Drive manufacturer Flash Drive Direct first started operation in 2000.
FDD products and the company policies have been cited by the Energy Star program are RoHS and WEE compliant. In the 16 Billion dollar promotional products industry they are seen as one of the leading candidates for the GREENEST supplier in the industry.
“ This industry is notorious for producing promotional items and products that are far from eco-friendly. As a business model the promotional products industry generally offers disposable items that quickly end up in our landfills. It is an eco-shame” states FDD Director, John Graham. “Our aim is to not only produce “green products” but to be a totally “green” company from top to bottom. I think we are well on our way to achieving that goal”

Flash Drive Directs achievement of recognizing the tremendous energy savings to be found in this comparison should be a major signal to all business to reconsider their data storage solutions.

To find out more visit FDD at www.flashdrivedirect.com
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Over 1 million Chinese made digital picture frames to be recalled due to spontaneous fire hazard.

2008-07-21T20:57:00.000-07:00

Fires break out in Digital Picture Frames
Over 1 million Chinese made digital picture frames to be recalled due to spontaneous fire hazard.

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2008-07-03 00:23:21 - Over 1 million digital picture frames are being turned back at U.S. ports as instances of a high rate of spontaneous fires are being reported in hundreds of digital picture frames sold through the retail and promotional products sector. The Chinese made digital picture frames are being returned before being off-loaded at ports in Seattle, Long Beach and New York.

'The recent surge in popularity of the digital picture frame has increased the number of vendors in China exponentially' states John Graham of USB Digital Frames. 'With this increase in the manufacturing base we are seeing a lot of unqualified companies trying to cash in on the craze. The problems we are seeing are that many vendors are using substandard
and potentially dangerous components. These sub-grade components have been running at very high temperatures and have been catching fire'.

The frames in question are being sold as entry price level models at retailers such as Best Buy and Wal-mart. They are branded under many generic names but are commonly using operating systems and LCD screens not engineered for the high volume usage that most digital picture frames operate under. Office fires reported in Freehold New Jersey, Greenwood Colorado and throughout the country have caused major property damage. The source of these fires has been traced back to the faulty digital picture frames.

USB Digital Frames long ago recognized the hazard in these sub standard components and switched to the purpose-built frames and screens used by the popular Kodak, HP and Dell digital frames. The technical solution included a high end Amlogic board and LG Electronics LCD screen. The faulty screens have been traced back to Sun Plus Technology whose screens and O/S was originally designed for portable DVD's.

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Over 1 million Chinese made digital picture frames to be recalled due to spontaneous fires

2008-07-21T20:54:00.000-07:00

Friday, July 4, 2008

United States of America (Press Release) July 2, 2008 -- Digital Picture frames sold through the retail and promotional products sector. The Chinese made digital picture frames are being returned before being off-loaded at ports in Seattle, Long Beach and New York. “The recent surge in popularity of the digital picture frame has increased the number of vendors in China exponentially” states John Graham of USB Digital Frames. “With this increase in the manufacturing base we are seeing a lot of unqualified companies trying to cash in on the craze. The problems we are seeing are that many vendors are using substandard and potentially dangerous components. These sub-grade components have been running at very high temperatures and have been catching fire”.The frames in question are being sold as entry price level models at retailers such as Best Buy and Wal-mart. They are branded under many generic names but are commonly using operating systems and LCD screens not engineered for the high volume usage that most digital picture frames operate under. Office fires reported in Freehold New Jersey, Greenwood Colorado and throughout the country have caused major property damage. The source of these fires has been traced back to the faulty digital picture frames. USB Digital Frames long ago recognized the hazard in these sub standard components and switched to the purpose-built frames and screens used by the popular Kodak, HP and Dell digital frames. The technical solution included a high end Amlogic board and LG Electronics LCD screen. The faulty screens have been traced back to Sun Plus Technology whose screens and O/S was originally designed for portable DVD’s.
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New Flash Drive discovered on Mars

2008-05-27T22:06:00.000-07:00

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2008-05-17T10:15:00.000-07:00

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Flash Drive Direct contemplates suing Custom USB

2008-05-17T10:01:00.000-07:00

Flash Drive Direct, a leading supplier of flash drives and digital picture frames to the ASI and PPAI promotional products industry is considering legal action against USB Custom.

USB Custom, a supplier that sells their flash drives to both distributors and end users has launched a web site Flash DRIVES Direct..(plural S). This is in direct response to the inroads Flash Drive Direct has made into the legitimate marketplace and in taking business away from USB Custom.

"The effort by USB Custom to masquerade as Flash Drive Direct has back-fired" states John Graham. "Daily we are getting customers who are calling us to order styles that are listed on their "fake web site Flash Drives Direct". We have actually picked up business as a result of their underhanded ways".

Legal action in the form of a cease and desist order, has been considered but only for the reasons that Flash drive direct wants to maintain their market integrity. USB Custom is known for selling to their customers customer and does not have a high ethical rating in the promotional products industry.

Record your vinyl records to a flash drive.

2008-05-17T09:59:00.000-07:00

How cool is this....? record your old Led Zeppelin albums onto a flash drive and then transfer to your MP3 Player
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Flash Drive Direct design early nominee for Wallpaper

2008-05-02T14:16:00.000-07:00

USB Golf Bag Flash Drive Direct design early nominee for Wallpaper* Design Awards.
Flash Drive Direct golf bag design chosen as entrant for prestigous design awards

Date Released: 03/18/2008
USB Golf Bag Flash Drive Direct design early nominee for Wallpaper* Design Awards.
Unless you’ve been holed up in bed for the last ten days, you won’t fail to have noticed the countdown to the annual Wallpaper* Design Awards has ended.

On Wednesday the 20th of February the event itself took place to great effect – winners were revealed, runners-up clapped graciously and a very good time was had by all.

In true Wallpaper* style they went one step further than simply opening an envelope to reveal the winners. Instead, the Wallpaper judges teamed-up with digital animators, Mainframe, to produce animations for each winner of the Judges’ Awards. To heighten the suspension a little more, refresh your memories and take a look at the shortlists for each award by clicking on each category on the right of Wallpapers main page of their website.

Wallpaper* Design Awards aren’t simply about the Judges’ Awards. The awards are about interesting innovative design.

Nominated in the life enhancing category was a number of whimsical and earth changing designs. The winner this year is certainly a life changing one.

Yves Béhar who has been working with Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, developing a laptop that will be sold exclusively to governments in the developing world for $100 and then given to school children.

One of the early nominees on the whimsical side of the category of life-enhancing designs was the golf bag design usb flash drive put forth by flash drive designer Flash Drive Direct.

However, in the shade of such a great design as Yves Béhars $100 laptop it is easy to understand why the idea of such a truly life enhancing concept as a $100 laptop would overshadow any other concept either whimsical or life enhancing (such as a golf bag shaped flash drive).

Death of the CD

2008-05-02T14:14:00.000-07:00

2008, the death of the CD and the death of the music business as we know it
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Press release from: Flash Drive Direct
(openPR) - 2008, the death of the CD and the death of the music business as we know it.- Flash Drive Direct offers solution to music retail sector blues.
The CD is dead and so is the music industry as it faces the prospect of a download only era. Music industry insiders know that the download business strategy is not suited to the labels.
The labels are 5 years too late to stake a viable claim in the download arena. They cannot successfully compete with LimeWire, MySpace and other free services.
EMI, Warner, Hollywood record labels have been seriously exploring the last potent retail replacement for the CD, the flash drive.
Flash drive designer and manufacturer Flash Drive Direct has penned a treatise that describes a new and viable replacement for the CD that will appeal to the download demographic and offer a richer media intense delivery system.
The CD is dead. Sales have plummeted nearly 50% over the last 4 years and a whole generation of consumers are now no longer even familiar with the CD as a concept or the idea that a record store is the place to find the "next big thing".
Record labels have reacted either by standing by and watching as the retail industry tanks or by litigating to death their very own consumers in a futile effort to put the download genie back in the bottle.
This generation wants to buy its music, what they don't want to buy is a CD," states John Graham, long-time music industry analyst and current director of Flash Drive Direct design and manufacturing house (www.flashdrivedirect.com). "What the labels have failed to recognize is that the download consumer still wants to buy a tangible tactile product. They are the wealthiest youth generation in history with an estimated annual disposable income of over 20 billion dollars. They lay claim to some of the largest discretionary retail spending. Note the sales of Mac's, iPods, cell phones, $200 jeans and more," concludes Graham.
"The retail experience for the download generation is alive and kicking. The difference is that today's downloaders grew up on MP3 files not CD's," Graham goes on to say. "When MP'3's came along they were first played almost exclusively on computers. However, necessity being the Mother of all inventions, retailers then created the MP3 player industry. As a result the CD player and the CD retail business went the way of the Dodo."
A recent Harvard study on retail trends cited an anomaly in the download generation's retail therapy that was not anticipated. It found that consumers 14-29 would buy music from a retail outlet if two things were changed. One being that the retail environment better represented their personal expression of taste and secondly that if the music were loaded onto a digital device such as a flash drive they would buy it.
The study went on to say that on a secondary level of understanding "the consumer had veered away from the CD as it offered little in the way of new media interactivity". The consumer had found that the CD only offered a 1 dimensional experience and had no "bells and whistles".
John Graham of Flash Drive Direct goes on to explain, "the problem with the CD in recent years was not just a lack of a solid CD's worth of material but the high cost the consumer paid for what amounted to nothing more than a $15 expense for 1-2 singles, a bunch of filler and no killer! The labels only have themselves to blame for much of this."
The new delivery device that will recapture the spirit of the vibrant 80's and 90's CD sales boom is the digital flash drive. To date many artists have released limited edition and on-line sales of flash drive albums. However, there were 2 consistent failures in these tentative approaches. Firstly the retail environment had no rack space to best showcase the drives and perhaps more importantly the artist and labels did not grasp the enormous range of expression that the flash drive offered.
The drive would contain the tunes but what has not been fully understood was what else the flash drive offers. The drive not only delivers songs but videos, print files of all of the artist's previous CD covers, tour posters, band bio's and more. It also could easily be formatted to link to outside websites where the consumer could buy tickets, visit the band's website, download coupons and link to a wide variety of on-line and real world experiences. The flash drive is much more impactful as a retail tool when viewed as a web portal, multi- media storage and song delivery device than just a mere replacement for the CD, as the CD was for the LP.
Flash Drive Direct does work for the corporate world along with new media ventures with record labels, film studios, television and more.

Flash Drive Direct hires long-time promotional products expert

2008-05-02T14:10:00.000-07:00

Flash Drive Direct hires long-time promotional products expert, John Graham, to head their North American Division.
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(PRLEAP.COM) ETC (Eco Tech Certified) Flash Drive Direct announces it has hired long-time promotional products expert John Graham to run its North American operations. John Graham has nearly 15 years of experience in the promotional products industry. He is a member of PPAI and ASI and has written numerous articles for many promo and marketing magazines. He has dealt with all of the major players in the ad specialty industry including Corporate Express, Image Seller and many others.

Flash Drive Direct http://www.Flashdrivedirect.com is touted as one of the leaders in the field of USB innovation and in particular Flash Drive technology. Flash Drive Direct is ETC certified giving it an ECO-Friendly designation. The designations comes about as a result of new technology that shows that the use of Flash Drive Direct USB drives provide an enormous savings of energy used in both the manufacture and power used to encrypt data on the drive versus the power used in writeable CD technology.

Graham goes on to explain “ We all think of eco-friendly as picking up trash and reducing our use of natural resources. What we don’t think about is the use of energy and how that affects the environment. When a Flash Drive is constructed it consumes about the same amount of energy and petrochemicals than it takes to produce a writeable CD. However, a writeable CD (over 1 billion sold in North America last year alone) takes enormous amounts of energy to burn the info onto the disc. Multiply this use of energy (energy produced by coal, natural gas or hydro electricity) by the thousands of CDs that a business might use in the course of a year and your energy consumption skyrockets. On the other hand the near Zero energy used to transfer information onto a Flash Drive is almost undetectable.”

“Flash Drive Direct is the only company with the Eco-Tech certification for their Flash Drives as far as I know“ states Graham. “FDD wants to be known not only for its fashion forward design styles but also for its environmental strategy, I think they have achieved that and more!”

To find out more contact the writer at the information below.

Flash Drive Direct’s new NAND Flash technology uses less than 1% of the energy as conventional CD

2008-05-02T14:09:00.000-07:00

Flash price drop spurring innovation. Flash Drive Direct

2008-05-02T14:07:00.000-07:00

Flash price drop spurring innovation. Flash Drive Direct capitalizes on this.

Published on Thursday, February 28, 2008

A massive decline in the price of NAND flash memory, the chips that store photos in digital cameras and music in iPods, is prompting design innovation among companies trying to increase sales. At the forefront of this movement for the corporate logo market is design house Flash Drive Direct www.flashdrivedirect.com The price of mainstream 2GB SLC (single-level cell) NAND flash memory chips has fallen 73 percent since mid-August to $7.96 late Thursday. The chips hit a high of $18.50 on Aug. 14. The price of 2GB MLC (multi-level cell) NAND flash chips have taken a slightly worse dive, 75 percent down to $2.23 on Thursday, compared to its summer high of $8.85 per chip.

A few of the items likely to see more widespread design specialization in gadgets this year include SD (secure digital) cards, USB flash sticks, and internal storage, as well as new, lower-cost SSDs (solid-state disks) in notebook computers.
With the dramatic decrease in flash drive pricing it has allowed corporate and promotional designers Flash Drive Direct to spend more money on unique housing designs and yet still keep within the current price confines of the marketplace.

At the upcoming April 2008 electronics tradeshow in Hong Kong, Flash Drive Direct will be releasing several new designs including a golf bag shaped flash drive, a manila folder shaped drive and a biometric drive in the shape of a well-know secret agents logo.
On the notebook front, Toshiba and Samsung have both developed new 128GB SSDs based in MLC NAND to expand their use in notebook PCs. The new SSDs are less expensive, giving notebook PC designers more choices in storage.

"At 128GB, you're giving consumers the kind of storage space they expect in a notebook," said Jim Elliott, director of flash marketing at Samsung, in an interview.

The new MLC-based drives are an important step forward for SSDs in the battle against hard disk drives (HDD). At 128GB, an SSD stands a far better chance of replacing an HDD in laptop computers because it removes some of the high-capacity advantage HDDs hold.

SSDs have several advantages over HDDs; they're lighter, more rugged, consume less power, make no noise, and enable a computer to start up and load software faster than HDDs. But SSDs are a lot more expensive than HDDs, which is why they're mainly used in the business laptop market, where users are willing to pay more for performance and reliability.

Elliot believes that not only will the marketplace see significant increases in memory at a lower price but an increase in design innovation that will redefine our notion of what a flash drive, notebook or computer will look like.

Flash Drive Direct Join Forces to Test New DigiCatalog Software

2008-05-02T13:58:00.000-07:00

SmartBlast and Flash Drive Direct Join Forces to Test New DigiCatalog Software

SmartBlast, working with flash drive manufacturer Flash Drive Direct as their test subject launches an innovative new software program, DigiCatalog.

Seattle, WA, April 30, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Employing state-of-the-art flash technology combined with a radical new server configuration Smartblast’s DigiCatalog allows the user to load a digital flash catalog on their web site. While this is nothing new the combination of new flash script and unique server configuration allows the viewer to perform a wide range of interactive functions previously not possible.

Flash Drive and Pantone

2008-05-02T13:57:00.001-07:00

Flash Drive Direct manufacturer partners with Pantone to make color matching Flash Drives possible.

Known as a design specialist, FDD (a division of Blue Loyal) partnered their manufacturing plant with Pantone to make accurate color matching of their aluminum flash drives now possible.

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Feb 13, 2008 19:13:10

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2008-05-02T13:54:00.000-07:00

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SmartBlast and Flash Drive Direct

2008-04-28T14:04:00.000-07:00

SmartBlast and Flash Drive Direct Join Forces to Test New DigiCatalog Software

Smartblast and Flash Drive Direct join forces

2008-04-27T20:59:00.001-07:00

Press Release: Smartblast and Flash Drive Direct join forces to test new DigiCatalog software.

Stop asking me if I can match your ridiculously cheap prices for Flash Drives

2008-04-02T10:56:00.000-07:00

Stop asking me if I can match your ridiculously cheap prices for Flash Drives.......Pass this along to customers and co-workers.

Every day......I mean every day I get the same phone call from a distributor saying “my customer/competitor found a 1 GB for $5.95 ea. on a 100 piece order. Stop calling and wasting my time or get educated as to why this is not possible! I DO NOT CARE if you buy your flash drives from us (FlashDriveDirect.com), go ahead and buy them from ANYONE......BUT if you are going to buy flash drives.....READ THIS and figure out how to pass this info along to your customer or to your fellow distributors. Here are some Facts: 1) The cost for a 1 GB (or any size) chip is the same if you buy 100 or 20,000. There are about 5 major chip manufactures (Samsung, Intel, Hynix etc) and they CANNOT produce enough chips to meet demand. THEREFORE....they will sell all the chips they can make at a set price...they DO NOT VOLUME DISCOUNT!

2) The cost of housings (the outsides) DO VARY......However when you add the cost of memory of Grade A Tier 1 USB 2.0 chips to any housing (even the cheapest), logo it and get it to North America it COSTS us more than $6 bucks!!! 3) Can Tier 1 USB 2.0 get lower in price.....YES.....but only on orders of 5000 plus...Why? Because we can beat up the manufacturer of the housings to sell them for a lot less.........ALSO we take a far smaller profit and look at making a reasonable amount of money for the WHOLE order vs. a margin of 20% on small orders. 4) SO WHAT ARE THESE CHEAP FLASH DRIVE (i.e. $6 for a 1GB for 100 units)..? 5) This is where it gets a little techy and I don’t want to confuse anyone. I will try and explain this simply plus add information from the chip manufacturers themselves to make it easy to understand.

6) ALL wafer/chip manufacturers have a FAILURE RATE around 25%. These wafer “cast-offs” contain some usable memory plus recoverable electronics. ALL OF THIS FAILED memory is sold on a “grey market”. It is bought by the pound and used in cheap toys, cheap watches etc, where a failure is really not a big deal. HOWEVER...a large number of these are making it into the Flash Drive marketplace. WHY IS THIS A PROBLEM? It is a problem because you are not buying 1 of them, your are buying 100, 200 or more of them. If 25% fail you will have a VERY PEAVED customer. Do you really want to return 25% of your order and your money?

INTEL internal memo Oct 2007. “Since the cost of wafers and wafer processing is mostly fixed, fewer larger chips means each must be priced higher than when many small chips can be cut from a wafer. Those defective chips lead to even higher prices. Worse, and the more subtle aspect of the dilemma, is that the occurrence of defects is often random (frequently caused by dust particles). That 25% I mentioned might be true for one chip size, but wildly low for some other chip size. The way to think of it is in terms of "defects per wafer" and not defects per chip. If that number of defects can be held constant, then when there are a lot of chips cut from a wafer, the percentage of bad chips is low, while when few chips are cut from a wafer, the percentage of bad chips is high. It often takes only one defect to ruin a chip”.

So......How is it that you can get 100 units of 1 GB Flash Drives for $5.95...? You can get them, but a large % WILL FAIL..........If that’s what you want.....then that’s what you will get! DO NOT LET THE TERMS TIER 1 AND USB 2.0 FOOL YOU INTO A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY! 1) USB 2.0 refers to the most recent SPEED of transfer of data (we will soon be at USB 3.0 btw). It also refers to the fact that REAL USB 2.0 will run on Windows Vista and Mac Leopard Operating systems. Just because it says USB 2.0 does not mean it WILL NOT FAIL......it just means that if it works it will work at a faster speed. 2) YOU WILL NOT know if you have USB 2.0 until you get the flash drives. If you trust every web site you are being a fool. If you cannot speak with someone who can explain this and offer a lifetime warranty then you are not sure until you get them......simple. 3) Tier 1. Tier 1 means top quality, best of show, the crème de la crème......these are the best chips from the wafer. THERE IS TIER 1 scrap memory as seen above....but it fails 25% of the time.

So.....how do you protect your customer and yourself from buying crap? 1) Buy from a reputable dealer. Shop and compare. If a reputable company like Flash Drive Direct, USB Custom, I-Click, USB Source and others prices are all about the same than you are getting the “REAL McCOY!” 2) Price does mean safety! If it seems too good to be true, it is! Unless you are buying 2000, 5000 or more drives the prices will all be the same....as I said earlier in this article ...if we can make a profit on a large order then we do not worry about per unit margins, however on smaller orders (100-500) pieces we make a small margin that allows for some profit and covering the costs of providing you the best.

In conclusion…….if you want to buy safely and with dignity……buy flash drives using common sense……..If you want to get stung, go with the cheapest.

If you want to call me about this…….I will talk and help walk you through it………I want you to buy the right thing…..Why? Because it reflects on all of us……….

John Graham

This weeks flash drive news

2008-03-31T19:40:00.000-07:00

Monday, March 31, 2008

USB docking station for 2.5” and 3.5” SATA hard disks from DIGITUS - Open PR

Digital Photo To DVD Converter - Coolest Gadgets

Portable measurement performance - SA I&C

Transcend Launches 16GB JetFlash V85 - EFY Times

Beamz Laser Harp - Coolest Gadgets

Step-down converter suits systems with USB - Eetasia

3rd Space FPS gaming vest - Reg Hardware

USB 2.0 OTG controller saves space, power - Eetasia

Weekend March 28-30, 2008

USB Security System for $100 - G4 TV

TI Launches High-Speed USB 2.0 On-The-Go Solution - TMC Net

Wacom Cintiq 12WX Pen Display Review - Digital Camera Reviews

USB DAQ Delivers Increase Accuracy - ECN Mag

Card Reader Doubles as USB Hub - Film Crunch

MS Notebook Mouse Multitasks - TV Envy

Ultra Accurate Temperature & Humidity Systems - MeasurementDevices

Thursday, March 27, 2008

LG releases Flatron LX206WU, 20-inch LCD that connects via USB - Gadgetell

Synchronized, portable USB module analyzes sound and vibration - Audio Design Line

Walletex USB MediCard is thin, contains medical records - Dvice

ATEN's new Multimedia-aware KVMs introduce USB ports and more - IT Pro Portal

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Western Digital rolls out colorful new My Passport Elite USB hard drives - Engadget

USB drive crackdown by US agency - TechWorld

Switch-mode USB Power Manager maximizes battery run time - Thomas Net

CAST Expands System IP Offerings with Embedded Internet and USB Subsystems - PR Newswire

2008-03-30T00:33:00.001-07:00

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Weirdest flash drive contest

2008-03-30T00:31:00.000-07:00

What is the weirdest flash drive in the world? Worldwide contest “15 Minutes of Flash Drive Fame” aims to find the worlds weirdest USB flash drive. Contest sponsored by promotional products company, Flash Drive Direct.

Designer and manufacturer Flash Drive Direct launches a worldwide search and contest for the world’s weirdest flash drive. The competition starts April 15th 2008 and runs through to May 30th 2008. The winning submission of the weirdest, funniest flash drive will be announced June 15th on the flash drive direct web site with an accompanying email blast to 60,000 promotional products distributors featuring the winner and the winning submission.

“Over the past 5 years flash drives of all sizes, shapes and colors have begun to pop-up everywhere” states Flash Drive Directs spokesperson John Graham. “This explosion in design has paralleled the unprecedented growth of flash drive sales to the promotional products industry. Currently, the 16 billion dollar promotional products industry is experiencing triple digit growth in sales volume by dollars and unit sales of promotional logo flash drives. In fact sales of flash drives sold through the promotional distributor sales channel exceed sales of flash drives sold through traditional office supply channels such as Staples and Office Depot”.

The contest, entitled “15 minutes of flash drive fame!” has the following conditions. All submissions to the contest should enter through the email contact at flash drive direct and should include a picture of their weirdest flash drive entry, the submitters name and contact information. The winning submission will be chosen by the staff of Flash Drive Direct and announced on line June 15th. The winning submission and a profile of the winning promotional products distributor will be featured on the Flash Drive Direct web site and on a email blast to over 60, 000 promotional distributors throughout North America and Europe.

In previous years contests some of the whimsical flash drives that have been submitted have included the headless Barbie doll flash drive and the Sushi California Roll flash drive.

This years contest promises to raise the bar for fun and innovation in the ever-expanding flash drive field. For further information visit the Flash Drive Direct website.

Flash Drive Direct is a North American based design and manufacturing company that has operated since 2002. They produce and supply a wide range of logo promotional flash drives for the North American and European promotional products industry.

Flash Drive Direct partners with Sticky Drive

2008-03-30T00:29:00.000-07:00

PRESS RELEASE

March 19, 2008

SMARTBLAST PARTNERS WITH YESMAIL – INCREASING RESPONSE RATES ALL AROUND

CHICAGO, IL. – SmartBlast announces its new partnership with YesMail. Yesmail™ (an infoUSA®company, [NASDAQ: IUSA], a recognized industry-leading provider of permission-based online email marketing solutions and Smartblast, the leading provider of email marketing services to the promotional products industry have partnered to help ensure the best possible delivery of e-blasts to SmartBlast customers.
SmartBlast clients have already experienced an improvement in delivery rates, sample requests and orders. “Our overall results have improved by 23% during the past month,” states John Graham of Flash Drive Direct. “Our opens have increased by 37%, our return rate went up to 22% and our ROI increased dramatically. In fact during one of our return sessions our internal mail server crashed due to the sheer volume of mail.”
Michael Johnston, president of Smartblast, states, “By switching our mail provider to Yesmail, the increase in responses that our customers have experienced has been phenomenal.” The mission of SmartBlast has always been to help clients improve their response rates, build customer relationships, grow revenue and increase the relevancy and impact of every message they send. “Yesmail is just another way for us to provide our customers with the best service possible,” explains Johnston.
About SmartBlast
SmartBlast.com, based in Chicago, IL, is the leading provider of email marketing services to the promotional products industry. In addition to email, SmartBlast also provides direct mail solutions, list management services and eCatalog solutions.

About Yesmail
Yesmail is an infoUSA company and is part of the infoUSA services group, which includes sister companies Walter Karl, Millard, Edith Roman and Catalog Vision. infoUSA is a $700 million public company with more than 4 million customers and has been profitable for over 30 years. infoUSA is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ: iusa.
About Flashdrive Direct
Flash Drive Direct is a North American based flash drive design and manufacturing firm. They cater to the promotional products market, corporate and retail markets with their innovation promotional flash drive designs. They have offices in Canada, USA and a manufacturing facility in Shenzen, China.
SmartBlast
314 W. Institute Place
Suite 3W
Chicago, IL 60610
CONTACT: Michael Johnston, President
312-587-8489, mjohnston@smartblast.com
Flash Drive Direct
12500 Horseshoe Way
Vancouver Canada
604-272-8809 jg@flashdrivedirect.com