Tiny Storage device

Seagate announced nine new products on the eve of its annual analyst meeting, scheduled to take place later this week.

Seagate's DAVE 3.5 x 4.7 x .47-inch form factor into which you can cram 20GB ~ 60GB and cost less than $200 (digital audio video experience) platform, for instance, is geared toward people who want to use their phone as an MP3 player, movie player or video recorder.

The unit, which contains a 60GB 1.8-inch drive, can connect to a phone via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or a USB cable, and it can fit inside a coat pocket. Most phones come with a few gigabytes of capacity, at best, so a DAVE would significantly increase the amount of remote storage.

Some companies are also testing out the DAVE as a vehicle for renting movies. In this scenario, customers would walk up to a kiosk and select the movies they wanted. The kiosk would then beam them into the DAVE unit. The movies would contain copyright protection to prevent piracy, Watkins added.

In a twist, Seagate doesn't plan to market the DAVE as a product under its own name. Instead, it will make the DAVE for cellular companies and let them brand it.

At the other end of the Seagate spectrum is a drive optimized for security cameras. The drive, which offers up to 1 terabyte of storage, contains firmware that enables it to accept video streams from several sources.

The product launch also included a 1-terabyte desktop drive, a 250GB notebook drive, and backup drives from the Maxtor line. Seagate acquired Maxtor last year and continues to use the brand for its "value" (i.e. cheaper and less fancy) line of products.

The desktop Maxtor backup drives sport up to 750GB of storage space and cost about $270 each. In 2004, Sony showed off a 1-terabyte home server in Japan that cost about $5,000, so the price of storage continues to plummet.

Seagate also announced new drives for the first quarter of 2008, with enhanced error correction for digital-video recorders, including a 1TB model. In Japan, consumers are already asking for 2TB drives for their DVRs.

Seagate has also said it plans to move into the market for flash-based hard drives. The company now sells only hard drives that store data on magnetic platters.

Samsung Electronics and SanDisk have already released flash drives for notebooks and blade servers. By coming out with its own flash drives, Seagate can participate in what Watkins claims will be a corner of the storage market.

Flash memory is more reliable and consumes less energy, but it costs more, in terms of cents per gigabyte.
source: cnet

Free Push Email Application with Five Mobile Accounts Comes to India

Hotmail®, Yahoo!®, AOL® Email and Google Mail™, plus Corporate Email pushed to Mobile Phones using a Single Application on any Data Network. From Mumbai to Bangalore and all across India, a free* version of the popular mobile email application, Consilient Pushª is now available. This marks the first time the Canadian company Consilient®, with regional offices in Singapore, has made a free version of their technology available in India. The mobile application is available at www.consilient.com.

The popular service features multi-account access, giving users a single application for accessing up to five different mail accounts on mobile phones. The Push application supports Wi-Fi access and can run on any data network, including Bharti Airtel, Reliance India Mobile, BSNL, Hutchison, IDEA and Tata Mobile.

Features of Consilient Push:

5 Email account access: personal and corporate in single application (one email account access for BlackBerry® and Windows Mobile devices only)
Yahoo!, Hotmail, AOL & Gmail - Plus POP3 and IMAP4 access
Personal Themes - personalize email application with pictures and color coding
MP3 ring tones for new email notification
Easy to use Account Management Profile
Photo attaching, saving, sending, receiving, viewing
Phone "lock and wipe clean" if lost or stolen
Personal signatures
Easy to set up: download sent via SMS
Attachment support for all file types

Consilient Push delivers mobile email for Hotmail, Yahoo!, Google Mail and AOL. The application also supports any POP3 or IMAP4 account, providing a single mobile application for corporate and personal mobile email use. Users can download the application on their existing mobile phones and move between personal and corporate email accounts using color codes. The Push service also has attachment support (ZIP, MS Word, PDF & Excel) and uses 128-bit encryption.

"We are very excited to bring our mobile email application to the Indian market, one of the fastest growing mobile markets in the world," said Trevor Adey, Consilient CEO. "People can now run mobile email for up to five accounts on their everyday mobile phones. This gives the Indian market a fresh, free alternative for mobile messaging," Adey added.

Consilient's underlying technology is push-based and is designed to be easy-to-use on popular mobile phones including Nokia, Samsung and Windows Mobile devices. No email or passwords are stored with Consilient - the technology acts as an instant relay pushing email out in real-time. The Push application can be quickly downloaded onto most popular mobile phones in seconds. * requires data plan or Wi-Fi access.

How to get Push:

Sign up at www.consilient.com, Receive one SMS to your mobile phone. Click on link in SMS - accept "yes" to allow application to run on network. A Premium version of Consilient Push is available for $5 USD/month. Consilient Push uses open standards (LEMONADE/P-IMAP) and is available in a scalable version for mobile operators and ISPs.

About Consilient®

Consilient is a leading developer of push email, multimedia and advertising for mobile phones. Consilient was founded in 2000 and has offices in Asia, North America and Europe. For more information, go to www.consilient.com.

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