Once again, reality beats fiction: If your name is Jerry Jalava, the USB finger is more than just a concept. It's the real thing embedded in your own hand, carrying a Billix Linux distribution.......

Windows only: Don't mutter to yourself about how slow your drive is, benchmark it to know exactly how fast it is (or isn't) moving. HD_Speed gives you real-time feedback on any drive's transfer speed. All disks are not created equal, so if you have a nagging feeling that one of your flash drives is ...

A couple of Web sites are buzzing about the new iamakey flash drive from LaCie, and why shouldn’t they? The key-shaped dongle is a long-overdue idea, and a way better solution than the ring holes stamped into your typical bulky flash drives. Available in 4GB or 8GB models, the iamakey is made ...

Check Flash is a small portable software program for Microsoft Windows operating systems that can be used to benchmark usb flashdrives. The application will automatically recognize connected removable media devices upon startup and provide the means to run benchmark tests to test their read and writ...

We've known for some time that Verizon is fixated on dominating the global roaming market in the US -- or, at the very least, catching up to AT&T -- and to do that, they're going to need hardware capable of taking advantage of the very best speeds that those wild and majestic foreign lands have ...

Talk about weird USB flash disks! I thought that I had seem them all - various balls, cartoon characters, die cast cars, and more. Yet this thumb drive from Geek Stuff 4 U tops them all. See that? And you thought I meant “thumb drive” in the usual sense of the word! Also known as the Yak...

Filed under: International markets, Good news, Management, Citigroup Inc. (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of New York (BK), Wells Fargo (WFC), Chasing Value, U.S. Bancorp (USB) It is being reported today in the Business Journal that the safest bank in the United States is Wells Fargo & Company (...

Recently, I bought a new USB flash drive and wanted to know whether the specs matched up to what it can actually do. Usually these days most USB flash drives are advertised as USB 2.0, but the brands among the bunch come with differing price tags. Some of it can be put on the shoulders of brand mark...

If you haven’t already pre-ordered Sims 3, then you might check out Walmart.com. They’re offering the game plus a cool looking USB plug-in lamp! I’m having a hard time deciding if I have buyer’s remorse for pre-ordering from EA. Then again, though the lamp is cool, I will be ...

Filed under: iPhone, Mobile Phones It's hard to call two incidents of some occurrence around the world a trend, but, when those incidents both involve an electrical device catching fire spontaneously, it creates a situation that's hard to ignore -- especially when that device is the iPhone. On Satur...