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The timing of the keys 256 and 512MB, which is often inadequate and reached the limit of capacity quickly ended. The prices of flash memory continue to fall drastically, and the market there are ads from SSD each manufacturer.

Kingston thus decides to renew its range of “keys” USB, marketed under the name DataTraveler introducing the model DT150. Target of this new product are all photographers and video editors, in short, professionals, whose primary need to be able to easily carry their data, which in many cases, are sizable. Like any USB stick, DT150 works with Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac OS 10.3 + and Linux 2.6 + and does not need to install some drivers. Kingston has managed to develop DT150 reaching up to 64GB capacity, about 128 times that of an ‘old’ 512MB USB key.

“The new 64GB DataTraveler 150 from opening a new era of data storage devices for ultra-transportable,” said Jaja Lin, manager of business development of Kingston. FT150 will be marketed from next few days at a price of $ 177. There is also the brother “child” from 32GB at a cost of $ 116.

One in Pennsylvania and one in Missouri, also in the United States. Two new legal action against Electronic Arts due to digital rights management (DRM), after that started last September and on the anti-piracy content in Spore.

The case in Pennsylvania concerning the Spore Creature Creator, freely distributed by Electronic Arts to allow users to begin producing their own creatures before the release of the full version of Spore. Richard Eldridge, in this case, complained that the anti-piracy software is installed without permission.

“The inclusion of systems for digital rights management by strangers in freely distributed software is a violation of the right to control your machine,” we read in the summons. It points out, as had happened in the case on Spore, the DRM software can not be uninstalled after installing unauthorized.

The second case, that of Missouri, is the plaintiff Dianna Cortez and the video game The Sims 2: Bon Voyage, one of the many expansions of the family management of Electronic Arts. The plaintiff would have wanted to burn the contents of the CD Bon Voyage but finds discs perfectly empty. This will also prevent access to external storage devices like USB sticks and iPods. Only the formatting of the hard disk enabled it to get rid of Securom.