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Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com!  We found this very helpful article on how to make a USB drive a Windows 7 bootable drive, and how to set it up to install Windows 7 on a netbook from the USB drive. 

Here's the article on How-To Geek, enjoy!

The Intel Developers' Forum kicks off this week in San Francisco and runs from September 22nd to 24th, and with it comes some very exciting news.

It's rumored (well ok, it's been officially announced) that there will be several USB 3.0-capable devices making their debut at the show.  This new Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology is much anticipated due to the dramatic increase in connectivity speed it promises to deliver. 

In USB 2.0 connections, which have become the standard in all computers and devices connecting via USB, the average data transfer speed is somewhere between 25-35 Megabytes per second (Mbps).  The new USB 3.0 protocol, dubbed "SuperSpeed USB", has data tranfer speeds of up to 250 Megabytes per second - a factor of 10 faster! 

The Intel Developers' Forum kicks off this week in San Francisco and runs from September 22nd to 24th, and with it comes some very exciting news.

It's rumored (well ok, it's been officially announced) that there will be several USB 3.0-capable devices making their debut at the show.  This new Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology is much anticipated due to the dramatic increase in connectivity speed it promises to deliver. 

In USB 2.0 connections, which have become the standard in all computers and devices connecting via USB, the average data transfer speed is somewhere between 25-35 Megabytes per second (Mbps).  The new USB 3.0 protocol, dubbed "SuperSpeed USB", has data tranfer speeds of up to 250 Megabytes per second - a factor of 10 faster! 

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com.  We've been in contact with schools across the country for several years now, but just wanted to keep our readers updated with what we're seeing now.  Namely, besides a growth in USB drive use across the board, we're also seeing a growth in the breadth of ways the drives are utilized - not just by students, but by the administration too. 

No longer are USB drives used simply for students to share data with one another. Now we're seeing more universities that are distributing course syllabuses on USB drives, as well as course materials, outlines, and even video needed for the course work. 

This is in addition to the use of USB drives as an important recruiting tool, sent out to recruits pre-loaded with PDF's and videos about the school, giving prospective students a virtual tour of the university or college - a powerful and tangible touch point with the institution.   

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com!  We just caught wind of some exciting news that Sonic Solutions, the company running CinemaNow.com, will be releasing movies on USB flash drives. They're expected to hit stores in the next couple of months, just in time for the holiday season. 

The movie titles and costs or memory capacity of the USB flash drives has not been announced yet but we'll be sure to keep you posted.

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com. As another sign of the increasingly ubiquitous nature of USB flash drives, Grundig has just launched several new TV's with USB recording technology built right in. I thought this was pretty cool. Here's how it works: the TV's have a USB port that you can plug a USB flash drive into, and software in the TV enables you to schedule and record shows to watch at a later time, just like a Tivo or DVR, except they're stored on a conveniently small and portable flash drive that you can plug into any other Grundig TV and watch. This adds a whole new dimension to recording shows, namely portability. Plus no more monthly service charges for the DVR service from your cable company, just the cost of a USB drive! Grundig says a flash drive as small as 8GB can store 4 hours worth of programming, or less if you record in high definition, which is also possible with their technology. To read more about these new TV's check out this press release on Grundig's website. Das good Grundig!

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com. We saw this great article in Canada.com about how the contents of students' backpacks this year is radically different from even just a couple of years ago - so we had to share. And yes, it's a great read not just for those above the 49th parallel but for us Americans too. Hard to imagine, but no longer is the average back-to-school pack filled with notebooks, calculator, pens and highlighters. Today it's a laptop or netbook computer and some USB drives. We've seen this trend at the university level for a couple of years, but now even at the high school and middle school level students are using netbooks and laptops to take notes in class, and then USB drives to share and back up data. As technology prices continue to drop, the trend is traveling to the lower grades. Check out the article and if you need school-branded USB drives check out our website for dozens of great choices. While you're reading, I'll be thinking back to the note-passing days of school and wondering how teachers control all the Facebooking, IMing, etc that's probably going on in class now - lead-lined walls maybe?

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Microsoft may begin selling it's new Windows 7 operating system on USB Flash Drives, according to a source at CNET.   This is to enable owners of extremely popular netbooks to install this new Microsoft operating system, since netbooks are so small and light that they are not equipped with CD/DVD drives. 

Netbooks, those appealing inexpensive notebook computers,  such as the Asus Eee PC line, are too lean and mean to run Microsoft's Vista bloatware.  As Microsoft took it's usual course of creating bigger and more unstable/buggy software with it's release of Vista, that required bigger and more powerful computers just to run at all, the rest of the world was moving towards smaller, more effecient, and less expensive computing - a turn that us consumers were demanding, and thankfully, some pioneering PC manufacturers such as Asus and Acer listened to.