Press Release

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jungo Ltd., a leading provider of connectivity systems and driver development tools, today announced the release of its ZeroDriver software, which enhances the user experience by enabling seamless connectivity between USB data cards (both 3G and 4G) and any laptop or PC, without the need to install drivers or applications on the host PC.

“We are pleased Jungo supports USB technology, by extending the simplicity and broad capabilities of USB to its customers.”

ZeroDriver supports all data card features that in the past have required drivers or additional applications, including dial-up and high speed browsing, voice calls, SMS, diagnostics, network statistics and more.

Equipping a data card with ZeroDriver is a highly cost-effective and user-friendly solution, for example, it reduces installation support calls to a minimum, maximizing user satisfaction and in turn, increasing ARPU. With support for HSPA+ bandwidth standards, ZeroDriver is fast and extremely flexible - it is easily ported to a variety of hardware mobile platforms.

ZeroDriver is currently available for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 and is compatible with a wide range of PC applications, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, MS Office, Thunderbird and more. Future versions will support Mac and Linux. ZeroDriver is also available in “installation mode” for operators who want to offer enhanced system support.

“Due to its ease of use and global availability, USB has become the standard interface between mobile broadband modems and PCs,” said Jeff Ravencraft, president and chairman, USB Implementers Forum. “We are pleased Jungo supports USB technology, by extending the simplicity and broad capabilities of USB to its customers.”

How To: Turn off USB Autoplay in Windows 7

Windows 7 is much like XP in accessing the feature to turn off the USB auto play function.  We don’t have a Window’s 7 machine, but I did find a great tutorial from DemoGeek.  Here is the info you need to turn off USB Auto Play in Windows 7.

Go to:  START > SEARCH > type “group policy”

From there Windows 7 will narrow down your options, select the “Edit group policy” option.  Should be the first one listed.

From here, it’s virtually the same as Windows XP.

Go to:
> COMPUTER CONFIGURATION
> ADMINISTRATIVE TEMPLATES
> WINDOWS COMPONENTS
> AUTOPLAY POLICIES

With having “AutoPlay Policies” highlighted, you will see on the right side of the dialogue box, “Turn off Autoplay” option.  Click That!

On the dialogue box which pops up, select the “Disable” radial button to (more…)

Yup, today was the day that Apple announced their iPad product.  The very first thing we noticed was a lack of USB ports for storage and connection; however, Job’s didn’t forget it.

The iPad camera connection kit comes with a male adapter card to connect either USB or SD cards.  Given the slim dimensions of the iPad we can understand the lack of design integration for USB, but SD or even microSD, now that makes sense.  Our only conclusion is a lack of real-estate on the PCBA used to make the iPad.

Interesting side note:  Apple has the exclusive patent on the 30 pin female connector it uses and plans to NEVER license it out.  I know the USB kit has a male connector, it just reminded me of reading that info a couple weeks back.

Source:  StumbleTweet.

Press Release:  Nexcopy Announces New CF Duplicator Products.

Today Nexcopy announced a new line of CF Duplicator solutions ranging from 15 target size to 45 target size.  At first glance you think something like this is for some crazy looking to make 1000 of his photo CF cards, but that’s not actually the case.

CF cards are used in all sorts of embedded applications.  For example, did you know vending machines run off CF cards, so do many slot machines and cell phone towers.

The CF Duplicator from Nexcopy is well suited for these applications and companies looking to data load thousands of Compact Flash cards for their embedded products.

Nexcopy’s CF Duplicator is a new line of systems in available 15 target, 30 target and 45 target configurations.

Most notably, the CF duplicators come with power software to support even the most challenging data load jobs.  The software supports binary bit for bit Short Image copy and Full Image copy modes to duplicate bootable Compact Flash cards or duplicate Linux packages on CF media.

The Nexcopy software includes a toggle On/Off bit for bit verification feature for enhanced quality control measures for those needing to know all the copies are exactly the same as the master.

The 15 target CF Duplicator starts around $1200.  For more details, visit Nexcopy. (more…)

A child from Colorado is in critical condition after putting a USB cable into her mouth while the cable was still connected to a powered laptop.

The child, Trinity, received sever 3rd degree burns to her tongue, mouth and lips. She is in critical condition because the tongue is swollen enough that it’s hard for her to breath or eat.

See video after the jump.

The parent reports she was playing behind a chair where the mother was using the laptop, when the child didn’t respond to the mother, the mother checked the child and realized she was limp and not responding.

It’s a very sad case…or is it?

I mean, yes it’s very sad the child was hurt, but I don’t believe it was from a USB cable. Those cables don’t put out enough power to burn or shock anyone. In addition, if the mother was right there at the chair, wouldn’t the child have made some sort of noise?

Something isn’t right about this story.

Consider this:

USB Voltage:

- Supplied voltage by a host or a powered hub ports is between 4.75 V and 5.25 V.
- Maximum voltage drop for bus-powered hubs is 0.35 V from it’s host or hub to the hubs output port.
- All hubs and functions must be able to send configuration data at 4.4 V, but only low-power functions need to be working at this voltage.
- Normal operational voltage for functions is minimum 4.75 V.

Power usage:

-Bus-powered hubs: Draw Max 100 mA at power up and 500 mA normally.
-Self-powered hubs: Draw Max 100 mA, must supply 500 mA to each port.
-Low power, bus-powered functions: Draw Max 100 mA.
-High power, bus-powered functions: Self-powered hubs: Draw Max 100 mA, must supply 500 mA to each port.
-Self-powered functions: Draw Max 100 mA.

I believe something more happened and the parent is trying to cover something up. A better explanation is the laptop was plugged into the wall and the child pulled the power cord out of the laptop and put it into her mouth, meanwhile the mother was far away doing something else [say cooking dinner].

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Source: DailyCamera.com.

We hope you find many USB gadgets in your stockings or under the Christmas tree. Merry Christmas to all our readers, bloggers and fellow gadget lovers.

Cheers!

SuperTalent announce their USB 3.0 flash drive in November of 2009.  Today we have a short video of that drive in action.  You can see the performance of the device is much greater than any 2.0 device.  How would you like to copy files at 78MB per second?

I spoke with SuperTalent last night and still no word on official price or official launch date.

Source: SuperTalent.