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Finding Glamour in the Gadget







Finding Glamour in the Gadget

Finding Glamour in the Gadget 04/14/2004 10:28 PM

Electronics have largely become a commodity, competing only on price. But for some people, gadgets are like fancy cars or fine wines symbols with an emotional appeal.




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Clearly, though, Digital Lifestyles is hoping the cross-promotion of the Hip-e will push more units, and they're doing it in both interesting and annoying ways. The detachable "beatbox" that comes with the node PC also functions as external speakers for the "playme" 512MB flash drive ($150); that's a pretty cool trick. But the "Squads" idea, which looks to be some sort of viral advertising masked as teenage social networking looks really pathetic (although it's not out yet, so take that for what it's worth).

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Flash drives, iPods, and other doodads — both wired and wireless — that are able to store large amounts of data can be a security risk to the company; unscrupulous employees can use them to load up lots of sensitive documents and carry them out in a pocket. There's also the danger of such devices either accidentally or intentionally introducing viruses and other malicious software into a network.

Companies have been slow to react to the threat posed by digital storage devices in general. It's one that companies have turned a blind eye to for a very long time. If you think back, it used to be that stealing significant secrets was difficult because it was hard to get away with that much paper.

(for some reason I had a flash of Sandy Berger shoving paper in his pants just now!)

Many government agencies and the US military have already banned the on-duty use of some such devices, and many private businesses are following suit. But banning an item and being able to prevent its use are two different things.

Too bad the IT world has to wait for Longhorn to do this; a lot of pilfering can happen between now and then. But I'm sure there are 3rd party developers that are working on something like this as we speak, if they're not out already.

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