GlobalWare Solutions Joins the USB Flash Drive Alliance; Alliance Partnership Highlights Position as E-Commerce Leader.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 2, 2004 GlobalWare Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of supply-chain management, e-commerce, fulfillment, and reverse logistics This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , today announced that it has joined the USB Flash Drive Alliance
The 'USB Flash Drive Alliance', founded in December 2003 by Samsung, Lexar Media, Kingston Technology and others, is a group of companies promoting the use of USB flash drives (also called as an Associate Member. GlobalWare's participation in this consortium underscores its commitment to providing its clients a wide spectrum of innovative content management and delivery solutions. GlobalWare will develop partnerships with other alliance members, content publishers, and sales channels to improve awareness and contribute to even greater consumer-adoption of the USB flash drives. The USB Flash Drive Alliance (UFDA UFDA USB Flash Drive Alliance UFDA Utah Funeral Directors Association UFDA United Fire Dispatch Authority UFDA United Foundation for Disabled Archers ) was created to educate consumers about USB Flash Drives, which are portable, pluggable and powerful devices revolutionizing the way consumers and professionals store and share digital data files. GlobalWare provides extensive expertise in developing, managing, and hosting customized content delivery solutions to the world's technology leaders. The company is dedicated to supporting the UFDA further its efforts to maximize its exposure through creative supply chain management, content management, and e-commerce solutions. "GlobalWare Solutions is very excited and proud to join the USB Flash Drive Alliance (UFDA)," said Tony Rudston, GlobalWare Solutions Chief Executive Officer. "Our global supply chain management capabilities are particularly well suited to support the USB Flash Drive manufacturers' needs to control costs and improve time to market; and our robust suite of e-commerce services helps to create and deliver innovative applications for these portable, powerful devices. The UFDA serves as a great forum for GlobalWare to support and collaborate with industry leaders, as well as promote increased awareness for USB Flash Drives among consumer and business markets alike." A USB flash drive is a compact USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. flash memory drive See solid state disk and flash card reader. that is a portable hard drive, allowing for the storage and transport of computer data and video clips, including text, graphics and multimedia files. Small in physical size, and approximately the shape of a pack of chewing gum chewing gum, confection consisting usually of chicle, flavorings, and corn syrup and sugar (or artificial sweeteners). Prehistoric people are believed to have chewed resins. , the USB flash drives are large in capacity, holding up to two gigabytes of data files. USB flash drives provide the ultimate portability for digital files. The proliferation of USB ports among a wide variety of computing devices, combined with declining market prices for flash memory, and a greater consumer awareness of USB flash drives, is creating a market for the devices that is growing exponentially. "We're excited that GlobalWare Solutions has joined the USB Flash Drive Alliance," said Steffen Hellmold, president of the UFDA. "Globalware's content delivery solutions provide new possibilities to deliver content on a USB Flash Drive in a secure and controlled fashion. It allows content owners to manage the distribution of rights to their content provided on a USB Flash Drive to support one of the many usage models for USB Flash Drives that the alliance envisions." About GlobalWare Solutions Headquartered in Haverhill, Massachusetts Haverhill (IPA Pronounciation /ˈheɪ.vrɪl/) is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 58,969 at the 2000 census. Haverhill is home to Northern Essex Community College. , GlobalWare Solutions operates facilities in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. (Haverhill, MA and Redwood City, CA), Europe (The Netherlands), and Asia (China, Malaysia, and Singapore). Among the company's roster of clients are such leading corporations as Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Nortel, Philips Medical, Cox Communications Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television and telecommunications services in the United States. It is the third-largest[2] cable television provider in the United States, serving more than 6. , and Palm Inc. GlobalWare Solutions serves the hardware and software OEMs, the EMS industry and the broadband, medical devices, and retail industries. The company's value-chain services include new product release, content management, software manufacturing, fulfillment, distribution and reverse logistics. The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. was founded in 1978 as a full-service printer. The company employs 500 people and has 500,000 square feet of production space worldwide. For additional information, please visit www.globalwaresolutions.com. About the USB Flash Drive Alliance The USB Flash Drive Alliance (UFDA) was formed to educate consumers about the benefits of these portable, easy-to-use, powerful devices. A USB flash drive is about the size of a pack of gum, requires no additional software or connectors, and is powerful enough to store up to 2 GB of data - providing consumers and businesses with a fast and easy way to store and transport digital information. Sponsor members of the UFDA include Genesys Logic, Kingston Technology, Lexar Media, Inc., Phison Electronics Corp., PNY Technologies and Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. Associate members are Add On Technology Co., Alcor Micro, Crucial Technology, DataFab Systems, Inc., GlobalWare Solutions, Inc., Microsoft Corp., SimpleTech, Inc., and Viking Interworks. For more information about UFDA, please refer to its Web site at www.usbflashdrive.org. |
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