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sUnShInE · 09-28-2005, 09:37 AM

SanDisk took a step it hopes will transform both the mobile media and music industries by unveiling their new grūvi™ storage technology.

At a news conference at the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment show in San Francisco on Tuesday, SanDisk, EMI Group and Virgin Records America announced that a version of the Rolling Stones' album "A Bigger Bang" will be released on a new TransFlash microSD or miniSD card set to go on sale in select retail stores in November for US$39.99. It will include band images and links to other Rolling Stones goods and music that the consumer could opt to buy.

SanDisk also showed off the 4Gb embedded flash memory component with TrustedFlash technology, which will be integrated into mobile phones, music players, PDAs, personal media players and GPS devices. It takes up less than 4 percent of the space that a microdrive would take up. TrustedFlash integrates digital rights management (DRM) into a flash memory card. It will be rolled out in the fourth quarter of this year, but is available now to original equipment manufacturers in miniSD, microSD and SD card formats, according to SanDisk.

Consumers will be able to move content on TrustedFlash cards from one mobile device to another because the DRM is built in to the card. Depending on the DRM settings defined by the content provider, consumers also will be able to copy the content to a PC hard drive or other storage as backup a certain number of times, the company said.

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09-28-2005, 09:37 AM	#1
sUnShInE Drama Queen Posts: 784 Karma: 11712 Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: United States Device: Palm Tungsten T\|T3	Grūvi™ New DRM SanDisk took a step it hopes will transform both the mobile media and music industries by unveiling their new grūvi™ storage technology. At a news conference at the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment show in San Francisco on Tuesday, SanDisk, EMI Group and Virgin Records America announced that a version of the Rolling Stones' album "A Bigger Bang" will be released on a new TransFlash microSD or miniSD card set to go on sale in select retail stores in November for US$39.99. It will include band images and links to other Rolling Stones goods and music that the consumer could opt to buy. SanDisk also showed off the 4Gb embedded flash memory component with TrustedFlash technology, which will be integrated into mobile phones, music players, PDAs, personal media players and GPS devices. It takes up less than 4 percent of the space that a microdrive would take up. TrustedFlash integrates digital rights management (DRM) into a flash memory card. It will be rolled out in the fourth quarter of this year, but is available now to original equipment manufacturers in miniSD, microSD and SD card formats, according to SanDisk. Consumers will be able to move content on TrustedFlash cards from one mobile device to another because the DRM is built in to the card. Depending on the DRM settings defined by the content provider, consumers also will be able to copy the content to a PC hard drive or other storage as backup a certain number of times, the company said. More here.