Filed under: Hardware, Windows
Lexar and Ceedo make any app portable
by Jordan Running Jan 12th 2006
We're a big fan of portable apps here at Download Squad, so this is cool news
to us: Lexar has partnered with an Israeli software company called Ceedo on a program called PowerToGo that "lets most existing
Windows applications run unmodified from [Lexar] flash drives." The article from Embedded.com says that Ceedo
will license the software to other device vendors but that it "will be developed as an open standard" and
will be compatible "most consumer and electronic mobile devices," though it's fairly vague on that particular
point. I have my share of questions about this, for example will PowerToGo be smart enough to use a machine's hard drive
rather than the flash drive for temporary storage so as keep from shortening the life of the flash memory with frequent
access, and will running large apps (as so many of them are these days) be quick enough to satisfy users' need for
speed? Still, if they can pull it off, it could be great news for flash drive nomads.
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