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April 2004 issue of
Entrepreneur.
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Wireless technologies are supposed to make business life easier,
and new wireless-equipped storage gadgets are designed to do just
that. The $119 (all prices street) Soyo (www.soyousa.com)
Wireless Flash Combo is a small USB device that combines 802.11b
Wi-Fi with 128MB of flash memory. The similar SMC Networks
(www.smc.com) EZ
Connect 2.4GHz 11Mbps Wireless USB Flash Drive clocks in at $69 for
32MB of storage. Both support WEP security standards. Their
portability and storage capacity are a good fit for entrepreneurs
who need to add wireless to a laptop. USB flash drives are becoming
popular as floppy replacements, so you might as well kill two birds
with one piece of hardware.
Pocket PC owners can take advantage of this convergence with
SanDisk's (www.sandisk.com) Connect Plus card. For $99, you get
802.11b wireless connectivity and 128MB of storage in a
CompactFlash format card. With limited expansion slots available on
Pocket PCs and Wi-Fi hot spots popping up all over, the Connect
Plus has arrived at the right time. Having enough storage memory is
always an issue for Pocket PC users. Getting Wi-Fi and extra memory
in one package is a cost-effective way to go.
