Microsoft is licensing its exFAT file system for flash memory. Sony, Canon and Sanyo are among the first licensees.

256GB, or a quarter of a terabyte, is now available from Flash manufacturer Kingston Technology, which it says “allows users to store and carry an entire digital library in a small mobile device”, but early adopters will need well over $1000 to pay for the privilege!

No longer content to Segway up and down the boulevard of Infinite Loop listening to his iPod or teaching children about computers, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has accepted the role of chief scientist at solid state storage provider Fusion-io.

So you thought the SDHC memory card spec that allows for capacities up to 32G was enough to meet your mobile data needs for a while yet? Wait until you see the forthcoming SDXC specs.

HTML clipboardSanDisk Corporation has announced its latest G3 family of solid-state drives, using multi-level cell flash memory technology to establish new benchmarks in performance in the SSD industry.

Solid state drives (SSDs) keep on challenging regular mechanical hard drives in storage capacity, with the industry’s first 512GB SSD set to be showcased at January 2009’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

LaCie have minted two new USB drives that look like bronze and silver coins, giving them the currency inspired name of the “CurrenKey” in 4 and 8GB sizes. Will consumers be impressed and flash their cash for these coin-like flash drives?

Although camcorders with “YouTube” recording modes aren’t new, Samsung has finally joined the YouTube revolution by releasing a camcorder with a dedicated YouTube mode.

Just as most CDs are DRM-free, so are SanDisk’s new “slotMusic” microSD cards, offering music in “up to 320kbps” DRM-free MP3 format. Available in stores pre-loaded with music from a range of popular artists and selling at an RRP of US $14.95 each, with some packaged with a Shuffle-like SanDisk player (on sale for US $20 alone) for a total of $34.95, is this a new front in the digital music revolution, or a waste of time in the face of the download reality?

Professional photographers in Australia and NZ will likely be smiling at the availability of SanDisk’s Extreme IV 16GB card, matching SanDisk’s “Ducati Edition” in speed but doubling the capacity, although at AUD $450 a pop you’ll need to be a pro-photographer to pay for it!