Flash Drive Direct’s new NAND Flash technology uses less than 1% of the energy as conventional CD technology.

Flash Drive Direct’s new NAND Flash technology uses less than 1% of the energy as conventional CD technology. Are Flash Drives the eco-answer? For_Immediate_Release:
Canada (Press Release) February 24, 2008 --

Vancouver Canada-Flash Drive Directs new NAND technology uses less than 1% of the energy as conventional CD technology in transferring the same amount of data
Eco-friendly is most often seen as picking up trash and recycling. What is often not thought about is the use of energy and how that adversely affects the environment.

Last year over 1 billion, 1 time use CD’s were sold throughout North America. The energy required to burn information onto a CD has been measure to be as much as 100 times the amount used to load the same information onto a Flash Drive Direct USB Flash Drive.
Multiply this use of energy, which is electrical energy often produced by burning coal, natural gas or hydro dams, by the billions of CDs burned each year it becomes easy to see the huge positive environmental impact that the Flash Drive Direct business model and its USB Flash Drive products can have on the environment.

International Flash Drive manufacturer Flash Drive Direct first started operation in 2000.
FDD products and the company policies have been cited by the Energy Star program are RoHS and WEE compliant. In the 16 Billion dollar promotional products industry they are seen as one of the leading candidates for the GREENEST supplier in the industry.
“ This industry is notorious for producing promotional items and products that are far from eco-friendly. As a business model the promotional products industry generally offers disposable items that quickly end up in our landfills. It is an eco-shame” states FDD Director, John Graham. “Our aim is to not only produce “green products” but to be a totally “green” company from top to bottom. I think we are well on our way to achieving that goal”

Flash Drive Directs achievement of recognizing the tremendous energy savings to be found in this comparison should be a major signal to all business to reconsider their data storage solutions.



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Over 1 million Chinese made digital picture frames to be recalled due to spontaneous fires

Friday, July 4, 2008

United States of America (Press Release) July 2, 2008 -- Digital Picture frames sold through the retail and promotional products sector. The Chinese made digital picture frames are being returned before being off-loaded at ports in Seattle, Long Beach and New York. “The recent surge in popularity of the digital picture frame has increased the number of vendors in China exponentially” states John Graham of USB Digital Frames. “With this increase in the manufacturing base we are seeing a lot of unqualified companies trying to cash in on the craze. The problems we are seeing are that many vendors are using substandard and potentially dangerous components. These sub-grade components have been running at very high temperatures and have been catching fire”.The frames in question are being sold as entry price level models at retailers such as Best Buy and Wal-mart. They are branded under many generic names but are commonly using operating systems and LCD screens not engineered for the high volume usage that most digital picture frames operate under. Office fires reported in Freehold New Jersey, Greenwood Colorado and throughout the country have caused major property damage. The source of these fires has been traced back to the faulty digital picture frames. USB Digital Frames long ago recognized the hazard in these sub standard components and switched to the purpose-built frames and screens used by the popular Kodak, HP and Dell digital frames. The technical solution included a high end Amlogic board and LG Electronics LCD screen. The faulty screens have been traced back to Sun Plus Technology whose screens and O/S was originally designed for portable DVD’s.
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Flash Drive Direct, a leading supplier of flash drives and digital picture frames to the ASI and PPAI promotional products industry is considering legal action against USB Custom.

USB Custom, a supplier that sells their flash drives to both distributors and end users has launched a web site Flash DRIVES Direct..(plural S). This is in direct response to the inroads Flash Drive Direct has made into the legitimate marketplace and in taking business away from USB Custom.

"The effort by USB Custom to masquerade as Flash Drive Direct has back-fired" states John Graham. "Daily we are getting customers who are calling us to order styles that are listed on their "fake web site Flash Drives Direct". We have actually picked up business as a result of their underhanded ways".

Legal action in the form of a cease and desist order, has been considered but only for the reasons that Flash drive direct wants to maintain their market integrity. USB Custom is known for selling to their customers customer and does not have a high ethical rating in the promotional products industry.

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Flash Drive Direct design early nominee for Wallpaper

USB Golf Bag Flash Drive Direct design early nominee for Wallpaper* Design Awards.
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Date Released: 03/18/2008
USB Golf Bag Flash Drive Direct design early nominee for Wallpaper* Design Awards.
Unless you’ve been holed up in bed for the last ten days, you won’t fail to have noticed the countdown to the annual Wallpaper* Design Awards has ended.

On Wednesday the 20th of February the event itself took place to great effect – winners were revealed, runners-up clapped graciously and a very good time was had by all.

In true Wallpaper* style they went one step further than simply opening an envelope to reveal the winners. Instead, the Wallpaper judges teamed-up with digital animators, Mainframe, to produce animations for each winner of the Judges’ Awards. To heighten the suspension a little more, refresh your memories and take a look at the shortlists for each award by clicking on each category on the right of Wallpapers main page of their website.

Wallpaper* Design Awards aren’t simply about the Judges’ Awards. The awards are about interesting innovative design.

Nominated in the life enhancing category was a number of whimsical and earth changing designs. The winner this year is certainly a life changing one.

Yves Béhar who has been working with Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, developing a laptop that will be sold exclusively to governments in the developing world for $100 and then given to school children.

One of the early nominees on the whimsical side of the category of life-enhancing designs was the golf bag design usb flash drive put forth by flash drive designer Flash Drive Direct.

However, in the shade of such a great design as Yves Béhars $100 laptop it is easy to understand why the idea of such a truly life enhancing concept as a $100 laptop would overshadow any other concept either whimsical or life enhancing (such as a golf bag shaped flash drive).

Flash price drop spurring innovation. Flash Drive Direct

Flash price drop spurring innovation. Flash Drive Direct capitalizes on this.


Published on Thursday, February 28, 2008

A massive decline in the price of NAND flash memory, the chips that store photos in digital cameras and music in iPods, is prompting design innovation among companies trying to increase sales. At the forefront of this movement for the corporate logo market is design house Flash Drive Direct www.flashdrivedirect.com The price of mainstream 2GB SLC (single-level cell) NAND flash memory chips has fallen 73 percent since mid-August to $7.96 late Thursday. The chips hit a high of $18.50 on Aug. 14. The price of 2GB MLC (multi-level cell) NAND flash chips have taken a slightly worse dive, 75 percent down to $2.23 on Thursday, compared to its summer high of $8.85 per chip.

A few of the items likely to see more widespread design specialization in gadgets this year include SD (secure digital) cards, USB flash sticks, and internal storage, as well as new, lower-cost SSDs (solid-state disks) in notebook computers.
With the dramatic decrease in flash drive pricing it has allowed corporate and promotional designers Flash Drive Direct to spend more money on unique housing designs and yet still keep within the current price confines of the marketplace.

At the upcoming April 2008 electronics tradeshow in Hong Kong, Flash Drive Direct will be releasing several new designs including a golf bag shaped flash drive, a manila folder shaped drive and a biometric drive in the shape of a well-know secret agents logo.
On the notebook front, Toshiba and Samsung have both developed new 128GB SSDs based in MLC NAND to expand their use in notebook PCs. The new SSDs are less expensive, giving notebook PC designers more choices in storage.

"At 128GB, you're giving consumers the kind of storage space they expect in a notebook," said Jim Elliott, director of flash marketing at Samsung, in an interview.

The new MLC-based drives are an important step forward for SSDs in the battle against hard disk drives (HDD). At 128GB, an SSD stands a far better chance of replacing an HDD in laptop computers because it removes some of the high-capacity advantage HDDs hold.

SSDs have several advantages over HDDs; they're lighter, more rugged, consume less power, make no noise, and enable a computer to start up and load software faster than HDDs. But SSDs are a lot more expensive than HDDs, which is why they're mainly used in the business laptop market, where users are willing to pay more for performance and reliability.

Elliot believes that not only will the marketplace see significant increases in memory at a lower price but an increase in design innovation that will redefine our notion of what a flash drive, notebook or computer will look like.

Flash Drive Direct Join Forces to Test New DigiCatalog Software

SmartBlast and Flash Drive Direct Join Forces to Test New DigiCatalog Software


SmartBlast, working with flash drive manufacturer Flash Drive Direct as their test subject launches an innovative new software program, DigiCatalog.

Seattle, WA, April 30, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Employing state-of-the-art flash technology combined with a radical new server configuration Smartblast’s DigiCatalog allows the user to load a digital flash catalog on their web site. While this is nothing new the combination of new flash script and unique server configuration allows the viewer to perform a wide range of interactive functions previously not possible.

Flash Drive and Pantone

Flash Drive Direct manufacturer partners with Pantone to make color matching Flash Drives possible.

Known as a design specialist, FDD (a division of Blue Loyal) partnered their manufacturing plant with Pantone to make accurate color matching of their aluminum flash drives now possible.

Source: Flash drive direct
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Smartblast and Flash Drive Direct join forces

Press Release: Smartblast and Flash Drive Direct join forces to test new DigiCatalog software.

Flash Drive Direct partners with Sticky Drive

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March 19, 2008

SMARTBLAST PARTNERS WITH YESMAIL – INCREASING RESPONSE RATES ALL AROUND

CHICAGO, IL. – SmartBlast announces its new partnership with YesMail. Yesmail™ (an infoUSA®company, [NASDAQ: IUSA], a recognized industry-leading provider of permission-based online email marketing solutions and Smartblast, the leading provider of email marketing services to the promotional products industry have partnered to help ensure the best possible delivery of e-blasts to SmartBlast customers.
SmartBlast clients have already experienced an improvement in delivery rates, sample requests and orders. “Our overall results have improved by 23% during the past month,” states John Graham of Flash Drive Direct. “Our opens have increased by 37%, our return rate went up to 22% and our ROI increased dramatically. In fact during one of our return sessions our internal mail server crashed due to the sheer volume of mail.”
Michael Johnston, president of Smartblast, states, “By switching our mail provider to Yesmail, the increase in responses that our customers have experienced has been phenomenal.” The mission of SmartBlast has always been to help clients improve their response rates, build customer relationships, grow revenue and increase the relevancy and impact of every message they send. “Yesmail is just another way for us to provide our customers with the best service possible,” explains Johnston.
About SmartBlast
SmartBlast.com, based in Chicago, IL, is the leading provider of email marketing services to the promotional products industry. In addition to email, SmartBlast also provides direct mail solutions, list management services and eCatalog solutions.

About Yesmail
Yesmail is an infoUSA company and is part of the infoUSA services group, which includes sister companies Walter Karl, Millard, Edith Roman and Catalog Vision. infoUSA is a $700 million public company with more than 4 million customers and has been profitable for over 30 years. infoUSA is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ: iusa.
About Flashdrive Direct
Flash Drive Direct is a North American based flash drive design and manufacturing firm. They cater to the promotional products market, corporate and retail markets with their innovation promotional flash drive designs. They have offices in Canada, USA and a manufacturing facility in Shenzen, China.
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Flash Drive Direct gets the nod from Seattle software innovator StickyDrive™.

Flash Drive Direct gets the nod from Seattle software innovator StickyDrive™.

StickyDrive™ is a sophisticated value added software that is designed to be installed on portable media devices such as flash drives, flash cards, and MP3 players. This sophisticated software is the next step in the on-going NAND Flash Drive revolution. This week Sticky Drive announce that Flash Drive Direct of Vancouver Canada as their newest authorized dealer.

The StickyDrive™ software has features benefiting the corporate customer that is looking to enhance their corporate message by leveraging this new technology paradigm. The integrated functionality of the software helps people organize, find, and use their stored content. The software can be customized to "brand the inside" of a flash drive offering a custom designed graphical interface incorporating logo’s, schemes, themes, navigation, internal and external links and much more.

“It takes a huge commitment and a real belief in the future of melding the 2 technology’s to become an authorized Sticky Drive dealer”. States Flash Drive Directs John Graham. “In fact, this is the next evolution in flash drive integration into the serious business world.

Essentially what the combination of Flash Drives and StickyDrive software does is it allows the user to enhance their flash drives to become and perform a wide variety of functions previously not possible. The flash drive can now become a mobile web site that can cache files and documents, remotely access web sites, allow for auto updates and prompted downloads, it is amazing” Graham goes on to say.

Recently Flash Drive Direct and Sticky Drive in conjunction with Rob Penner of Talbot Marketing in Calgary Canada worked together to implement a very sophisticated solution for the 1000 member AMTA (Alberta Motor Transport Association). The end result is that their 1000 members can perform dozens of real-time processes such as access password protected documents, download real-time route changes and be made aware of special alerts all by plugging their Sticky Drive enhanced flash Drive into their wi-fi or bluetooth laptop.

This combination of useful functionality and new edge technology assures the corporate user that they will continue to further integrate their information and operations into a very people friendly business tool.

Flash Drive Directs next StickyDrive project is to load real world reviews, images, statistics and course information for Whistlers professional golf tour stop, Nicklaus North course onto their newest flash drive design, the Golf Bag.

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2008, the death of the CD and the death of the music business as we know it.- Flash Drive Direct offers solution to music retail sector blues.

2008, the death of the CD and the death of the music business as we know it.- Flash Drive Direct offers solution to music retail sector blues.
The CD is dead and so is the music industry as it faces the prospect of a download only era. Music industry insiders know that the download business strategy is not suited to the labels.
The labels are 5 years too late to stake a viable claim in the download arena. They cannot successfully compete with LimeWire, MySpace and other free services.
EMI, Warner, Hollywood record labels have been seriously exploring the last potent retail replacement for the CD, the flash drive.
Flash drive designer and manufacturer Flash Drive Direct has penned a treatise that describes a new and viable replacement for the CD that will appeal to the download demographic and offer a richer media intense delivery system.
The CD is dead. Sales have plummeted nearly 50% over the last 4 years and a whole generation of consumers are now no longer even familiar with the CD as a concept or the idea that a record store is the place to find the "next big thing".
Record labels have reacted either by standing by and watching as the retail industry tanks or by litigating to death their very own consumers in a futile effort to put the download genie back in the bottle.
This generation wants to buy its music, what they don't want to buy is a CD," states John Graham, long-time music industry analyst and current director of Flash Drive Direct design and manufacturing house (http://www.flashdrivedirect.com/). "What the labels have failed to recognize is that the download consumer still wants to buy a tangible tactile product. They are the wealthiest youth generation in history with an estimated annual disposable income of over 20 billion dollars. They lay claim to some of the largest discretionary retail spending. Note the sales of Mac's, iPods, cell phones, $200 jeans and more," concludes Graham.
"The retail experience for the download generation is alive and kicking. The difference is that today's downloaders grew up on MP3 files not CD's," Graham goes on to say. "When MP'3's came along they were first played almost exclusively on computers. However, necessity being the Mother of all inventions, retailers then created the MP3 player industry. As a result the CD player and the CD retail business went the way of the Dodo."
A recent Harvard study on retail trends cited an anomaly in the download generation's retail therapy that was not anticipated. It found that consumers 14-29 would buy music from a retail outlet if two things were changed. One being that the retail environment better represented their personal expression of taste and secondly that if the music were loaded onto a digital device such as a flash drive they would buy it.
The study went on to say that on a secondary level of understanding "the consumer had veered away from the CD as it offered little in the way of new media interactivity". The consumer had found that the CD only offered a 1 dimensional experience and had no "bells and whistles".
John Graham of Flash Drive Direct goes on to explain, "the problem with the CD in recent years was not just a lack of a solid CD's worth of material but the high cost the consumer paid for what amounted to nothing more than a $15 expense for 1-2 singles, a bunch of filler and no killer! The labels only have themselves to blame for much of this."
The new delivery device that will recapture the spirit of the vibrant 80's and 90's CD sales boom is the digital flash drive. To date many artists have released limited edition and on-line sales of flash drive albums. However, there were 2 consistent failures in these tentative approaches. Firstly the retail environment had no rack space to best showcase the drives and perhaps more importantly the artist and labels did not grasp the enormous range of expression that the flash drive offered.
The drive would contain the tunes but what has not been fully understood was what else the flash drive offers. The drive not only delivers songs but videos, print files of all of the artist's previous CD covers, tour posters, band bio's and more. It also could easily be formatted to link to outside websites where the consumer could buy tickets, visit the band's website, download coupons and link to a wide variety of on-line and real world experiences. The flash drive is much more impactful as a retail tool when viewed as a web portal, multi- media storage and song delivery device than just a mere replacement for the CD, as the CD was for the LP.
Flash Drive Direct does work for the corporate world along with new media ventures with record labels, film studios, television and more.

Energy Star designation and TCO 2008 Certification awarded to flash drive design firm Flash Drive Direct.

Energy Star designation and TCO 2008 Certification awarded to flash drive design firm Flash Drive Direct.
Energy Star was initially only a United States government program to promote energy efficient consumer products. However during the past decade it has spread throughout Canada, Australia and a dozen other countries. It is well known for its blue logo appearing on many computer products and peripherals.
TCO Certification is a series of product certifications for office equipment (most notably monitors). It is set by TCO Development, owned by the Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees. The Certifications are named after years. Although commonly associated with computer monitors, later TCO revisions also defined standards for computers, keyboards, printers, flash drives mobile phones and more.
In January of 2008 Flash Drive Direct applied for and was today granted final certification for both the Energy Star program and the more European-based TCO Develepement certificate.
“We felt it was enormously important not just for us but for the industry as a whole to achieve these certifications. I do not think people truly understand the positive impact that flash drives are having on the environment.” states John Graham, corporate communications officer for Flash Drive Direct. “ We see a a tremendous power savings, a decline in raw material usage and a much smaller post-consumer waste footprint”.
In a recent study, it was discovered that the energy expounded when a CD is burned on a conventional PC compared to the energy consumed in the transfer of the same data load to a USB Flash Drive was on average over 500% less. The study also showed that the energy and petrochemicals consumed in the making of a conventional CD was 1.78 times more when compared to the energy and plastics consumed in the construction of the average Flash Drive.
Considering that 97% of all CD sales are for 1 time use (non-rewritable) and that nearly half of all CD’s are used only 1.3 times (on average) for the simple transfer of data from 1 computer to another, if you compare that large amount of energy consumed to the small eco-footprint of a Flash Drive it is easy to see how these relatively simple devices have been able to achieve such high environmental standards. I 2007 an estimated 4 billion used CD’s ended up in land fills
This past fall Flash Drive Direct also reached RoHS and WEEE compliancy.
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Flash drive direct gets energy star designation

Energy Star designation and TCO 2008 Certification awarded to flash drive design firm Flash Drive Direct.
Energy Star was initially only a United States government program to promote energy efficient consumer products. However during the past decade it has spread throughout Canada, Australia and a dozen other countries. It is well known for its blue logo appearing on many computer products and peripherals.
TCO Certification is a series of product certifications for office equipment (most notably monitors). It is set by TCO Development, owned by the Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees. The Certifications are named after years. Although commonly associated with computer monitors, later TCO revisions also defined standards for computers, keyboards, printers, flash drives mobile phones and more.
In January of 2008 Flash Drive Direct applied for and was today granted final certification for both the Energy Star program and the more European-based TCO Develepement certificate.
“We felt it was enormously important not just for us but for the industry as a whole to achieve these certifications. I do not think people truly understand the positive impact that flash drives are having on the environment.” states John Graham, corporate communications officer for Flash Drive Direct. “ We see a a tremendous power savings, a decline in raw material usage and a much smaller post-consumer waste footprint”.
In a recent study, it was discovered that the energy expounded when a CD is burned on a conventional PC compared to the energy consumed in the transfer of the same data load to a USB Flash Drive was on average over 500% less. The study also showed that the energy and petrochemicals consumed in the making of a conventional CD was 1.78 times more when compared to the energy and plastics consumed in the construction of the average Flash Drive.
Considering that 97% of all CD sales are for 1 time use (non-rewritable) and that nearly half of all CD’s are used only 1.3 times (on average) for the simple transfer of data from 1 computer to another, if you compare that large amount of energy consumed to the small eco-footprint of a Flash Drive it is easy to see how these relatively simple devices have been able to achieve such high environmental standards. I 2007 an estimated 4 billion used CD’s ended up in land fills
This past fall Flash Drive Direct also reached RoHS and WEEE compliancy.
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The secret is out. Flash Drive Direct style flash drives with logo to be used to replace key lock in Mazda

Who'da thought it'd be possible, but Mazda of all companies has embraced the inner geek inside me to make me want to run out and test drive one of their cars.

Thankfully this is only a concept car for now as might want to plunk down the 30,000$ to buy it.

The car, designed for "net-savvy youngsters" is the new concept hatchback, Mazda Sassou, it ditches the traditional cylinder lock key system in favor of USB flash drives.

In addition to starting the engine, the flash drives can be used to transfer driving directions for long trips along with the latest songs for the day to the Sassou's internal hard drive.

Just be sure to vent the windows though, it looks like the extra large sunroof would literally cook any electronics you have in the car during your lunch break.

This next step in flash drive revolution may help to benefit companies like Flash Drive Direct who design specific styles and then manufacture them for clients as an OEM product......

Keep you posted

16 GB mega-memory flash drives now a reality.

Flash Drive Direct first to launch them into the promotional logo marketplace.The $16 Billion dollar US promotional logo products industry is getting a 16GB boost. Flash Drive Direct is now offering 16 GB hand held flash drive memory designs.“We only expect this upward memory trend to continue,” states John Graham, North American director of Flash Drive Direct. “ This business was mostly 32 MB promotional give-aways 2 years ago, now the sale of the flash drives into the US business economy is trending towards much larger memory drives. A year ago, 1GB was the upper end, 6 months ago we hit 8GB and now we are at 16GB. We can expect to see 32GB within the next 6 months”

This technical breakthrough is made possible by a marriage of new high memory chip sets from Samsung and a unique PVC molding process for the housing.

Instead of stacking a series of 2Gb chips in sequence to create larger memory there is now a single 16GB Samsung Chip. This allows the design of the housing to be flexible and innovative.Flash Drive Direct is now Windows ReadyBoost deliverable.Adding system memory (typically referred to as RAM) is often the best way to improve a PC’s performance, since more memory means more applications are ready to run without accessing the hard drive. However, upgrading memory can be difficult and costly, and some machines have limited memory expansion capabilities, making it impossible to add RAM.Windows Vista introduced Windows ReadyBoost, a new concept in adding memory to a system this past year. It means the user can use flash memory, such as that on a (USB) flash drive, to improve performance without having to add additional hard-wired memory.The flash memory device serves as an additional memory cache—that is, memory that the computer can access much more quickly than it can access data on the hard drive. Windows ReadyBoost relies on the intelligent memory management of Windows Super Fetch and can significantly improve system responsiveness.Windows ReadyBoost is simple to use. When a removable Flash Drive memory device is first inserted into a port, Windows Vista checks to see if its performance is fast enough to work with Windows ReadyBoost. If so, the user is asked if they want to use this device to speed up system performance. The user can choose to allocate part of a USB drive’s memory to speed up performance and use the remainder to store files.
Flash Drive Direct is one of the first suppliers to offer this to the ad specialty marketplace.

2008, the death of the CD and the death of the music business as we know it.- Flash Drive Direct offers solution to music retail sector blues.

The CD is dead and so is the music industry as it faces the prospect of a download only era. Music industry insiders know that the download business strategy is not suited to the labels.
The labels are 5 years too late to stake a viable claim in the download arena. They cannot successfully compete with LimeWire, MySpace and other free services.
EMI, Warner, Hollywood record labels have been seriously exploring the last potent retail replacement for the CD, the flash drive.
Flash drive designer and manufacturer Flash Drive Direct has penned a treatise that describes a new and viable replacement for the CD that will appeal to the download demographic and offer a richer media intense delivery system.
The CD is dead. Sales have plummeted nearly 50% over the last 4 years and a whole generation of consumers are now no longer even familiar with the CD as a concept or the idea that a record store is the place to find the "next big thing".
Record labels have reacted either by standing by and watching as the retail industry tanks or by litigating to death their very own consumers in a futile effort to put the download genie back in the bottle.
This generation wants to buy its music, what they don't want to buy is a CD," states John Graham, long-time music industry analyst and current director of Flash Drive Direct design and manufacturing house (http://www.flashdrivedirect.com). "What the labels have failed to recognize is that the download consumer still wants to buy a tangible tactile product. They are the wealthiest youth generation in history with an estimated annual disposable income of over 20 billion dollars. They lay claim to some of the largest discretionary retail spending. Note the sales of Mac's, iPods, cell phones, $200 jeans and more," concludes Graham.
"The retail experience for the download generation is alive and kicking. The difference is that today's downloaders grew up on MP3 files not CD's," Graham goes on to say. "When MP'3's came along they were first played almost exclusively on computers. However, necessity being the Mother of all inventions, retailers then created the MP3 player industry. As a result the CD player and the CD retail business went the way of the Dodo."
A recent Harvard study on retail trends cited an anomaly in the download generation's retail therapy that was not anticipated. It found that consumers 14-29 would buy music from a retail outlet if two things were changed. One being that the retail environment better represented their personal expression of taste and secondly that if the music were loaded onto a digital device such as a flash drive they would buy it.
The study went on to say that on a secondary level of understanding "the consumer had veered away from the CD as it offered little in the way of new media interactivity". The consumer had found that the CD only offered a 1 dimensional experience and had no "bells and whistles".
John Graham of Flash Drive Direct goes on to explain, "the problem with the CD in recent years was not just a lack of a solid CD's worth of material but the high cost the consumer paid for what amounted to nothing more than a $15 expense for 1-2 singles, a bunch of filler and no killer! The labels only have themselves to blame for much of this."
The new delivery device that will recapture the spirit of the vibrant 80's and 90's CD sales boom is the digital flash drive. To date many artists have released limited edition and on-line sales of flash drive albums. However, there were 2 consistent failures in these tentative approaches. Firstly the retail environment had no rack space to best showcase the drives and perhaps more importantly the artist and labels did not grasp the enormous range of expression that the flash drive offered.
The drive would contain the tunes but what has not been fully understood was what else the flash drive offers. The drive not only delivers songs but videos, print files of all of the artist's previous CD covers, tour posters, band bio's and more. It also could easily be formatted to link to outside websites where the consumer could buy tickets, visit the band's website, download coupons and link to a wide variety of on-line and real world experiences. The flash drive is much more impactful as a retail tool when viewed as a web portal, multi- media storage and song delivery device than just a mere replacement for the CD, as the CD was for the LP.
Flash Drive Direct does work for the corporate world along with new media ventures with record labels, film studios, television and more.

USB Digital Frames acquired by Flash Drive Direct

Flash Drive Direct of Vancouver Canada has acquired digital picture frame designer USB Digital Frames. A major makeover and product re-launch is planned.USB Digital Frames is a leading designer and programmer in the very fast paced digital picture frame industry.

It was launched a year ago and has agreements in place with Panasonic to supply the hard to find Hi-resolution LCD panels. It currently offers 15 models ranging in size from 1.1 inch screens to 22 inch screens.

Flash Drive Direct plans changes to the line, designs and the scope of the offering.“ We took over USB Digital Frames as it complimented our current business with Flash Drives”, says John Graham, Director of Vancouver based Flash Drive Direct. “We also recognized that some of the problems that USB Digital Frames faced were the same things we had already conquered when launching Flash Drive Direct. Simple yet important points such as easy to understand and execute user-manuals to set-up and launch the digital picture frame. On one of the current designs the first line in the Chinese translated manual instructed the user …Do not ram hard things into the drive! We realized that this was leaving far too much open for interpretation”

The USB digital picture frame is best described as the perfect gadget for sharing photos, movies, video files and mp3’s in a picture frame format. The frames range in size from 1 inch to 36 inches. They contain an LCD screen, which displays multiple file formats. It uploads files from SD cards, Flash drives, USB cable or via BlueTooth.Flash Drive Direct intends to keep the name USB Digital Frames and to keep its domain separate. There will be joint marketing initiatives as it is felt that neither of the product sets will cannibalize the other and will in fact enhance each others offering.“Our first goal is to meet with the manufacturer and with Panasonic, this is slated for next week in China.

Our goal is to streamline production, clarify operating and packaging issues and to re-launch the brand by Mid March, it is a tall order” Graham states.Both Flash Drive Direct and USB Digital Frames sell to both the retail market throughout North America and Europe and into the 16 billion dollar a year promotional products industry in North America. Last year digital picture frames and flash drives represented over $300,000,000.00 in corporate logo sales. The product re-launch is expected to set new standards for value in the marketplace, Flash Drive Direct expects sales of USB Digital Frames to triple in 2008.