MojoPac - another U3-like solution
Ever wish you could stick your whole computer in your back pocket and take it wherever you went? MojoPac promises to let you do it.
Mountain View start-up RingCube will show off its MojoPac software at the DEMO fall conference next week in San Diego, where entrepreneurs, executives and venture capitalists get a look at emerging technologies. RingCube already has raised $4 million from New Enterprise Associates.
More than just a handheld with e-mail and calendar, MojoPac aims to transform anything that can store data into a portable personal computer. You can bring your programs, settings and data to another machine by loading them onto devices ranging from a thumb-size flash card to a digital camera.
For the most part, broad industry trends are on RingCube's side: Storage is cheap and getting cheaper, and people are as mobile as ever. The market it enters is populated by U3 and other companies selling ``smart'' USB flash drives, which allow users to put data and basic software on them. Almost 3 million smart drives were sold in 2005, and as many as 30 million may ship this year, according to research firm Gartner.
Yet these products restrict the applications people can load onto the drives -- for example, U3-compatible drives don't support Microsoft Word.
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