The Universal Serial Bus (USB) peripheral interface has become ubiquitous across all personal computing platforms as well as many industrial and infrastructure platforms. However, at the same time, ...

OpenOffice 2.0.1 now comes on a flash drive--but an analyst claims that at 144MB, the software's too bloated to be truly portable. The latest version of Portable OpenOffice.org, an edition of the open ...

I switch between computers a lot, so I use a persistent Linux USB that keeps my workspace consistent anywhere.

In 2007, I wrote a two-part series titled “Which USB is Right for your Application” for Planet Analog (Part 1 and Part 2). Since then, several new and different “versions” of USB have been released.

Windows once had a native "Windows to Go" feature, but it had specific hardware requirements that made it a bit unpopular. Luckily, you can still create a portable ...

I don't know what I'd do without my USB flash drives. Over the years they have evolved from being a mere storage device where I dumped files that I wanted to take with me when I was on the move into a ...