Lexar has announced that, beginning in January 2006, its portable JumpDrive USB flash drives will ship with Google applications pre-loaded, including Google Desktop, Google Toolbar, and photo organizer Picasa.
When customers plug in a Google-loaded JumpDrive, they'll be promoted to install the free Google applications. If the user accepts the installation, the Google apps will automatically be installed and then removed from the USB drive
Not sure what you would put on a 1 GB USB flash drive? No worry, Lexar and Google have teamed up to fill it up for you. Why not clutter up that new flash drive with plenty of stuff, so that it's already filled up. Now you need a 2 GB flash drive. That's probably Lexar's goal here, rather than letting consumers put what they want on their drive. Before long, AOL software will be loading each time we stick the drive into the slot!
Read the original press release here.
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