It tried to popularize technologies like flash memory, but strangled Memory Stick with high prices and licensing restrictions.
Likewise, the company's FlashTrax looks just like an audiocassette: Stick in a multimedia card or memory stick, and you can play digital music on a car stereo or boom box.
The camera can also shoot short video clips that can be saved to a Memory Stick--Sony's chewing gum-sized flash memory device.
Aberdeenshire Council lost photos of school children contained on a computer USB memory stick.
In conjunction with the supplied 512 MB memory stick, you can store around 130 MP3 files.
And since it's a Sony product, it also uses that company's Memory Stick for removable storage.
In contrast to the homebrew potential on Memory Stick, there is no way for consumers to burn UMDs.
Unfortunately, you'll have to figure out how to configure Aibo's 64 MB memory stick to recognize your wireless network.
He said he copied them unwittingly when transferring some other images from the SD card to the memory stick.
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The memory stick also contained details of about 10, 000 persistent offenders, and 33, 000 records from the police national computer.
He also ordered the forfeiture of the laptop, memory stick and SD card.
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And since it's basically just a 64-MB memory stick, you can still use it to store and transport important files.
To that end, Sony deserves credit for the flexibility it's offered with its relatively expensive and unpopular Memory Stick Pro Duo.
There also appears to be SD and Memory Stick storage on board, based on familiar logos printed on the jet-black housing.
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It is impossible to use a USB port for a printer, for a memory stick, to download pictures from a camera, etc.
For example, because it is normally strapped to its owner, it is harder to misplace than a flash drive or memory stick.
Right now, a Sony Memory Stick can only work with Sony-made devices.
If so, the Memory Stick will join the likes of the Betamax and MiniDisc in the halls of bygone Sony standards.
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East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust has been found in breach of data protection after a doctor lost a memory stick on a train.
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SanDisk actually co-owns the Memory Stick PRO with Sony, thanks to a partnership going back to 2003, and co-founded the CompactFlash (CF) standard with Canon.
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He planned to work during the four-hour ride from Boston but forgot his USB memory stick, leaving him with a laptop and no code to mess with.
The Sun reports a Health and Safety Executive inspector who was in India has lost a memory stick with details of a nuclear power station in Hartlepool.
In addition, these guys accommodate all the standard media card formats, including CompactFlash, Microdrive, SecureDigital (SD), SDHC, (Memory Stick) MS, MS Pro, MS Duo, and MultiMediaCard (MMC).
As with any typical download, the AppLink software can be stored on a USB memory stick, and then inserted and uploaded to the vehicle via the SYNC system's USB port.
It's not a straightforward process, and you'll need a card reader or a PC that's equipped to handle a Sony Memory Stick (as opposed to a normal USB drive).
Moreover, Sony pushes its own proprietary technology, including the Memory Stick used in the new Cli, at a time when the rest of the world has embraced open standards.
This year even my mum will be enjoying a techno-Christmas with both a 1GB memory stick for her digital camera and her first ever DVD player finding their way into her Christmas sack.
Earlier this month the BBC apologised after a memory stick containing the personal details of hundreds of children who had applied to take part in a TV show was stolen from a vehicle.
They use an MPEG-4 video codec to keep the file size down, but either way you're still going to need a mighty Memory Stick to store all those extra clips you'll be recording.
Many of Sony 's products (nyse: SNE - news - people) use that company's Memory Stick storage technology, which is about the size of a stick of gum and holds up to 64 MB.
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