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GlobalWare Solutions Joins the USB Flash Drive Alliance
Alliance Partnership Highlights Position as E-Commerce Leader
GlobalWare Contact: Ed Gromada, GlobalWare Solutions, 978.469.7326,
egromada@gwsmail.com
Media Contact: Tom Bain, Schneider & Associates, 617.536.3300,
tbain@schneiderpr.com
REDWOOD CITY, Ca.-March 2, 2004 - GlobalWare Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of supply-chain management,
e-commerce, fulfillment, and reverse logistics, today announced that it has joined the USB Flash Drive Alliance as an
Associate Member. GlobalWare’s participation in this consortium underscores its commitment to providing its clients
a wide spectrum of innovative content management and delivery solutions. GlobalWare will develop partnerships with
other alliance members, content publishers, and sales channels to improve awareness and contribute to even greater consumer-adoption of the USB flash drives.
The USB Flash Drive Alliance (UFDA) was created to educate consumers about USB Flash Drives, which are portable, pluggable and
powerful devices revolutionizing the way consumers and professionals store and share digital data files. GlobalWare provides extensive
expertise in developing, managing, and hosting customized content delivery solutions to the world’s technology leaders. The company is
dedicated to supporting the UFDA further its efforts to maximize its exposure through creative supply chain management, content
management, and e-commerce solutions.
“GlobalWare Solutions is very excited and proud to join the USB Flash Drive Alliance (UFDA)," said Tony Rudston,
GlobalWare Solutions Chief Executive Officer. "Our global supply chain management capabilities are particularly well
suited to support the USB Flash Drive manufacturers' needs to control costs and improve time to market; and our robust suite
of e-commerce services helps to create and deliver innovative applications for these portable, powerful devices. The UFDA serves
as a great forum for GlobalWare to support and collaborate with industry leaders, as well as promote increased awareness for USB
Flash Drives among consumer and business markets alike."
A USB flash drive is a compact USB flash memory drive that is a portable hard drive, allowing for the storage and transport of computer
data and video clips, including text, graphics and multimedia files. Small in physical size, and approximately the shape of a pack of chewing
gum, the USB flash drives are large in capacity, holding up to two gigabytes of data files. USB flash drives provide the ultimate portability for
digital files. The proliferation of USB ports among a wide variety of computing devices, combined with declining market prices for flash memory,
and a greater consumer awareness of USB flash drives, is creating a market for the devices that is growing exponentially.
“We’re excited that GlobalWare Solutions has joined the USB Flash Drive Alliance,” said Steffen Hellmold, president of the UFDA.
“GlobalWare’s content delivery solutions provide new possibilities to deliver content on a USB Flash Drive in a secure and controlled
fashion. It allows content owners to manage the distribution of rights to their content provided on a USB Flash Drive to support one
of the many usage models for USB Flash Drives that the alliance envisions. ”
About GlobalWare Solutions:
Headquartered in Haverhill, Massachusetts, GlobalWare Solutions operates facilities in North America (Haverhill, MA and Redwood City, CA),
Europe (The Netherlands), and Asia (China, Malaysia, and Singapore). Among the company’s roster of clients are such leading corporations as
Sun Microsystems, Nortel, Philips Medical, Cox Communications, and Palm Inc.
GlobalWare Solutions serves the hardware and software OEMs, the EMS industry and the broadband, medical devices, and retail industries.
The company's value-chain services include new product release, content management, software manufacturing, fulfillment, distribution and reverse logistics.
The privately held company was founded in 1978 as a full-service printer. The company employs 500 people and has 500,000 square feet of
production space worldwide. For additional information, please visit
www.globalwaresolutions.com
About the USB Flash Drive Alliance:
The USB Flash Drive Alliance (UFDA) was formed to educate consumers about the benefits of these portable, easy-to-use,
powerful devices. A USB flash drive is about the size of a pack of gum, requires no additional software or connectors, and is
powerful enough to store up to 2 GB of data - providing consumers and businesses with a fast and easy way to store and
transport digital information. Sponsor members of the UFDA include Genesys Logic, Kingston Technology, Lexar Media, Inc.,
Phison Electronics Corp., PNY Technologies and Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. Associate members are Add On Technology Co.,
Alcor Micro, Crucial Technology, DataFab Systems, Inc., GlobalWare Solutions, Inc., Microsoft Corp., SimpleTech, Inc., and Viking Interworks.
For more information about UFDA, please refer to its Web site at www.usbflashdrive.org.
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