Press Release

Bellevue, WA – March 7, 2007 – BSQUARE (Nasdaq: BSQR) has developed the first SecureMMC Client Software Suite for Windows Mobile 5.0 devices. The new product supports the new Secure MultiMediaCard specification, SecureMMC version 2.0. SecureMMC memory cards now enable secure downloading of songs and video to Windows Mobile devices, secure wireless financial transactions between Windows Mobile devices and point-of-sale terminals and secure data transfer between mobile professionals’ Smart phones and corporate enterprise networks over virtual private networks (VPN) lines.

“The new SecureMMC v2.0 standard, together with BSQUARE’s SecureMMC client software, allows both MMCA members and other mobile infrastructure ecosystem players to extend their business models since digital rights management and privacy of consumer and business data are now assured,” said Brian Crowley, president and CEO of BSQUARE.

MultiMediaCards offer features similar to Secure Digital cards. The two types of cards are based on separate but related industry standards. MMC and SecureMMC storage cards can be used in any device that supports Secure Digital (SD) storage cards as long as the software on the device supports them.

The market for mobile phones with removable memory cards like Secure Digital cards and MultiMediaCards reached over 277 million in 2006, compared to 115 million in 2005 (Source: Strategy Analytics Web site). Approximately 65% of mobile phone OEMs design their phones to use Secure Digital cards. MultiMediaCards can be used in these same phones with the appropriate client software support.

MMCA members can license the SecureMMC Client Software Suite from BSQUARE free of charge. Members pay a per device fee for implementation of the SecureMMC Client Software Suite when their devices ship. Email sales@bsquare.com or call 1-425-519-5900 for more information.

About BSQUARE

BSQUARE is a software solution provider to the global embedded device community. Committed to delivering quality, lowering project risk and time to market, our teams collaborate with smart device makers at any stage in their device development.

For those of you having Apple’s QuickTime media player on your computer, you may want to upgrade to the latest Quicktime version 7.1.5 that fixes 8 security flaws affecting Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OS X users.

The vulnerabilities are considered highly critical due to the security risk level in code attacks. One of the flaws allows an attacker to gain control of a computer through the QuickTime player. Apple confirmed it with a product advisory which explains the flaws.

Latest product download [Quicktime 7.1.5]

Stellar Phoenix File Recovery 2 offers a high-quality data recovery solution for deleted or lost files ranging from accidentally formatting the hard drive, erasing your Recycle Bin to files being deleted by a virus attack. With a rich graphical user interface, it offers impressive features like File Mask, File Filter and File Recovery Wizard.

Unlike other data recovery software, the Stellar Phoenix File Recovery 2 software scans the drive in raw mode and can locate the files without the aid of file system data structures. It recognizes and restores over 300 file types including word processor, document, spreadsheet, graphic, Internet, multimedia, and source code.

You should use Stellar Phoenix File Recovery in following cases:

* File system data structures of a drive have suffered serious corruption or overwriting and the data recovery software cannot scan such drives.
* Data recovery software cannot locate missing / lost file and folders.
* Files were deleted “long back” and cannot be identified because of over-writing to file system data structures.
* Recently deleted files are not recovered because of severe fragmentation. This is a common problem in FAT file system drives. File recovery can discover such deleted files and folders from the temporary copies created by the application software and/or the operating system

You can try out the software for free (on a trial basis) and costs $69.99 to purchase thereafter. The software is downloadable through their website.

About the Company

Stellar Information Systems is an ISO 9001:2000 certified company specializing in data recovery software and solutions. They have over 12 years experience in this field and have over 100,000 registered users across 125 countries.

Product Page [Stellar Phoenix File Recovery 2]

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V12 Design in Milan has come up with this innovative dual-touchscreen concept notebook called the Canovo. The idea behind the notebook is to create 2 touchscreens monitors on the computer where one of them can double up as a virtual keyboard.

Valerio Cometti, Managing Director of V12 Design has said that the design concept came about two years ago but it wasn’t taken to the next level due to lack of interest from manufacturers and the the complexity of the project. However, we may actually see a working design by a European computer manufacturer in the future:

The project captured the attention of a European computer manufacturer and together with its Taiwanese sister company, they started the development of the electronics. The complexity of the fully custom made electronic components has slowed down the development of the product as a whole.

Without doubting the usefulness of having two touchscreens, I am not sure how I would like typing on a flat screen. Call me old fashioned but I like the feeling of typing on a real keyboard. A sensitivity adjustment may be needed on the second touchscreen as one resting his hands on the virtual keyboard might trigger a key or two. I believe the biggest area they would have to look into would be how to minimize battery life as running two monitors at the same time will surely drain the battery.

As project development is at such an early stage, computer specifications has not been released yet.