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Transformer in Action on NVIDIA Tegra 3

One of the cool things working at Tuxera is we get our hands dirty with absolute stunning new gadgets when they are designed. Today we published a PR about our long term cooperation with NVIDIA. Their new Tegra 3 is going strong in the top-of-the-line mobile devices and the industry analysts have previously reported a number of major design wins including Acer, ASUS, HTC, Lenovo and ZTE. It’s all about Android tablets and phones.

Tuxera software powers today for example ASUS Transformer Prime, the first Tegra 3 tablet out in the markets. ASUS strategy has been to extend the tablet with a removable keyboard dock with USB and SD interfaces. Here’s a couple of review videos:

Movie loading, playback, tracking and skipping around work all instantly from an external hard drive with Tuxera software inside. “We give thumbs up to the hard drive!” Makes us feel happy.

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Mikko Välimäki in android, embedded systems, file systems, interoperability, mobile, tablets

Release: NTFS-3G + NTFSPROGS 2012.1.15

Greetings,

We are happy to announce the next stable release of NTFS-3G and ntfsprogs.

The source code is available at

git clone git://ntfs-3g.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/ntfs-3g/ntfs-3g

The package contains the following improvements, changes and fixes:

  • ntfs-3g: fixed device path canonicalization for use by devmapper
  • ntfs-3g: fixed setting DOS names when defined with lower-case chars
  • ntfs-3g: fixed attribute flags controlling recursive writes
  • ntfs-3g: fixed compilation on OpenIndiana
  • ntfs-3g: fixed options parsing on OSes with no extended attributes
  • ntfs-3g: fixed relatime as a default mount option
  • ntfs-3g: fixed endless recursion when MFT extents are described by themselves
  • ntfs-3g: fixed the description of inherit option
  • ntfs-3g: fixed overwriting a truncated file
  • ntfs-3g: fixed truncation of DOS file names (12 ntfschars, not 12 utf8 chars)
  • ntfs-3g: fixed the setting of attributes by secaudit (index not synced)
  • ntfs-3g: faster compression
  • ntfs-3g: new option delay_mtime to delay updates of mtime+ctime
  • ntfsfix: new option -d to clear the dirty flag if fix is successful
  • ntfsfix: fixed volume dirty flag test
  • ntfsfix: new option to clear the list of bad sectors
  • ntfsfix: fixed compilation on Sparc
  • ntfsfix: fixed a bug causing a segmentation violation
  • ntfsfix: repair self-located MFT data bug
  • ntfscp: fix free space calculation
  • ntfscp: support compression
  • ntfsresize: implemented expanding runlists
  • ntfsresize: updated the description of the -f option
  • ntfsresize: expand an NTFS volume downwards
  • ntfsclone: backup bootsector not be to accounted for
  • ntfsclone: creating/restoring a metadata image
  • ntfsundelete: try to recover the file name when undeleting
  • ntfsundelete: use inode number to name unnamed files
  • ntfswipe: Big endian and other fixes
  • secaudit: prefixed owner and group SID in ACL display
  • library: fixed big cluster support using 4kB sector disk
  • library: fixed huge data writes
  • library: use transparent compression by default
  • library: fixed several bad returns in error conditions
  • library: enabled getting the sector size on FreeBSD and MacOSX
  • build: fixed “make libs” to only build libraries

The stable release is available at

http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/

Many thanks to Jean-Pierre Andre, Erik Larsson and many other contributors!

Tuxera Open Source Team

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Szabolcs Szakacsits in file systems, interoperability, linux, mac, ntfs, open source, storage, tuxera

CES day 3

Third and final day for us at this year’s CES kept us busy. Here’s a wrap up of some of the major trends that are close to what we do at Tuxera:

  • Wireless interoperability and remote management

    • There’s currently a lot of approaches for wireless streaming inside the home. There’s DLNA, there’s Airplay, there’s WiDi and there’s a host of proprietary company specific approaches. Some companies presented simple solutions just to get old devices into the connected world. A good example is Skifta from Qualcomm Atheros, basically a small wifi box with audio out. You control the thing with a mobile app.

  • Android is the innovation platform

    • Android is everywhere and getting better every year as we go. At least I came to the conclusion the latest Android 4 phones on display have passed Apple in both form factor and specs. Android is clearly the leading innovation platform, the one where all the cool hardware and system software innovation takes place first. Both Apple and Microsoft are seriously trailing in that regard. Still, despite Google’s “Smart Home” talk where Android runs also inside your refrigerator it is still too early to say Google would end up being the interface in all devices in the future. What has been demoed on Android will work on other Linux based systems as well.

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Mikko Välimäki in android, consumer electronics, embedded systems, interoperability, linux, mobile, phones, tablets

CES day 2

We started the second day with a PR with NETGEAR. Following the previous day’s announcement with Marvell, we wanted to highlight the impact of our work in high performance storage to actual devices on the market:

With the help of Tuxera, NETGEAR’s ReadyNAS Duo v2 and NV+ v2 products feature significantly faster back-up times and seamless user experience with portable storages.

While both Marvell and NETGEAR are key partners for us in the storage segment, Tuxera keeps on working with all the leading chipsets and their different platforms.

Another market we have been investing a lot at Tuxera is automotive infotainment. It is also clearly a growing area for CES. In the first day Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche gave one of the keynotes with the following observation of what’s going on:

Here at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas there are some people who view the automobile as an accessory to consumer electronics. Conversely, at the auto show in Detroit there are many people who view consumer electronics as mere trimmings for the car. Both points of view miss the point: as much as a smartphone can be far more than just a tool for communication, a smart car can be more than just a means of transportation. Precisely at the interfaces between communication and mobility, vast potential for innovation lies dormant, and we intend to tap it.

It looks like every second car will have a tablet-like dashboard in the near future — a sort of placeholder for your digital identity. NVIDIA had the top design wins on show like the Lambo pictured above…

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Mikko Välimäki in automotive, consumer electronics, nas, storage, tablets

CES day 1



Annual CES kicked off today. We started the day by getting out a great PR with Marvell. The story is about scalable storage and top performance:

At 129 megabytes per second, Marvell and Tuxera’s NAS solution offers the fastest 2 GHz NAS performance on the market.



Coming to CES is all about meeting with customer and partners. It is always great to see partners thrive. One company I’m very happy we’re doing close cooperation with is Rockchip. They also had a bold announcement:

More than 80 percent of the Chinese tablet market is currently supported by Rockchip – a percentage that would make them a virtual behemoth in North America, clearly entrenching the company as the market leader in that country while laying the foundation for expansion into Europe and North America.



SD Association has its member goodies on show. Nice booth, and a lot of cool technology. Toshiba had the previously demoed FlashAir on show and there was also a related PR from SDA on combining SD memory and wifi chip in the same physical card:

This standard is applicable to full size SD/SDHC/SDXC and microSD/SDHC/SDXC memory cards. It taps into a billions-strong SD standards market for which manufacturers can develop products and consumers can reliably use Wireless LAN applications.

For this vision to become mainstream there is a lot of work to be done in the software side. Something we at Tuxera are working on.

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Mikko Välimäki in android, consumer electronics, mobile, nas, sd, sdxc, storage, tablets

Tuxera Recovery is released!

Tuxera wishes you a happy new year!
We start 2012 with a new release: Tuxera Recovery. After our Beta period, we are very proud to announce the first commercial version of Tuxera Recovery. Thank you for all your valuable feedback. Now we launch an improved and very stable product that will allow you to recover any unintentionally deleted file. Tuxera Recovery supports all Windows versions starting from XP.

The product costs only 25 euros and can be purchased in Tuxera’s webshop:
http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-recovery/

You can always download and try the product before purchasing. If you have feedback on Tuxera Recovery, suggestions on what kind of new features you would want to have, please write us to: recovery AT tuxera DOT com.

 

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Oscar Santolalla in windows

Release: Tuxera Recovery Beta

We are now announcing the release of Tuxera Recovery (Beta). Tuxera has launched its first Windows application, Tuxera Recovery. This utility will help you to recover unintentionally deleted files from your hard drive, camera, mobile phone, USB stick or any other storage.

 

For more information, please visit: http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-recovery/ We are happy to receive your feedback, just write us to: recovery@tuxera.com

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Oscar Santolalla in uncategorized

Tuxera NTFS for Mac in COMEX 2011 Singapore

Tuxera NTFS for Mac, our high-performance NTFS driver for Mac OS X systems, will be present in COMEX 2011. This event is Singapore’s Biggest Consumer and IT Technology Exhibition, and will take place September 1-4, 2011 at SUNTEC.

MCL Distribution Pte Ltd., Tuxera’s authorized distributor in Singapore will show the product. In the booth you will be able to see how Tuxera NTFS for Mac works in Mac OS X Lion.

To find us:
SUNTEC Singapore
Hall 6, Booth 6558
Opening Hours : 12 noon to 9pm
Free Admission

Welcome to COMEX 2011!

For general information about Tuxera NTFS for Mac, please write us to macsales@tuxera.com or visit: www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac
For sales information in Singapore, please contact MCL Distribution Pte Ltd: sales@mcldisti.com

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Oscar Santolalla in mac

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