On the left you have two USB ports and on the right a removable hard drive bay circled. You can plug any NTFS-formatted portable hard drive or USB stick full of high-definition movies into the USB ports and it is plug & play. The same goes for the hard drive bay: take your NTFS-formatted drive from your Windows box and it works seamlessly with the Syabas media tank without any additional drivers.

We think Syabas’ example shows where the market is going. With both disk and file sizes growing, NTFS is currently the best — and in increasing cases the only — format option if you want your storage media to work plug & play with all computers from PCs to Macs and Linuxes as well as the latest consumer electronic devices.

SUNNYVALE, CA, July 3, 2010 — Tuxera has today released Tuxera NTFS for Windows CE. The new platform port is based on Tuxera’s widely deployed and portable code base with millions of installations in productions use. Tuxera NTFS is distributed to first customers on Windows CE 6.0 for evaluation and product integration.

Tuxera CTO Szabolcs Szakacsits said: “We are proud to strengthen Tuxera’s leadership role in the NTFS market by a fully-functional read-write port to yet another important platform. Tuxera’s focus on reliable and portable codebase with many millions of deployments ensures customers can trust on Tuxera when it comes to interoperable file systems.”

“The feedback from the first Windows CE customers has been very positive,” Tuxera CEO Mikko Välimäki continued. “NTFS is today the first solution for most interoperable file system uses. I am thus happy to confirm Tuxera’s entry to the embedded Windows ecosystem is long-term. We will follow the news today with more Windows CE and Embedded announcements in the near future.”

See also: Tuxera NTFS for Windows CE Announced. Targets Especially In-vehicle Infotainment Systems. http://www.tuxera.com/about-us/news/1603/

For further information:

Mikko Välimäki, CEO, Tuxera
Tel. +358-50-598-0498
email: mikko at tuxera dot com

About Tuxera. Tuxera is the leading provider of file systems that allow music, pictures, videos and other content to be ported across devices. With Tuxera file systems inside, users experience plug and play interoperability with their laptops, digital cameras, set-top-boxes, mobile phones, and other consumer electronics. Building on the success of open source, Tuxera’s industry-standard NTFS and exFAT solutions for Linux, Mac OS X, and other platforms have over 30 million installations. Close collaboration with Microsoft ensures reliable compatibility and helps Tuxera to set the standard in high-performance, low power use for embedded and mobile solutions. Tuxera’s customers include leading hardware, software, and consumer electronics companies. For more information, please visit www.tuxera.com.

This time Tuxera has record number of software releases! The topics:

• Stable NTFS-3G 2010.5.22
• NTFS-3G 2010.6.31-RC Release Candidate
• NTFS-3G for Mac 2010.5.22
• Tuxera NTFS for Mac 2010.6-RC Release Candidate

The stable NTFS-3G 2010.5.22 release is a minor update which addresses creating the missing usermap and secaudit utilities.

The software is available at

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

The new NTFS-3G 2010.6.31-RC release candidate contains exciting, major improvements, and the below changes and fixes:

• New: Full, transparent, read-write compression support.
• New: Two new mount options: compression and nocompression (default).
• New: Introduced windows_names mount option to enforce only Windows names.
• Change: Re-enabled compression in root directory.
• Change: Reversed default for showing/hiding hidden files.
• Change: Redefined default user mapping.
• Change: Marked files whose name has a dot initial as “hidden” if option hide_dot_files is used.
• Change: Renamed option default_permissions to permissions.
• Fixed use of utimensat() with external fuse older than 2.8.
• Fixed a hang when reading a corrupt compressed file.
• Fixed a possible crash when creating a stream.
• Fixed all reported and found compressed write related bugs.

Download it from the below web page

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

The long awaited NTFS-3G for Mac 2010.5.22 is also here. Changes since the last release:

• Everything which is included in stable NTFS-3G 2010.5.22.
• Fix: NTFS-3G for Mac could “hijack” non-NTFS volumes in extremely rare cases, leaving them unmountable until NTFS-3g for Mac was disabled.
• Fix: The NTFS-3G for Mac preference pane will no longer leave zombie processes behind.

For more information please see

http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/2010/06/ntfs-3g-for-mac-os-x-2010522.html

The latest release candidate of Tuxera NTFS for Mac, our high-performance commercial NTFS driver is out as well.

Changes since Tuxera NTFS for Mac 2010.1:

• Extended attribute support. Tuxera NTFS for Mac now supports storing Mac streams such as Finder information and resource forks as extended attributes, translating to Alternate Data Streams in Windows terminology. This means that NTFS drives will no longer be littered with ‘._’ (AppleDouble) files. Services For Mac attributes are used for the special attributes ‘com.apple.FinderInfo’ and ‘com.apple.ResourceFork’.
• Support for storing the Mac OS backup timestamp.
• All new features, enhancements and fixes included in stable NTFS-3G for Mac 2010.5.22.

Please see more at

http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/

Enjoy!

Tuxera Open Source Team

San Diego, CA, June 22, 2010— Red Herring today announced that Tuxera was a finalist for the Red Herring 100 Award, a selection of the 100 most innovative private technology companies based in North America.The nominees are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries.

This unique assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the actual track record and standing of a company, which allows Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list an invaluable instrument for discovering and advocating the greatest business opportunities in the industry.

“This year was especially difficult,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “Despite the global economic situation, there were many great companies producing really innovative and amazing products that we had a difficult time narrowing the pool and selecting the finalists. Tuxera shows great promise therefore deserves to be among the Finalists. Now we’re faced with the difficult task of selecting the Top 100 winners of Red Herring North America award. We know that this year’s crop will grow into some amazing companies that are sure to go far.”

Finalists for the 2010 edition of the Red Herring 100 North America award are selected based upon their technological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition, and financial health. During the several months leading up to the announcement, hundreds of companies in the telecommunications, security, Web 2.0, software, hardware, biotech, and clean tech industries sent in their submissions to qualify for the award.

The Finalists are invited to present their winning strategies at the Red Herring North America Conference in San Diego, June 22-24, 2010. The Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony on June 24 at the event.

About Tuxera. Tuxera is the leading provider of file systems that allow music, pictures, videos and other content to be ported across devices. With Tuxera file systems inside, users experience plug and play interoperability with their laptops, digital cameras, set-top-boxes, mobile phones, and other consumer electronics. Building on the success of open source, Tuxera’s industry-standard NTFS and exFAT solutions for Linux, Mac OS X, and other platforms have over 30 million installations. Close collaboration with Microsoft ensures reliable compatibility and helps Tuxera to set the standard in high-performance, low power use for embedded and mobile solutions. Tuxera’s customers include leading hardware, software, and consumer electronics companies. For more information, please visit www.tuxera.com.

Syabas Chooses Tuxera NTFS for Media Players
Blazingly fast performance enables the playback of high bitrate, high definition content

Sunnyvale, CA and Helsinki, Finland – June 15, 2010 – Tuxera, the leading provider of Windows-compatible file systems for Linux, Mac and other platforms, today announced that Syabas Technology has licensed Tuxera NTFS to bring seamless interoperability to its cutting-edge media players. Tuxera’s embedded file system solution will stream or playback digital media content in Syabas’ flagship Popcorn Hour Networked Media Jukeboxes, the C-200 and A-200.

“Tuxera’s interoperable file systems are instrumental in the ongoing media and device convergence. They provide Popcorn Hour Media Jukeboxes with unmatched NTFS file system read/write performance,” said Syabas CEO TL Lim. “Tuxera’s blazingly fast performance enables the playback of high bitrate, high definition content along with rock-solid reliability and unsurpassed Windows interoperability. Tuxera NTFS also proved to be a quick migration for our new embedded Linux platform, which is critical in the fast-paced world of consumer electronics.”

“Syabas is leading us to a new way of freely sharing music, pictures, and video among multiple devices, instead of considering them as device-specific content,” said Tuxera CEO Mikko Välimäki. “We are pleased that our file system interoperability is helping the Popcorn Hour Networked Media Jukeboxes meet consumers’ newfound desire to mix and match media across their home entertainment systems, portable storage devices, and PCs.”

About Tuxera.Tuxera is the leading provider of file systems that allow music, pictures, videos and other content to be ported across devices. With Tuxera file systems inside, users experience plug and play interoperability with their laptops, digital cameras, set-top-boxes, mobile phones and other consumer electronics. Building on the success of open source, Tuxera’s industry-standard NTFS and exFAT solutions for Linux, Mac OS X and other platforms have over 30 million installations. Close collaboration with Microsoft ensures reliable compatibility and helps Tuxera to set the standard in high-performance, low power use for embedded and mobile solutions. Tuxera’s customers include leading hardware, software, and consumer electronics companies. For more information, please visit www.tuxera.com.

About Syabas. Founded in 2001, Syabas emerged as an early leader in the development of digital entertainment middleware solutions for consumer electronics manufacturers in the U.S., China, Europe and Japan. The company’s enterprise partners and customers have included Netgear, Hewlett Packard, D-Link, Buffalo, I/O Data and Pinnacle. Syabas launched the Popcorn Hour line of Network Media Tanks in late 2007, and, in combination with its licensed platform, the company has captured a significant share of the global market for digital media players/streaming media devices.

The runaway success of the company’s Networked Media Tanks in recent years has established Popcorn Hour as a well-recognized consumer brand, and the company plans on launching a new consumer brand, the PopBoxTM this summer. At the same time, Syabas Technology continues to provide OEM middleware solutions to manufacturers worldwide. Headquartered in Fremont, California, Syabas also maintains offices in Penang, Malaysia; Shenzhen, China; and Austria. See more at www.popcornhour.com and www.popbox.com.

Computex Taipei is finally over and done for 2010. A great event, with a lot of interesting electronics. It is clear the current semiconductor hotspot is here. From NAS systems to set-top-boxes, from cameras to phones, everything is packed together in Taipei or the nearby cities. In connection with Computex we did a joint press release with Microsoft on Tuxera exFAT for Linux.

The scenery in Taipei is unique. A quick escape from Taipei101 to Meokong for an afternoon tea shows everything from modern high-tech architecture to unreachable rainforest jungle in less than an hour. While it was raining almost every day I found the climate pleasant: warm but not too hot. You could walk with a T-shirt around the clock.

TAIPEI, TAIWAN–(Marketwire – June 1, 2010) – COMPUTEX — Tuxera, the leading designer of Windows-compatible file systems for Linux, Mac, and other platforms, today announced the release of Tuxera exFAT for Android and other Linux systems. Developed using technical documentation provided by Microsoft Corp., Tuxera exFAT provides outstanding performance and stability, and meets the latest SDXC memory card standards.

“The wait is over. I am thrilled to tell everyone we now have the world’s first exFAT implementation for Android. Thanks to our latest innovations and strong relationship with Microsoft, we can guarantee blazingly fast performance for flash drives and energy efficient consumer electronics,” said Mikko Välimäki, Tuxera CEO. “Tuxera’s exFAT for Android is not just the first to market, but it is also built on a very portable codebase that we will strive to make the de facto standard.

Tuxera is now forming partnerships with leading hardware, device, and operating system manufacturers to meet the growing demand for high-definition video and other embedded applications.

“exFAT is a modern file system designed to handle very large files, and we are pleased to support Tuxera’s development of an exFAT file system implementation,” said David Kaefer, general manager of Intellectual Property Licensing at Microsoft. “To provide necessary patent rights, Microsoft will offer a patent agreement that companies can sign if they are building a device that includes the Tuxera exFAT implementation.”

Tuxera is a member of the SD Association where it works together with exFAT host device and card manufacturers to enable a smooth transition from FAT to exFAT file system technology that lifts the device and file size limits for SD cards. For example, with Tuxera exFAT new SDXC compatible devices can record normal-length, full-HD videos.

Tuxera exFAT has been successfully tested on Android and other versions of Linux. To request an evaluation version of the product, please contact sales@tuxera.com. A consumer download version will be released later.

For more information:

Mikko Välimäki, CEO, Tuxera
Tel. +358-50-598-0498
email: mikko at tuxera dot com

About Tuxera. Tuxera is the leading provider of file systems that allow music, pictures, videos and other content to be ported across devices. With Tuxera file systems inside, users experience plug and play interoperability with their laptops, digital cameras, set-top-boxes, mobile phones, and other consumer electronics. Building on the success of open source, Tuxera’s industry-standard NTFS and exFAT solutions for Linux, Mac OS X, and other platforms have over 30 million installations. Close collaboration with Microsoft ensures reliable compatibility and helps Tuxera to set the standard in high-performance, low power use for embedded and mobile solutions. Tuxera’s customers include leading hardware, software, and consumer electronics companies. For more info, please go to http://www.tuxera.com/.

The new, stable NTFS-3G release contains the following changes:

• Fixed a compilation issue with uClibc.
• Fixed modifying the read-only flag on a directory.
• Fixed a bug in ACL inheritance.
• Fixed a bad condition for security descriptor upgrade.
• Fixed a possible index block with no key in $SII.
• Fixed the condition for executing utime() and utimensat().
• Fixed wrong flags when uid/gid are forced in mount options.
• Fixed a bad error checking when closing a compressed file.
• Fixed compiler warnings on OpenSolaris.
• Fixed conditional code for self-test in secaudit.

The software is available at http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/

Enjoy!

Tuxera Open Source Team

Tuxera in American Expansion
Leading provider of Windows-compatible NTFS and exFAT file systems opens US HQ in Silicon Valley

Sunnyvale, CA, and HELSINKI, Finland – May 4, 2010 – Tuxera , the leading provider of Windows-compatible NTFS and exFAT file systems for Linux, Mac, and other platforms, today announced the opening of its new US headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.

Tuxera’s new office will ramp up sales and interoperability support for the growing list of companies deploying embedded operating systems in connected set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and recorders, network-attached storage, multimedia players, digital cameras, mobile phones, and other high-volume consumer electronic devices.

“Silicon Valley is a hotspot in demand for Tuxera file system products,” said Tuxera CEO Mikko Välimäki. “Many of our US customers and partners are located within a few miles of our new offices. The US presence allows us to provide the intense cooperation and support it takes to push the boundaries of embedded interoperability.”

For more information:

Mikko Välimäki, CEO, Tuxera
Tel. +358-50-598-0498
email: mikko at tuxera dot com

About Tuxera. Tuxera is the leading provider of file systems that allow music, pictures, videos and other content to be ported across devices. With Tuxera file systems inside, users experience plug and play interoperability with their laptops, digital cameras, set-top-boxes, mobile phones, and other consumer electronics. Building on the success of open source, Tuxera’s industry-standard NTFS and exFAT solutions for Linux, Mac OS X, and other platforms have over 30 million installations. Close collaboration with Microsoft ensures reliable compatibility and helps Tuxera to set the standard in high-performance, low power use for embedded and mobile solutions. Tuxera’s customers include leading hardware, software, and consumer electronics companies. For more info, please go to http://www.tuxera.com/.

What is an open standard and what does it mean when a standard has an increasing number of patents? What are the implications of patenting to IT commodification trends such as open source software? This talk will discuss the inner meaning of the politically hot term “open standard” and the practical implications of having more and more patents in information technology standards from low-level algorithms to high-level functionality. The speaker’s main argument is that commodification meets its limits with increasing patenting, that has already put a price tag on open source. As a positive note, nobody should be scared as every intellectual property problem is solvable and also start-ups continue to enter the markets like before. The word “open” just will not equal to free. The talk draws from practical examples in European policy debates where the speaker has participated both as an academic discussant and more recently as the CEO of Tuxera, a company providing Microsoft Windows interoperable file system software solutions on Linux both as open source and proprietary versions.

Tuxera NTFS empowers systems with Freescale PowerQUICC® integrated communications processors
Extreme file system performance targeted for HD-capable media players and NAS systems

HELSINKI, FINLAND. Tuxera, the market leading NTFS and exFAT file system solution provider today announced support for Freescale’s PowerQUICC communications processors family. Freescale’s processors are used in home in media servers and high-speed network-attached storage (NAS) systems.

“We are delighted to work together with Freescale to deliver modern file system interoperability into the most demanding systems. Cooperation with Freescale highlights the success of Tuxera’s high-reliability, high-performance NTFS technology and helps Freescale customers seamlessly migrate from FAT to the next generation file systems.” said Mikko Välimäki, Tuxera CEO.

Nikolay Guenov, Growth Segment Marketing Manager for Freescale’s Network Processor Division notes: “We chose Tuxera with the clear value proposition to PowerQUICC processor customers. Tuxera NTFS performed solidly in our tests – read and write speeds were comparable or better than ext3, the most popular Linux file system. Combining Tuxera NTFS with Freescale PowerQUICC processors adds crucial functionality needed for today’s highly competitive products and helps designers to speed up their time-to-market.”

For more information:

Mikko Välimäki, CEO, Tuxera
Tel. +358-50-598-0498
email: mikko at tuxera dot com

About Tuxera. Tuxera offers NTFS and exFAT file system software that guarantee plug and play Windows interoperability. Building on the success of open source, Tuxera’s industry-standard NTFS solution has over 10 million installations. Tuxera was the first to implement reliable NTFS read/write support on Linux, Mac OS X, and other systems.Tuxera is also the first to offer exFAT for any system based on extensive collaboration with Microsoft including intellectual property and alliance agreements. Tuxera’s customers include leading software, semiconductor, and consumer electronics companies. Together we design the future of file system interoperability. See more from http://www.tuxera.com/.

About Freescale PowerQUICC Communications Processors. As the leader in communications processors, Freescale delivers intelligence to embedded networking and communications solutions with proven PowerQUICC® integrated communications processors. See more from http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/homepage.jsp?code=POWERQUICC_HOME.

More information:

• Tuxera Becomes SD Association Member to Meet the Industry Needs in Data Portability
• Tuxera Signs Intellectual Property Agreement with Microsoft

Tuxera Celebrates Over 1 Million NTFS for Mac Downloads
The World’s First and Fastest NTFS for Mac Solution Defines the Standard

HELSINKI, FINLAND. Tuxera Ltd, the creator of the leading NTFS end exFAT file system drivers, celebrates the fact that its NTFS for Mac technology has exceeded 1 million downloads. Tuxera NTFS for Mac continues to define the gold standard for file system interoperability between Mac and Windows computers. The product has won awards for its extreme performance and flawless operation.

Tuxera leads the NTFS-3G open source project, which made a breakthrough in January 2007 being the first in the world to release NTFS read/write support on Mac OS X. Since then Tuxera has continued to innovate its market-leading technology. The high-performance Tuxera NTFS for Mac remains today as the world’s fastest NTFS for Mac solution. Read and write speeds have reached 100MB/s, and in practice the speed is usually limited only by the hardware.

“Make no mistake: we were the first on Mac, and remain the first both in stability and performance. We also do not charge for any performance and feature updates, which we frequently publish during the year. Our license is forever.” noted Mikko Välimäki, Tuxera CEO.

Tuxera NTFS for Mac is quickly becoming a must-have for consumers who migrate from Windows to Mac, and wish to fully use their Windows-formatted hard drives and memory sticks from the new system. Tuxera has also sold volume licenses to universities and media production companies, which have mixed Windows and Mac environments with tens or hundreds of computers.

Tuxera NTFS for Mac can be downloaded from http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/.

For further information:

Mikko Välimäki, CEO
Tel. +358-50-598-0498
email: mikko at tuxera dot com

About Tuxera. Tuxera offers NTFS and exFAT file system software that guarantee plug and play Windows interoperability. Building on the success of open source, Tuxera’s industry-standard NTFS solution has over 10 million installations. Tuxera was the first to implement reliable NTFS read/write support on Linux, Mac OS X, and other systems. Tuxera is also the first to offer exFAT for any system based on extensive collaboration with Microsoft including intellectual property and alliance agreements. Tuxera’s customers include leading software, semiconductor, and consumer electronics companies. Together we design the future of file system interoperability. See more from http://www.tuxera.com/.