Design Solutions magazine has recently published a case study about MIS Fuelling Monitoring’s use of our portable, rugged memory tokens in its hardware. Read all about it here.

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• Former Vodafone and Samsung marketing expert, Victoria Barrett has joined Nexus as director of technical PR and marketing.

• We will be exhibiting at the annual Embedded Masterclass show in Reading on May 11 this year. The show is being hosted in the Hilton Hotel, just off junction 11 of the M4. See you there!

• You will also find us at MEDTEC UK, on April 27/28 - we're on stand 2250.

• Nexus GB has once more been awarded Datakey Electronics’ ‘international top sales award'. Thanks to all our customers who helped us achieve the honour.

• Read about our development kits at Electronics World, EngineeringTalk, The Factory Automation Blog and The Daily Engineer.

• Our white paper on 'Transferring Data in Non-Networked Applications' is still available – click here for a copy.

I don’t know what it’s like working for your company, but here at Nexus we always undergo a comprehensive component search when designing a new product. I think most engineers are like this; we like to research all of the possibilities before making a final decision. However, part of the feedback we’ve received from our own contacts is that the portable memory field doesn’t have a great deal of specialist choice in it; besides ourselves of course. We often find that our customers have tried using consumer style memory, such as HD and SD/SDHC cards or USB sticks, before turning to our more durable solutions. Unfortunately, consumer memory doesn’t have the resistance to obsolescence, durability or programming simplicity that our specialist products possess.

We've recently launched a new mass storage memory product, designated the NFX MSD, which is set to put an end to the frequent data losses witnessed over the last few years. The product, which is similar in functionality to a USB stick, is intended for OEMs building secure memory into industrial computers, laptops or PCs. However it can also be retrofitted into existing machines.

The NFX MSD rugged, portable memory token and receptacle system is available with a capacity from 256MB to 1GB. In addition, the memory token’s internal file system makes it easily programmable, while SPI and USB communications protocols add versatility for electronics designers.

To read more about the NFX MSD click here, send us an e-mail or give us a call on +44 (0)1730 816502 for further details.

At Nexus we have lost count of the number of times we have been approached by prospective customers who have tried designing USB sticks or HD cards into their products, only to discover that what they really needed was a specialist solution. So we’ve decided to do some research to help us find out how big a problem this really is. We’ve launched a survey, containing a few short questions which we would like you to answer if you have time. As a bonus we are offering everyone who completes the survey the chance to win an iPod touch.

The iPod will be unbranded (no tacky Nexus logos or anything like that) and we will even have it engraved for you if you let us know what message you want to feature. It stores an impressive 1750 songs or 10 hours of video and is really easy to use. You can play games on it, surf the Internet via Wi-Fi or even use it as a pocket computer. So there’s no excuse, fill out our survey now or read the T&Cs here.

Click this link to complete our survey or this link to read our terms and conditions. And thanks for your time; we really appreciate it.