The company is working on expanding offline presence of its payment services to drive future growth.

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Today the company is also announcing integration to Microsoft SkyDrive, expanding its current storage offering of DropBox, Box and Google Drive.

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Kingston has updated their Wi-Drive MobileLite product to include memory card slots for expanding the storage capacity of the device up to 32 GB.

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With its slim form factor, the "A-Drive" could fit into tablet devices, greatly expanding its storage space while extending battery life by up to 30%.

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Yet strong hardware sales during this time (and for the immediate future) will provide an ever expanding market for more profitable software sales, which will likely drive industry growth in the next several years.

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Proposed by Mexican theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre in 1994, the drive would propel a ship at superluminal speeds by creating a bubble of negative energy around it, expanding space (and time) behind the ship while compressing space in front of it.

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